Impolitic with John Heilemann

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Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

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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 conversations are rich and revealing, unrehearsed and unexpected … and reliably impolitic. A Puck-Audacy joint, new episodes drop every Wednesday and Friday.

Episodes

John welcomes journalist Anand Giridharadas to discuss his new best-selling book, “Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City,” about the death of Jordan Neely on a New York ...
Oct 12, 20261h 28m
John welcomes back Skybridge Capital founder and Trump Wall Street apostate Anthony Scaramucci to discuss the president’s mindset and machinations as he barrels towards a brutish repudiation in the mi...
Oct 9, 20261h 11m
John welcomes former UCLA and Milwaukee Bucks star Marques Johnson to discuss his new book, “The Crenshaw Chronicles,” and all things NBA. Johnson explains why the infamy of his high school alma mater...
Oct 6, 20262h 2m
John welcomes Washington Post tech culture reporter Nitasha Tiku to discuss this mind-blowing, deeply unnerving moment in the evolution of AI. Tiku explains the genesis of the fears that the systems b...
Oct 2, 20261h 20m
John welcomes retired three-star general and former U.S. Army Europe commander Mark Hertling to discuss Donald Trump’s turns on the world stage at the United Nations General Assembly and China summit ...
Sep 28, 20261h 4m
John welcomes Naomi Klein, arguably the left’s most prominent and influential public intellectual, to discuss her new best-selling book, “End Times Fascism,” co-authored with Astra Taylor. Klein—whose...
Sep 25, 20261h 29m

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Sep 23, 20262m
John welcomes back Alex Wagner, host of Runaway Country for Crooked Media and senior political analyst at MS Now, to discuss her new book, “The Steal: Four Right-Wing Hard-Liners, One Republican Presi...
Sep 21, 20261h 14m
John welcomes Jacob Weisberg, co-founder of Pushkin Industries and former editor of Slate, to discuss his new book, “Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era.” Weisberg explain...
Sep 18, 20261h 27m
John welcomes back Searchlight Institute president Adam Jentleson to discuss the post-Labor Day Senate battleground map and his new book, “Supermajority: How Democrats Can Build Lasting Power.” Jentle...
Sep 14, 20261h 19m
John is joined by Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,” to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Cente...
Sep 11, 20261h 20m
John is joined by publisher of The Bulwark and apostate Republican strategist Sarah Longwell to discuss the midterm elections, 2028, and her new book, “How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time.” Lo...
Sep 8, 20261h 29m
John is joined by combative California union boss Dave Regan to discuss Proposition 40, his state’s controversial ballot measure to levy a one-time, 5 percent wealth tax on its resident billionaires. ...
Sep 4, 20261h 25m
John is joined by two first-time Democratic office-seekers — Adam Hamilton, the party’s Senate candidate in Kansas, and Denise Powell, its House candidate in NE-02 — to discuss their upstart...
Aug 31, 20261h 22m
John is joined by Democracy Forward CEO Skye Perryman to discuss Donald Trump, Todd Blanche, and the threats they pose to America’s elections and the rule of law. Perryman explains why, for all Trump’...
Aug 28, 20261h 1m
In the second installment of a two-part episode with best-selling author Kurt Andersen, John and Kurt continue their discussion of Andersen's new novel, “The Breakup." Kurt assesses how the book—set i...
Aug 24, 20261h 8m
John welcomes bestselling author, Spy magazine co-founder, and Peabody Award-winning radio host Kurt Andersen for the first installment of a two-part episode focused on his extraordinary new novel, “T...
Aug 21, 202657m
John welcomes New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez to discuss his landmark litigation against Meta and his new crusade against the Justice Department over the Epstein files. Torrez explains his rec...
Aug 17, 20261h 17m
John welcomes David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, to discuss his recent viral podcast interview with DSA co-chair Megan Romer and his latest magnum opus on Israel. Remnick confesses to being "sta...
Aug 14, 20261h 30m
John welcomes author Jim Windolf to discuss his new book, “Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and The Beatles Changed Each Other—and the World.” Windolf details the revelations and insights unea...
Aug 10, 20261h 29m