Please, Go On with James Hohmann
by The Washington PostWashington 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.
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Episodes
What to expect when you’re expecting an abortion pill argument
21m · PublishedWhen 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 as the justices hear a case on access to mifepristone.
Ruth Marcus: Even after abortion pill ruling, reproductive rights remain in the balance
Alexandra Petri: I don’t know how to write about all that hasn’t happened since the fall of Roe
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The Disorienting Feeling of Being American Amid the Israel-Gaza War
20m · PublishedThe Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop: ‘Somebody knows’
51m · PublishedEvery 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.
In the first episode of “The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop,” The Washington Post’s Martine Powers takes us on the personal journey that led her to learn about Grenada’s history. Martine delves into why Bishop was such an influential figure, what made the United States nervous about him and why the mystery of his missing remains continues to haunt so many on the island.
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How Sam Bankman-Fried sold investors on being virtuous
22m · PublishedSBF 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
If not McCarthy, then who?
21m · PublishedKevin 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 Geraghty
McCarthy’s gone. Republican dysfunction is here to stay, by Dana Milbank
Republicans are in disarray. But they are still winning a lot on policy, by Perry Bacon Jr.
Is this GOP primary even real?
17m · PublishedChild care is expensive and hard to find. What can be done?
16m · PublishedWhat's next for the Fox News empire?
21m · PublishedWhy Deion Sanders isn't just a football story
14m · PublishedPlease, Go On with James Hohmann has 61 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 22:58:40. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 6th 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 8th, 2024 20:10.