When we first released The Daily Beast’s The New Abnormal podcast, hosted by your favorite left-wing pundit, Molly Jong-Fast, it was clear things had gone off the rails, but even we couldn’t have guessed what remained in store.
Between the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out (and the anti-vax propaganda that has come with it,) the Capitol riot, and some of the new players in the game (like Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene), it can be hard to keep up.
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Last year, we decided to stir things up even more with a limited-run series of exclusive bonus episodes for Daily Beast subscribers to keep you in the know. But you spoke, and we listened: The bonus episodes are here to stay.
Enjoy every 2022 and 2021 bonus episode here, all in one place. Don’t worry, though. All of the bonus episodes from 2020 can be found on this page. Not a subscriber yet? Join here.
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The Time Trump Thought Palin Was ‘Hot’ and Stole Her Vibe
How a Wall Street ‘Villain’ Set the Stage for Global Chaos
Garry Kasparov on What Will Take Putin Down
The Only Thing That Will Save OAN From Extinction
Watergate Reporter Carl Bernstein Has a Fox News Theory
The Decision Trump Made That May Destroy NYC Someday
Student Loans Were Created to Punish Poor People, Says Former Bernie Staffer
Molly Jong-Fast and Andy Levy Answer 20 Stupid Questions
Why Ending Cash Bail Won’t Increase Crime
Is Tucker Carlson Talking to ‘Stupid’ Americans for Russia?
Amy Coney Barrett Basically Thinks Women Are Incubators
Why Did This Black Child Go Missing and No One Noticed?
Why Hasn’t Biden Reversed Trump’s Tariffs to Fix Inflation?
Huma Abedin Lived in ‘Anger & Bitterness’ Over Weiner Affair
Texas’ AG Used This Insane Reason to Keep Abortion Illegal
How WSJ’s Jeff Horwitz Got the FB Whistleblower to Talk
‘The Americans’ Creator: CIA Made Me Empathize With the KGB
Inside the Fight Against the GOP’s ‘Worst Congressmen’
Fiona Hill: Putin Used His KGB Training to Manipulate Trump
Why Are Matt Gaetz & Co. Pushing ‘White Replacement Theory’?
Phoebe Robinson of ‘2 Dope Queens’: Stop Being a White Savior and Join a School Board
The Texas Abortion Ban Is Also an Attack on Men
You Don’t Know Everything About Muhammad Ali Just Yet
Is Democracy Dying Because Americans Are Narcissists?
Soledad O’Brien on the ‘Stupid Blonde’ Spouting Vax Nonsense
Afghan Women: The Taliban Are Shooting People in the Night and Filming It
Andy Slavitt: Ron DeSantis Wants You to Drown in COVID
Jared’s COVID Response Was Even Worse Than We Thought
Elie Honig, CNN Legal Analyst, Author: The Worst Things Bill Barr Did as AG (and Beyond)
Julie K. Brown Doesn’t Believe Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself
Susan Orlean on the New Jersey Tiger Queen
Are We Just Going to Ignore That Exxon Video?
Eric Adams Is the Kind of Democrat That Liberals Ignore
Historian Kevin Kruse: Fox News Has Critical Race Theory All Wrong
Brian Stelter: Watching Fox News Can Make Liberals Smarter
Don’t Listen to Jim Jordan for COVID-19 Vaccine Advice
Why I Can’t Stand Rich People With Liberal Lawn Signs
Will Biden Ever Get Off His A*s to Save Democracy?
Rep. Eric Swalwell: GOP Is Turning Their Back on Cops
Trump Came This Close to Making the Opioid Crisis More Hellish
Jeff Garlin on Being Mistaken for Harvey Weinstein: It’s Not Funny Being Compared to a Rapist
Will Rudy Giuliani Be Held Accountable for His Alleged Crimes?
Mika Brzezinski: I Was An ‘Idiot’ Signing My First ‘Morning Joe’ Contract
How Rep. Grace Meng Is Able to Work with GOP Racists
DNC Chair Jamie Harrison: The Democratic Brand Is Broken
How Ted Cruz and the GOP Are Using the Border as a Prop
Trump Isn’t the Only Person Whose COVID Response Cost Lives
Jelani Cobb: Jan. 6 Was the Beginning of GOP’s Mess, Not Ending
Mayoral Candidate Maya Wiley: I Won’t Take Bullying From NYPD
Getting ‘Canceled’ Is the Only Thing Conservatives Have Left
Dem Impeachment Manager: Here’s Why We Didn’t Call Witnesses During Trump’s Trial
The Marine and the Doctor Taking on Marjorie Greene and Lauren Boebert
The New York Times’ Paul Krugman: Democrats Don’t Care About Debt. And That’s OK.
Republicans Aren’t All Dumb. They’re Just Part of a Cult.
Mitch McConnell Is Already Trying to Train Wreck the Biden Administration
Historian Kevin Kruse: Trump Legacy Will Get Worse (Just Wait)
The Orange Lives Matter Coup Won’t End This Trumpist Chaos
NARAL President: We’re Prepping for End of Roe v. Wade
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