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The Washington Roundtable’s 2025 in Review

12/13/2025 • 35 min

The Washington Roundtable discusses what surprised them in 2025, reflecting on the major shock-and-awe events that defined the first year of Donald Trump’s second term: the capitulation of major law firms, universities, and media companies; the evisceration of foreign aid; the sudden threats of war against Venezuela; and much more. The panel also considers the s… Play episode

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Inside Trump’s Artless Takeover of the Kennedy Center
Senator Adam Schiff on How the Trump Administration Targets Its Opponents
America’s “Bad Emperor” Problem
Why Is Trump Targeting Venezuela?
Why Is Leaving MAGA So Difficult?
Ken Jennings on Why Facts Still Matter on “Jeopardy!”
Senator Chris Van Hollen on the Epstein Files, and the Leadership Crisis i…
The Political Scene Live: A Year Since Trump’s Win, What Have We Learned?
Family Estrangement Is on the Rise. Are Politics to Blame?
Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025
Is the Epstein Scandal Trump’s Kryptonite?
How Zohran Mamdani Won, and What Comes Next
What Resistance Means to Governor J. B. Pritzker
The Washington Roundtable Answers Your Questions
Have the Democrats Figured Out How to Win Again?
Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for D…
From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives,” an investigative series
How Bad Is It?: Why an Antifascism Scholar Fled the Country
Zadie Smith on Politics, Turning Fifty, and Mind Control
How the Trump Administration Made Higher Education a Target
The Ceasefire and the Business of Trump’s Diplomacy
How Much More Can Federal Workers Take?
Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump
What Does Donald Trump’s “War from Within” Mean in Practice?
After James Comey, Who’s Next on Trump’s Revenge Tour?
A Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture
How Russell Vought Broke the U.S. Government
Will the Supreme Court Hand Trump Another Slate of Victories?
Ezra Klein’s Big-Tent Vision of the Democratic Party
Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure
How MAHA Is Sowing Vaccine Confusion
Is The 2026 Election Already in Danger?
Hillary Clinton on the Psychology of Autocrats
How Bad Is It?: Political Violence in the U.S., and What We Can Learn from…
How the “Dangerous Gimmick” of the Two-State Solution Ended in Disaster
Charlie Kirk and the Long Shadow of Political Violence
The New Yorker’s Head of Fact Checking on Our Post-Truth Era
Anna Wintour Embraces a New Era at Vogue
Trump Has Grabbed Emergency Powers. How Will He Use Them?
Why Pam Bondi Is the Attorney General of Trump’s Dreams
Donald Trump’s War on Culture Is Not a Sideshow
The Democratic Party’s Identity Crisis
Dexter Filkins on Drones and the Future of Warfare
Is Trump the Roman Tyrant America's Founders Feared?
How Bad Is It?: Trump’s Self-Dealing and the Question of Kleptocracy
A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza
What Happens After Someone Is Arrested by ICE?
Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law

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