Please, Go On with James Hohmann
Washington Post columnist James Hohmann chats with the voices behind the viewpoints. Hohmann sits down each week with the author of a compelling or unexpected guest column for The Post’s Opinions section. Together, they unpack arguments that are shaping the public conversation about issues of importance. “Please, Go On” features marquee names, as well as everyday people with original perspectives. New episodes released Fridays.
Episodes
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade back in 2022, it indicated that abortion was an issue to be relegated to the states. Instead, it has blown up American politics, firing up voters and leading to conflicting lower court rulings. Post columnists Ruth Marcus, Alexandra Petri and Amanda Ripley discuss how it feels to be a woman in the post-Dobbs world and what’s at stake when abortion returns to the Supreme Court this term ...
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Every 19th of October, Grenadians mark a somber anniversary: the 1983 execution of the country’s former prime minister and revolutionary leader, Maurice Bishop, and others who died alongside him. The people of this Caribbean nation still have no closure 40 years later. The remains of Bishop and his supporters were never returned to their family members and are missing to this day. <...
SBF is fighting conventional fraud charges. But the moral philosophy that guided his decisions was anything but. We get into whether SBF is a failed messiah or just another disgraced tech mogul, and how he sold people on doing good while getting rich.
Play it again, Sam: Inside Bankman-Fried’s last year in the crypto game, Michael Lewis
The coin flip that could convict Sam Bankman-Fried, Jason Willick
Kevin McCarthy is out as House speaker. Now what? Post Opinions columnists Perry Bacon, Jim Geraghty and Dana Milbank gather for an impromptu conversation about where the House should go from here, whom the next speaker might be and whether Democrats have any responsibility to clean up the mess.
Populist passions, not Trump, rule the GOP, by Jim G...
The GOP debate is by and for Republicans, but plenty of Democrats are watching how this race unfolds too. Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane brings on left-leaning columnist Greg Sargent and humorist Alexandra Petri to get a sense of what liberals are thinking about Vivek Ramaswamy, the GOP candidates' responses on climate change and abortion, and the party’s divide over whether the country needs better governance, or fu...
Ruth Marcus is a Post Opinions columnist and one of the nation’s foremost experts on the Supreme Court and the legal system. George Conway is a lawyer and one of Donald Trump’s leading conservative critics.
They sat down Thursday to talk about the Department of Justice’s latest indictment of Trump, what it means, and where the country goes from here.
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In the run-up to this year’s annual NATO summit in Vilinius, Lithuania, all eyes were on what prospects the alliance would give Ukraine on becoming a member. No one expected t...
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The U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in coll...
Journey through the messy past and uncertain future of America’s national parks. The Washington Post’s Lillian Cunningham ventures off the marked trail to better understand the most urgent stories playing out in five iconic landscapes today.
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On The Post’s new podcast, "The 7," host Jeff Pierre takes you through the seven most important and interesting stories of the day. It's a way to get caught up in just a few minutes. It comes out every weekday at 7 a.m. Check it out today, then find and follow "The 7" so you're set for tomorrow.
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) joins James Hohmann for a conversation about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the threat posed by China.
The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine weighs in on Vladimir Putin’s war against the country, as well as Donald Trump’s past attacks on her character.
A number of red states have moved to limit transgender rights in recent months, most notably Texas. With that in mind, we return to a conversation from last summer with activist Gavin Grimm — at a watershed moment in the struggle for trans rights.
Paul Farmer, a global health advocate and physician whose work saved millions of lives, died in Rwanda last month at age 62. Author John Green, a mentee of Farmer’s, discusses the physician’s life and remarkable legacy.
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