The Cross Section

By: Paul Waldman
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  • Slicing politics open to peer inside its disturbing innards and determine how it all works
    Copyright 2024 All rights reserved.
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Political Science Politics & Government
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Episodes
  • Wrestling With Passover

    Wrestling With Passover
    Apr 11 2025

    Passover is a holiday about oppression, liberation, immigration, and the nature of the diaspora. How should we think about it in 2025? Paul talks with Rabbi Yael Ridberg to wrestle with the religious, sociological, and political implications of the holiday more Jews celebrate than any other.
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    35 mins
  • It's even worse than you think

    It's even worse than you think
    Mar 21 2025

    Joe Biden made more policy progress on climate change than any president in history, so it might not have been crazy to think what he accomplished would be difficult to unwind - or that Donald Trump might not put too much effort into it. But if that's what you thought, you were wrong.

    Paul is joined by Jillian Goodman, deputy editor of Heatmap.news, to examine the damage Trump is doing and consider what makes policy change durable and what makes it vulnerable. The news isn't good.
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    36 mins
  • How did Silicon Valley break bad?

    How did Silicon Valley break bad?
    Mar 4 2025

    I talk with Henry Farrell, one of the most trenchant observers of the ground where politics, technology and commerce meet, to explore the intellectual and personal roots of Silicon Valley's right-wing turn.

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    37 mins
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