The Weekly List

By Amy Siskind

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The Weekly List is a podcast hosted by Amy Siskind, author of The List. It supplements the popular Weekly List on our website, www.theweeklylist.org, which tracks the ever changing new normals of American politics. The podcast gives greater context to the "not normal" news items from the previous week, and will highlight a few stories and changing norms from the Trump regime that you may have missed.

Episode Date
Week 81 - Trump’s Really Bad Week!
May 28, 2026
Week 80 - Historic Corruption, a Failed China Summit, and Trump’s Unending Iran War
May 21, 2026
Week 79 - Trump’s Remarkable Statement on Americans' Financial Stress, and His Lies About the Iran War Exposed
May 14, 2026
Week 78 - The World Rests on Trump’s Shoulders, While His Behavior is Becoming Increasingly Bizarre
May 07, 2026
Week 77 - The Country Moves from Crisis to Crisis, While Trump Plows Through Norms
Apr 30, 2026
Week 76 - Trump Backs Himself into a Corner with Iran War, While at Home His Regime is in Disarray
Apr 23, 2026
Week 75 - Trump’s Mental Health in Question, While He and the Country Increasingly Stand Alone
Apr 16, 2026
Week 74 - There is No Plan: A Shocking Week of Escalation and Capitulation
Apr 09, 2026
Week 73 - An Increasingly Isolated Trump Can't Escape the Fallout of His War
Apr 02, 2026
Week 72 - Trump Lies and Contradicts About His War, as the Country Sours on Him and His Chaos
Mar 26, 2026
Week 71 - As Trump's War With Iran Nears the Three Week Mark, Trouble at Home and Abroad
Mar 19, 2026
Week 70 - Trump's War of Choice Goes Off Track, and the Impact of HIs Regime's Incompetence Hits Americans
Mar 12, 2026
Week 69 - Trump Enters War of Choice, as a Host of Others Issues Move Against Him
Mar 05, 2026
Week 68 - After a Supreme Court Loss and Sagging Polls, Trump Struggles Through a Record Long State of the Union
Feb 25, 2026
Week 67 - Beware of What We Have Normalized, and What is Holding Trump Back
Feb 19, 2026
Week 66 - A Week of Incredible Racism, as the Epstein Files Start to Boil
Feb 12, 2026
A Week of Remarkable, Extraordinary and Unprecedented Actions, as Trump Struggles to Maintain Control
Feb 05, 2026
Week 64 - Time Stood Still for a Country Struggling to Make Sense of What We Have Become
Jan 29, 2026
Week 63 - Trump Escalates at Home and Abroad, With No Rhyme or Reason
Jan 22, 2026
Week 62 - Trump's Addiction to Power Takes Him in Dangerous Territory
Jan 15, 2026
Week 61 - What Were the Real Stories that Deserved Our Attention, as Trump Deployed a ‘Wag the Dog’ Strategy to Distract
Jan 08, 2026
Week 60 - As 2025 Comes to an End, Expect Better Times in 2026
Jan 01, 2026
Week 59 - Why Trump is Frantically Trying to Shore Up His Legacy
Dec 25, 2025
Week 58 - Trump, Johnson and Trump’s Regime Are Losing Their Grip on Power
Dec 18, 2025
Week 57 - Trump is Flailing as the Tone Shifts, and Accountability Begins
Dec 11, 2025
Week 56 - A Week of Signs that Trump is Already Hating the Job, Amid Bombshell Reporting
Dec 04, 2025
Week 55 - Greene Resigns and the GOP Turns on Trump, as His Retribution Campaign Falters
Nov 27, 2025
Week 54- Republicans Finally Stand Up to Trump, While the Corruption and Self Dealing Continues
Nov 20, 2025
Week 53 - Trump Seeks to Rewrite the Past, While Being Completely Out of Touch with the Present
Nov 13, 2025
Week 52 - Trump Seems to Have Lost Touch with the American People and Reality, as a Blue Wave Hits on Election Day
Nov 06, 2025
Week 51 - Trump’s ‘Let Them Eat Cake!’ Moment
Oct 30, 2025
Week 50 - A Week of Dangerous, Outrageous, Unprecedented Acts of Vengeance and Power Grabs
Oct 23, 2025
Week 49 - Trump Goes to War on Free Speech, Invents Crises at Home, and Drains Federal Agencies in Dangerous Ways
Oct 16, 2025
Week 48 - Trump Ramps Up Threats Amid Government Shutdown, but Democrats Refuse to Back Down
Oct 09, 2025
Week 47 - Trump Goes on His Revenge Tour, Addresses the Military, Loses in Court, and Shuts Down the Government
Oct 02, 2025
Week 46 - A Week Summarized by a Brazen Trump Extolling, “I Hate My Opponents” and “Your Countries Are Going to Hell"
Sep 25, 2025
Week 45 - Trump Creates a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy in His Continued Attempt to Silence Dissent and Seize Power
Sep 18, 2025
Week 44 - An Epstein Letter Comes Back to Haunt Trump, While Republicans and the Supreme Court Have His Back
Sep 11, 2025
Week 43 - Three Major Court Loses Could Imperil Trump’s Agenda
Sep 04, 2025
Week 42 - Trump Says He is a Dictator, and Acts Like One
Aug 28, 2025
Week 41 - Trump’s Authoritraian Tools: Diversion, Seizing Equity, Rewriting History and Revising Data
Aug 21, 2025
Week 40 - Two Truths, Two Sets of Data
Aug 14, 2025
Week 39 - Is the Dwindling Media Losing Track of Some of the Most Important Stories?
Aug 07, 2025
While the Epstein Files Story Dominates, Trump and His Regime Become Increasingly Irreverent
Jul 31, 2025
Week 37 - Trump Loses Control as the Epstein Files Dominate, while Polling Shows the Country Souring on Him and His Policies
Jul 24, 2025
Week 36 - Trump Moves to Consolidate Power, While the MAGA Coalition Continue to Fray
Jul 17, 2025
Week 35 - Real Consequences of Trump’s Moves on Federal Agencies and His Tax Bill
Jul 10, 2025
Week 34 - New Information on Iran, a Supreme Court Decision, and a Not So Beautiful Bill
Jul 03, 2025
Week 33 - With Approval Falling, Trump Strikes Iran
Jun 26, 2025
Week 32 - Political Acts of Violence, a Failed Military Parade, and Trump Stands Alone
Jun 19, 2025
Week 31 - Trump Manufactures a Crisis to Change the Subject
Jun 12, 2025
Week 30 - Trump’s Trade War and Big, Beautiful Bill Hit Speed Bumps
Jun 05, 2025
Week 29 - The TACO Trade, Law Firm Karma, and Putin Calls Trump ‘Emotional'
May 29, 2025
Week 28 - Desperate for a Win, Trump Finds None
May 22, 2025
Week 27 - Grifts, Librarians and Trade Retreats
May 15, 2025
Week 26 - Grifting in Plain Sight
May 08, 2025
Week 25 - I Run the Country and the World
May 01, 2025
Week 24 - Trump's Really Bad Week
Apr 24, 2025
Week 23 - A Shocking Abuse of Power
Apr 17, 2025
Week 22 - Trump Veers Toward Ending US Exceptionalism
Apr 10, 2025
Week 21 - A Rebuke of Trump and Musk in Wisconsin
Apr 03, 2025
Week 20 - Nobody Was Texting War Plans
Mar 27, 2025
Week 19 - An Intrusion on the President’s Authority
Mar 20, 2025
Week 18 - I’m Not Even Looking at the Market
Mar 13, 2025
Week 17 - This Is Going to Be Great Television
Mar 06, 2025
Week 16 - Musk Goes to War With Trump’s Cabinet
Feb 27, 2025
Week 15 - He Who Saves His Country
Feb 20, 2025
Week 14 - A Constitutional Crisis
Feb 13, 2025
Week 13 - DOGE Goes Rogue
Feb 06, 2025
Week 12 - Shock and Awe
Jan 30, 2025
Week 11 - The New Gilded Age
Jan 23, 2025
Week 10 - Is America to Become an Oligarchy?
Jan 16, 2025
Week 9 - Genuflecting to Trump
Jan 09, 2025
Week 8 - The Return
Jan 03, 2025
Week 7 - The Return
Dec 28, 2024
Week 6 - The Return
Dec 21, 2024
Week 5 - The Return
Dec 14, 2024
Week 4
Dec 07, 2024
Week 3 - The Return
Nov 30, 2024
Week 2 - The Return
Nov 23, 2024
The Return - Week 1
Nov 16, 2024
New Era of Donald Trump
Nov 08, 2024
Democracy at Risk - Biden Drops Out
Jul 29, 2024
Democracy at Risk - The Democrats' Horrible, Terrible, Really Bad Week
Jul 09, 2024
Democracy at Risk - 34 Counts
Jun 03, 2024
Democracy at Risk - Trump 2024
Mar 17, 2024
Democracy at Risk - New Year 2024
Jan 05, 2024
Democracy at Risk - Trump Reindicted
Aug 21, 2023
Democracy at Risk - Trump's Indicment
Apr 14, 2023
Democracy at Risk - We Did What We Had to Do
Nov 18, 2022
Democracy at Risk - Are We Sleepwalking into Autocracy?
Oct 20, 2022
Democracy at Risk - FBI at Mar-a-Lago
Aug 24, 2022
Democracy at Risk - Roe v. Wade Overturned
Jul 03, 2022
Democracy at Risk - Leaked Supreme Court Decision
May 24, 2022
Democracy at Risk - The Price of Authoritarianism
Apr 07, 2022
Democracy at Risk - Russia Invades Ukraine: How Did We Get Here?
Mar 09, 2022
Democracy at Risk - Nine Months Until the Midterms
Feb 13, 2022
Democracy at Risk - One Year After the United States Capitol Attack
Jan 10, 2022
Democracy at Risk - Looking to 2022
Dec 27, 2021
Democracy at Risk - Electoral Apathy
Nov 08, 2021
Democracy at Risk - Handmaid's Tale
Sep 17, 2021
Democracy at Risk - January 6th Commission
Aug 02, 2021
Democracy at Risk - Six Months After the Insurrection
Jul 12, 2021
Democracy at Risk - The Cult of the GOP
Jun 18, 2021
Democracy at Risk - Two Sides, One Truth
Jun 01, 2021
Returning to Normalcy - Republicans in the Post-Trump Era
May 17, 2021
Returning to Normalcy - Nearing 100 Days
Apr 19, 2021
Returning to Normalcy - Violence Against Asian Americans
Mar 22, 2021
Returning to Normalcy - Insurrection Debrief
Mar 08, 2021
Repairing Our Democracy - Impeachment
Feb 15, 2021
Repairing Our Democracy - The First Days
Feb 02, 2021
After - January
Jan 26, 2021
After - December
Jan 04, 2021
After - November
Dec 01, 2020
Week 208 - Victory
Nov 09, 2020
Week 207 - The Final Countdown
Nov 02, 2020
Week 206 - Record-Setting Week
Oct 26, 2020
Week 205 - Early Voting
Oct 19, 2020
Week 204 - Altered State
Oct 12, 2020
Week 203 - Super-Spreader
Oct 05, 2020
Week 202 - Peaceful Transition of Power
Sep 28, 2020
Week 201 - May Her Memory Be a Blessing
Sep 21, 2020
Week 200 - West on Fire
Sep 14, 2020
Week 199 - Vote Twice
Sep 07, 2020
Week 198 - Republican Nepotism Convention
Aug 31, 2020
Week 197 - Bannon Charged
Aug 24, 2020
Week 196 - Post Office Under Attack
Aug 17, 2020
Week 195 - Back to School
Aug 10, 2020
Week 194 - Delay the Election?
Aug 03, 2020
Week 193 - Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.
Jul 27, 2020
Week 192 - Secret Police
Jul 20, 2020
Week 191 - Daily Records
Jul 13, 2020
Week 190 - Russian Bounties
Jul 06, 2020
Week 189 - Out of Control
Jun 29, 2020
Week 188 - Tulsa
Jun 22, 2020
Week 187 - Questionable
Jun 15, 2020
Week 186 - Coward-in-chief
Jun 08, 2020
Week 185 - Kerosene on the Flames
Jun 01, 2020
Week 184 - Transition to Greatness
May 25, 2020
Week 183 - Obamagate
May 18, 2020
Weeek 182 - Outbreak in the West Wing
May 11, 2020
Week 181 - Vietnam War
May 04, 2020
Week 180 - Global Epicenter
Apr 27, 2020
Week 179 - Absolute Authority
Apr 20, 2020
Week 178 - Most Deaths in the World
Apr 13, 2020
Week 177 - National Stockpile
Apr 06, 2020
Week 176 - Shelter in Place
Mar 30, 2020
Week 175 - Where Are the Tests?
Mar 23, 2020
Week 174 - Global Pandemic
Mar 16, 2020
Week 173 - Coronavirus Spreading
Mar 09, 2020
Week 172 - Markets Crashing
Mar 02, 2020
Week 171 - Russian Election Interference: 2020 Edition
Feb 24, 2020
Week 170 - Tuesday Massacre
Feb 16, 2020
Week 169 - Trump's Vendetta
Feb 10, 2020
Week 168 - No Witnesses
Feb 03, 2020
Week 167 - The Trial Begins
Jan 27, 2020
Week 166 - Articles of Impeachment
Jan 20, 2020
Week 165 - Unintended Consequences
Jan 13, 2020
War With Iran?
Jan 07, 2020
Week 163 - Losing the Evangelicals?
Dec 30, 2019
Week 162 - Third in History
Dec 23, 2019
Week 161 - Articles of Impeachment
Dec 16, 2019
Week 160 - Laughingstock of the World
Dec 09, 2019
Week 159 - Donald Balboa
Dec 02, 2019
Week 158 - Impeachment Hearings Continue
Nov 25, 2019
Week 157 - Impeachment Hearings Begin
Nov 18, 2019
Week 156 - Democratic Victories
Nov 11, 2019
Week 155 - "Lock Him Up!"
Nov 04, 2019
Week 154 - Republican Sit-In
Oct 28, 2019
Week 153 - All Roads Lead to Putin
Oct 21, 2019
Week 152 - Thirty-three Tweets
Oct 14, 2019
Week 151 - Soliciting Foreign Help...Again
Oct 07, 2019
Week 150 - The Beginning of the End?
Sep 30, 2019
Week 148 - Taliban Invite
Sep 16, 2019
Week 147 - Hurricane Dorian
Sep 09, 2019
Week 146 - FEC Out of Commission
Sep 02, 2019
Week 145 - Greenland is Not for Sale
Aug 26, 2019
Week 144 - Bracing for a Downturn
Aug 19, 2019
Week 143 - Mainstream White Supremacy
Aug 12, 2019
Week 142 - Moscow Mitch
Aug 05, 2019
Week 141 - Robert Mueller Testifies
Jul 29, 2019
Week 140 - Trump Attacks the Squad
Jul 22, 2019
Week 139 - Consolidation of Power
Jul 15, 2019
Week 138 - 2020 Census Citizenship Question
Jul 08, 2019
Week 137 - Detention Center Realities
Jul 01, 2019
Week 136 - An Almost War with Iran
Jun 24, 2019
Week 135 - No Protection for the 2020 Election
Jun 17, 2019
Week 134 - Trump's Trip to London
Jun 10, 2019
Week 133 - Robert Mueller's Resignation
Jun 03, 2019
Week 132 - Support for Impeachment
May 28, 2019
Week 131 - Attacks on Abortion Rights
May 20, 2019
Week 130 - Constitutional Crisis
May 13, 2019
Episode 47 - Leaked Mueller Letter to Attorney General William Barr
May 06, 2019
Week 128 - The Redacted Mueller Report
Apr 29, 2019
Week 127 - The Mueller Report
Apr 22, 2019
Week 126 - Stephen Miller: Immigration Czar
Apr 15, 2019
Week 125 - Waiting on the Mueller Report
Apr 08, 2019
Week 124 - William Barr's Letter on the Mueller Report
Apr 01, 2019
Week 123 - Trump's Conspiracy Theory Tweets
Mar 25, 2019
Week 122 - Trump's National Emergency
Mar 18, 2019
Week 121 - Fox News: State TV?
Mar 11, 2019
Week 120 - Michael Cohen's Testimony
Mar 04, 2019
Week 119 - The Continuing Rise of White Nationalism
Feb 25, 2019
Week 118 - Paul Manafort's Mueller Probe Troubles
Feb 18, 2019
Week 117 - State of the Union
Feb 11, 2019
Week 116 - Trump Meets Putin
Feb 04, 2019
Week 115 - The End of the Government Shutdown
Jan 28, 2019
Week 114 - 29 Days (and Counting) Government Shutdown
Jan 21, 2019
Week 113 - Trump's Prime Time Oval Office Address
Jan 14, 2019
Week 112 - Nancy Pelosi's Return as Speaker of the House
Jan 07, 2019
Week 111 - Trump's Isolation
Dec 31, 2018
Week 110 - Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' Resignation
Dec 24, 2018
Week 109 - The Mueller Probe Continues
Dec 17, 2018
Week 108 - The Effects of Trump's Trade Tariffs Begin
Dec 10, 2018
Week 107 - Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone
Dec 03, 2018
Week 106 - Ivanka's Personal Email Account
Nov 26, 2018
Week 105 - Trump Reels From the Midterms
Nov 19, 2018
Week 102 - Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
Oct 29, 2018
Week 101 - The Midterms are Coming
Oct 22, 2018
Week 100 - Stacking the Judiciary
Oct 15, 2018
Week 99 - #MeToo Culture Wars
Oct 08, 2018
Week 98 - The Sexual Assault Accusations Against Brett Kavanaugh
Oct 01, 2018
Week 97 - Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
Sep 24, 2018
Week 96 - Paul Manafort Fully Cooperates with Mueller Probe
Sep 17, 2018
Week 95 - Brett Kavanaugh Hearings
Sep 10, 2018
Week 94 - Farewell to John McCain
Sep 03, 2018
Week 93 - Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty
Aug 27, 2018
Week 92 - CIA Director John Brennan's Security Clearance Revoked
Aug 20, 2018
Week 91 - Republican Fundraiser Leaked Audio
Aug 13, 2018
Week 90 - Trump's Attacks on the News Media
Aug 06, 2018
Week 89 - Trump's Alt-truths
Jul 30, 2018
Week 88 - Trump in Helsinki
Jul 23, 2018
Week 87 - NATO Summit
Jul 16, 2018
Week 86 - The GOP's July 4th in Moscow
Jul 09, 2018
Week 85 - Capital Gazette
Jul 02, 2018
Week 84 - Atrocities at Our Southern Border
Jun 25, 2018
Week 83 - The Border Crisis
Jun 18, 2018
Week 82 - Trump's Pardon Talk
Jun 11, 2018
Week 81 - Ally Trade Wars
Jun 04, 2018
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