Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters, about how Media Matters defeated the Trump administration lawsuit to shut it down, Elon Musk’s effort to destroy the group, the failed appeasement by major media of Trump that has corrupted their integrity and reporting.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Trump’s retirbution case against James Comey over seashell design, King Charles’ speech to the Congress neatly refuting Trump, and Trump’s lost speech to the White House Corresondents’ dinner that would have slammed the press corps.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s Guardian column on Trump ’s war on Pope Leo, and the alliance between evangelical Christian Nationalists and conservative Catholics, how Trump’s war on the People has created a great schism.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Gareth Gore, investigative journalist and author of Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church, on his meeting with Pope Leo, the information he gave him on the dark scandals of the Opus Dei cult, and the larger context of Trump’s attack on the Pope.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Gareth Gore, investigative journalist and author of Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church, on fascist origins, scandals, grip over the American right wing, including its relationship with JD Vance, and Pope Leo’s struggle against it.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Anne Applebaum, staff writer for The Atlantic and author of Autocracy, Inc., about the downfall of Viktor Orban in Hungary, how the American right was implicated with his authoritarian regime, including Trump, JD Vance and Marco Rubio, what Orban’s defeat foretells for Trump and Maga, the deep corruption exposed, and how Ukraine emerges as stronger.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Alastair Campbell, former strategist and press secretary for PM Tony Blair, and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast, on how King Charles should manage the fake US king Donald Trump, and the true story of Trump’s tragic immigrant Scottish mother.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Alastair Campbell, former strategist and press secretary for PM Tony Blair, and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast, about King Charles’ awkward visit to the US, how he has to handle Trump’s ego, and Trump’s rupture of the US-UK “special relationship.”

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s column in The Guardian on Trump’s escalating rhetoric into “incitement to genocide” as he flounders in his Iran War.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz unravel Clarence Thomas’ weird speech on the Declaration of Independence and trace it back to its sources in the John Birch Society and a host of bizarre extremists.