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Bonus: The Senators at the center of the 50-50 split
“If we miss this opportunity, God help us.” Joe Manchin and Lisa Murkowski. Two moderate senators smack in the middle — and on either side — of a spli...
Sponsored Content: How Covid-19 accelerated the future of work
Presenting a sponsored episode of “Global Translations”: Over the past year, businesses, employees and families across the globe were forced to rethin...
The page who took down the GOP
In 2006, a young man holding no political office brought down a 180+ years program and reshaped Congress forever. Scott Bland talks to POLITICO magazi...
"I haven't been able to get this moment out of my head"
On a special episode of POLITICO's Nerdcast:
"It became clear that Scott Pruitt had sought to purchase a used mattress from the Trump hotel. And...
Cures for an Ailing Labor Market
"Off Message" presents Episode 9 of the new season of POLITICO's podcast "Global Translations":
The pandemic sent shockwaves through a global l...
Sponsored Content: Greening the Global Economy
"Off Message" presents Episode 8 of the new season of POLITICO's podcast "Global Translations": [Sponsored Content] As the world looks to reduce green...
Digging for Solutions: Securing Minerals for Green Energy
"Off Message" presents Episode 7 of the new season of POLITICO's podcast "Global Translations": What will it take to secure access to the critical min...
Why green energy means mining: the case of cobalt
"Off Message" presents Episode 6 of the new season of POLITICO's podcast "Global Translations": To understand how essential critical minerals are to o...
Critical Minerals: The next dirty fight over clean energy
"Off Message" presents Episode 5 of the new season of POLITICO's podcast "Global Translations": The technologies that protect us, move us and power ou...
How can the US compete with China, Inc.?
"Off Message" presents Episode 3 of the new season of POLITICO's podcast "Global Translations":
The pandemic and the rise of China are promptin...
Can we get enough vaccine?
"Off Message" presents the second episode of the new season of POLITICO's podcast "Global Translations": Once there is a working Covid vaccine, manufa...
Introducing... Global Translations: The world's tug-of-war
"POLITICO's Off Message" brings you a special episode of POLITICO's new podcast series "Global Translations." From closed factories to closed borders,...
Rahm Emanuel weighs in on 2020
Rahm Emanuel — former Chicago mayor and former chief of staff to President Barack Obama — talks to POLITICO founding editor John Harris about his new...
A new tone from some in GOP on climate change -- but mostly behind closed doors
We're bringing you an episode of POLITICO's Global Translations, a show about big global problems that will take a certain amount of creativity to sol...
Which 2020 Democrat should Donald Trump most be afraid of?
To get the inside view from the only people in the world who know what it’s like to run in a primary field so large -- and do so in the shadow of Dona...
This is what Kirsten Gillibrand hates about running for president
Kirsten Gillibrand is a U.S. Senator with a soaring national profile, but her presidential campaign has yet to take flight. She’s even at risk of fail...
Is John Hickenlooper too normal to be president?
In a crowded field of Democratic presidential contenders, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper makes an impression on voters as a genuine candidate,...
How it feels to win (and lose) a House majority
For our post-midterms edition of Off Message, we talked to Corry Bliss and Charlie Kelly, the two men who led the largest House campaign organizations...
David Axelrod: Voters don't want a ‘Democratic version of Trump’
The strategist behind Obama's presidential campaigns gives his midterms predictions, shares his lightning-round thoughts on 2020 candidates and tells...
Meet the next Ted Cruz
When Chip Roy was a top staffer for Ted Cruz, he was an architect of the Texas senator’s strategy to shut down the government over Obamacare.
No...
Steve Scalise thinks he knows who'll be the next House Speaker
Steve Scalise was nearly killed last summer when a gunman opened fire at the Republican congressional baseball team’s practice. Last September, after...
John Kerry on 2020, Trump and why we need to ask ourselves "what did you do?"
Isaac's last episode: The former secretary of state has led a Forrest Gump-like life, from his high-school days playing hockey with Bob Mueller to int...
Elijah Cummings is ready to investigate Trump
If Democrats retake the House, Maryland congressman Elijah Cummings will likely become the new chair of the Oversight committee. Here, a preview of wh...
Ken Starr: If I was Trump's lawyer, ‘I would be very concerned’
The Clinton-era independent counsel weighs in on Brett Kavanaugh, why Trump has an obligation to answer Mueller's questions and whether he plans to su...
Mazie Hirono: Brett Kavanaugh is fudging the truth
Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono gets candid about why she believes Kavanaugh's accuser, what it's like being the only immigrant in the U.S. Senate, and share...
Ben Jealous: ‘Americans are suffering under the weight of half-measures’
Ben Jealous is a venture capitalist. Opponents call him a socialist. He says that’s the cost of wanting “people to be treated in a way that’s just.”
Seth Meyers: Trump wanted me to apologize for making fun of him (REPRISE)
A reprise episode: It wasn’t all porn star hush money: Michael Cohen once tried to negotiate an appearance by Donald Trump on Seth Meyers’ show, for w...
Tony Perkins: Trump gets ‘a mulligan’ on Stormy Daniels and other past indiscretions (REPRISE)
A reprise episode: Donald Trump is still the answer to many conservative evangelical leaders’ prayers. Or at least to their continuing grievances. The...
Why Michael Hayden says Trump is helping Russia (Reprise)
Michael Hayden doesn’t know whether Donald Trump colluded with the Russian attack on the 2016 election—but he’s sure the president helped the Kremlin...
Randi Weingarten: For unions, this is a ‘which side are you on’ moment
The president of the American Federation of Teachers says that union members haven’t just cooled on Trump—they’ve turned on him. Union leaders and mem...
Shannon Watts: How to create an ‘army of angry moms and women’ from your own kitchen
The founder of Moms Demand Action talks about how she created one of the most successful gun control groups in the country—and where they go from here...
John Dean: Nixon ‘might have survived if there'd been a Fox News’ — Reprise
This week, an encore presentation of an interview we first brought you earlier this year. John Dean was the star witness of the Watergate investigatio...
Marty Walsh: Working-class Trump voters ‘forgot where they came from’
Marty Walsh is a college drop-out and recovering alcoholic who grew up in a union household and worked his way up through organized labor and local po...
Francis Suarez: Miami's almost-millennial, Latino mayor doesn't like labels
Francis Suarez believes he may be the first Miami-born mayor of Miami. He also has a front-row seat to his swing state's senate and gubernatorial race...
Kate Andersen Brower: Making sense of the Trump-Pence relationship
How does Mike Pence keep his boss happy? By staying out of the spotlight, for starters, says journalist Kate Andersen Brower, whose new book looks at...
Tom Arnold: 'Donald Trump is a D-list president, and his enemies are D-list, like Tom Arnold'
Tom Arnold talks about his hunt for Trump tapes, his selfie with Michael Cohen, and the mad coincidences that have injected him into a handful of poli...
Seth Moulton: ‘We have a commander in chief that we fundamentally can’t trust.’
Congressman Seth Moulton is amassing an army of service-oriented Democratic candidates. His goal isn’t simply to defeat Trump; it’s to change politics...
Kirsten Gillibrand: Trump is pushing the ‘devil’s schemes’
The New York senator has a different word for the family separation policy which the attorney general and White House press secretary call “Biblical.”...
Jenny Durkan: ‘The baton got dropped,’ and Obama alums are running to finish what he started
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan was the first Obama appointee to win a major election after his presidency. She's part of a network of Obama administration...
John Delaney: The 2020 long-shot candidate who’s gaining ground in Iowa
For Congressman John Delaney, the 2020 campaign is already underway. The money is there. So is the commitment. And people in are starting to pay atten...