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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.After repeatedly breaking a gag order imposed upon him—and suffering minor consequences for the breach of trust—it’s safe to conclude the U.S. justice system is handling former President Donald Trump with kid gloves, according to The New Abnormal host Danielle Moodie.“I don’t know about you, but I’m pr...

Matt Bennett, co-founder of national think-tank Third Way, tells The New Abnormal why a second Trump presidency would be a “catastrophe” and leave America “unrecognizable.”

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.You have probably heard people say before that the next election will be “the most consequential of our lifetime.”Matt Bennett, co-founder of Third Way, a national think-tank that champions modern center-left ideas, tells The New Abnormal that it is an overused term—except if you are referring to the 2024 presidential election.&#x2...

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.After weeks of uncertainty over who may take up the gavel, it was a surprise when Republicans gathered this week to vote for Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as the new Speaker of the House.And as Semafor’s Washington Bureau Chief Benjy Sarlin tells us on this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, “This is a man whose belief...

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.With the U.S. House of Representatives still without a speaker after three weeks—and with no end in sight to the drama—The New Abnormal co-host Andy Levy has someone in mind.“There’s nothing in the rules that says the speaker has to be a member of Congress. And that’s why we’ve been hearing Donald Trum...

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Walter Hickey explains how movies and TV affect everything from our biology to our beliefs and what happens when governments get involved.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.The conservative movement is broken and no one is fixing it.That’s according to S. E. Cupp, who wrote exactly that in a column for the New York Daily News this week and joined The New Abnormal to share her perspective on a host of recent headlines—including this week’s chaos over the race for a new House Speaker.Cupp expla...

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.Lawyers for Donald Trump have seemingly abandoned any attempts to win the ongoing New York state fraud trial against the former president—instead taking to grandstanding in an attempt to plant “landmines” in the court record that they can bring up on appeal.Those are the observations of The Daily Beast’s Jose Paglie...

Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero / The Daily Beast / GettyListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.The New Abnormal co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy say Donald Trump’s latest remarks about undocumented immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country” show he is no longer just playing footsie with white supremacists but fully embracing them.“There is literally no way to listen to that and not hear white su...

On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy call out the former president for his latest rallying cry to white supremacists.