Politics and Prose Presents

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• Michael Lewis and Jacob Weisberg — Blockers and Profiles in Cowardice - with Andrew Sullivan

  October 22, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

  Blockers. It wasn’t a compliment. In the new Washington, it was the worst thing you could be—especially if you worked in the federal government and wanted to keep your job. A Blocker was a holdover, an impediment, someone who didn't get…

• Kenneth R. Feinberg — What is Life Worth? - with Peter L.W. Osnos

  October 21, 2026 · 57 min

  The story that inspired the acclaimed motion picture Worth, told by the man behind the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund—a moving saga of national tragedy and healing. Now with the author’s reflections on how today’s hyper-partisan America…

• Marcia Chatelain — How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington - with Ashley Preston

  October 21, 2026 · 53 min

  From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes the untold story of the pioneering Black women artists and activists who were seen, but barely heard, at the 1963 March on Washington“Chatelain teaches us how to tell fuller, truer…

• Hanna Notte — We Shall Outlast Them: Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West - With Anton Troianovski

  October 20, 2026 · 58 min

  The chilling and revelatory story of how Russia’s confrontation with the West went global. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 produced a rupture with the United States and Europe not seen since the Cold War. As a result, Russia refocused…

• Min Jin Lee — American Hagwon - with Clint Smith

  October 20, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

  In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the men, women, and children in American Hagwon struggle to find satisfaction and meaning in…

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