Playing Politics
Listening to the "Playing Politics" podcast from the Star Tribune and WCCO Radio is like taking a seat at the Editorial Board table and hearing an informed and opinionated weekly discussion of all things political in Minnesota and the nation. "Playing Politics" features WCCO’s Chad Hartman and the Star Tribune’s John Rash in addition to editorial writer Patricia Lopez and columnists Lori Sturdevant and D.J. Tice – award-winning journalists who bring varied perspectives to the issues of the day.
Tight race for attorney general
OPEC and the U.S. electorate
Political fallout from the Feeding Our Future scandal
The Feeding Our Future scandal
Takeaways from Omar's narrow victory
Birk's comments roil race
What matters most from Jan. 6 hearing
GOP witnesses center stage at Jan. 6 hearings
Governor's race already heating up
Gearing up for the Jan. 6 hearings
Federal money on the table, but Legislature stalled
Jensen's post-endorsement challenges
Rising prices may mean sinking fortunes for Democrats
Report on MPD will reverberate
Mask ruling causes confusion, then controversy
A budget surplus but a deficit of agreement
Biden's popularity soars - abroad
Biden heads to Europe
Zelenskyy's address to Congress
Report roasts Mpls. riot response
The invasion - and sanctions - begin
Mixed signals on Ukraine
Locke shooting roils Minneapolis
Breyer retirement
The president meets the press
Showdown on voting rights
Jan. 6 shadows 2022 politics
A turbulent 2021
Will surplus break the legislative logjam?
Roe v. Wade case tests the court, and maybe soon the country
COVID's hold grimly endures
U.S. House debates fate of Paul Gosar
Judge rejects Trump's executive-privilege claim
A good night for Frey
City elections down to final days
Dems' narrow majority slims down bill
Election (and endorsement) season
Biden administration besieged
Woodward's bombshell book on Trump
Gazelka enters the race for governor
Biden's deadline dilemma
Bipartisan heat on John Thompson
Special session sprints to finish
Uptown upheaval latest test for Minneapolis
Reopening George Floyd Square vexes Mayor Frey
State budget brinkmanship
The Cheney purge
The Chauvin verdict
Infrastructure Week (era, actually)
Will Washington finally act on guns?
Walz sidelined by COVID exposure
Biden's big bill
Getting answers on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol
Biden's 'quiet' beginning
Walz rings the school bell
An impeachment trial - at the crime scene
New budget, same gridlock
President Joe Biden
Impeachment, take two
MAGA mobs storm the Capitol
Listen: Election contention continues
Listen: Barr contradicts Trump
Listen: Walz acts on virus crisis
Listen: The endless election
Listen: Election Day(s)
Listen: Finally, the final stretch
Listen: Will the last debate matter?
Listen: The COVID campaign
Listen: Court fight convulses Congress, campaign
Listen: Trump's night with undecided voters
Listen: Woodward book's bombshells
Listen: The Republican National Convention
Listen: The real consequences of a virtual conventions
Listen: The Harris effect
Listen: Walz, Frey spar over National Guard deployment
Listen: Hearings, but is anyone listening?
Listen: Minnesota's mask mandate
Listen: Schools loom as next big decision
Listen: Pandemic, police and politics
Listen: Bolton bombshells emerge
Listen: Protests roil locally, and nationally
Listen: Ellison ups charges in George Floyd case
Listen: Frey, his city and nation call for justice
Listen: As Walz turns the dial, critics turn up the heat
Listen: Walz faces most consequential call yet
Listen: Rising deficit, COVID-19 deaths shake state
Listen: Mike Pence, unmasked at Mayo
Listen: Pandemic protest and process
Listen: Growing partisan divisions on pandemic response
Listen: Bernie Sanders leaves the race — and a legacy
Listen: The press, the president, and the pandemic
Listen: Mixed signals on pandemic
Listen: Pandemic response
Listen: Biden's big breakthrough
Listen: Democrats debate (and shout)
Listen: The Bloomberg factor
Listen: The 'Playing Politics' podcast on the New Hampshire results
Listen: Impeachment, Iowa and the State of the Union
Listen: Impeachment questions
Listen: Impeachment strategies emerge
Listen: Impeachment (and Iowa)
Listen: Iran crisis cools – for now
Listen: Impeachment
Listen: Impeachment strategies
Listen: Impeachment polarization
Listen: The Sondland and the fury
Listen: Lights, camera, impeachment
Listen: Impeachment hearings set: What will Americans listen for?
Listen: Attacks on impeachment process — and witnesses
Listen: Taylor’s damning testimony
Listen: Trump talk from Minneapolis to the Mideast
Listen: Impeachment issue intensifies
Listen: Trump focuses on the Mideast — and Rep. Omar
Listen: Dissent disinvited
Listen: After new round of shootings, will anything change?
Listen: How much will Mueller matter?
Listen: The politics of the Jeffrey Epstein case
Listen: Border crisis resonates
Listen: Trump kicks off 2020 (or is it 2016?) campaign
Listen: Omar controversies continue
Listen: Mueller memo at center of Barr hearings
Listen: Can Klobuchar break through?
Listen: White House wrestles with border issue
Listen: A slow-going legislative session
Listen: The politics of grounding planes
Listen: Cohen questioning reflects nation’s partisan split
Listen: Walz budget, Mueller investigation
Listen: Shutdown impact intensifies
Listen: Washington stalemate
Listen: Shutdown showdown
Listen: Pipe bombs reflect overheated political environment
Listen: Khashoggi case becomes foreign policy crisis
Listen: Supreme Court rulings boost Trump, GOP
Listen: Firestorm forces Trump reversal on detained children
Listen: Legislature stalls as state races heat up
Listen: Shutdown showdown
Listen: North Korea crisis escalates
Listen: In St. Paul, attacks scramble mayoral race
Listen: Trump-Corker feud fuels more White House turmoil
Listen: Minnesota’s political impasse intensifies
Listen: Rising crime in downtown Minneapolis
Listen: The global, local impact of the Justine Damond case
Listen: Minnesota National Guard members train in Lithuania
Listen: Capitol Hill hearings amplify Russia issue
Listen: Hard work ahead after Trump speech, state budget forecast
Listen: A low point for debates and democracy
Listen: Nondisclosure dogs both campaigns
Listen: Full-speed ahead for Trump, Clinton
Playing Politics podcast: Building a community, countering extremism in Minnesota
Trump’s momentum continues, and Sanders shows new life