Gabe Fleisher and I discuss the Supreme Court, Reconciliation, Polling, the Future of Journalism, and more.

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Steven Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die, assesses Trump's first four months in office and explains why America has tipped into "competitive authoritarianism."

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Part 2 of our Telos master class with Paul Krugman. In our conversation, Krugman reviewed the last hundred years of tariff policy—crucial context for understanding the full absurdity of Trump’s recent recklessness—and warned that America’s trade wars, and their risks to the economy, are not close to being over despite last week’s partial climbdown on Chinese tariff rates.

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Paul Krugman joined me for our latest Telos master class.

In our conversation, Krugman reviewed the last hundred years of tariff policy—crucial context for understanding the full absurdity of Trump’s recent recklessness—and warned that America’s trade wars, and their risks to the economy, are not close to being over despite last week’s partial climbdown on Chinese tariff rates.

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Elizabeth “Liza” Goitein is the senior director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, and she is an expert on the use of presidential emergency powers. Long before recent concerns arose about whether Trump might use an emergency for some authoritarian purpose, Goitein had been warning that the laws governing presidential powers during a declared emergency needed to be revised.

Under the National Emergencies Act, a president can legally invoke approximately 150 powers after declaring an emergency. Theoretically, an unchecked president could use the military domestically, seize the bank accounts of American citizens, and take control of the internet.

Presidents have been pushing the envelope on emergency powers for years. Frustrated with congressional deadlock, Joe Biden used a dubious emergency declaration to suspend some student debt. In his first term, Trump tried to secure funding for his border wall through an emergency declaration.

However, in his second term, Trump has demonstrated a willingness to declare emergencies far beyond that of any recent president. In their 12 years in office, Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden declared a total of 21 emergencies. Trump has declared 19 emergencies in under four years and four months as president. He has made eight emergency declarations this year alone.

In our conversation, Goitein explains the history of emergency powers, reviews how presidents have used and abused them in the past, details the frightening array of powers on the books, offers her thoughts on some nightmare scenarios under Trump, and explains whether Congress or the courts could stop him.

If you watched or listened to our recent conversation with Damon Linker about MAGA’s obsession with theorists who worship an all-powerful executive willing to use emergencies to enact sweeping change, you will want to hear Goitein explain exactly how it could be done.

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Georgetown law professor Steve Vladeck guides us through the history of habeas, explains how previous presidents, Congresses, and federal courts have interpreted the Suspension Clause, and outlines why we should all be deeply concerned if the Trump administration actually attempts to suspend habeas for certain categories of immigrants.

For more from Vladeck, check out his excellent work on Substack at One First.

Simon Rosenberg has long been one of the most interesting and original thinkers in the Democratic Party’s strategist class. I’ve been talking with him about politics on and off for over twenty years, and he is frequently ahead of the curve.

During an hour-long conversation yesterday, we dicussed why he thinks Trump’s polling drop may be irreversible, the contagious effects of what he calls the “circle of defiance” against Trump, what the media gets wrong in its coverage of MAGA, his advice for Democrats eager to take advantage of Trump’s recent vulnerabilities, why he thinks the 2028 Democratic presidential primary field will include 15-20 candidates—and why that’s a good thing.

Longtime journalist Tom LoBianco and I discuss media coverage of Trump and delve into the details of my recent article about the "Laptop of MAGA Secrets." But don't miss Tom's story about what he did when a Republican member of Congress once called him "fake news."

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Veteran journalist—and pilot!—James Fallows tells us everything we need to know about what’s going on with aviation safety right now—and how much the Trump administration is to blame. He warns that "the Golden Age of phenomenally safe flying may be nearing its end."

For more, check out Fallows’s new piece on the subject: “Pay Attention to What Happened in Newark.”

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Steve Schmidt and I kibitz about politics in the first of our now-weekly chats.

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