The Tortured Electoral College Department

In the final episode of American Fever Dream, V Spehar and Sami Sage go out with their hottest grab bag of takes. First, they dissect Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad and its alleged white supremacist undertones. Then, they deep dive on Hunter Biden’s interview and the weight o ...  Show more

In this episode of American Fever Dream, V and Sami critique Jubilee’s YouTube debate platform and react to the latest episode of Surrounded with Medhi Hasan. Then, they deep dive into how digital dependency has eroded our attention span across generations. And finally, they unpa ...  Show more

The title of Harvard historian Alexander Keyssar,’s new book poses the question that comes up every presidential election cycle: Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? (Harvard University Press, 2020). Keyssar presents the reader with a deep, layered, and complex analysis no ...  Show more

People are fleeing parts of Florida as Hurricane Milton continues to barrel towards the state. The 2024 presidential election is still extremely close, as both candidates talk about healthcare. Republicans are using lawsuits to challenge every aspect of mail-in voting in battlegr ...  Show more

Josh Hammer updates us on the latest left-wing legal shenanigans during today's "around the horn" segment. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks Democratic veep nominee Tim Walz's ham-fisted attacks on the Electoral College, one of the Constitution's great counter-majoritarian institu ...  Show more

Johanna Maska takes a look at the California Republican Executive Committee’s vote to rewrite the rules of the state's delegate distribution—a move that gives an edge to the current frontrunner, former President Donald Trump. The party adopted new rules that give all of the state ...  Show more