• Tom Nichols: There Are 500 Ways This War Goes Wrong
    Mar 3 2026

    In this emergency episode of The Mona Charen Show, Tom Nichols lays out the tremendous risks Trump has taken with Iran war.

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    54 mins
  • Kleptocrat-in-Chief (w/ Alexander Cooley & Daniel Nexon)
    Mar 1 2026

    NOTE: This episode was recorded before the US/Israel attack on Iran.

    Two professors describe the staggering corruption Trump is normalizing and how it is affecting foreign policy. Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon join The Mona Charen Show to discuss their Foreign Affairs piece “The Age of Kleptocracy.”

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Health in the Time of MAGA (w/ Atul Gawande)
    Feb 23 2026
    Dr. Atul Gawande reports on what cuts to USAID are doing to the world’s most vulnerable, as well as how that is coming home. Also a look back at Covid and reflections on end of life care.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • The Real Conflict is Between Decent and Indecent (w/ David French)
    Feb 16 2026

    David French discusses culture wars morphing into hot wars, partisanship, and the idiocy of threatening Greenland.

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    52 mins
  • Why Minneapolis Gives Hope (w/ Peter Wehner)
    Feb 9 2026

    Mona is joined by the Atlantic’s Peter Wehner to discuss the psychology of MAGA and why defeating them must be the precursor to depolarization.

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    57 mins
  • How Can I Save Democracy? (w/ Ian Bassin)
    Feb 2 2026

    Protect Democracy founder Ian Bassin talks about victories and setbacks in the effort to thwart authoritarianism America-style, and what each person can do to preserve free and fair elections going forward.

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    53 mins
  • Is a Blue Wave Coming in November? (w/ Dave Wasserman)
    Jan 30 2026
    Dave Wasserman joins Mona to discuss what’s changed and what hasn’t since 2018, including electoral map, redistricting, public discontent, and likely turnout.
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    56 mins
  • Loneliness Is Reshaping America (w/ David Brooks)
    Jan 26 2026

    Mona speaks with David Brooks (author, contributor to PBS NewsHour and opinion columnist for The New York Times) about why so many Americans feel unseen, how loneliness and moral drift are reshaping society, and what we lose when human connection is replaced by screens, algorithms, and artificial companionship.

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    42 mins