Impolitic with John Heilemann

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Join Puck’s chief political columnist, MSNBC/NBC News national affairs analyst, and best-selling author John Heilemann as he roams the corridors of power and influence in America on this twice-weekly interview show, taking you behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the people who shape and shift our culture: icons and up-and-comers, incumbents and insurgents, moguls and machers in the overlapping worlds of politics, entertainment, tech, business, sports, media, and beyond. The conversat...

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Don Lemon: Living La Vida YouTube

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Dennis Ross: Mideast Momentum & The Long Hard Road to Peace

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Pablo Torre: Bad Bunny & Bad Ballmer

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Michael Steele: First the Chainsaw, Now the Scythe

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Dylan Byers: Bari's New Perch & Kimmel's Curtain Call

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Jennifer Palmieri: Dems Are Winning the Shutdown Showdown (So Far)

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Drew Nieporent: The Restaurateur Who Remade New York

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Robert Draper & David Frum: Charlie Kirk Assassination Aftershocks

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Michael Osterholm: Be Afraid – Very Afraid – of RFK Jr. & The Next Pandemic

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Frank Figliuzzi: Charlie Kirk’s Killing & America’s Political Violence Crisis

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Rob Reiner: The Spinal Tap Sequel, Like the Original, Goes to 11

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Leigh Ann Caldwell: 12 Angry Women (& One Addled Man) Hit Capitol Hill

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Jonathan Mahler: NYC’s 1980s Reinvention & The 40-Year Era it Spawned

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Presenting: The C-Word

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Chuck Klosterman: Oasismania Overcomes America

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James Talarico: Flipping Seats & Flipping Tables in the Lone Star State

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Michael McFaul: Trump’s Red Carpet & Putin’s Middle Finger

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Dan Pfeiffer: Gavin’s Gamble, J.B.’s Jibes & Other Harbingers of 2028

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Christine Brennan: Caitlin Clark’s Culture Wars & the WNBA’s Cluelessness

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Robert Garcia: “Things Are Fucked Up”

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Anne Applebaum: Nihilism in Sudan & Orbanism in the USA

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Adam Pritzker & Daniel Squadron: Detoxifying the Democratic Brand

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Bob Shrum: Deep State Donald & The Democratic Messaging Imperative

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Maggie Haberman: The Epstein Metastasis

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Todd Purdum: How Desi Arnaz & “I Love Lucy” Created the TV Business

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Lis Smith: MAGA & The Manosphere Turn On Trump

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Will Leitch: Games People Play

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Nicolle Wallace: Why MAGA Went Ballistic Over Epstein & The Bear Heals All Wound...

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Andrew Sullivan: Trump as King, State Terror Tactics & The Anti-Trans Backlash

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Ben Kweller: Love, Loss, Grief, Hope & The Healing Power of Music

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Angus King & Jason Crow: Casus Belli & Caveat Emptor re Iran

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Ron Chernow: Forever the Twain Shall Meet

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Tim Miller: Why Iran is Making J.D. Squirm & MAGA Media Melt Down

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Jeremy Bash: Point of No Return

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Robert Wolf: Elon’s Adios, Biden Agonistes & The TACO That Ate Trump

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Mark Whitaker: Why Malcolm X Still Matters

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