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Trump’s Attacks on the Press and Freedom of Expression

4/3/2025 • 57 min

President Donald Trump has always bashed the press. But his attacks are no longer just rhetorical — he’s using lawsuits to intimidate the news media, and he’s inspired a conservative legal movement to overturn the New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. The landmark Supreme Court decision protects freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and unfortunately, Trump’s at… Play episode

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Graydon Carter on Vanity Fair, Editing & a Short-Fingered Vulgarian Named …
Fired Up: FTC Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter Say They’l…
Is America Ready for a Full-Blown Cyberwar? with Nicole Perlroth, Michael …
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson: Less Obstruction, More Government
Chelsea Handler on Men, Trump & Money (+ Excellent Parenting Advice)
How Sen. Elizabeth Warren Is “Fighting Like Hell” Against Trump, Musk & Bi…
Geraldine Brooks On the Art of Grieving and Spanning the Political Divide
Can Kara Save The Washington Post From Jeff Bezos?
How Trump's Policies Will Shape the Stock Market with Aswath Damodaran
Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebra…
Rahm Emanuel’s Tough Love Intervention for the Democratic Party
Oren Cass, Paul Krugman & Mariana Mazzucato on Trumponomics
Unchecked and Unbalanced: Trump’s Executive Power Moves and the Rule of Law
Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo on Defying Gravity, the Attack on Diversity and (Ma…
Dissecting Elon Musk’s Hostile Takeover with Anne Applebaum, Eoin Higgins …
Why Ben Stiller Made Severance (and Doesn’t Care about What Elon Says Abou…
Trump’s J6 Pardons, the Militia Movement, and the Border
Social Media’s Original Gatekeepers On Moderation’s Rise And Fall
From Trump to TikTok: Chris Hayes on the Rise of Attention Capitalism
On Trump’s “Day One” Promises: Former DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas Talks Im…
Put Your Phone Away: Yondr CEO on the Philosophy Behind Phone-Free Spaces
Laverne Cox on Meta, Conservatives and The Battle For Trans Rights
Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Regulating Tech, Antitrust, Trump’s Picks & More
Trump Whisperer Maggie Haberman On Trump 2.0
AI Ethics and Safety — a Contradiction in Terms?
Samantha Bee on Being “Democrat-Celibate” (from The Assignment with Audie …
Sarah Silverman on Being Wrong – and Treating Trolls with Kindness (from R…
The Best (and Most Overrated) Books of 2024
Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Makes the Case for Open Source
RFK Jr., Vaccines, Bird Flu & Health Under Trump 2.0
Chef Matty Matheson of ‘The Bear’ on Culinary Stardom, On and Off The Scre…
Rep. Ro Khanna on Tech, Trump & Elon
Marc Benioff on Elon, AI Agents, and the “DOGE”
Why Tubi CEO Anjali Sud Says Free Is the Future of Streaming
Did a Chatbot Cause Her Son’s Death? Megan Garcia v. Character.AI & Google
Nathan Myhrvold: Tech’s Renaissance Man
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King
Leaving X? Where Next? On Bluesky, Threads and the “Fediverse”
Charlamagne tha God on Trump, Journalism and that Anti-Trans Ad
Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity
Ta-Nehisi Coates On Trump, Palestine and Journalism as a “Contact Sport”
Trump’s Second Term: How He Did It & What to Expect
Trump vs Democracy: Two Historians’ Perspectives
The “Elon Election”: What It Means For America and Musk
Timothy Snyder and Bill Adair on the War on Truth & The Fight for Freedom
Reid Hoffman on Trump, Elon, Peter Thiel and Lina Khan
Seth Meyers on Parenting, Podcasting & Late Night
Robert Downey Jr., Ayad Akhtar and Bartlett Sher on “Truthful Lies” in AI,…

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