The Long Game

By Jon Ward

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Tim Sorensen
 Mar 2, 2021

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Americans don't know how to solve problems. We've lost sight of what institutions are and why they matter. The Long Game is a look at some key institutions, such as political parties, the U.S. Senate, the media, and the church.

Episode Date
We Are Not Powerless: American Politics is "Entirely Fixable" says Nick Troiano in his new book "The Primary Solution"
Mar 01, 2024
What is a Christian politics? Michael Wear's new book argues it's mostly about who we are
Feb 05, 2024
David Leonhardt's book joins a chorus of warnings for the Democrats
Dec 10, 2023
Tim Alberta's new book portrays a tug of war for the soul of American Christianity
Dec 01, 2023
BUILDERS Interview: Matt Murphy on how community & music help him fight the paralysis of our times
Nov 20, 2023
Where Have All the Democrats Gone? With Ruy Teixeira
Oct 30, 2023
Evolution denial is a bigger deal than I realized
Oct 21, 2023
BUILDER interview: Joel Searby on overcoming broken politics & hopelessness
Oct 07, 2023
Yascha Mounk's measured response to the "Great Awokening"
Sep 30, 2023
Talking to Shannon Harris about "The Woman They Wanted"
Sep 16, 2023
Andrew Whitehead argues against Christian empire with data and his own personal conviction in American Idolatry
Sep 02, 2023
Are We Really Stuck With Biden Vs Trump, Again?
Aug 19, 2023
Karen Swallow Prior's "Evangelical Imagination" Describes a Culture in Crisis
Aug 05, 2023
How Russell Moore Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Apocalypse
Jul 22, 2023
John Blake was a "closeted biracial person" until he met his white mother
Jun 16, 2023
A New Book by Ben Terris Shows How Badly We've Misunderstood Power in the Age of Individualism
Jun 02, 2023
The Stanford Free Speech Incident with David Lat
Mar 31, 2023
Understanding the political radicalization of Charismatic Christians, with Matthew D. Taylor
Feb 17, 2023
Sen. Chris Van Hollen on another debt ceiling crisis in Congress
Jan 30, 2023
Sara Billups wrote a book for disillusioned evangelicals who don't want to give up on their faith
Jan 19, 2023
Fixing Congress isn't a partisan idea. Quietly, a bipartisan group has been working on this.
Jan 17, 2023
Yuval Levin is back with an optimistic take about the lessons from Kevin McCarthy's agonizing fight to become Speaker
Jan 12, 2023
Congress is set to pass a compromise between gay rights and religious freedom, says Tim Schultz
Nov 28, 2022
Paul D. Miller untangles the confusion around Christian Nationalism
Oct 28, 2022
Bonnie Kristian's crucial new book on our knowledge crisis and our "screen-broken brains"
Oct 07, 2022
Deconstructing Christians who leave the faith are rejecting a "shadow" of the real faith, with James K.A. Smith
Sep 27, 2022
What is Christian Nationalism, and what is it not? With Philip S. Gorski, author of "The Flag and the Cross"
Sep 13, 2022
Christine Emba talks about her book "Rethinking Sex: A Provocation"
Jul 22, 2022
We Need More Faith in the Public Square, Says Eboo Patel of Interfaith America
Jun 18, 2022
Meet the Democratic activist who wants to change how Christians look at politics, with Justin Giboney
Jun 07, 2022
David French is warning evangelicals away from authoritarianism
May 13, 2022
Talking "Jesus and John Wayne" with Kristin Kobes Du Mez
May 03, 2022
Andy Crouch on Taking Back Our Humanity from Technology
Apr 12, 2022
Deplatforming is Not Censorship, with Rick Hasen
Mar 09, 2022
Gillian Laub's Family Almost Split Apart During the Trump Years
Feb 05, 2022
Katherine Gehl Talks about Alaska's Voting Experiment
Jan 25, 2022
The Way Christians Read the Bible Has Big Implications
Dec 21, 2021
Robert Costa on "Peril" and whether American Democracy Can Survive
Nov 02, 2021
This Republican Strategist Says We're Being Bombarded With Disinformation
Sep 24, 2021
The 'Vital Center' of American Politics Needs Heroes & Myths to Beat Back Religious and Secular Extremists, Philip Gorski says
Aug 06, 2021
A New Podcast on Mars Hill Church Dives Deep into Evangelical Subculture
Jul 28, 2021
Is There a Way Out of Information Chaos & Cancel Culture? Jonathan Rauch Shines a Light
Jun 08, 2021
Dean Phillips, a rising star in Congress, thinks America is on the cusp of embracing ranked-choice voting
May 18, 2021
Curtis Chang Is Responding to Vaccine Hesitancy With Respect
May 12, 2021
Michael Slaby on Trump & Facebook and the Bigger Problem of Reforming the Internet
May 05, 2021
A conservative Christian book ignites debate over reparations — and faith itself
Apr 24, 2021
Will Big Money Donors Get Behind the Move to Get Rid of Partisan Primaries? Nick Troiano Is Working On It
Mar 30, 2021
Yuval Levin Wants the GOP to stop making it harder to vote
Mar 11, 2021
Can Americans Still Discuss Their Differences Constructively? David Blankenhorn Is Trying To Make it Happen.
Mar 04, 2021
Adam Kinzinger says the battle with Trumpism has to be fought in public (bc he knows political parties have lost their power)
Feb 24, 2021
The Congressman Who Became A Qanon Topic Himself: Rep. Tom Malinowski
Feb 23, 2021
Reducing Big Tech Censorship, Preserving Free Speech, and Fighting Disinformation, with Peter Pomerantsev
Feb 18, 2021
If Things Are Going to Hell, Let's Talk Structural Reform with Don Beyer
Feb 03, 2021
Russell Moore on the Capitol Insurrection and Why He's Willing to Put His Job On the Line to Speak His Mind
Jan 16, 2021
Brendan Buck on the Lessons of the Trump Disaster & the Urgent Need for GOP Pols to Tell the Truth to their Voters
Jan 13, 2021
John Dickerson Thinks The Way We Pick Presidents is FUBAR
Dec 16, 2020
He Fought Liberal Bias in Media But Then Realized He Didn't Understand Journalism
Dec 04, 2020
Eli Lake Has Hammered the FBI for its Handling of the Russia Investigation. He Weighs In on Trump's Refusal to Concede
Nov 30, 2020
We Have Entered the "Post-Truth" Era, With Pennsylvania's Lt. Gov. John Fetterman & Gisele Fetterman
Nov 24, 2020
How to Tell Real Conspiracies from Conspiracy Theories, With the BBC's Marianna Spring
Nov 23, 2020
The GOP Needs Fewer Tax Cuts and More Labor Unions, Argues Oren Cass
Nov 17, 2020
Tim Alberta On the Future of the Republican Party
Nov 16, 2020
Mindy Belz on What American Christians Can Learn from Middle Eastern Christians & Emily Belz on Qanon in the Church
Oct 25, 2020
Charlie Camosy Talks Abortion Politics
Oct 21, 2020
Kim Wyman, the Republican who oversees all-mail elections in Washington, on the security and integrity of the election
Oct 09, 2020
Republican Super Lawyer Ben Ginsberg Says When It Comes to Election Fraud, There's No Iceberg
Oct 02, 2020
Judy Wu Dominick thinks if you have wealth and aren't friends with others who don't, you're spiritually poor
Sep 18, 2020
Eddie Glaude on his timely book about James Baldwin, Racism, and the Betrayal of the Civil Rights Movement
Sep 11, 2020
Stacey Abrams and filmmakers Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortes on their new documentary "All In: The Fight for Democracy"
Sep 08, 2020
Michael Steele on How Biden Should Respond to Trump and to Kenosha
Aug 29, 2020
Frank LaRose, Ohio's Top Elections Official, GOP official, Warns That a Single Law is Going to Delay Election Results in other Midwest Swing States
Aug 28, 2020
Top Republican Elections Official Who Has Advised Vice President Pence Says Trump Voting Fraud Claims are "Not Feasible"
Aug 23, 2020
Howard Dean on the Democratic Convention: "All We Have to Do Is Be Ourselves"
Aug 17, 2020
The Pure Pleasure of Speaking with Bill Buford, author of "Dirt", about food, writing, and adventure
Aug 06, 2020
Nicholas Carr on "The Shallows" 10 Years Later
Jul 29, 2020
Meet the Guy Who's Hauling All 4 Big Tech CEO's (Virtually) Up to the Hill Next Week, Rep. David Cicilline
Jul 23, 2020
The Election Nightmare Scenario that Keeps Rick Hasen Up At Night
Jul 14, 2020
Tom Ridge: For His Own Good, Trump Should Stop Knocking Mail-In Voting
Jun 17, 2020
Sen. Tim Scott on the killing of George Floyd and whether violence is a legitimate form of political action
Jun 04, 2020
NIH Director Francis Collins is overseeing the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine and is concerned about anti-vaccine activists
May 29, 2020
Religion reporter Terry Mattingly on White Evangelicals and the Qanon political cult
May 27, 2020
Tim Miller on the need to take conspiracy theories and disinformation seriously
May 26, 2020
The Man At the Center of the Red Hot Battle Over Voting Rights: Marc Elias
May 20, 2020
DL Mayfield on her new book, "The Myth of the American Dream: Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety & Power"
May 05, 2020
Jonathan Karl on his "Trump Show" book, media as the opposition, and the "fakest thing" of the Trump era
Apr 29, 2020
The Only Things Worth Discussing: Testing, Tracing & Therapeutics, with Adam White from AEI
Apr 17, 2020
Sen. Ben Cardin on Why Democrats Are Holding Up Money for the Small Business Emergency Fund
Apr 17, 2020
Congressman Patrick McHenry Says Every Small Business Who Needs an Emergency Loan Should Get One
Apr 09, 2020
It's His Job To Critique the President. How Do You Do That During a National Emergency?
Apr 06, 2020
Sen. Ron Wyden on His Push For A Vote-By-Mail Presidential Election
Apr 03, 2020
Yuval Levin on How to Come Back from the Coronavirus Pandemic
Apr 01, 2020
AFSCME President Lee Saunders on a contested convention and how adversity rejevenuated his union
Mar 02, 2020
Addisu Demissie - who ran Cory Booker's campaign - on the Democratic primary
Feb 28, 2020
Bakari Sellers On the South Carolina Primary and Joe Biden's Last Stand
Feb 19, 2020
Carl Hulse on What We Learned From the Impeachment Trial & How to Cover Congress and not Lose Your Mind
Feb 08, 2020
What If You Had More Than Just Two Choices For President? Lee Drutman's Argument for Ranked Choice Voting and More than Two Parties
Jan 31, 2020
Yuval Levin On His Indispensable New Book "A Time To Build"
Jan 21, 2020
Justice John Roberts Is Not Going to Decide Impeachment Trial Witnesses - Jeffrey Rosen
Jan 14, 2020
Bob Inglis Wanted to "Destroy" Bill Clinton during the 98 Impeachment. Years Later He Tracked Him Down to Apologize.
Dec 06, 2019
Susan Glasser Has Covered Impeachment and Russia Before, But Not At the Same Time
Nov 27, 2019
Jack Goldsmith On Growing Up Around Mobsters, RFK's Abuses of Power, & Trump's Impeachment
Oct 18, 2019
"Kanye West Should Not Be President" - Chris Hayes On the Role of Parties In A Democracy
Oct 15, 2019
Stacey Abrams: "I Talk About Power Because You're Not Supposed To"
Oct 09, 2019
Mako Fujimura on Culture Care Instead of Culture War, Painting, & Restoring a Vision of the Common Good
Sep 20, 2019
Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh Are The Establishment, says Brian Rosenwald
Sep 10, 2019
The Battle to Create Shared Facts - Laura Berlind from The Sycamore Institute
Aug 30, 2019
He Left Christianity Behind In a War Zone. This Is the Story of Bryan Mealer's Path Back to Faith.
Aug 23, 2019
Voter Suppression or Ballot Fraud -- My 5-Month Investigation Into a Case in Georgia
Aug 06, 2019
David Brooks on Not Feeling Like a Convert, His New Book, and Marianne Williamson
Aug 02, 2019
The Democrats Are Losing Faith Voters Because of Their Abortion Stance, with Amy Sullivan
Jul 29, 2019
Steve Kornacki on "Wishful Thinking" Around Impeaching Trump & His Book "The Red & the Blue"
Jul 19, 2019
Fox News' Carl Cameron Is Now Working For a Liberal Website?
Jul 13, 2019
The Case for Regulating Facebook & Google - Sally Hubbard
Jul 10, 2019
Live from the Miami Debate: How Bad Was It For Biden?
Jun 28, 2019
Bonus Episode: Tom Wolf reacts to today's Supreme Court gerrymandering decision
Jun 27, 2019
Disarming Fear & Defensiveness around the Race conversation, with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Jun 24, 2019
Peter Wehner On Trump, Impeachment, and the limits of faith to overcome political ideology
Jun 11, 2019
The Supreme Court Is About to Issue a Massive Ruling on Gerrymandering: Here's What You Need to Know
Jun 07, 2019
Paul Kane on Pelosi's Impeachment Challenge and Congress' "Lost Decade"
Jun 04, 2019
Let's Get Rid of the Speaker of the House, Says Former Aide to John Boehner
May 29, 2019
Snapchat's Peter Hamby Knows the Youth Vote & Sees Trouble Ahead for Bernie Sanders
May 10, 2019
Is Beto O'Rourke Already Played Out? Reid Epstein of The New York Times Joins to Discuss
May 03, 2019
Jonah Goldberg On His New Media Venture: 'We Don't Want To Be An Anti-Trump Thing'
Apr 26, 2019
Nicco Mele: We Are Living In Two Worlds At Once
Apr 15, 2019
Joe Trippi: Dems Could "Blow It" in 2020, But Here's Why They Won't
Apr 05, 2019
Joe Kennedy III On Mental Health, Packing the Courts, & The Green New Deal
Apr 01, 2019
Sen. Tim Scott Used Trump's Charlottesville Response To Help Low-Income Communities
Mar 15, 2019
Democrats Need a Unifying Candidate in 2020, Jennifer Palmieri Says
Mar 01, 2019
Trent Lott On Congress, Trump's Qualifications & Chances, & Growing Up in the Deep South
Feb 19, 2019
Patrick McHenry Has Some Advice For the New Rock Stars of Congress
Feb 07, 2019
My book CAMELOT'S END is out Today! And a Joe Biden interview excerpt
Jan 22, 2019
Al Mohler & The Report on Slavery and Racism in the History of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Jan 04, 2019
Panera Founder Ron Shaich Is Preaching Against Short-Term Thinking In Business & Politics
Dec 28, 2018
Senator Michael Bennet Considers A Run for President and How to Rebuild the Senate
Dec 19, 2018
Andrew Sullivan on Christianity's Collapse, the Wisconsin GOP & Identity Politics
Dec 07, 2018
The Lawsuit Alleging Voter Suppression in Georgia
Dec 03, 2018
I Guess We’re Doing Season 2 Now. Here’s What’s Up Next
Nov 30, 2018
The Path to the 2018 Midterm Elections
Nov 05, 2018
The Gravitron
Oct 26, 2018
CBS News' Major Garrett on his new book, "Mr. Trump's Wild Ride"
Oct 19, 2018
Brian Kemp Says There Are 'Outside Agitators' in Georgia Election
Oct 12, 2018
BuzzFeed's Charlie Warzel on the Information Wars & Media Gatekeeping
Oct 05, 2018
10 Years Since the 08 Crash, Are We Ready For The Next Big Crisis?
Sep 27, 2018
John McCain
Sep 21, 2018
The Man Behind the GOP Data Machine
Sep 14, 2018
Mitch Daniels On Why Tribalism Opens the Door to Tyrants
Jul 13, 2018
Yuval Levin on What You Can Do To Help Solve Our Broad Social Crisis
Jun 29, 2018
Adam Wren On Finding His Way In A New Journalism Landscape
Jun 25, 2018
Terry Sullivan on the GOP & Marco Rubio's 2016 Loss
Jun 18, 2018
Lee Drutman on Ranked Choice Voting & Multi-Member Congressional Districts
Jun 11, 2018
Amy Walter On the California Primaries
Jun 05, 2018
AB Stoddard Has Watched Congress Collapse
Jun 01, 2018
DNC's Ken Martin Says 'Resistance' Has to Mature
May 25, 2018
Ambassador Tim Roemer on $$$$ in Politics
May 21, 2018
Reed Galen Likes Sore Losers
May 14, 2018
Joel Searby Wants to Take Down the Two-Party System
May 08, 2018
The Missouri Governor's Scandal
May 01, 2018
Matt Bai Thinks I'm Crazy (or at least wrong)
Apr 20, 2018
Summary Episode - Everything We've Covered So Far
Apr 13, 2018
Steven Levitsky, author of "How Democracies Die"
Apr 03, 2018
What I'm Reading #2 - Dan Koch - "How to Think" by Alan Jacobs
Mar 30, 2018
Seth Masket
Mar 05, 2018
What I'm Reading #1 - "12 Rules for Life" by Jordan Peterson
Feb 23, 2018
Norm Ornstein
Jan 12, 2018
Elaine Kamarck
Oct 20, 2017
Jonathan Rauch
Sep 19, 2017
Jemar Tisby
Aug 14, 2017
Yuval Levin
Jul 20, 2017
The Origin Story
Jun 21, 2017