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The Daily Standard Podcast - Your conservative source for analysis of the news shaping US politics and world events episodes:

02.20.2018
The Trumpiest CPAC Ever
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, digital editor Jonathan V. Last and senior writer John McCormack discuss gun control, immigration, movies, and the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference. The Daily Standard Podcast is sponsored by RXBar. Our listeners can take...
02.16.2018
Black and White, Campus Craziness, and Bari Weiss
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, Andy Ferguson and Adam Rubenstein discuss "white and black," the craziness raging on college campuses, identity politics, and manufactured controversy targeting Bari Weiss.
02.14.2018
Infrastructure Week is Here
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Michael Warren talks about the long-awaited Infrastructure Week, and associate editor Ethan Epstein joins to discuss the Olympics, North Korea's 'Smile Diplomacy' and its coverage by the American press.
02.13.2018
The Daily Standard Returns!
After a brief hiatus, the Daily Standard Podcast has returned with a new host: Charlie Sykes. A longtime journalist, author, commentator, and radio host, Charlie brings his decades of experience and insight to our daily podcast. Today, he speaks with...
12.22.2017
Persons of the Year
This week on the Kristol Clear podcast, editor-at-large Bill Kristol makes the case for the people who mattered most in 2017.
12.20.2017
Hed: Tax-Cutting It Close
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Michael Warren talks with host Eric Felten about the passage of the GOP tax bill.
12.19.2017
House Passes Tax Reform
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Tony Mecia talks with host Eric Felten about the House vote on the tax bill.
12.18.2017
Trump's National Security Speech Breaks From GOP Past
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Michael Warren talks with host Eric Felten about the president's national security speech.
12.17.2017
No Moss, No Moss
This week on the Confab, senior editor Andrew Ferguson talks with host Eric Felten about the impact on journalism and on the culture more broadly of Rolling Stone magazine.
12.15.2017
Moore Aftershocks
Moore Aftershocks Editor at large Bill Kristol talks with host Eric Felten about the fallout from Tuesday's defeat of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore in the Alabama special election
12.12.2017
Tawdry Tweets
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, White House Watch columnist Michael Warren talks with host Eric Felten about the President's latest problematic tweet.
12.11.2017
Alabama Down to the Wire
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer John McCormack talks with host Eric Felten about the closing days of Tuesday's Alabama special election for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions.
12.08.2017
The 20-Car Dust Storm Pile-Up
Filling in for Bill Kristol, Michael Warren talks with host Eric Felten about the multi-vehicle smash-up that was this week in Washington. The Kristol Clear podcast is sponsored by The Great Courses. Our listeners can enjoy an entire month of...
12.06.2017
Franken's Wrong About his Rights
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, deputy managing editor Kelly Jane Torrance talks with host Eric Felten about politicians felled—and one not felled—by sex abuse scandals in recent days.
12.05.2017
The Taxing Process of Tax Cuts
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Tony Mecia joins host Eric Felten to talk about what's next in the tax reform saga. The Daily Standard podcast is sponsored by Away Travel: Your luggage shouldn’t cost more than your plane...
12.04.2017
High Anxiety at 1600 Pennsylvania
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Michael Warren talks with host Eric Felten about the fallout from the Michael Flynn plea deal.
12.03.2017
Confab: Blue-Slip Blues
This week on the Confab, executive editor Fred Barnes talks about the procedural battles in the Senate over judicial nominations. Then senior editor Andrew Ferguson discusses the New York Times ruckus over normalizing Nazis.
12.01.2017
Flynn Cops a Plea
This week on the Kristol Clear Podcast, editor at large Bill Kristol discusses Michael Flynn's plea agreement with special counsel Robert Mueller. The Kristol Clear podcast is sponsored by The Great Courses. Our listeners can enjoy an entire month of...
11.29.2017
The Bully Twitter Pulpit
This week on the Daily Standard Podcast, deputy online editor Chris Deaton talks with host Eric Felten about today's presidential Tweetstorm. The Daily Standard Podcast is sponsored by RXBar. Our listeners can take advantage of this special offer of 25...
11.28.2017
The GOP's Tax Reform Obstacle Course
Senior Writer Tony Mecia talks with host Eric Felten about the hoops and hurdles facing Republicans in their push for tax reform.
11.27.2017
The Double-Headed CFPB
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Mark Hemingway talks with host Eric Felten about the fight over who is in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
11.26.2017
Vote Along With Mitch
Fred Barnes talks with host Eric Felten about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's strategy for passing tax reform in the Senate.
11.22.2017
War Crimes Convictions and Family Holiday Traditions
Editor at large Bill Kristol talks with host Eric Felten about the role U.S. power can play in promoting peace, and the gratitude we share at our good fortune to be with family and friends for Thanksgiving. Cocktail Note from...
11.21.2017
Is Google Setting a Censorious Precedent?
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, associate editor Ethan Epstein talks with host Eric Felten about Google and Putin's English-language media outlets.
11.20.2017
The Senate's Taxing Job
Tony Mecia talks with host Eric Felten about where tax reform goes now, and the senators who might be hurdles to its passage in the Senate.
11.19.2017
Does Trump Make the Grade?
Executive editor Fred Barnes scores the Trump presidency. And Ethan Epstein talks about a strange fix for the failing Washington Metro system.
11.18.2017
Kristol Clear: Sex and Taxes
This week on the Kristol Clear Podcast, editor at large Bill Kristol talks with host Eric Felten about the need for accountability, responsibility, and deliberation in our politics.
11.15.2017
Trump Travelogue
Weekly Standard White House correspondent Michael Warren talks with host Eric Felten about the president's speech detailing his trip to Asia.
11.14.2017
More Roy Problems
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer John McCormack joins host Eric Felten to talk about the GOP's Roy Moore mess.
11.13.2017
Trump's East Asia Sojourn
Today on the Daily Standard podcast, associate editor Ethan Epstein talks with host Eric Felten about the president's Far East tour.
11.12.2017
The GOP's Virginia Election Freak-Out
This week on the Confab, executive Fred Barnes and senior writer Michael Warren talk with host Eric Felten about the anti-Trump wave that threatens Republicans in 2018
11.12.2017
The Old Transatlantic Conservative Blues
This week on the Kristol Clear Podcast, editor at large Bill Kristol talks with host Eric Felten about the unfortunate parallels between Britain's Tories and the GOP.
11.08.2017
Stalin's Ukrainian Genocide
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, On the 85th anniversary of the "Holodomor," TWS contributor Andrew Stuttaford talks with host Eric Felten about the Soviet Union's murder, by starvation, of 4 million Ukrainians. The Daily Standard is sponsored by DonorsTrust. DonorsTrust...
11.07.2017
The Democrats' Virginia Freak-Out
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, executive editor Fred Barnes talks with host Eric Felten about today's Virginia gubernatorial election and why it has Democrats worried.
11.06.2017
Trump in Japan
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, associate editor Ethan Epstein talks with host Eric Felten about the Japanese leg of the president's Asia trip.
11.04.2017
Confab: Nothing But the Best?
This week on the Weekly Standard Confab, senior writer Michael Warren talks with host Eric Felten about the Trump Team's difficulties weeding out the unqualified and the inept. Associate editor Ethan Epstein comes by to ask whether social media advertising...
11.03.2017
Kristol Clear: Mueller Investigates, Tax Reform's Future, and Why Baseball is Best
This week on the Kristol Clear Podcast, Weekly Standard editor at large Bill Kristol talks with host Eric Felten about Mueller investigation indictments, the GOP's tax bills, and the worthy World Series. The Kristol Clear podcast is sponsored by The...
11.01.2017
Not-so-lone Wolf
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, assistant managing Kelly Jane Torrance talks with host Eric Felten about yesterday's terrorist attack in New York.
10.31.2017
Tricks or Tweets
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Michael Warren talks with host Eric Felten about the White House response to the Mueller investigation.
10.30.2017
Mueller Makes a Move
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Michael Warren talks with host Eric Felten about the special counsel's first indictments and guilty plea.
10.28.2017
The Steve Bannon Myth
Fred Barnes talks with host Eric Felten about the outsized claims of the man who would remake the GOP. Michael Warren handicaps Republican chances at passing tax cuts.
10.27.2017
The GOP Surrender
This week on the Kristol Clear podcast, editor at large Bill Kristol on the announced retirements of President Trump's Senate antagonists.
10.25.2017
Standing Rock Trolls
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, associate editor Ethan Epstein talks about Russian social-media efforts to promote left-wing causes in the U.S.
10.24.2017
Put a Cork in It Already
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Michael Warren discusses the Trump/Corker spat and what it means for tax reform.
10.23.2017
Trump vs. Regulation
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, national correspondent Peter Boyer assesses whether Trump is living up to his claim to be the most deregulating president.
10.22.2017
The Bannon Brigades
This week on the Confab, executive editor Fred Barnes and senior writer John McCormack talk about Republican primaries where Steve Bannon is fielding, or hopes to field, true-to-Trump challengers.
10.20.2017
Will Tax Cuts and Reform Fare Any Better than Obamacare Repeal and Replace?
This week on the Kristol Clear Podcast, editor at large William Kristol discusses the GOP's tax reform plan, and whether it'll fare better than GOP efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.
10.18.2017
It's Xi's Party
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, frequent contributor Gordon Chang talks with host Eric Felten about Xi Jinping's opening speech at China's 19th Communist Party Congress.
10.17.2017
The Future of the Trump-McConnell Bromance
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Michael Warren talks with host Eric Felten about the friendly truce between the president and the Senate majority leader.
10.16.2017
Tax Reform Teamwork
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Tony Mecia talks with host Eric Felten about President Trump and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell making peace with each other to work on tax reform.

What's The Daily Standard Podcast - Your conservative source for analysis of the news shaping US politics and world events about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Daily Standard Podcast - Your conservative source for analysis of the news shaping US politics and world events episodes:

The Trumpiest CPAC Ever

Black and White, Campus Craziness, and Bari Weiss

Infrastructure Week is Here

The Daily Standard Returns!

Persons of the Year

Hed: Tax-Cutting It Close

House Passes Tax Reform

Trump's National Security Speech Breaks From GOP Past

No Moss, No Moss

Moore Aftershocks

Tawdry Tweets

Alabama Down to the Wire

The 20-Car Dust Storm Pile-Up

Franken's Wrong About his Rights

The Taxing Process of Tax Cuts

High Anxiety at 1600 Pennsylvania

Confab: Blue-Slip Blues

Flynn Cops a Plea

The Bully Twitter Pulpit

The GOP's Tax Reform Obstacle Course

The Double-Headed CFPB

Vote Along With Mitch

War Crimes Convictions and Family Holiday Traditions

Is Google Setting a Censorious Precedent?

The Senate's Taxing Job

Does Trump Make the Grade?

Kristol Clear: Sex and Taxes

Trump Travelogue

More Roy Problems

Trump's East Asia Sojourn

The GOP's Virginia Election Freak-Out

The Old Transatlantic Conservative Blues

Stalin's Ukrainian Genocide

The Democrats' Virginia Freak-Out

Trump in Japan

Confab: Nothing But the Best?

Kristol Clear: Mueller Investigates, Tax Reform's Future, and Why Baseball is Best

Not-so-lone Wolf

Tricks or Tweets

Mueller Makes a Move

The Steve Bannon Myth

The GOP Surrender

Standing Rock Trolls

Put a Cork in It Already

Trump vs. Regulation

The Bannon Brigades

Will Tax Cuts and Reform Fare Any Better than Obamacare Repeal and Replace?

It's Xi's Party

The Future of the Trump-McConnell Bromance

Tax Reform Teamwork