Prices are rising, and the economy is shifting—how will your retirement hold up? Protect your savings with a Gold IRA from Augusta Precious Metals. Get a FREE guide on how it works—no cost, no catch! Click this link now: https://bit.ly/41PCKtB Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Economist Vance Ginn, host of Let People Prosper, joins Emily to share his experience working in the first Trump White House. Ginn argues that Trump’s tariff re...
Apr 01, 2025•28 min•Season 1Ep. 197
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Emily reacts to an upcoming hearing in Congress on censorship where Democrats called Nina Jankowicz, a self-avowed opponent of “free speech absolutism” to testify. Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Listen to the podcast: https://shows.acast.com/undercurrents Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 01, 2025•22 min•Season 1Ep. 196
Prices are rising, and the economy is shifting—how will your retirement hold up? Protect your savings with a Gold IRA from Augusta Precious Metals. Get a FREE guide on how it works—no cost, no catch! Click this link now: https://bit.ly/41PCKtB Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Mark Hemingway joins Emily to discuss Democrats' dilemma between populism and the 'abundance' agenda. Without a clear leader, Hemingway argues, the party is fla...
Mar 31, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 195
Go to my sponsor https://aura.com/undercurrents to get a 14-day free trial and start protecting your data — because if you don’t, who will? Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Christian Parenti joins Emily to discuss his latest piece for UnHerd, arguing the real story of Signal-gate is Donald Trump’s willingness to greenlight strikes on Houthi targets despite campaigning against forever wars. Parenti warns that Trump’s policies could sp...
Mar 28, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 194
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Ashley Rindsberg joins Emily to react to NPR CEO Katherine Maher’s congressional testimony on Wednesday. Rindsberg explains why Republicans grilled Maher, and where her support for left-wing causes will go from here. Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 27, 2025•25 min•Season 1Ep. 193
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Emily reacts to breaking news in the case of Michael Waltz’s Signal scandal with Jeffrey Goldberg. After Goldberg released some of the messages he previously claimed were too sensitive to publish, Waltz and the White House claimed victory. Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 26, 2025•18 min•Season 1Ep. 192
Prices are rising, and the economy is shifting—how will your retirement hold up? Protect your savings with a Gold IRA from Augusta Precious Metals. Get a FREE guide on how it works—no cost, no catch! Click this link now: https://bit.ly/41PCKtB Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Greg Lukianoff joins Emily to analyze the Trump administration’s efforts to deport non-citizen student protesters. Lukianoff also weighs in on how Trump’s DEI r...
Mar 26, 2025•30 min•Season 1Ep. 191
Prices are rising, and the economy is shifting—how will your retirement hold up? Protect your savings with a Gold IRA from Augusta Precious Metals. Get a FREE guide on how it works—no cost, no catch! Click this link now: https://bit.ly/41PCKtB Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Lee Fang joins Emily to break down how MAGA influencers were caught taking money to post in favor of soda companies. Fang explains how corporations are plotting...
Mar 25, 2025•22 min•Season 1Ep. 190
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Emily reacts to wild news that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added an anti-Trump journalists to Signal messaging thread about planned strikes on Houthis. Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 25, 2025•22 min•Season 1Ep. 189
Prices are rising, and the economy is shifting—how will your retirement hold up? Protect your savings with a Gold IRA from Augusta Precious Metals. Get a FREE guide on how it works—no cost, no catch! Click this link now: https://bit.ly/41PCKtB Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Dave Weigel of Semafor reports back from embedding with Bernie Sanders and Democrats around the country as they rally the party’s base in opposition to Donald T...
Mar 24, 2025•32 min•Season 1Ep. 188
Go to my sponsor https://aura.com/undercurrents to get a 14-day free trial and start protecting your data — because if you don’t, who will? Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Inez Stepman joins Emily to react to Donald Trump’s decision to sign an executive order on Thursday instructing Linda McMahon to begin the process of closing the Education Department. Stepman argues the Department caused an “explosion of bloat” and Trump’s move to...
Mar 21, 2025•26 min•Season 1Ep. 187
Curt Mills of The American Conservative joins Emily for an assessment of Trump’s foreign policy as he enters his third month back in office. With the collapse of the Gaza ceasefire and progress towards a ceasefire in Ukraine, Trump’s last 72 hours are testing his approach. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 20, 2025•30 min•Season 1Ep. 186
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Evita Duffy-Alfonso joins Emily to break down newly released files from the National Archives related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Duffy-Alfonso argues the documents remained redacted for so many years because the intelligence community was protecting its power. Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...
Mar 19, 2025•25 min•Season 1Ep. 185
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Emily is joined by author and professor Eric Kaufman, who argues that Donald Trump is actually weakening the cause of global populism by prioritizing imperialist ambitions. Cultural priorities, Kaufman argues, are much more powerful. Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 18, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 184
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Emily reacts to new numbers showing Donald Trump’s approval is at an all-time high while Democrats, still reeling from the shutdown controversy, are plunging to new lows. Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 18, 2025•13 min•Season 1Ep. 183
Chris Fenton — media executive, author, and professor — joins Emily to make the case for Donald Trump’s trade war with China. The tariffs, Fenton says, are actually prioritizing American workers over Wall Street. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 17, 2025•28 min•Season 1Ep. 182
Go to my sponsor https://aura.com/undercurrents to get a 14-day free trial and start protecting your data — because if you don’t, who will? Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Emily interviews Sen. Ron Johnson live at the Conservative Partnership Institute’s Off the Record event on Capitol Hill. Johnson discusses how the Make America Healthy Again movement is adapting to taking charge of Washington. Watch it on the Undercurrents website...
Mar 14, 2025•41 min•Season 1Ep. 181
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Emily reacts to Steve Bannon’s appearance on This Is Gavin Newsom, the California governor’s new podcast. Is Newsom trapping conservatives by hosting them on his show? Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 13, 2025•18 min•Season 1Ep. 180
George Beebe of the Quincy Institute joins Emily to analyze the joint US-Ukraine ceasefire proposal as Steve Witkoff heads to Moscow for negotiations. Beebe, a former CIA analyst, argues that Trump’s controversial approach to Voldymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office may actually have helped the peace process. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 13, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 179
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Justin Goodman joins Emily to explain the research behind Trump's much-derided "transgender mice" claim, arguing the situation is actually even more serious than the president conveyed in his joint address. Goodman also weighs in on the media coverage of his efforts to expose the use of taxpayer money on animal testing. Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Hosted on...
Mar 12, 2025•34 min•Season 1Ep. 178
Emily reacts to breaking news that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz reached a deal with Ukrainian negotiators on a ceasefire proposal. “The ball is now in their court,” said Rubio of Russia, who will now determine whether the deal is viable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 11, 2025•13 min•Season 1Ep. 177
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Emily reports live from Black Lives Matter Plaza outside the White House, where demolition crews are spending the next 6-8 weeks removing the art installation the city installed in 2020, during the protests over the death of George Floyd. Republicans threatened to take federal funding away from DC over the plaza, after which the city’s Democratic mayor decided to remove it. Watch it on the Undercurren...
Mar 11, 2025•10 min•Season 1Ep. 176
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Zaid Jilani joins Emily to weigh in on the Trump administration’s decision to pull $400 million of federal funding from Columbia University and arrest a recent graduate over allegations of support for Hamas. Jilani argues the right could jeopardize its own political goals by cracking down on critics of Israel. Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Hosted on Acast. Se...
Mar 10, 2025•32 min•Season 1Ep. 175
Go to my sponsor https://aura.com/undercurrents to get a 14-day free trial and start protecting your data — because if you don’t, who will? Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Will Chamberlain, senior counsel at the Article III Project, joins Emily to break down the conservative argument against the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on foreign aid. Chamberlain makes the case that Trump will ultimately win as the battle progresses. Watch it ...
Mar 07, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 174
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Emily reacts to Gavin Newsom’s podcast discussion with Charlie Kirk. Newsom’s decision to launch the podcast and engage with his critics, Emily says, is a promising sign for Democrats. Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 07, 2025•14 min•Season 1Ep. 173
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Jonathan Lubecky, a combat veteran who advocates for his fellow soldiers, joins Emily to explain why news of sweeping cuts to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs might not be a disaster. Lubecky cautions that both Democrats and Republicans should be careful about treating veterans as political props right now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 06, 2025•28 min•Season 1Ep. 172
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Emily reacts to Jay Bhattacharya’s Senate confirmation hearing to run the NIH. Bhattacharya answered questions about his perspective on the pandemic and performed well, despite facing harsh criticism from Anthony Fauci and others in 2020. Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 06, 2025•9 min•Season 1Ep. 171
Emily reacts to Trump’s joint address to Congress from Capitol Hill Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 05, 2025•19 min•Season 1Ep. 170
Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Slavoj Zizek joins Emily to explain his position on the blowup between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky. Zizek argues it’s actually Trump who should be thanking Zelensky, not the other way around. Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 04, 2025•35 min•Season 1Ep. 169
Emily explains why Americans are right to be upset with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his allies who’ve criticized President Trump and Vice President Vance after their public fight at the White House. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 04, 2025•11 min•Season 1Ep. 168
