Slicing politics open to peer inside its disturbing innards and determine how it all works. Paul Waldman interviews scholars, journalists, analysts, and newsmakers to make sense of the political world.
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Slicing politics open to peer inside its disturbing innards and determine how it all works. Paul Waldman interviews scholars, journalists, analysts, and newsmakers to make sense of the political world.
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.
The Cross Section
Slicing politics open to peer inside its disturbing innards and determine how it all works. Paul Waldman interviews scholars, journalists, analysts, and newsmakers to make sense of the political world.