Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
It’s another Thursday, so Howie Klein is here. With the corporate media screaming doom and gloom and predicting a shellacking in the midterms, we need to go all-in on the great candidates who can turn the party around. That’s where Howie comes in. He heads up the Blue America PAC where, along with Digby and…
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Most of us learned of Brian Karem through his tough questions from the White House Press Briefing Room during the former administration. His willingness to stand up to the authoritarian regime and ask important questions prompted me to invite him on this program a few times. Now he’s become one of my favorite guests. He…
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Will Bunch is today’s guest. He’s a national columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Watergate, a political scandal that brought down a president. For the past 50 years, Watergate was held up as the example of the worst of America, and every scandal was positioned in relation to Watergate….
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President Biden is still suffering from falling approval ratings. The surprising thing it that his numbers are low on the economy too. Record GDP growth, record low unemployment and a still raging stock market, but plummeting ratings? I wonder what that’s about (not really, I know exactly what — or who– is responsible. And today,…
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Thank goodness that’s over. I’m talking about the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. It was, to use an ugly but fitting term, a modern day lynching. The Republicans on the committee went for blood. They mercilessly attacked the most qualified candidate for the court that’s been…
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