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Politicology
Politics in America is transforming. We’re embarking on a new series to deepen our understanding of who we are, how we got here, and how we rebuild without repeating the mistakes of the past. Ron Steslow hosts academics, behavioral economists, social psychologists, politicos, philosophers, anthropologists, journalists, poets, and storytellers—and more—to discuss America’s political present and future and dive into the deeper problems we face as a nation. Email us questions or comments…
Episodes
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ENCORE: Democracy’s Christian Enemies — Part 1
Are there tendencies within Christian tradition that put some versions of the faith in tension with core principles of democracy? What is “Authoritarian…
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The Real America—The Weekly
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, Guest Host Mike Madrid and Susan Del Percio (MS NOW political analyst and crisis communications expert)…
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Iran on the Brink—The Weekly
Iran is erupting in protests—and the regime is cracking down with extraordinary violence. Guest Host Hagar Chemali sits down with Jay Solomon (investigative…
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The Age of Financial Repression—Part 2
For the ad-free version of this episode, subscribe to Politicology+ at https://politicology.com/plus For most Americans, losing access to a bank account sounds…
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The Age of Financial Repression—Part 1
For most Americans, losing access to a bank account sounds like a customer-service hassle—not a political problem. But what if your ability to get paid, pay…
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The Year Ahead—The Weekly
Ron Steslow kicks off 2026 with a “Smash Brothers” weekly featuring Lucy Caldwell, Hagar Chemali, Susan Del Percio, and Mike Madrid to look at the forces they…
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TAPPED: Maduro’s Capture
In the first week of the new year, the U.S. launches a dramatic operation in Venezuela that ends with Nicolás Maduro (and Cilia Flores) in U.S. custody…
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ENCORE: [+] Coverage Isn’t Care
Ron Steslow and Lucy Caldwell talk about the current healthcare landscape and the ongoing debate about how we pay for healthcare. They critique the ACA’s…
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ENCORE: [+] Is Thinking Becoming a Luxury Good?
Ron Steslow and Olivier Knox discuss whether thinking is becoming a luxury good. They explore the alarming trend of declining literacy and the implications of…
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ENCORE: Testimony—Part 2
You can pre-order Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation now at https://www.jonwardwrites.org/ Jon Ward (Journalist and author of…
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ENCORE: Testimony—Part 1
You can pre-order Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation now at https://www.jonwardwrites.org/ Jon Ward (Journalist and author of…
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What Happens After The End of Majority-Minority Districts?
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Is America a Creed or a Tribe?
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U.S. Security: Mixed Signals, Clear Danger—The Weekly
In this episode, Ron is joined by Hagar Chemali (Fmr. spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the UN) to break down the Trump administration’s 2025 National…
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“Let Them Eat Tariffs”—The Weekly
In this episode, Ron is joined by Lucy Caldwell (Board Advisor to the Renew Democracy Initiative) to confront the question hanging over Democratic politics…
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LIVE from Unscripted: A Politicology Gathering
For the ad-free version of this episode, subscribe to Politicology+ at https://politicology.com/plus Last weekend, eleven Politicology listeners from all over…
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ENCORE: Your Face Belongs To Us — Part 2
Have you ever thought about what it means to be anonymous? Have you considered what it means that you can walk down the street or go to the grocery store or…
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ENCORE: Your Face Belongs To Us — Part 1
Have you ever thought about what it means to be anonymous? Have you considered what it means that you can walk down the street or go to the grocery store or…
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TAPPED: The Art of the Deal Behind the Deal
For the ad-free version of this episode, subscribe to Politicology+ at https://politicology.com/plus Molly McKew (writer and lecturer on Russian influence and…
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The Weekly: Mailbag Edition
In a special Thanksgiving-week episode of The Weekly, Ron Steslow and Mike Madrid sit down to answer your questions — about the deep fractures emerging inside…
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A Ukraine “Peace Plan” Written in Moscow
For the ad-free version of this episode, subscribe to Politicology+ at https://politicology.com/plus Last week, a “peace plan” to end the war in Ukraine leaked…
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Epstein’s Global Web—The Weekly
This week, Ron Steslow and Hagar Chemali (Fmr. spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the UN) break down the newly released Epstein emails, what they show, what…
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The Seinfeld Shutdown and the Healthcare Time Bomb—The Weekly
Washington just lived through a “Seinfeld shutdown”—a 43-day government closure over… basically nothing. Or was it nothing? This week, Ron Steslow is joined by…
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[+] Abundance vs. Socialism
Ron Steslow and Peter Suderman dive into the battle between the Abundance Agenda (Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson’s answer to America’s scarcity mindset) and the…
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The Mirrorball Election—The Weekly
This week, Ron Steslow and Susan Del Percio (MSNBC political analyst and crisis communications expert) break down Tuesday night’s election results, Mamdani’s…
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ENCORE: [+] AI Giveth, AI Taketh
Nick Gillespie and host Ron Steslow discuss AI, what it’s doing to us, and our relationship with what it means to be human. Related media: NBC - Some of her…
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From Populism to Class Warfare—The Weekly
This week, Ron Steslow and Mike Madrid (Author of The Latino Century) discuss the proposed wealth tax on billionaires in California, the signs of worsening…
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The Great Gold Heist—The Weekly
This week, Ron Steslow and Hagar Chemali (Fmr. spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the UN) connect a headline-grabbing jewel heist at the Louvre to China’s…
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ENCORE: Why We Buy
In our digital age, people have grown to see social media platforms as mere tools and applications. Marcus Collins, the award-winning marketer, former digital…
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Influencer Governance—The Weekly
This week, Ron Steslow and Susan Del Percio (MSNBC political analyst and crisis communications expert) break down New York City’s mayoral race and what a…
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ENCORE: The Power of Silence — Part 2
We live in a loud world that’s getting louder. We encounter noise all around us—from the chatter of polite conversations, to street noise in a big city, to the…
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Post-Literate Politics—The Weekly
This week, Ron Steslow and Mike Madrid (Author of The Latino Century) trace a through-line from our screen-first, post-literate society to America’s escalating…
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The Deal That Could End the Gaza War—The Weekly
This week, Ron Steslow and Hagar Chemali (Fmr. spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the UN) break down the headlines and hidden stories from the United Nations…
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Decentralized Resistance: Leopoldo López on The Fight for Freedom
For the ad-free version of this episode, subscribe to Politicology+ at https://politicology.com/plus In this episode Ron talks to Leopoldo Lopez (Venezuelan…
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Epstein’s Unusual Deal—The Weekly
This week, Ron Steslow and Greg Brower (Fmr. Assistant Director of the FBI and U.S. Attorney in Nevada) unpack what’s real—and what isn’t—in the Epstein…
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ENCORE: The Power of Silence — Part 1
We live in a loud world that’s getting louder. We encounter noise all around us—from the chatter of polite conversations, to street noise in a big city, to the…
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Attrition, Attention, Exhaustion
For the ad-free version of this episode, subscribe to Politicology+ at https://politicology.com/plus In this episode Ron talks to Molly McKew (writer and…
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ENCORE: Of Boys and Men—Part 2
Richard Reeves (author of Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It) joins Ron Steslow to discuss his book…
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What’s In A Nation?—The Weekly
This week, Ron Steslow and Hagar Chemali (Fmr. spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the UN) discuss information warfare and the biased reporting about Israel…
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ENCORE: Of Boys and Men—Part 1
Richard Reeves (author of Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It) joins Ron Steslow to discuss his book…
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Money And State—The Weekly
This week, Ron Steslow and Mike Madrid (Author of The Latino Century) unpack President Trump’s move to remove a sitting Federal Reserve governor, the overt…
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Is “Surveillance Pricing” Good?
Ron Steslow and Katherine Mangu-Ward discuss surveillance pricing, the role of government in data collection, the third-party doctrine that allows the…
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Policing the Capital—The Weekly
This week, Ron Steslow and Olivier Knox (Senior National Political Correspondent at U.S. News & World Report) talk about Trump's federal control over the…
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Situationships with the CCP
For the ad-free version of this episode, subscribe to Politicology+ at https://politicology.com/plus In this episode, Ron Steslow and Isaac Stone Fish (founder…
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Cartographic Warfare—The Weekly
This week, Ron Steslow and Mike Madrid (Author of The Latino Century) talk about the threats of the escalating, mid-decade redistricting war that Texas and…
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Encore: The Real Cost of Cheap Food
Over the last 100 years, we have streamlined the process of food production. A hundred years ago, 99% of people were engaged in the agricultural process in…
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Censorship And Bathtub Gin—The Weekly
This week, Ron Steslow and Katherine Mangu-Ward (Editor in Chief of Reason) examine some major current developments through a libertarian lens, focusing on…
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Epstein, Encryption, and Vanishing Trust—The Weekly
Contribute to Politicology at politicology.com/donate To unlock Politicology+ visit politicology.com/plus This week, Ron Steslow and Hagar Chemali (Fmr…
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ENCORE: Dr. Catherine Sanderson on Becoming Moral Rebels
Dr. Catherine Sanderson (@SandersonSpeaks), Poler Family Professor, Chair of Psychology at Amherst College and the author of Why We Act: Turning Bystanders…
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Unscripted: A Politicology Gathering
We’re doing it! This December, Ron Steslow and Mike Madrid are excited to host our first-ever salon-inspired retreat. Unscripted: A Politicology Gathering is a…
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ENCORE: Means of Control — Part 2
In this two part series, Journalist and author Byron Tau joins host Ron Steslow to discuss his new book Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance Of Tech And…
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The End of Politics—The Weekly
Contribute to Politicology at politicology.com/donate To unlock Politicology+ visit politicology.com/plus This week, Ron Steslow and Mike Madrid (author of The…
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ENCORE: Means of Control — Part 1
For the ad-free and full version of this episode, subscribe to Politicology+ at https://politicology.com/plus In this two part series, Journalist and author…
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AI Cold War—The Weekly
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TAPPED: Susan Del Percio on Mamdani’s win
In this conversation, Susan Del Percio discusses Zohran Mamdani’s win in the Democratic Primary for New York City Mayor, what it means for New York, and what…
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Surveillance Dollars Are Here—The Weekly
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[+] Fight For This Flag
Ron Steslow, Mike Madrid, and Marc Polymeropoulo discuss the shift in immigration enforcement, the protests in LA, and the values America stands for. Related…
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Operation Rising Lion—The Weekly
Contribute to Politicology at politicology.com/donate To unlock Politicology+ visit politicology.com/plus This week, Ron Steslow, Mike Madrid (author of The…
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In Debt We Trust—The Weekly
Contribute to Politicology at politicology.com/donate To unlock Politicology+ visit politicology.com/plus This week, Ron Steslow and Izabella Kaminska (Founder…
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Privacy vs The Machines
Mike Madrid and host Ron Steslow discuss the Coinbase data leak, why data leaks in the A.I. era are so dangerous and will hurt more than we can possibly…