Michael Lewis Traces the ‘Gutting of the Civil Service' Under Trump

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Michael Lewis traces the ‘gutting of the civil service' under Trump: Full Interview

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American Manifesto: Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves

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Liars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception

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Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making

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The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years

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The End of Copycat China: The Rise of Creativity, Innovation, and Individualism in Asia

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Monster of Their Own Making: How the Far Left, the Media, and Politicians are Creating Far-Right Extremists

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When the New Deal Came to Town: A Snapshot of a Place and Time with Lessons for Today

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The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

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Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America

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A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

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Greedy Bastards: Corporate Communists, Banksters, and the Other Vampires Who Suck America Dry

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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

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The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism

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Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money

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A Conversation With ‘We The Corporations' Author Adam Winkler

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Summary of Timothy Snyder's The Road to Unfreedom

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A Rare Recording of Robert Kennedy’s Speech on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street

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Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy

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Summary of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt's Tyranny of the Minority

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Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

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Wall Street's War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It

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Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP

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Money for Nothing: How the Failure of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions

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The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know

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Talk Radio's America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States

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The Last Best Hope: A History of American Realism

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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir

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Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

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Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life

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Macbeth: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

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NPR Funniest Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go

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Birth of The Endless Summer: A Surf Odyssey

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Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune

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Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

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Hamlet: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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The Grapes of Wrath

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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

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Bel Canto

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Is this Anything?

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The Science of Storytelling

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Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time

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When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice From a Professional Clown

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Save the Cat!

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The Power of Myth

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Julius Caesar: A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre

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A Life in Parts

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Wuthering Heights (dramatic reading)

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Dracula (dramatic reading)

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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

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Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography

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Pure Drivel

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The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book

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Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?

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A devastating indictment of the Republican Party: An insider perspective on the GOP’s march to Trumpism

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The Magic Shoebox: Where is a millisecond worth a million dollars? The New York Stock Exchange.

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Bonus Against the Rules: Help in a Crisis: While working on the next season of Against the Rules coming later this spring, Michael Lewis has had some conversations that we didn’t want to hold.

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On Background: White-Collar Crime and Punishment

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The Party of Trump with Stuart Stevens: Did Donald Trump hijack the Republican party, or is he the party’s logical conclusion? Having spent decades as a political operative putting Republicans in office, Stuart Stevens argues it’s the latter. His new book “It Was All a Lie” sifts through the party’s decades-long march that led to the election of President Trump and reckons with what remains of the Republican political project.  RELATED READING: It Was All a Lie by Stuart Stevens I Hope This Is Not Another Lie About the Republican Party by Stuart Stevens (NYTimes July 29)

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What would Keynes do?: What the 20th century’s most influential economist can teach us about rebuilding the US economy

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Business Weekly: Michael Lewis On How Behavioural Economics Changed The World

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Baby Judge School: Judges now want us to know they’re human. But maybe we’d be better off if we didn’t know.

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Trumpocracy: David Frum joins Matt, Jeff, and Kathy Gilsinan to discuss how American democracy has fared under President Trump.

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Why “Cheap Speech” Threatens Democracy: Rick Hasen on the speech that’s undermining elections, and what to do about it.

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Best of - Milton Friedman: Champion of Capitalism: As Americans struggle to pay their bills in the face of inflation, policymakers and economists are debating the best way to control rising prices. Central to that debate are ideas first put forward by Milton Friedman, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for economics, and a leading theorist of inflation. Friedman was an outspoken proponent of the free market and small government, and one of the most influential economists of all time. His ideas on monetary policy, taxation, privatization and deregulation have had enormous impact on government policies in the U.S. (and around the world) for over 50 years, including the Federal Reserve’s response to the global financial crisis. In this re-broadcast of our episode (which originally posted in 2020), Friedman talks about growing up in a home with poorly-educated, immigrant parents, and about how he fell in love with math. He explains how the Depression and the New Deal opened his eyes to the im

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#187 - Should We Stop Worrying About National Deficits?: With Stephanie Kelton, James Galbraith, Todd Buccholz, and Otmar Issing

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Satire in an age of absurdity with Armando Iannucci, Jess Phillips and Jan Ravens

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Kevin McCarthy’s Job Is Going to Be Miserable: In recent weeks, America got a preview of how the new Republican House majority would wield its power. In attempting to perform a basic function of government — electing a speaker — a coalition of 20 House members caused Kevin McCarthy to lose 14 rounds of votes, decreasing his power with each compromise and successive vote. This is not normal. Party unity ebbs and flows, but the G.O.P. in recent decades has come apart at the seams. Nicole Hemmer is the director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, an associate professor of history and the author of two books about the conservative movement and media ecosystem, “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics” and “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.” And she says we can’t understand the current G.O.P. without understanding when, where a

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Episode 6: The Overconfidence Game

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Donald Trump's Taxes with David Cay Johnston and Renato Mariotti: In this episode, Jill and Victor talk with David Cay Johnston and Renato Mariotti, who will help us understand Trump’s tax returns as reported by the New York Times. We’ll also talk to them about how the tax system benefits the rich, the possible political and legal implications -- both criminal and civil -- of Trump’s tax returns, and hopefully help you understand why Trump’s taxes should matter to you, the ultimate arbiter in this election.

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The History of Fake News, with Andie Tucher: Historian Andie Tucher takes us through 400 years of fake news in America, starting with a fake story published in 1690. But today, she says, given the the speed, anonymity, and reach of the Internet it's a lot easier to get away with faking news in...

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Neil Vallelly, "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" (MIT Press, 2021): An interview with Neil Vallelly

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How to Stop A Civil War: Jeffrey Goldberg, Danielle Allen, and Adam Serwer discuss how America is coming apart—and how they think it can be reunited.

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What is Christian Nationalism, and what is it not? With Philip S. Gorski, author of "The Flag and the Cross"

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The Flag and the Cross: Guest: Samuel L. Perry. We announce two victories in federal lawsuits this week stopping city council prayer and religious instruction in West Virginia schools. We talk about Alito’s leaked abortion decision. The popular actor Jon Huertas tells us...

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718: Barbara F. Walter | How Civil Wars Start (And How to Stop Them): How do civil wars start, and what can we do to stop them? Political science professor Barbara F. Walter joins us with the answers.

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On Background: A History of Bankruptcy in the US

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Brian Stelter on ‘Hoax’ and Fox News’s Influence on President Trump

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Nixon Agonistes: Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills's 1970 masterpiece of political reporting and analysis, "Nixon Agonistes."

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Mark Leibovich

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A Short Guide to 'The World'

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The Globalization Myth, With Shannon K. O’Neil: Shannon K. O’Neil, vice president, deputy director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest trend ...

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'The Divider' looks at Trump's years in office through the eyes of his aides

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The Big Break with Ben Terris