The New Abnormal
Blunt truth and dark humor for a world in chaos. A Daily Beast podcast hosted by Danielle Moodie & Andy Levy. Tune in every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trump Isnât a Style Icon. That Title Belongs to This Pair
The New Abnormal team give their picks for the most fashionable former president and first ladyâand it is not Donald and Melania Trump. Plus! Mexican historian Ana Raquel Minian talks to Andy Levy about her new book In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States.
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NYC Judge Needs to Treat Trump Like the Mafia Boss He Is
The New Abnormal co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy have some advice for the judge handling former President Donald Trumpâs New York City hush-money trial: Treat it exactly the same as a high-profile mob case. Then, a conversation with Medhi Hasan about his new media venture, Zeteo, which launched on Monday. Plus! Jonathan V. Last, an editor at The Bulwark, joins the program to talk about his recent presidential rankings.
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GOP Is Throwing Out âCatastrophicâ Candidates to Democracy
This week on The New Abnormal, co-hosts Danielle Moodie talks to Andrea Miller, the founding board member of the Center for Common Ground, about the importance of the black vote in the South for Democrats in this election. Plus! The Washington Post tech reporter Drew Harwell gives us the details on the people still investing in Trump Media & Technology Group despite its rapidly plummeting stock price.
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The Dirty Little Gun Secret Behind MAGA Worldâs Migrant Hysteria
For all of Donald Trumpâs incessant fear-mongering about migrants fueling crime in the United States, he has yet to ask one very important question: What is driving the violence that is making so many on the other side of the border desperate to flee in the first place? Thatâs the question The New Abnormal team posed to Ieva Jusionyte, author of Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border, on this Sundayâs episodeâand his answer might not sit well with team MAGA.
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The Wild Backstory Behind Trumpworldâs Newest Toadie
This week, The New Abnormal
introduces you to a relatively new face in the pantheon of Trumpworld toadies:
Steven Cheung, Trumpâs principal spokesperson and de facto enforcer. Plus, a conversation with New Republic staff writer Melissa Gira Grant about a largely forgotten 1873 law, called the Comstock Act, that could be used to outlaw virtually all abortions across America.Â
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Trump's Abortion Stance Is Likely to Change Come November
This week on The New Abnormal, co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy discuss why we should take Donald Trumpâs latest statement on abortion with a grain of salt. Plus! Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants Rights Project Cody Wofsy fills us in on an immigration law in Texas that even those supporting it have said may have gone too far. Then, journalist Jeb Lund is here to talk about his recent piece covering Floridaâs âWar on Woke.â
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Why These Two Republicans Are Trumpâs Most Likely VP Picks
The New Abnormal team has picked who they believe Donald Trump will select as his running mate. Plus! Andy Levy talks to CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti about his new book Before It's Gone: Stories From the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America.
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Trump Wants to Jail His Opponents and Nobody Seems to Care
On this week's episode, hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy donât see any major publications or politicians taking Trumpâs threats of retaliation seriously. Then, Mark Joseph Stern, a senior writer at Slate Magazine, joins the program to discuss an upcoming abortion ballot referendum in Floridaâand the âgiant threatâ lurking behind it. Plus! A conversation with Brian Beutler, the author of the Substack âOff Message,â on Democratsâ messaging issues as the 2024 race inches closer to the finish line.
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The Right-Wingâs Spooky New Acronym DEI Betrays an Old Prejudice
This week on The New Abnormal, University of Louisville Associate Professor in the Departments of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Pan-African Studies Dr. Kaila Story joins us to talk about the new acronym conservatives are flinging about, and why itâs taken flight. Plus! Editor of The National Interest, Jacob Heilbrunn, joins us to talk about his new book, âAmerica Last: The Rightâs Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.â
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A Visual History of U.S. Racism Articulates What Words Canât
From the site where George Floyd was killed to places where Black people were lynched, âGhosts of Segregationâ illustrates a history of racism in the U.S. that canât be ignored.
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