This week Bill and Phil discuss Trump’s indifference to due process and the constitution, how the public will respond to Trump’s tariffs leading to fewer dolls and pencils for American children, and close with a spirited discussion of whether it’s more likely that Bill & Phil could escape from Alcatraz or that Trump will become the next Pope.
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100 Days
This week, Bill and Phil discuss the significance of the first 100 days of Trump’s second term, then decide who had the dumbest tweet of the week.
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Pushing Back
This week, Bill and Phil look at some of the institutions and people that are pushing back against an increasingly authoritarian Trump, including the Federal Reserve, the Supreme Court, and the American people. Then they close with an invigorating session of “What’s More Stupid?”
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The Crisis Arrives
This week, Bill and Phil explore the ongoing battle between the Trump administration and the judiciary, pondering whether the country finds itself in a full blown constitutional crisis, then continue their ongoing series looking at attacks on core democratic institutions, focusing this week on Trump‘s attack on higher education.
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Tariff Turmoil
This week, Bill and Phil try to make some sense of Trump’s tariffs and their implications.
Politics isn’t always black and white. Dr. Bill Muck and Dr. Phil Barker, professors of political science and longtime friends, talk through the week’s news and discuss how political science might help make sense of things. In The Politics Lab, we put politics under the microscope.
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