The Political Scene Podcast

James Carville and Paul Begala share lessons from Bill Clinton’s groundbreaking 1992 campaign.

Musk’s recent spat with Venezuela’s President, Nicolas Maduro, is the billionaire’s most recent attempt to put his thumb on the geopolitical scale.

The Speaker Emerita played a leading role in pushing the Biden Administration’s legislative agenda through Congress. Then she helped clear the path for a new Democratic leadership.

“Walz has scrambled the circuits for Trump because he’s not easy to pigeonhole,” Evan Osnos says. “He’s not what Trump imagines, in his comic-book way, of what a progressive looks like.”

The writer Nathan Thrall and the lawyer Raja Shehadeh on the occupation of the West Bank, and whether there can be any prospect for peace.

“The Harris campaign will have a couple of uplifting, very positive ads, especially when they announce who the V.P. will be,” Professor Jennifer Lawless says. “But my bet is that this will be a race to the bottom in terms of negativity.”

“Vice-Presidents might not make a Presidency, but they sure can break a lot of things,” Amy Davidson Sorkin says.

Jennifer Palmieri, a veteran of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, explains what she learned working on the 2016 election, and how the race that Harris faces differs from those of other women who’ve run for President.

Analyzing the “very successful” kickoff of the Vice-President’s 2024 campaign.

How the Vice-President quickly consolidated support in the Democratic Party, and what to expect from her campaign against Donald Trump.

Kamala Harris “has one foot in the incumbency and one foot outside of it, and that is the opportunity here,” Evan Osnos says. “She has the chance to reshape this race in a profound way.”

CNN’s data guru Harry Enten says that, unless the race shifts significantly, Donald Trump will win. And the pollster Ann Selzer explains how the polls know what they know.

The Republican National Convention “had the feeling of sort of a very polite Midwestern cult meeting,” Susan B. Glasser says, reporting from Milwaukee.

Reporting from Milwaukee, Antonia Hitchens offers on-the-ground updates on Donald Trump’s first appearance following an attempted assassination in Pennsylvania.

A former Presidential candidate, Castro tells David Remnick why Democratic leaders concerned about President Biden’s age were afraid to challenge the establishment and run against him.

Analyzing President Biden’s press conference in light of mounting concerns about his age and electability.

The actor and director, whose film “Horizon: An American Saga” has been in the making for decades, thinks of the Western as America’s Shakespeare.