Episodes

  • Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Needs to ‘Grow a Pair’ and Stand Up to Trump

    Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Needs to ‘Grow a Pair’ and Stand Up to Trump
    Sep 20 2024

    Co-hosts of The New Abnormal Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy are steamed

    that Gov. Mike DeWine and Springfield Mayor Rob Rue had only a mild message for former

    President Donald Trump after he took to the national stage to spew a disproven conspiracy

    theory about their residents. Then, investigative journalist Radley Balko joins the pod to talk

    about Trump’s promise to carry out what would be the largest deportation operation in U.S.

    history. Plus! A conversation with David Rothkopf, CEO of the DSR Network and regular Daily

    Beast contributor, about his latest piece.


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    59 mins
  • How Is JD Vance So Bad at All of This?

    How Is JD Vance So Bad at All of This?
    Sep 17 2024
    The hosts of The New Abnormal explore JD Vance’s unimpeachable weirdness. Then Maya Wiley, former New York City mayoral candidate, ex-MSNBC legal analyst, and current president and CEO of The Leadership Conference, arrives just in time to discuss her new book, Remember, You Are a Wiley. Plus! A conversation with independent journalist Justin Glawe about election officials who just so happen to also be election deniers.

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Why JD Vance’s Latest Immigration Claim Is Just Plain Wrong

    Why JD Vance’s Latest Immigration Claim Is Just Plain Wrong
    Sep 15 2024
    The New Abnormal team dismantles JD Vance’s claim that bringing in migrants to work in Springfield, Ohio is not the “path to prosperity.’ Plus! Journalist Jessica Pishko joins the podcast to talk about her new book, The Highest Law In The Land: How The Unchecked Power Of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy

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    33 mins
  • The Simple Keywords That Are Setting Trump Off

    The Simple Keywords That Are Setting Trump Off
    Sep 13 2024

    This week on The New Abnormal, hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy reflect

    on Trump’s disaster of a debate performance. Plus! Founder and author of The Present Age

    newsletter Parker Molloy joins us to talk about the media’s efforts to “sanewash” Donald Trump

    and why people might not be falling for it. Then, we talk to The New York Times tech reporters

    Kate Conger and Ryan Mac about their upcoming book, “Character Limit: How Elon Musk

    Destroyed Twitter.”


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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Harris Came Prepared to Get Under Trump's Skin at Debate

    Harris Came Prepared to Get Under Trump's Skin at Debate
    Sep 11 2024
    This week on The New Abnormal, co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy react to the first–and possibly only–presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

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    18 mins
  • I Went to Moms For Liberty’s 2024 Summit and It Was Dire

    I Went to Moms For Liberty’s 2024 Summit and It Was Dire
    Sep 10 2024
    This week on The New Abnormal, Olivia Little, an investigative researcher at Media Matters, talks about her experience attending Moms for Liberty's annual Joyful Warrior Summit. Then, Dr. Reagan McDonald Mosley, CEO of Power to Decide, tells us about her organization’s efforts to advance sexual and reproductive wellbeing.

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    1 hr
  • MAGA Turns on Trump for Admitting He’s an Election ‘Loser’

    MAGA Turns on Trump for Admitting He’s an Election ‘Loser’
    Sep 8 2024
    White nationalist Nick Fuentes may have once dined with former president Donald Trump but he has now turned on him for finally admitting that he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. Plus! Yale Professor Jason Stanley, author of the bestselling novel How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, talks to Danielle Moodie about the upcoming election and the stark contrast between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

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    29 mins
  • Goldman Sachs Shatters Myth That Republicans Are Better for the Economy

    Goldman Sachs Shatters Myth That Republicans Are Better for the Economy
    Sep 6 2024
    Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie react to a Goldman Sachs report that suggested the U.S. economy may take a hit if former President Donald Trump retakes the White House. Then, a conversation with The Washington Post media reporter Will Sommer, who joins the program to discuss the indictment of two employees of Russian state-backed media company Russia Today (RT); part of an investigation that exposed a number of American right-wing internet personalities for allegedly taking money from an organization funded by Russian interests.

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    42 mins