• Episode 56 (with Al From)
    Feb 9 2025

    Al From, the founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, talks about how to rebuild the Democratic Party—and how he did it last time.

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Episode 55
    Jan 25 2025

    Inauguration Week in Review! Joe and John on the ascendant Trump, the triumph of the Tech Bros, Dems in disarray, the Lars Anderson Bridge and the whereabouts of Philip K. Howard.

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    58 mins
  • Episode 54 (with Susan Mulcahy)
    Jan 17 2025
    Nobody knows the New York Post like Susan Mulcahy. She wrote the book. She talked about it with us.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Episode 53 (with David Barboza Part 4)
    Jan 9 2025

    Episode Four: A dream assignment: David moves to Shanghai and begins covering China. He goes from "Sock City" to Apple, to the extraordinary changes in China's economy, politics and culture. The final episode covers everything from Wuhan to Taiwan, fentanyl to semiconductors, quantum computing to cyberhacking, to Xi's political standing and how much (and how many of) China's most successful people dislike and distrust Xi.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Episode 52 (with David Barboza Part 3)
    Jan 9 2025

    Episode Three: The not-a-partnership partnership of one of the world's greatest entrepreneurs and one of the world's richest men is a case study in modern China. David describes the "partnership" that became the subject of an extraordinary report co-produced by The New York Times and David's news magazine, The Wire China.

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    17 mins
  • Episode 51 (with David Barboza Part 2)
    Jan 8 2025

    Episode Two: We begin our conversation with David about China and whether the "Thucydides Trap" can be avoided.

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    34 mins
  • Episode 50 (with David Barboza Part 1)
    Jan 8 2025

    Episode One: David Barboza, former Shanghai Bureau Chief for The New York Times, is building a new kind of media company. Call it Bloomberg for China.

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    32 mins
  • Episode 49 (with Deb Roy)
    Dec 28 2024

    In the final episode of our Cortico trilogy, we talked with the company's founder and CEO, Deb Roy, about the future of "building civic muscle" and his roadmap for a national Cortico network.

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    1 hr and 8 mins