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Chris Anderson: Karoline Leavitt Isn’t Rosalia (and Other Inconvenient Truths)

12/22/2025 • 91 min

John welcomes celebrated photojournalist Christopher Anderson to discuss the controversy over his portraits of Donald Trump’s inner circle in Vanity Fair. Anderson explains his trepidation over taking the assignment and his approach to it once he did; why the outrage over his pictures in some quarters is a result of a growing confusion between political figures … Play episode

Jordan Klepper: Reiners R.I.P. & The Year in Late Night Comedy
Rick Wilson: “Strip Club Glitter Never Comes Off”
Barry McCaffrey: Trump’s War Aims in Venezuela = Maduro Out & Chevron In
Steven Lepper: Murder Was the Case (Off the Coast of Venezuela)
Mark Hertling: War Criminal, Cosplay Commandant, or Both?
Jonathan Karl: Vengeance Is Mine, Sayeth the President
Jonathan Freedland: The Traitor’s Circle (Live)
Stuart Stevens: Trumpism’s Pickett’s Charge & 2028’s Yawning Chasm
Tim Miller: Fissures, Fault Lines & The Great MAGA Crackup
Pat Ryan: Epstein Portents, Off-Year Omens & DJT’s Lame Duckification
Carol Leonnig: Disarray & Debauchery at the DOJ
Chris Matthews: What Dems Today Can Learn From RFK (Sr, not Jr!)
Presenting: Otherworld | Zaza
Democrats & Dodgers Doubleheader with Jonathan Lemire
2025 Election Preview with David Axelrod
J. Michael Luttig: Trump’s Plan to Be President for Life Is No Joke
Cameron Crowe, Pt 2: Backstage Passes & Lost Youth, Lester Bangs & Jeff Sp…
Cameron Crowe, Pt 1: The Birth of The Uncool
Ro Khanna: Donald Trump’s Wrecking Ball & The Democrats' New Guard
Don Lemon: Living La Vida YouTube
Dennis Ross: Mideast Momentum & The Long Hard Road to Peace
Pablo Torre: Bad Bunny & Bad Ballmer
Michael Steele: First the Chainsaw, Now the Scythe
Dylan Byers: Bari's New Perch & Kimmel's Curtain Call
Jennifer Palmieri: Dems Are Winning the Shutdown Showdown (So Far)
Floyd Abrams: Comey, Kimmel, & Trump’s Limitless Enemies List
Rahm Emanuel: Jimmy Kimmel Shows Why Growing a Pair > Bending the Knee
Drew Nieporent: The Restaurateur Who Remade New York
Robert Draper & David Frum: Charlie Kirk Assassination Aftershocks
Michael Osterholm: Be Afraid – Very Afraid – of RFK Jr. & The Next Pandemic
Frank Figliuzzi: Charlie Kirk’s Killing & America’s Political Violence Cri…
Rob Reiner: The Spinal Tap Sequel, Like the Original, Goes to 11
Leigh Ann Caldwell: 12 Angry Women (& One Addled Man) Hit Capitol Hill
Jonathan Mahler: NYC’s 1980s Reinvention & The 40-Year Era it Spawned
Presenting: The C-Word
Chuck Klosterman: Oasismania Overcomes America
James Talarico: Flipping Seats & Flipping Tables in the Lone Star State
Michael McFaul: Trump’s Red Carpet & Putin’s Middle Finger
Dan Pfeiffer: Gavin’s Gamble, J.B.’s Jibes & Other Harbingers of 2028
Christine Brennan: Caitlin Clark’s Culture Wars & the WNBA’s Cluelessness
Robert Garcia: “Things Are F****d Up”
Anne Applebaum: Nihilism in Sudan & Orbanism in the USA
Adam Pritzker & Daniel Squadron: Detoxifying the Democratic Brand
Remnick & Miliband: Moral Crises & Killing Fields in Israel & Gaza
Bob Shrum: Deep State Donald & The Democratic Messaging Imperative
Maggie Haberman: The Epstein Metastasis
Todd Purdum: How Desi Arnaz & “I Love Lucy” Created the TV Business
Lis Smith: MAGA & The Manosphere Turn On Trump
Will Leitch: Games People Play

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