Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
Every week Chris Hayes asks the big questions that keep him up at night. How do we make sense of this unprecedented moment in world history? Why is this (all) happening? This podcast starts to answer these questions. Writers, experts, and thinkers who are also trying to get to the bottom of them join Chris to break it all down and help him get a better night’s rest. “Why is this Happening?” is presented by MSNBC and NBCNews Think.
The Role of the Press in This Moment with Matt Pearce
Where Do We Go From Here? with Anna Galland
“Polarized by Degrees” with Matt Grossmann and Dave Hopkins
Talking Harris, Hawaii and More with Senator Brian Schatz
The Rise of The Latino Far Right with Paola Ramos
Harris’ Media Blitz and Strategy with Symone Sanders-Townsend
Listen to “Kamala: Next in Line”
Reflecting on October 7th with Amir Tibon
Crafting a Bipartisan Miracle with Chris Murphy
The Coalition of the Weird with Dave Weigel
The Threat of Project 2025 on Climate
MSNBC Live: Democracy 2024
Building a New South with Anderson Clayton
The Biden Miracle with Jay Turner
Recapping an Electric DNC with Alex Wagner
What Would a Fair Society Look Like? with Daniel Chandler
The Rise of Kamala Harris with Heather McGhee
Book Bans with Dave Eggers
“When the Clock Broke” with John Ganz
“The Big Dig” with Ian Coss
What’s Next for Biden? with Jamelle Bouie
SCOTUS Doing Its Worst - Strict Scrutiny Crossover
The End of Libraries as We Know Them? with Brewster Kahle and Kyle Courtney
WTH is Project 2025? with Thomas Zimmer
Criminal Justice, Faith and Politics with Rep. Jasmine Crockett
The Stakes for Antitrust with Timothy Wu
Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age with Sasha Issenberg
Reimagining Leadership & Protests with Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
The Stakes for Climate and Energy with David Roberts
Resisting The Right-Wing Attack on Democracy with Ari Berman
The Stakes for Reproductive Rights with Jessica Valenti
Inside The Trump Courtroom with Lisa Rubin
This Moment in Tech with Meredith Whittaker
The Stakes of Tax Policy with Kimberly Clausing
The Stakes of Immigration with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
The Story of an Israeli Dissident with Meir Baruchin
The State of Polling with Nate Cohn
“Who’s Afraid of Gender?” with Judith Butler
BONUS: TikTok’s Uncertain Future with Jacob Ward
Confronting Christian Nationalism with Doug Pagitt
A Mediapocalypse? with Ben Smith
The Explosion in Green Tech with Jigar Shah
Protecting Voting Rights with Eric Holder
2020: The Year Everything Changed with Eric Klinenberg
Winning Progressive Change with Deepak Bhargava
The Mystery and Miracle of Polynesia with Christina Thompson
“Your Face Belongs to Us” with Kashmir Hill
Creating Global Routes to Hope with David Miliband
2023: A Turning Point for the Climate?
The Future of Energy with Jonah Goldman (2022)
The Future of Friendship with Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow (2022)
The Future of Entertainment with Seth Meyers (2022)
“Homeschool Nation” with Laura Meckler
WITHpod Live - Answering Your Questions
The Origins of the Universe with Marcelo Gleiser
WITHpod Live with Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow
PREVIEW: WITHpod Live with Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow
Life in the West Bank with Sari Bashi
Defending Democracy Amid Division with Adam Kinzinger
The Making of Joy Reid
"Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World” with Naomi Klein
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop with Trymaine Lee, Imani Perry and Vic Mensa
Recovering Native Narratives and Data with Abigail Echo-Hawk
The Case for Unconditional Cash Transfers with Jiaying Zhao
BONUS: How to Win 2024: The “Kiddie Table” Debate
Prosecuting Donald Trump with Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord
The Progressive Prosecutor Movement with Chesa Boudin
Introducing “How to Win 2024”
Hot Labor Summer with Alex Press
The Care Economy with Ai-jen Poo (2023)
Answering Your Questions in Our #WITHpod Mailbag
“The Heat Will Kill You First” with Jeff Goodell
The “Existential” Climate Crisis with Bill McKibben
“A Moral Moment in America” with Sen. Raphael Warnock
BONUS: Prosecuting Donald Trump: The 2020 Election Indictment Read by Ali Velshi
AI: “An Exponential Disruption” with Kate Crawford (2023)
Being “Irrepressible” with Little Rock Nine Member Minnijean Brown-Trickey (2023)
#WITHpod & Strict Scrutiny Crossover
From Prison to Politics with Yusef Salaam
Decoding The Information Age with Scott Shapiro
Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism with Jeffrey Toobin
Why Americans Are Dying So Young with Anne Case and Angus Deaton
Leading Chicago with Mayor Brandon Johnson
BONUS: Prosecuting Donald Trump: The Full Indictment Read by Ali Velshi
“The Phoenix Economy” with Felix Salmon
The Care Economy with Ai-jen Poo
“The Shadow Docket” with Steve Vladeck
A gun industry insider perspective with Ryan Busse (2022)
The Explosion of Online Sports Betting with Eric Lipton
TikTok’s Uncertain Future with Jacob Ward
The Abortionist “Written Out of History” with Jennifer Wright
AI: “An Exponential Disruption” with Kate Crawford
What’s Behind Israel’s Unprecedented Protests with Edo Konrad
The Fixation on Anti-Trans Legislation with Chase Strangio
WTH Happened at Silicon Valley Bank? with Mike Konczal
The Dire Threat of Global Authoritarianism with Rula Jebreal
Changing Cop Culture with Neil Gross
Cities After Covid with Brad Lander
Treating Trans Youth with Dr. Izzy Lowell (2021)
The ‘Havana Syndrome’ with Jon Lee Anderson and Adam Entous
Being “Irrepressible” with Little Rock Nine Member Minnijean Brown-Trickey
“The E-bike is Here to Stay” with Mike Radenbaugh
The Effects of the ‘Stop W.O.K.E’ Act with Jonathan Cox
WTH Happened with FTX? with Tonya Evans
BONUS: Chris Hayes co-hosts National Day of Racial Healing town hall
Has the Lottery Played Us? with Jonathan Cohen
Celebrating 250 #WITHpod Episodes
Strengthening America’s Immigrant ‘Resilience Force’ with Saket Soni
The Debate Inside Progressive Politics with Maurice Mitchell
What the End of ‘Zero Covid’ in China Means with Bill Bishop
The #WITHpod Holiday Mailbag
Dads Who “Lean Out” with Tim Lee
What ‘The Communist Manifesto’ Means Today with China Miéville
Ask a Swole Woman with Casey Johnston (2021)
Fighting on the Frontlines in Ukraine with Macer Gifford
Twitter's Elon Musk Era with Kara Swisher
WITHpod BONUS: Chris and the MSNBC Insiders on the Midterms
Iran’s Growing Protests with Sussan Tahmasebi
Echoes of the 1994 Midterms in 2022 with Steve Kornacki
The Klan and Reconstruction with Kidada Williams
Lady Justice in the Age of Trump and Dobbs with Dahlia Lithwick
An exclusive #WITHpod conversation with Rachel Maddow
The Death and Life of Seth Rich with Andy Kroll
The Power of the Black Vote with Trymaine Lee
Joe Biden and the End of Reaganomics with Felicia Wong
What’s Going on With the Economy? with Matthew Klein
The Case for Public Schools with Courtney Martin
‘Out of Office’ with Anne Helen Petersen
How Pandemics End with Ellie Murray
Our First Live #WITHpod Mailbag
What It's Like to Be Great at Something with Dirk Nowitzki (2022)
Performance in a Pandemic with Ani DiFranco (2021)
The Future of Entertainment with Seth Meyers (2022)
‘Allow Me to Retort’ with Elie Mystal (2022)
‘The G Word’ with Adam Conover
‘His Name is George Floyd’ with Robert Samuels
The Most Conservative Supreme Court in Nearly a Century with Jamal Greene
The Affordable Housing Crisis with Ned Resnikoff
‘Why People Are Acting So Weird’ with Olga Khazan
“Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s” with Connie Walker
‘How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics’ with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
A gun industry insider perspective with Ryan Busse
'Liberalism and Its Discontents’ with Francis Fukuyama
‘A Genetic History of the Americas’ with Jennifer Raff
Unpacking Title 42 with Thomas Saenz
‘Allow Me to Retort’ with Elie Mystal
‘A Year of Healing and Heartbreak’ with Thomas Fisher
Telling the Climate Story with Adam McKay and Omar El Akkad (2019)
‘Love Thy Neighbor’ with Collier Meyerson
What It's Like to Be Great at Something with Dirk Nowitzki
The True Origins of Putin’s War with Timothy Snyder
The Future of Energy with Jonah Goldman
The Future of Friendship with Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
The Future of Innovation with Cathie Wood
The Future of Entertainment with Seth Meyers
Introducing the inaugural #WITHpod "Future of" miniseries
‘White Space, Black Hood’ with Sheryll Cashin
Treating Trans Youth with Dr. Izzy Lowell (2021)
An Indoor Clean Air Act? with Linsey Marr
Celebrating 200 #WITHpod Episodes!
The State of the Taliban with Anand Gopal
‘Gangsters of Capitalism’ with Jonathan Katz
The #WITHpod Mailbag
#WITHpod & Strict Scrutiny Crossover
The Unthinkable with Jamie Raskin
Democracy on a Knife’s Edge with Bart Gellman & Sherrilyn Ifill
Ask a Swole Woman with Casey Johnston
NFTs: WTF? with Kevin Roose
Statistically True with Kareem Carr
Not Too Old for TikTok with Hank Green
Bringing News Inside Prisons with Lawrence Bartley
The Art of Filmmaking with Alex Gibney
From Refugee to Congresswoman with Ilhan Omar
‘The Loneliest Americans’ with Jay Caspian Kang
Climate, Weather and Trust with Al Roker
The Race to Become Socialist Mayor of Buffalo with India Walton
‘The Invisible Child’ with Andrea Elliott
Inside China's High-Tech Penal Colony with Darren Byler
Who was Marquis de Lafayette? with Mike Duncan
‘Dirty Work’ with Eyal Press
The Ten Year War with Jonathan Cohn
The Electric Vehicle Revolution with Dana Hull
Reforming Sexual Justice with Alexandra Brodsky
The War on Terror with Spencer Ackerman
Performance in a Pandemic with Ani DiFranco
Withdrawing from Afghanistan and the Impact of Global Corruption with Sarah Chayes
"Here, Right Matters" with Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman
The Summer #WITHpod Mailbag
Locked Out with Justin Fox
From Activist to Congress with Rep. Cori Bush
Inside Palestine with Rashid Khalidi
"The Line" with Dan Taberski
Who's Flying the UFOs? with Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Educating the Internet with Natalie Wynn
Fighting Back the Virus with Andy Slavitt
Energy and Evolution with Herman Pontzer
How the Word is Passed with Clint Smith
Treating Trans Youth with Dr. Izzy Lowell
A More Violent America with Patrick Sharkey
A Life in China with Te-Ping Chen
The Premonition with Michael Lewis
Is Bitcoin for Real? with Joe Weisenthal
The Whiteness of Wealth with Dorothy A. Brown
The Endurance of Wikipedia with Katherine Maher
Vaccines: How Do They Work? with Dr. Peter Hotez
Who Gets To Say with John McWhorter
One-Click America with Alec MacGillis
Minimum Wage 101 with Arin Dube
One Year of Plague Living with Michelle Goldberg
Finding Truth in Doubt with Anna Deavere Smith
Powering the Grid with David Roberts
Modi’s “Arrogance of Power” and the Indian Farmers’ Protests with Rana Ayyub
Whose Land with Rebecca Nagle
The Filibuster’s Sordid Past and Present with Adam Jentleson
13 Executions with Liliana Segura
The End of RealDonaldTrump with Kara Swisher
The Attack on the Capitol with Ta-Nehisi Coates
Family, Legacy, and Bourbon with Wright Thompson
The Foxconn Con with Josh Dzieza
No Regrets with Rep. Max Rose
The Democratic Coalition After 2020 with David Shor
Your Local Disinformation with Davey Alba
The Down-Ballot Democrats with Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
The Problem with Political Hobbyism with Eitan Hersh
How Red is Texas with Abby Livingston
What We Got Wrong with Zeynep Tufekci
Donate Now with Michael Whitney
Understanding the “Latino Vote” with Chuck Rocha
America's Isolation with Samantha Power
Avoiding Election Disaster with Edward Foley
Money, Democracy, and John Maynard Keynes with Zach Carter
FAQAnon with Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins
Necessary Struggle with Barbara Smith
What Bush Left Behind with Robert Draper
Keeping a Restaurant Alive with Tony Bezsylko
America’s Right Turn with Rick Perlstein
The Invisible Power Struggle with Leah Stokes
REVISITED China's Secret Internment Camps with Rian Thum
Caste in America with Isabel Wilkerson
The Party of Trump with Stuart Stevens
REVISITED The Information Crisis with David Roberts
America’s Prophet of Freedom with David Blight
So You Want to Run for Office with Luke Hayes
America on Drugs with Dr. Carl Hart
Policing and Democracy with Brandon del Pozo
Where We Go Now with Sherrilyn Ifill
REVISITED: Abolishing Prisons with Mariame Kaba
8 minutes 46 seconds with Trymaine Lee
Abolish the Electoral College with Jesse Wegman
Being Michael Jordan with David Roth and Joel Anderson
Home From School with Dana Goldstein
The Pandemic Behind Bars with Josie Duffy Rice
Saving the Economy with Saule Omarova
The Cost of Division with Heather McGhee
Solidarity in a Disaster with Rebecca Solnit
Going Viral with Carl Bergstrom
The Last Great Pandemic with John M. Barry
Battling the Darkness with Thomas Burke Jr.
The Fight for Asylum with Bridget Cambria and Tobias Barrington Wolff
REVISITED Breaking Government with Michael Lewis
The Origins of a Disaster with Adam Higginbotham
Exile and Basketball with Enes Kanter
Stacking the Courts with Dahlia Lithwick
Between God and Man with Daniel M. Lavery
The Gettable Voter with Jon Favreau
The Frontlines of Addiction with Beth Macy
Why We’re Polarized with Ezra Klein
The Uneven Playing Field with Howard Bryant
Trump and Evangelicals with Mark Galli
Who Is Reality Winner? with Kerry Howley
What Happened in the UK Election? with Sarah Jaffe
The #WITHpod Mailbag (2019)
LIVE IN NYC: American Psychodrama with Tony Kushner and Jeremy O. Harris
Understanding the Wealth Tax with Gabriel Zucman
The Meaning of Impeachment with Kate Shaw
Fighting ISIS with James Verini
LIVE IN CHICAGO: The 400 Year Legacy with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ibram X. Kendi
Reckoning with Linda Hirshman
EXCLUSIVE WITHpod Live New York Presale
The Meaning of Life with Martin Hägglund
LIVE IN LA: Telling the Climate Story with Adam McKay and Omar El Akkad
The Lockdown of Kashmir with Hafsa Kanjwal
EXCLUSIVE WITHpod Live Chicago Presale
Belonging & Unbelonging with Salman Rushdie
Undermining Black Homeownership with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
LIVE: What Happened to Conservatism with Sen. Ted Cruz
Exclusive WITHpod Live Los Angeles Presale
Antisocial Media with Andrew Marantz
The Education of an Idealist with Samantha Power
Facing Trauma with Jason Kander
Trans Rights with Chase Strangio
College at Any Cost with Caitlin Zaloom
Seeking Asylum with Luis Mancheno
Holding Them Accountable with Rep. Katie Porter
This Land is Our Land with Suketu Mehta
Fury in Puerto Rico with Julio Ricardo Varela
The Climate Campaign with Gov. Jay Inslee
Building a Movement with Rev. Dr. William Barber II
The Case for Socialism with Bhaskar Sunkara
A History of Concentration Camps with Andrea Pitzer
From Red to Blue with Rep. Max Rose
Impeaching a President with Brenda Wineapple
Defending Liberalism with Adam Gopnik
Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza
The Anniversary #WITHpod Mailbag
A Family's Lost History During McCarthyism with David Maraniss
The Roots of Anti-Semitism with Deborah Lipstadt
Debunking the Deficit Hysteria with Stephanie Kelton
Breaking Government with Michael Lewis
China's Secret Internment Camps with Rian Thum
BONUS: The First Family of Opioids with Patrick Radden Keefe
The Ghosts of a Dirty War with Patrick Radden Keefe
Abolishing Prisons with Mariame Kaba
Are We a Democracy? with Astra Taylor
Dying of Whiteness with Jonathan Metzl
Building a Progressive Majority with Dorian Warren
Rethinking Identity with Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Uninhabitable Earth with David Wallace-Wells
LIVE: The Democratic Response with Stacey Abrams
Blocking Big Tech with Kashmir Hill
Can We Tax the Rich? with Jesse Eisinger
Thick Descriptions with Tressie McMillan Cottom
Live #WITHpod with Stacey Abrams! TICKET LINK IN DESCRIPTION
Back to the Future of Transportation with Aaron Gordon
BONUS: The Census Decision with Dale Ho
Amazon's Wish List with Stacy Mitchell
Trade Wars with Lori Wallach
Organizing in Trump Country with George Goehl
The #WITHpod Mailbag (2018)
Revisiting The Rule of Law in the Era of Trump with Kate Shaw
America’s (Bad) Reputation with Fmr. Secretary of State John Kerry
Politics and Violence with Joanne B. Freeman
The Information Crisis with David Roberts
Live: A New Hope with Ta-Nehisi Coates
History and Scandal with Rachel Maddow
Slavery’s Enduring Political Legacy with Maya Sen and Matthew Blackwell
The Trump Scheme to Rig the Census with Dale Ho
BONUS: Midterm Watch with Daniel Nichanian
White Identity Politics with Michael Tesler
Medicare for All with Abdul El-Sayed
Voter Suppression Past and Present with Carol Anderson
The Myths of the Ruling Class with Anand Giridharadas
Women, Rage, and Power with Rebecca Traister
Social Infrastructure Week with Eric Klinenberg
Investigating the President with Nick Akerman
The Left Wing of the Democratic Party with Sean McElwee
America’s Role in the World’s Worst Crisis with Shireen Al-Adeimi
Trump, Brexit, and Racial Grievance with Mehdi Hasan
Why Trump's Corruption Matters with Zephyr Teachout
The Wicked Problem of Climate Change with Andrew Revkin
Roe V. Wade's Final Hour? with Nancy Northup
School Segregation in 2018 with Nikole Hannah-Jones
Our Real Estate Obsession with Giorgio Angelini
"Futureface" with Alex Wagner
Ending Mass Incarceration with Larry Krasner
Fracking Trump Country with Eliza Griswold
How Bad Is It? with Ezra Klein
Destruction in Puerto Rico with Naomi Klein
Political Tribalism with Amy Chua
Separating Immigrant Families with Lee Gelernt
Who Broke the Internet? with Tim Wu
The Rule of Law in the Era of Trump with Kate Shaw
The Conservative Movement with Corey Robin
The Middle East with Dexter Filkins
The Personal is Political with Brittney Cooper