Prevail with Greg Olear

By Greg Olear

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On PREVAIL, a weekly interview podcast, the author and columnist Greg Olear discusses politics, world news, history, national security, foreign affairs, organized crime, dirty money, global corruption, and the fight for democracy with authors, journalists, academics, diplomats, researchers, and other expert guests. Every Friday.

Episode Date
Candidates, Courts & Cartels (with Ethan Bearman)
Apr 26, 2024
Like Hell Matt Gaetz is Winning, and Other Tales of Danger Close (with Gal Suburban)
Apr 19, 2024
Active Learning Feedback Loop, or, Democracy Isn’t a Spectator Sport (with Robbie Harris)
Apr 12, 2024
Failures of the Reconstruction: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic (with Manisha Sinha)
Apr 05, 2024
Robes Gallery: Clarence and Roberts and Brett, Oh My! (with Lisa Graves)
Mar 22, 2024
From Cowboy State to Christofascist State: Kevin Roberts, Wyoming, Project 2025, and the Spectre of a Second Trump Term (with Rone Tempest)
Mar 15, 2024
Around the World in 80 Minutes (with Alexandra Hall Hall)
Mar 08, 2024
Feelingsball: The Leonard Leo Industrial Complex, SCOTUS Nihilism, and the Doctrine of Sad (with Dahlia Lithwick)
Mar 01, 2024
Trickling Down: How the Anti-Tax Movement Hijacked America (with Michael Graetz)
Feb 23, 2024
All About Leonard Leo, the Reactionary Legal Activist, Radical Catholic Zealot & Dark Money Maestro Who Captured the Supreme Court (with Tom Carter)
Feb 16, 2024
Dispatches from the Road (with Diana Spechler)
Jan 19, 2024
Covert World War III, or, Operation Gemcrusher (with Aja Raden)
Jan 12, 2024
Cheerios or Death (with Brynn Tannehill)
Dec 29, 2023
Making It in America (with Rachel Slade)
Dec 22, 2023
America/America, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Presidential Suite at the Ritz-Carlton Moscow (with Steven Beschloss)
Dec 15, 2023
Red Caesar (with Will Bunch)
Dec 08, 2023
Lawyers, Guns, and Money (with Jack Bryan)
Dec 01, 2023
The War We Never Wanted (with Elisa Albert)
Nov 10, 2023
The Age of Disorder (with Jason Pack)
Nov 03, 2023
Chaos Crescendo (with Cheri Jacobus)
Oct 27, 2023
Reprise: The Trauma Vortex (with Claudia Black)
Oct 20, 2023
Competing Realities: 24/7 Politics & the Rise of Cable News (with Kathryn Cramer Brownell)
Oct 13, 2023
Russia Goes Scorched Earth in Kherson (with Zarina Zabrisky)
Oct 06, 2023
A Fabulous Failure (with Nelson Lichtenstein)
Sep 29, 2023
The World is Ruled by Wounded People Wounding Us (with Ronlyn Domingue)
Sep 22, 2023
The Rush Limbaugh of the Left (with Tony Michaels)
Sep 15, 2023
Crimean War and Peace (with Elina Beketova)
Sep 08, 2023
How to Wreck a Democracy (with Ruth Ben-Ghiat)
Sep 01, 2023
The Only Way to Tell the Future is After It Happens (with Denver Riggleman)
Aug 25, 2023
SEASON FINALE: Rhetorical Questions (with Jennifer Mercieca)
Jul 21, 2023
Too Big To Care: Containing Big Tech (with Tom Kemp)
Jul 14, 2023
What Is Corruption? (with Alex Aronson)
Jul 07, 2023
KHive & The Reelection Rundown (with Candidly Tiff)
Jun 30, 2023
Reprise: Dead Pimps & Tucker Carlson’s Long Slide (with Nia Molinari)
Jun 23, 2023
Notes on the Trump Indictment (with Gal Suburban)
Jun 16, 2023
The Trump Tower Meeting Was Seven Years Ago Today (with Cliff Schecter)
Jun 09, 2023
Making it in the USA, or, Building Back Better (with Rachel Slade)
Jun 02, 2023
Not All Doom (with Arthur Snell)
May 26, 2023
Reprise - Rapid Fire: The Pathway to Violence (with Shavaun Scott)
May 19, 2023
International Intrigue (with John Fowler)
May 12, 2023
Succession: The King & Comedy (with Will Sebag-Montefiore)
May 05, 2023
Keepin’ It Real (with Elwood Watson)
Apr 28, 2023
BONUS SPECIAL: The Five 8, “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” (with Stephanie Koff)
Apr 25, 2023
"Jin, Jiyan, Azadî!" | Protests in Iran (with Samira Ghaderi)
Apr 21, 2023
Uh-Oh, Canada (with Max Fawcett)
Apr 14, 2023
Between the Shaman and the Microchip (with Mark Plotkin)
Mar 31, 2023
Nothing Lasts Forever (with Aja Raden)
Mar 24, 2023
Settling Scores: F*ck Giuliani (with Nia Molinari)
Mar 17, 2023
Biden Or Bust & What’s Up With Ohio (with Cliff Schecter)
Mar 10, 2023
The Jokerfication of Tucker Carlson (with Kat Abughazaleh)
Mar 03, 2023
Madoff Talk (with Jim Campbell)
Feb 24, 2023
SEASON PREMIERE: The Shifting Calculus of Covid-19 (with Katherine Eban)
Feb 17, 2023
Reprise: Strongmen: History Under Attack (with Ruth Ben-Ghiat)
Feb 10, 2023
Reprise - Four Villains: “Shame Cometh” and Other Stories
Feb 03, 2023
Reprise: The Democracy Game (with Brynn Tannehill)
Jan 27, 2023
SEASON FINALE: Charley Horses in DeSantistan (with Gal Suburban)
Jan 20, 2023
Savers of the Lost Art (with Ron Pollard)
Jan 13, 2023
There’s No Concert (with Moscow Never Sleeps)
Jan 06, 2023
The Money’s Gotta Be Someplace (with Debra LaPrevotte)
Dec 16, 2022
The Life & Lies of Vladimir Putin (with Andrew S. Weiss)
Dec 09, 2022
The Founding-Fatherization of Adam Smith (with Glory M. Liu)
Dec 02, 2022
CIA Debriefing (with Kristin Wood)
Nov 18, 2022
The Scarcity Myth & Other GOP Fairy Tales (with Vince Scafaria)
Nov 11, 2022
Bubble-Wrapped in Sanctimony (with Katherine Stewart)
Nov 04, 2022
Elon Remix: Diamond Droogs & Human Wallets (with Aja Raden)
Oct 28, 2022
Delawareness (with Hal Weitzman)
Oct 21, 2022
MAGA Apostate (with Melissa Jo Peltier)
Oct 14, 2022
How Britain Broke the World…and How Liz Truss Broke Britain (with Arthur Snell)
Oct 07, 2022
CPACing with the Enemy (with Amanda Moore)
Sep 30, 2022
Playing in the Gray (with Kimberly Kay Hoang)
Sep 23, 2022
Ukraine vs. the Evil Empire (with Victor Rud)
Sep 16, 2022
Existential Threat to Democracy (with Craig Unger)
Sep 09, 2022
Something Beyond “Liking” (Season Finale, with Pam Murtaugh)
Aug 12, 2022
Hear Me Roar (with Nina Burleigh)
Aug 05, 2022
NYC, Today & Tomorrow (with Jessica Lappin)
Jul 29, 2022
Digital Voter Suppression (with Shireen Mitchell)
Jul 22, 2022
Four Villains: “Shame Cometh” and Other Stories
Jul 15, 2022
Rapid Fire: The Pathway to Violence (with Shavaun Scott)
Jul 08, 2022
House of Unger, House of Olear (with Craig Unger) ICYMI
Jul 01, 2022
Team Justice vs. Team Peace (with Zarina Zabrisky)
Jun 24, 2022
The Big Lie & The Great Ignored (with Sandi Bachom)
Jun 17, 2022
Don’t Look Up the Answers (with Adam McKay)
Jun 10, 2022
13848 (with Gal Suburban)
Jun 03, 2022
SLAPP Shots & Single Malts (with Ethan Bearman)
May 27, 2022
Talking Cows & Sumerian Jokes (with Ryan Byrne)
May 20, 2022
The Democracy Game (with Brynn Tannehill)
May 13, 2022
Amorality Tales (with Jennifer Reitman of DAME Magazine)
May 06, 2022
Strongmen as Young Men (with Brandon Gauthier)
Apr 29, 2022
Lynchpins of Plunder: Nazi Billionaires (with David de Jong)
Apr 22, 2022
MAGA Menace, Wolverine Watchmen, and Epstein’s Shadow (with Nina Burleigh) - replay -
Apr 15, 2022
All Things Syria (with Diana Darke)
Apr 08, 2022
The Trauma Vortex (with Claudia Black)
Apr 01, 2022
Diamond Droogs & Human Wallets (with Aja Raden)
Mar 25, 2022
Putin’s War (with Zarina Zabrisky and Moscow Never Sleeps)
Mar 18, 2022
Reprise: My Head's in Mississippi (with Donna Ladd)
Mar 11, 2022
ICYMI: The Ukraine Fallacies (with Victor Rud, recorded May 2021)
Mar 04, 2022
The Absurdity of It All (Season Two Finale, with Noel Casler)
Feb 25, 2022
Boredom as Camouflage: The Life of Mike Pence (with Tom LoBianco)
Feb 18, 2022
Canadian Goose-Steppers (with Mark Bourrie)
Feb 11, 2022
Putin in Ukraine (with Zarina Zabrisky)
Feb 04, 2022
Good Coup, Bad Coup (with Amanda Carpenter)
Jan 28, 2022
Matt Gaetz & Other Creatures of the Florida Swamp (with Gal Suburban)
Jan 21, 2022
Strongmen: History Under Attack (with Ruth Ben-Ghiat)
Jan 14, 2022
Insurrectionversary (with Hugo Lowell)
Jan 07, 2022
Auld Lang Sigh: the PREVAIL New Year’s Eve Special (with Lincoln’s Bible, Lou Neu, Cheri Jacobus, Kimberley Johnson, and Tom Joseph)
Dec 31, 2021
Making the Bad Guys Pay—Literally (with Katherine Mulhern of Restitution)
Dec 17, 2021
MAGA Menace, Wolverine Watchmen, and Epstein’s Shadow (with Nina Burleigh) FULL EPISODE
Dec 10, 2021
MAGA Menace, Wolverine Watchmen, and Epstein’s Shadow (with Nina Burleigh)
Dec 10, 2021
She’s Right Here: Kamala Counteroffensive (with Reecie Colbert of Black Women Views Media)
Dec 03, 2021
Thanksgiving Leftovers (with Jamison Firestone and Moscow Never Sleeps)
Nov 26, 2021
Everything is Connected (with Arthur Snell)
Nov 19, 2021
Dead Pimps & Tucker Carlson’s Long Slide (with Nia Molinari)
Nov 12, 2021
Merrick Garland and the Soup of Despair (with Jennifer Taub)
Nov 05, 2021
Captured: An Interview with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
Oct 29, 2021
Witness to the Insurrection (with Sandi Bachom)
Oct 22, 2021
House of Unger, House of Olear (with Craig Unger)
Oct 15, 2021
Spilling the Beans: The Allison Gill Interview
Oct 08, 2021
My Head's in Mississippi (with Donna Ladd)
Sep 24, 2021
Combat Propaganda (with Zarina Zabrisky)
Sep 17, 2021
Tuesday’s Gone: Remembering September 11, 20 Years Later (with Noel Casler)
Sep 10, 2021
Calling All Visigoths: The Dark Side of Big Tech (with Bret Pettichord)
Sep 03, 2021
Lost in Fantasyland (Season Two Premiere, with Kurt Andersen)
Aug 27, 2021
In Case You Missed It - Bad News: How the Media Failed in the Age of Trump (with Eric Boehlert of PRESS RUN)
Aug 20, 2021
Replay - Blue State Genocide: Jared Kushner's Greatest Crime (with Vanity Fair’s Katherine Eban)
Aug 13, 2021
Enjoy Your King (Season One Finale, with Duke Haney)
Aug 06, 2021
Doomsday Devices & Distressed Assets: Trump as Weapon, Tom Barrack as Matchmaker (with Lou Neu)
Jul 30, 2021
Ships, Hoodies & Ghislaine’s Beau (with Rachel Slade)
Jul 23, 2021
House of Maxwell (with Kirby Sommers)
Jul 16, 2021
Mobsters & Spies & Pilates (with Lincoln’s Bible)
Jul 09, 2021
Pelted with WTFs (Virus & Vaccine, with Nina Burleigh)
Jul 02, 2021
Around the World with Arthur Snell
Jun 25, 2021
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria Butina? (with “Spy Affair” host Celia Aniskovich)
Jun 11, 2021
The Truth About Lies (with Aja Raden)
Jun 04, 2021
The Journalist, the Jerseymen, and the Trillion-Dollar Island (with Leah McGrath Goodman)
May 28, 2021
Everything You Never Knew About Ukraine (with Victor Rud)
May 21, 2021
The Magnitsky Act (with Jamison Firestone and Moscow Never Sleeps)
May 14, 2021
The Biden/Harris 100 Days Extravaganza (Double Episode, with Candidly Tiff & Joanie Vee and DAME Magazine’s Jennifer Reitman)
May 07, 2021
Big Dirty Money: White Collar Criming (with Jennifer Taub)
Apr 30, 2021
Justice Prevails, with Democracy Pledge Co-Founders Glenn Kirschner and Jon Cohen
Apr 23, 2021
United States of Canada: Around the World with Diane Francis
Apr 16, 2021
This is What Collusion Looks Like: Volume 5 of the Senate Intelligence Report (with Alison Greene & Aaron Harris)
Apr 09, 2021
Jersey (Off) Shore: The Situation on the Trillion Dollar Island (with Stuart Syvret)
Apr 02, 2021
Who Knew?: Woody Allen, Alan Dershowitz, and the “Three Dudes” Who Gave Us Trump (with Lincoln’s Bible & Lou Neu)
Mar 25, 2021
Blue State Genocide: Jared Kushner's Greatest Crime (with Vanity Fair’s Katherine Eban)
Mar 18, 2021
Offramp: Anthony Scaramucci on Economics, Politics, & White House Intrigue
Mar 11, 2021
Bad News: How the Media Failed in the Age of Trump (with Eric Boehlert of PRESS RUN)
Mar 04, 2021
Alternative Math: Brett Kavanaugh's Financials (with Moscow Never Sleeps)
Feb 25, 2021
Pilot (with Lincoln's Bible)
Feb 18, 2021
Introducing: Prevail with Greg Olear
Feb 10, 2021