w/ Mark Weisbrot Co-Director @ Center for Economic and Policy Research Author, "Failed: What the 'experts' got wrong about the global economy" - Visiting w/ Hugo Chavez + Sean Penn - Is "dictatorship" a hate word? - Venezuela's elections - Political prisoners - State violence or police violence - Coming coup? - Embargoes, sanctions, and the collapse of the economy - Who's to blame for hunger? - The opposition - What's a good faith negotiation entry point? Recorded: 3/1/2019 Published: 3/3/2019 S...
Mar 04, 2019•1 hr 10 min
- Jussie Smollett, Indicted (Kmele Totally Called That Shit) - But Then Again, The Whole Gang Totally Called That Shit Too - Coast Guard Neo-Nazi would-be terrorist arrested - Kmele and Liz Plank on "Reliable Sources" - Unreliable hate crime statistics - Social Justice Judo - CNN Hires Sarah Isgur Flores - Bill Moyers, Problematic Icon - Bernie Sanders, Front-runner - Some Idiot Wrote This - Download "Headspace" Today Recorded: PM 2/20/2019 Published: 2/21/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy ...
Feb 21, 2019•1 hr 58 min
(Plagiarism, Green Room Encounters, and All The Receipts) - We Need to Talk About Jill Abramson - Too Important to be a Plagiarist? - Rep Omar: You Might Be An Antisemitism, But Maybe Not - Blackface: The Highest Form of Flattery? - Klobuchar, FTW - Team AOC's Green New Deal Fiasco ALSO: - Moynihan Steps Out of Line - The Huxtable Compound - Indentured Servitude - 22 Savage - The Red Shoe Diaries - Emergency Podcasting Recorded: PM 2/11/2019 Published: 2/13/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy...
Feb 13, 2019•1 hr 41 min
w/ Brendan O'Neill (Editor in Chief, "Spiked") - Jussie Smollett - Stories For Every Narrative - Ralph Northam - Fancy Dress Parties - The Weird Man’s Burden - Anti Semitism, Hate Speech - Stormy or STORMZY - Yellow Vests Revolution Recorded: PM 2/2/2019 Published: 2/4/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe...
Feb 04, 2019•1 hr 59 min
- Jerry Brown - BuzzFeed's Bombshell? - Jason Leopold, Oliver Darcy - The Temple of Journalism - Anonymous Sourcing - Punching Catholic Kids - Stolen Valor, Callin' Bullshit ALSO: - Jill Abramson (Part 2) - "GUILTY" - By M.C. Moynihan - On Venezuela Recorded: 1/22/2019 PM Published: 1/24/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe...
Jan 24, 2019•1 hr 46 min
"They're like a train -- a train that's always runnin' right on time." - Anonymous w/ Brian Stelter (Chief Media Corespondent, CNN) (Host, "Reliable Sources") - Moynihan Meets Ann Coulter (Again) - A Boy and His Blog - Authoritarian Storm Clouds - The Temple of Journalism - Is CNN in Resistance Mode? - Grading Trump on a Curve - Excommunicating Steve King ALSO: - Media Literacy - "Page One", and The Business of News - Kasich to CNN, Rep. Omar's Really Bad Day - NPR + MAGA - Russia-gate, and The ...
Jan 18, 2019•1 hr 23 min
"Smarter, harder, about the same length as usual." - Anonymous - The Border Fence Shutdown - Reasons to Dislike AOC - Tea Party Retrospective - Ellen Met Kevin - Jazmine Barnes, Shaun King, and Overconcen - Destroying The Weatherman - Race Price, New York City Public Schools, and Historical Fictions - Human Rights + Angela Davis Recorded: PM 1/9/2019 Published: 1/11/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other ...
Jan 11, 2019•1 hr 35 min
w/ Ben Smith (Editor in Chief @ BuzzFeed News) - BuzzFeed's Day in Court - About That Dossier - Insider Political Journalism vs Crisis Political Journalism - Sports Metaphors, Panglossian History - Newsroom Diversity - Indisputably Racist ALSO: - Syria, Afghanistan, and Impulse Control - The Best Laid Plans - Another Shutdown - GoFundMe Governance - Trust Issues Recorded: PM 12/22/2018 Published: 12/23/2018 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If y...
Dec 22, 2018•1 hr 25 min
w/ Yascha Mounk (Author, "The People vs Democracy") (Host, "The Good Fight") - Liberal Democracy (and Liberal Democratic Values)- Democratic Deficits, Excesses, and Limits- Authoritarian Populism (on the Left and Right) - Political Norms- Domesticating Nationalism- Injustice and Identity- Inequality and Globalization- Free Speech AND- Cohen Gets Sentenced- Kmele Crashes an *Unusual* PTA Meeting- Fukuyama was wrong, but none of you assholes read “the end of history” - Matt Says "Yemen" on MSNBC- ...
Dec 15, 2018•1 hr 38 min
Our first live recording; taped at the legendary Comedy Cellar in New York City. With Guests: Michael Barbaro, "The Daily" (The New York Times)Jody Avirgan, "30 for 30" and "The Five-Thirty-Eight Politics Podcast" (Five-Thirty-Eight, ESPN) "On Speech Controversies and The State of Journalism After Two Years of Trump." Recorded: 12/4/2018 (@ The Comedy Cellar in New York City)Published: 12/6/2018 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...
Dec 06, 2018•1 hr 27 min
w/ Kevin Roose (Columnist, The New York Times) - *Black* Intellectuals- Live @ The Comedy Cellar- All the Presidents Rogues- Nature, Severity, and Consequence- Facebook's Peril- Google's Dragonfly- China's Citizenship Scores Recorded: PM 11/29/2018Published: 11/30/2018 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe...
Nov 30, 2018•1 hr 19 min
Kmele facilitates a wide-ranging conversation on race, racism, and anti-racism. With: Glenn Loury - Professor of the social sciences and economics at Brown University - Host, The Glenn Show @ bloggingheads.tv Thomas Chatterton Williams- Author, "Losing My Cool"- Contributing writer @ New York Times Magazine. - National Fellow at New America, where he’s completing a new book project about ‘being the black father of white-looking children in Paris’. John McWhorter - Professor of Linguistics, Philo...
Nov 22, 2018•1 hr 31 min
- Phallic Humor- "We'll Do It Live" (In NYC, Next Month)- The Midterms (For People Who Kind of Hate Midterms)- The "Fuck You" Vote- Beto, Gillum, Abrams- Voter Fraud/Disenfranchisement- Trump vs. Acosta Part 5: 'Why can't they both lose?'- Trump: 'That's A Racist Question!'- Sessions, Out. Mueller, Next?- Cocaine Mitch Warns the Dems- Dog Whistles, Guilt by Association, David Duke- What Indiana Really Means- SIWT (Ezra Klein, Vox)- Surprisingly Serious Journalism Talk Recorded: PM 11/7/2018Publi...
Nov 09, 2018•1 hr 36 min
w/ Noah Rothman (Associate Editor, Commentary -- Contributor, MSNBC/NBC News) Author of the forthcoming book: “Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America” (Jan 2019) - Plausible Deniability- Perspectives on Pipe Bombs and Synagogue Attacks- Speculation, Motive- Violence in a most Peaceful Era - The, Lou Dobbs- Persuading Donald Trump- The Populist Moment- Brazil- Egalitarian Jihadi Recorded: PM 10/29/2018Published: 10/31/2018 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thi...
Nov 01, 2018•1 hr 35 min
A conversation with Sarah Haider - Origin Stories- Identity, Tribal Affiliation- Islam, Muslims, Apostasy, and Atheism- Difficult Conversations- The Intellectual Dark Web- Courage Recorded: July 22nd, 2018 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe...
Oct 23, 2018•1 hr 21 min
w/ Josh Szeps, (formerly Zepps, frequently misspelled as Zeeps) host of "#WeThePeople LIVE" and “The People Versus” (Recorded - 10/16/2018) - Australia's Sweetheart, but his father *was* even more famous- Kmele saw "First Man," Norman Mailer stabbed his wife- Kanye at the White House- This disappearing of Jamal Khashoggi- The end of American moral exceptionalism?- Doing business with the House of Saud- Proud Boys v. Antifa- "Choose a side"- Kmele v. Josh See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt...
Oct 18, 2018•1 hr 48 min
w/Harry Siegel, Senior Editor at The Daily Beast (Recorded - 10/10/2018) -Three Very Fine Bottles of Wine-Soros: boogeyman on a global scale-Anti-semitic dog whistles or nah?-Harry (literally) co-wrote the book on Rudy Giuliani-The era of conspiracy theory-Fact checkers suck-Trump's USA Today op-ed-Everyone hates P.C.—but what is P.C.?-Are the politically disengaged really the "center"?-Dying online from the outrage mobs-"Chinese finger trap"-The Mohammad cartoons and Charlie Hebdo-Kavanaugh and...
Oct 12, 2018•1 hr 34 min
-Kanye West's very MAGA SNL Appearance-Getting Totally Kavanaugh Faced-Moynihan at the Mississippi Trump Rally-Believe All Women-Bari Would Have Hated Kavanaugh in High School-Kavanaugh's Kamikaze-Apocalypse Skeptic-Bari's New Book, "The New Seven Dirty Words" (Recorded October 2nd, 2018) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe...
Oct 04, 2018•1 hr 15 min
"We're back, You're Welcome" - The Fifth (Recorded: September 19th, 2018) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe
Sep 20, 2018•1 hr 38 min
Pusha T's new album and Whitney Huston's bathroom countertop. Bobby Brown's prerogative. Was it Maurice Starr (or) Lou Pearlman? Remembering a 'Mavric'*. Jack Shafer wrote a bad piece. You can’t criticize McCain, except when you totally can. Matt vs Antiwar libertarians. Immigration policy, racism, Trump and Europe. Hasidics in Williamsburg. Louis CK returns to the Comedy Cellar. The Patriarchy = White supremacy. Everyone's Guilty. The Kids are alright. (Recorded August 29th, 2018) See acast.com...
Aug 30, 2018•1 hr 35 min
Karl Malone, Post Malone. Manafort, Cohen. John Brennan's Clearance. 'The Verge of Civil War' or Just 'The Usual Bullshit.' Rutgers, White Privilege, and Gentrification. Asia Argento. A FIRE for All Seasons. Problematic Becky. Razor Blades in Your Favorite Breakfast Cereal. (Recorded August 22nd, 2018) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/...
Aug 24, 2018•1 hr 49 min
w/ Jesse Singal (Contributing writer at New York Magazine | Author, "The Quick Fix") - Jesse's New Book- Jesse's Atlantic Cover Story ('When Children Say They’re Trans')- Omarosa vs Trump- Unite the Right 2- Laura Ingraham- The War on Journalism (Recorded August 15th, 2018) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe...
Aug 17, 2018•1 hr 56 min
w/ Jessica Tarlov (Bustle, FoxNews Contributor) - The Case Against Impeachment [ Mike Pence Would Be Worse ]- Kmele at MSNBC [ How To Be An Uncle Tom ]- Owning the Libs, Beefin on Twitter- Libs vs. Socialists- Black Chicks- Talking to the Enemy, Sitting Down w/ Trump- Race, Essentialism, Identity Politics (Recorded August 8th, 2018) 'shout out to the plug' See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or ...
Aug 10, 2018•1 hr 54 min
(Recorded Aug 1st, 2018) - Moynihan Meets D'Souza, Trump Jr - Kmele Finishes A Story - Sarah Jeong: Racist or Racist? - Russian Hacking + Facebook - QAnon - Trump, Manafort, Witch Hunt - Some Idiot Wrote This - RIP, Andrea Rich See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe...
Aug 04, 2018•1 hr 47 min
w/ Jane Coaston (Senior Politics Reporter, Vox) - Jane's Origin Story - What Conservatives REALLY Want - 'Locking HER Up' - Ignoring Michael Cohen - Facebook's Holocaust Problem (Recorded Wednesday, July 25th, 2018) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe...
Jul 27, 2018•1 hr 33 min
w/ Ben Domenech (Publisher, The Federalist) Acting Trans, Scaling the BuildingRussian IndictmentsTrump/PutinThe New Vietnam SyndromObama's Mandela SpeechWould that we could all say [that one word] - Part IIWHO FUNDS THE FEDERALIST? (Recorded Wednesday, July 18th, 2018) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe...
Jul 19, 2018•2 hr 21 min
Foster and Fisher are joined by legendary civil liberties attorney Ken White (of Popehat blogger and Twitter fame) and Damon Root (Reason's resident SCOTUS journalo and the author of "Overruled") to chop up the Justice Anthony Kennedy's surprise retirement announcement, his legacy, and the confirmation shitstorm that's sure to come. Also on tap: - SPLC's capitulation to Maajid Nawaz's defamation suit- SCOTUS upholds the travel ban, busts public sector unions, and tells cops to get a warrant for ...
Jun 29, 2018•1 hr 35 min
(Recorded: June 20th, 2018 w/ Michael Tracey, Roving Journalist and Correspondent @TYTNetwork - Never Give Up - Woke at Whole Foods - Why do they hate Tracey - Eschewing the pretense of objectivity. - The exceptional lying of President Trump. - Trump vs Obama on immigration - On the media and reactions and anti-media animus - Bernie the Trumpist - Tariffs don’t mean the Western alliance is crumbling. - The media needs constant Trumpocalypse - Kudlow’s coke habit - Psychoanalyzing Trump See acast...
Jun 21, 2018•1 hr 42 min
(Recorded June 13th, 2018) IN THIS DISPATCH: - Is the Western Alliance kaput? Does it matter? - Did Trump hand Kim a propaganda win, and if so, isn't averting nuclear war the bigger win? - North Korea shares a border with Russia and Rachel Maddow is ON IT - Moynihan shows up late - It's Trump's GOP until further notice and they're cool with "neo-Confederate" candidates, thank you very much - Michelle Wolf "comedically" slams Bari Weiss for something she never did - Welch hates high school baseba...
Jun 15, 2018•1 hr 57 min
(Recorded June 6th, 2018) w/ Josh Szeps (formerly Zepps, frequently misspelled as Zeeps) host of "#WeThePeople LIVE" and “The People Versus” IN THIS DISPATCH: - Brisbane to Boston. - Clive James’s death watch - Kanye drops “Ye” - Slavery may be a choice after all - Kat Timpf falls out of a tree... - Jim Acosta was wrong about Kim Kardashian - Bill Clinton is a widower - Bill Clinton is the real victim, but he's kinda sorry too - Moynihan goes full “fxck your interns” - Free Love - Pardon Me (Mys...
Jun 08, 2018•1 hr 37 min
