Impolitic with John Heilemann
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.
Pablo Torre: Bad Bunny & Bad Ballmer
Michael Steele: First the Chainsaw, Now the Scythe
Dylan Byers: Bari's New Perch & Kimmel's Curtain Call
Jennifer Palmieri: Dems Are Winning the Shutdown Showdown (So Far)
Floyd Abrams: Comey, Kimmel, & Trump’s Limitless Enemies List
Introducing Simpsons Declassified with Nancy Cartwright
Rahm Emanuel: Jimmy Kimmel Shows Why Growing a Pair > Bending the Knee
Drew Nieporent: The Restaurateur Who Remade New York
Robert Draper & David Frum: Charlie Kirk Assassination Aftershocks
Michael Osterholm: Be Afraid – Very Afraid – of RFK Jr. & The Next Pandemic
Frank Figliuzzi: Charlie Kirk’s Killing & America’s Political Violence Crisis
Rob Reiner: The Spinal Tap Sequel, Like the Original, Goes to 11
Leigh Ann Caldwell: 12 Angry Women (& One Addled Man) Hit Capitol Hill
Jonathan Mahler: NYC’s 1980s Reinvention & The 40-Year Era it Spawned
Presenting: The C-Word
Chuck Klosterman: Oasismania Overcomes America
James Talarico: Flipping Seats & Flipping Tables in the Lone Star State
Michael McFaul: Trump’s Red Carpet & Putin’s Middle Finger
Dan Pfeiffer: Gavin’s Gamble, J.B.’s Jibes & Other Harbingers of 2028
Christine Brennan: Caitlin Clark’s Culture Wars & the WNBA’s Cluelessness
Robert Garcia: “Things Are Fucked Up”
Anne Applebaum: Nihilism in Sudan & Orbanism in the USA
Adam Pritzker & Daniel Squadron: Detoxifying the Democratic Brand
Remnick & Miliband: Moral Crises & Killing Fields in Israel & Gaza
Bob Shrum: Deep State Donald & The Democratic Messaging Imperative
Maggie Haberman: The Epstein Metastasis
Todd Purdum: How Desi Arnaz & “I Love Lucy” Created the TV Business
Lis Smith: MAGA & The Manosphere Turn On Trump
Will Leitch: Games People Play
Nicolle Wallace: Why MAGA Went Ballistic Over Epstein & The Bear Heals All Wounds
Andrew Sullivan: Trump as King, State Terror Tactics & The Anti-Trans Backlash
Ben Kweller: Love, Loss, Grief, Hope & The Healing Power of Music
Angus King & Jason Crow: Casus Belli & Caveat Emptor re Iran
Ron Chernow: Forever the Twain Shall Meet
Tim Miller: Why Iran is Making J.D. Squirm & MAGA Media Melt Down
Jeremy Bash: Point of No Return
Tom Nichols: L.A. Was a Dress Rehearsal
Jeh Johnson: On Trump, Newsom, Noem, Padilla, & America’s Homeland Insecurities
Karen Hao: Superintelligence & Supreme Hype on the A.I. Frontier
Miles Taylor: Anonymous No More
Robert Wolf: Elon’s Adios, Biden Agonistes & The TACO That Ate Trump
David Hogg: Hope I Die Before I Get Old
Mark Whitaker: Why Malcolm X Still Matters
Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson: Joe Biden's Sins & His Party's Penance
Pablo Torre: Influence + Audience = The Cultural Supremacy of Sports
David Jolly: On the Take in the Middle East
Davis Guggenheim: “Deaf President Now!” & The Power of Documentaries
Ashley Parker & Michael Scherer: It’s Good to Be the King
Anthony Scaramucci: Kissing Ass & Taking Names
Ben Smith: Trump's Gravity Bong & Silicon Valley's Samizdat
Peter Hamby: The First 100 Days (Almost) of Trump 2.0
Susan Morrison: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night (Live)
Introducing: What We Spend
Conway & Stevens: Kilmar’s Fate, Harvard’s Fight & America's Last Best Hope
Maya Wiley: The Rule of Lawlessness
Steve Rattner: No Way to Run a Railroad (Let Alone the World Economy)
Chris Krebs: Cyberattacks, Cyberdefenses & Trump 2.0’s Cybersurrender
Marc Elias: Trump’s War on Big Law & Most Perilous Power Grab
Ron Fournier & Ben Wikler: Appetite for Destruction
Peter Baker & Susan Glasser: Moscow on the Potomac
Mark Warner & Rick Wilson: You Cannot Be Serious (But Signalgate Surely Is)
Leigh Ann Caldwell: Capitol Hill as Capitol Hell
Andrew Weissmann: Law & Disorder
Liev Schreiber: Slava Ukraini!
Jake Auchincloss: Acquiescing to Chaos & Corruption
M. Gessen: What Putin Wants (Beyond Making Trump His Bitch)
Robert Reich: Donald Trump’s Stagflation Nation & Why Dems Can’t Play Possum
Marty Baron: Why Bezos Is Debasing the Post & Bending Both Knees to Trump
Michael McFaul: Whose Side Are We On?
Joyce Vance: Eric Adams & The Quid Pro Quo That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Preet Bharara: Canaries, Coal Mines & Batshit Crazies
Robert Draper: Travels with Charlie
Adrian Wojnarowski: Luka's Lebron Love, Boosting the Bonnies, & Life Beyond Woj Bombs
Laurence Tribe: God Save This Dishonorable Court
Ezra Klein: Don’t Call It A Coup — Yet
Jonathan V. Last: Bullet Train to the Dark Place
Brian Schatz: Signal v. Noise in Trump 2.0
Jennifer Palmieri: Deja Vu All Over Again
Beschloss & Meacham: We Don't Have the Words for What We're Seeing
Joe Scarborough: A Tale of Two Speeches – and Two Trumps
Mike Schmidt: If Past Is Prologue, Buckle Up
Scott Galloway: Oligarchy Or Bust
Mallory McMorrow: Women Are (Still) Pissed — But Also Patient
Tim Miller: Staving Off Nihilism in the Face of Trump 2.0
James Fallows: The Jimmy Carter Conundrum
Jiore Craig: The Year Ahead Online (Everything is Broken)
Kara Swisher: The Year Ahead in Tech & Politics (Elon for President — of Mars)
Wright Thompson: Why Emmett Till Still Matters
Will Leitch & Pablo Torre: The Year In Sports (Shut Up & Dribble? Sure!)
Dylan Byers: The Year In Media (Falling Stars, Tolling Bells, & Self-Abasing Billionaires)
Rob Sheffield: The Year in Music (Taylor’s Version)
Chris Murphy: “It’s Happening Right in Front of Our Eyes”
Dan Pfeiffer: Mystery Drones, Corporate Lackeys & Resistance 2.0
Kurt Andersen & Michael Hirschorn: Reality Used to be a Friend of Mine
Alex Wagner: Trump Gets Triggered, Luigi Gets Caught & Guilfoyle Gets Exiled
Hakeem Jeffries on Trump, Johnson, McCarthy, Biggie & Wu Tang (Oh, My)
Pete Wehner: Hegseth’s Redemption Bromides, Trump’s Rampant Blasphemies & Fast Car’s Radiant Beatitude
Tina Brown: Trump’s Extended Middle Finger, Biden’s Shambolic Exit, & Martha’s Sad Denouement
Figliuzzi & Weissmann: Trump’s Rough Justice & The Looming Kash Clash
Griffin Dunne: All in the Family
David Remnick: Fear & Loathing Over Trump, Israel & the Dylan Biopic
Julian Castro & Paola Ramos: How Trump Turned “Si, se Puede” On Its Head
Tom Nichols: Incendiary Nominations, Global Conflagrations, & Presidential Pyromania
Beschloss & Meacham: No One Should Be Surprised
Seth Moulton & Ritchie Torres: What Dems Can (Must) Learn From 2024
Claire McCaskill: Trump Staffs Up, Dems Hunker Down, & Musk Runs Amok
Douglas Brinkley: Extreme Incaution, Enemies Lists, & The Age of Trump
Trumpocalypse Now, Again: Puck Superfriends on 45 Becoming 47
Nicolle Wallace: Happy Election Day — Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
Charlamagne tha God: Problematic Polling, Media Malpractice, & Trump Impunity
Costa & JMart: Road to the White House or Highway to Hell?
The Bulwark Fab Four: Garbage Jokes, Racist Tropes, & The Garden Party From Hell
Jason Bateman: Why SmartLess Soared & The Trump Show Jumped the Shark
Anne Applebaum & Timothy Snyder: Love Letters to Adolph
Presenting Gone South
Wes Moore: Trump Is No Friend Of The Military & Harris Isn't Biden
David Plouffe: “I’d (Still) Rather Be Us Than Them”
Debbie Dingell: Panic In Detroit, Dancing In Lansing, Stranded In Kalamazoo
Peter Baker & Susan Glasser: Where’s The Outrage?
James Carville: Inside The War Room 2.0 & The Harris-Trump Endgame
Susanne Craig: How Trump Became America’s Luckiest Loser
Mark Cuban: Out Of One Shark Tank & Into Another
Lawrence O’Donnell: Trump’s Jan 6 Reckoning, Kamala’s WH Destiny, & The Senate’s Post-McConnell Future
“Christ, Have Mercy”: Puck Superfriends Chop Up The VP Debate
Nate Silver: Harris v. Trump Is the Closest Election I’ve Ever Seen
Andrew Ross Sorkin: Rate Cuts, Tax Cuts, & Jamie Dimon Dish
Pete Buttigieg: Why Kamala Is Winning (It’s The Policies, Stupid)
Doug Emhoff: On Being 2nd Gentleman, Kamala’s Arm Candy & A Kurt Cobain/Eddie Vedder Feminist
Dan Harris: Meditation, Mental Health, Six-Peckered Goats & The 2024 Election
Slaughterhouse 45: Puck Superfriends Assess Kamala's Decimation of The Donald
Jordan Klepper: Equal Oppty B.S.-Calling & The Daily Show Renaissance
Dan Pfeiffer: No Sleep Till … Thanksgiving?
Nicholas Kristof: The DNC, Darfur Revisited, & The Pig-Dog Conundrum
Alex Edelman: On Comedy, Politics & The Emmys at The DNC
Sweet Home Chicago Pt. 2: Kamala In Command
Sweet Home Chicago Pt. 1: Obamalamentum & Biden’s Bon Voyage
Doug Sosnik: How Kamala Is Reframing the Race & Redrawing the Map
Ezra Klein: Trump’s Broken Brain, Pelosi’s Bluff-Calling & Harris’s Ideological Rebirth
Cari Champion & Pablo Torre On The Snoop Dogg Summer Olympics
Nicolle Wallace: To the Window, To the Walz
Michael Bennet & Errin Haines: Trump’s Losing Bet on Birtherism 2.0
Conway & Longwell Pt. 2: Donald’s Psyche, J.D.’s Weirdness, and Kamala’s No-Huddle Veepstakes
Conway & Longwell Pt. 1: Harris Stays Hot & Trump Melts Down
Maya Wiley & Tim Ryan on Kamala’s Craze & Trump’s Mania
Beschloss & Costa: Biden's Fall, Kamala's Rise & A Whole New Race
Meet The New Trump, Same As The Old Trump—Except On Benzos
Tim Miller & Stuart Stevens: Trump Can’t Change & Vance Won’t Fly
James Carville’s Case For Reshuffling The Democratic Deck
Labour’s Landslide, Macron’s Muddle, & Europe’s Biden Bedwetting
Steven Brill on SCOTUS & Social Media As Truth-Destroyer
Should He Stay or Should He Go (Joe Biden, That Is)?
Puck Superfriends Break Down Biden’s Debate Breakdown
Stevie Van Zandt’s Excellent Adventures On & Off E Street
Biden Campaign Chief to Dem Bedwetters: Stop Worrying & Get To Work
Reassessing the Kitchen Confidential Era & The Perils of Chef Stardom
Apple's A.I. Embrace & Elon's Tantrum
George to Media: Stop Normalizing Trump
Trump's Retribution Tea Leaves
Trump Sentencing Theories & Mueller Revisited
Introducing: Impolitic with John Heilemann
Cecile Richards
Tom Nichols Part 2
Tom Nichols Part 1
Shannon Watts
Kurt Andersen and Lawrence O’Donnell
Fiona Hill
Ken Burns
Julia Ioffe and Michael McFaul
Michael Bender, Part 2
Michael Bender, Part 1
Hasan Minhaj
Kara Swisher
Stevie Van Zandt, Part 2
Stevie Van Zandt, Part 1
Tenacious D
Aaron Sorkin
Killer Mike, Part 2
Killer Mike, Part 1
Adam Scott
Jon Meacham
Joe Scarborough
Jordan Klepper
David Axelrod
Matthew Dowd and Jennifer Palmieri
Maggie Haberman, Part 2
Maggie Haberman, Part 1
Jennifer Psaki
Stuart Stevens and Rick Wilson
Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
Amy Walter and David Wasserman
Allen Hughes, Part 2
Allen Hughes, Part 1
Jeremy Allen White and Christopher Storer
Dan Pfeiffer
George Conway and Asha Rangappa
Derrick "D-Nice" Jones
Mark Leibovich and Tim Miller, Part 2
Mark Leibovich and Tim Miller, Part 1
Jonathan Lemire
Lis Smith, Part Two
Lis Smith, Part One
Marie Brenner
Jason Kander
Dan Pfeiffer and Alyssa Mastromonaco
Liev Schreiber
Symone D. Sanders
Denver Riggleman, Part 2
Denver Riggleman, Part 1
Eric Holder and Sam Koppelman
Mallory McMorrow
Hasan Minhaj
Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin
Bob Crawford
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Mike Birbiglia and Alex Edelman
Michael Beschloss
Nicolle Wallace, Part 2
Nicolle Wallace, Part 1
Neal Katyal and Robin Lenhardt
Tom Nichols, Part 2
Tom Nichols, Part 1
Adam Scott
John Avlon
Julia Ioffe and Michael McFaul
W. Kamau Bell
Kara Swisher
Brian Cox
Mike Murphy
Andy Slavitt
Patrick Gaspard
Jeff Goldblum
Anne Applebaum and Brian Klaas
LZ Granderson and Will Leitch
David Axelrod
Cecile Richards
Rep. Karen Bass
Gary Ginsberg
Chris Krebs
Danny Strong
John Doerr
Introducing: The Long Game with LZ & Leitch
Paul Begala and James Carville
Fiona Hill
Maya Wiley
John Dickerson
Brian Koppelman, Part 2
Brian Koppelman, Part 1
Stevie Van Zandt, Part 2
Stevie Van Zandt, Part 1
Ken Burns
Frank Figliuzzi
George Packer
Derek DelGaudio
Dr. Michael Osterholm
Claire McCaskill
Chris Matthews, Part 2
Chris Matthews, Part 1
Roger Bennett and Jon Wertheim
Cey Adams and Shepard Fairey
Kurt Andersen
Michael Bender, Part 2
Michael Bender, Part 1
Introducing: The Recount Daily Pod
Best Of Hell & High Water: Entertainment Edition
SNEAK PREVIEW: Elie Mystal on “Battleground with Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir"
Christopher Jackson
Rick Doblin
Will Leitch
Steven Johnson
News Items Podcast with John Ellis and Rebecca Darst
BONUS: Mika Brzezinski on "Just Something About Her" Podcast with Jennifer Palmieri
Don Lemon
Introducing: News Items Podcast with John Ellis
Dr. Vin Gupta and Dr. Leana Wen
The Lucas Brothers
Senator Cory Booker
Nicolle Wallace, Part 2
Nicolle Wallace, Part 1
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell
Franklin Leonard
Clint Watts
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Daveed Diggs, Ethan Hawke, and James McBride
Jaime Harrison
Joyce White Vance and Jill Wine-Banks
Sean Penn
Kurt Andersen and Lawrence O’Donnell
Robert Reich
The Lincoln Project, Part 2
The Lincoln Project, Part 1
Shannon Watts
Tenacious D
Aaron Sorkin
Rich Eisen
Joe Scarborough
Killer Mike, Part 2
Killer Mike, Part 1
Lawrence Lessig & Laurence Tribe
Laurie Garrett
Jon Meacham & Maya Wiley
The Recount's Election Bonus Episode
Nicolle Wallace
Axe, Plouffe, and Mastromonaco
Mike Murphy & Stuart Stevens
James Carville
Ashley Parker & Jennifer Palmieri
Neal Katyal
Jeff Daniels
Dave Chang
Marques Johnson