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Pantsuit Politics

by Sarah & Beth

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About the show

Pantsuit Politics is the news and politics podcast for people exhausted by outrage. Hosts Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers tackle the week's biggest political stories from genuinely different perspectives, and prove that civility, nuance, and good-faith disagreement are still possible. New episodes every Tuesday and Friday. Distributed by Lemonada Media.

Latest episodes

  • Cornell and the Culture that Let it Happen

    October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 27 min

    Sarah and Beth discuss the horror described in Jane Doe's complaint, the campus culture at Cornell, and the challenges of addressing sexual assault in college environments. They cover: The reporting and investigation into the Cornell 7…

  • Viral stories tell us more than headlines do (+ Taylor Swift's Encore)

    September 29, 2026 · 59 min

    Sarah and Beth discuss the viral stories that took over the weekend, and what they reveal about conflict, context, and civic life heading into the midterms: - The New York Times report on Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola's treatment…

  • What Eight Years as a University President Taught Robbyn Wacker about Values

    September 25, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    Beth talks with Dr. Robbyn Wacker, a former university president (most recently at St. Cloud State University) with a background in gerontology, about the book she's writing on leadership and values in higher education. They cover…

  • The AI Conversation, Continued: Kill Switches, Frontier AI, and What to Do About it All

    September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    We're picking back up on artificial intelligence — Mustafa Suleyman's warning about conscious AI, the difference between chatbots and frontier models, recursive self-improvement, kill switches, and what policy response should actually look…

  • Caitlin Clark, Sydney Sweeney, and the Sports Culture War

    September 18, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    Sports, race, gender, religion, cancel culture, and Donald Trump — this week they're all the same conversation. We cover Caitlin Clark's fouls and the House Republicans weighing in, Sophie Cunningham and the trans-athletes-in-sports…

  • Nobody Trained AI on a Soul

    September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

    After a weekend when an Anthropic researcher quit and warned AI could wipe out humanity within a decade, Sarah and Beth take on the questions listeners sent them about artificial intelligence, starting with what is actually being made and…

  • Bush Wasn't a Bad Man. He Was a Bad President.

    September 11, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min

    Twenty-five years ago today, and Sarah and Beth close out the re-share of their 2018 series on September 11 with the two hardest parts. First, the road from 9/11 to Iraq, from "we will wipe terrorism off the face of the earth" to an…

  • 9/11 Wasn't Unimaginable. It Was Unprocessed.

    September 8, 2026 · 1 hr 57 min

    This week marks twenty-five years since the September 11 attacks, and Sarah and Beth are re-sharing the five-part series they made in 2018 to do what they felt the country never quite did: process it. Today's episode holds parts one, two…