To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes

By Charlie Sykes

You are not the crazy ones.

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The podcast currently has 227 episodes available.

To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes episodes:

August 15, 2026 Ed Luce: We Are at Peak Denial
Ed Luce from the Financial Times joins Charlie to talk about today's political climate, the undeniable reality of global warming and the existential threat of AI.
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August 13, 2026 It's Electability Stupid
The co-founder of Third Way, Matt Bennett joins Charlie to talk about the DSA's stunning defeat in Wisconsin, their agenda to destroy the Democratic Party and why electability still matters.
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43min
August 11, 2026 Peter Wehner: Trump Prefers Infamy to Irrelevance
The Atlantic's Peter Wehner joins Charlie to talk about Trump's desperate attempts to remain relevant, his miscalculations about Iran, and MAGA's obsession with Anthony Fauci.
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51min
August 08, 2026 Anne Applebaum: “I Can’t Think of Anything More Corrupt”
The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum joins Charlie to discuss Trump's sale of early access to Truth Social posts, his doubling down on the reflecting pool vandalism lie, and the Ceuta border crisis and how the far right has weaponized it.
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46min
August 01, 2026 Trump's Banana Republic
New York Times Opinion writer David French joins Charlie to discuss Trump's unprecedented corruption, the Todd Blanche Attorney General nomination now in limbo, and Anthony Fauci's Senate hearing.

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52min
July 30, 2026 Trump Attacks a Female Journalist. The Press Looks Away.
Tara Palmeri, host of The Tara Palmeri Show and author of the newsletter "The Red Letter," joins Charlie to unpack Trump's attack on Kaitlan Collins at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Todd Blanche's role in the Epstein cover-up, and Lindsey Graham's fraught legacy.

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44min
July 28, 2026 Does Trump Think AI Slop Makes Him Look Tough?
Nicholas Grossman, editor of Arc Digital and professor of international relations at the University of Illinois, joins Charlie to discuss Trump's frenzied posting of AI slop about Iran, the bizarre White House Correspondents' Dinner, and the global implications of the newly announced Saudi nuclear deal.
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51min
July 25, 2026 Trump Tried to Rewire Society. Trump Failed.
Jonathan Rauch is a Brookings Institution Senior Fellow and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. In this episode, he joins Charlie to explain how the "postmodern right" thinks it can manipulate reality, how Trump's people thought they could change civil society — and why all of this is failing. They also discuss the continuing casualties from the war with Iran, Trump's obsession with numbers, and Lindsey Graham's legacy.
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52min
July 23, 2026 An Administration Without Grown-Ups
In this special solo episode, Charlie answers your questions about the latest crisis in US-Canada relations, Jay Clayton's confirmation hearing, and the US-Saudi nuclear deal.

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58min
July 21, 2026 Do Democrats Have a Plan?
Ben Wikler served as the chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin for six years. In this episode he joins Charlie to talk about his new book This Is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy. Inevitably, they also talk a lot about Wisconsin politics.

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