Dive into a case of domestic terrorism from the past that’s really a warning about the future. Back in 1995, there was a disaster that should have prepared us for January 6th and the political violence that we’re seeing today: the Oklahoma City Bombing. Journalist Jeffrey Toobin reveals the story behind Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and right-wing extremism in America - how a decorated army veteran became consumed with rage, how he somehow went underground and built a bomb that ...
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Take a moment to delve into the life and times of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Starting in present day and working back through history, each episode in this 6-part series highlights a decade of RBG's life. Hear from RBG herself in a new interview, and some of the people who know her best, including her granddaughter Clara Spera, law school classmate Professor Arthur Miller, and equal pay activist and Supreme Court plaintiff Lilly Ledbetter. CNN's Poppy Harlow and Jeffrey Toobi ...
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Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition. www.wethefifth.com
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Law, disrupted is a podcast that dives into the legal issues emerging from cutting-edge and innovative subjects such as SPACs, NFTs, litigation finance, ransomware, streaming, and much, much more! Your host is John B. Quinn, founder and chairman of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, a 900+ attorney business litigation firm with 29 offices around the globe, each devoted solely to business litigation. John is regarded as one of the top trial lawyers in the world, who, along with his partne ...
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The World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth talks with some of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and diplomats in this interview series. New episodes released weekly.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has turned many workplaces upside down, with new demands and expectations from companies and employees alike. Cam and Ewan dive into the changes underway, how some employees are adapting, and discuss some idea about how to survive this tumultuous time in the office. Don't miss it.
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Re-Examination: Conversations with the storytellers behind legal history
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Re-Examination is a podcast that revisits legal history with the lawyers behind it, focusing on the intersection of law and storytelling. Produced in collaboration between Infinite Global and M Coffey, this podcast focuses on the cases and advocacy that have brought about transformative change.
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Re-release: A Conversation with Celebrated Legal Author Jeffrey Toobin
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52:33John is joined by Jeffrey Toobin, celebrated author and legal analyst, who reflects on his extensive career in law and legal journalism. First, Jeffrey describes his legal background, including his clerkship on the Second Circuit which led to his years working for the Independent Counsel investigating the Iran Contra scandal (which led to his first…
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#529 - I Don’t Want You to Go to Jail for That, Jeffrey Toobin!
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1:21:27•Who subscribes to the New York Post? •One Battle After Another Redux •Myrna Opsahl and other deep cuts •F. Lee Bailey, legal consultant •Fawn Hall Gate •Double secret Nazis •Second Amendment People •The one on the right is on the left •Rehabilitation of the American radical •Omnibombers of the 1970s •I beg your pardon •An x-ray into Donald Trump’s…
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#532 - Trinnies, Joy Bells, and Race Pride (w/ Abby Phillip)
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1:44:55* The dog hasn’t barked * He knew about the girls. But we *knew* that * So what, if anything, do these emails prove? * Conspiracies, anomalies, pornography * That’s a bad, no good, awful Times headline * Enter Abby Phillip * The battle of the Caribbean * We couldn’t afford to fail * A distinct lack of psychopaths and Holocaust deniers * I care too …
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Re-release: The Visionary Leader Behind the UAE’s Top Law Firm
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49:04John Quinn is joined by Essam Al Tamimi, Founder and Chairman of Al Tamimi & Company, the leading law firm in the UAE and the broader Middle East and Africa region. Founded in 1989 in Sharjah, UAE, the firm has grown to encompass 17 offices across 10 countries with 420 lawyers, dominating the legal landscape in the UAE. Mr. Al Tamimi explains his f…
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Members Only #285 - The Case For American Power (w/ Shadi Hamid)
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24:57This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com It’s release day for Shadi Hamid’s new book, The Case For American Power, and we’re excited to have him back on The Fifth. Paying subscribers get access to the full interview in audio & video (plus literally hundreds more), and help us do what we do, so… In this episod…
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#531 - Liberal of Fox News, Unite! (w/ Jessica Tarlov)
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1:51:02We’re joined by Jessica Tarlov, co-host of The Five on Fox News, and Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway. •Among the cons •What does it all mean? •Over performance. Under performance •AOC’s war •What if the people who you want to destroy are the same people who ensure your existence? •You can afford to live here. Just not *here* •How to moderate a…
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Re-release: In House Corporate Counsel Practice in China
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45:45John is joined by Leslie Zhang Weihua, Vice President and General Counsel of United Energy Group, China, one of the largest independent oil and gas companies in the world. They discuss Leslie’s extensive experience in international legal affairs, including his experience as general counsel for both large state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private c…
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Members Only #284 - Pod Save The Queen (The Fascist Regime) with Jon Lovett
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18:32This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com • Don’t mess with the Zoran • The opacity of hope • Inspiration is overrated • Wait, what if none of these proposals actually work… • The return of identity politics? • Is offline politics “additive, human, humane, and empathetic?” • The Dem doom loop • The online left…
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* We are now alone / He’s out of our life * The Republican rebels? * Announcing a Fifth Column live show in LA! Subscribers get first crack! * Prediction: a stadium full of lusty boos for Matt Welch * Cuomo’s nonexistent campaign * The Truth and Armpits Party * On Zohran’s vaunted “political instincts” * If the cops rough you up in Queens, it’s bec…
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Members Only #283 - Putin on the Fritz (w/ Ambassador Michael McFaul)
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20:16This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Russia, has a new book… - The disaster of Russia - Trump’s evolving views on Putin (and Nigel’s…and Georgia’s…) - When McFaul met Putin…in 1991 - Was the Maidan uprising an American-sponsored coup? - It’s not about NATO - From bo…
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Re-release: A Conversation with Singapore Attorney-General, Lucien Wong
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30:47John is joined by the Attorney-General of the Republic of Singapore, Lucien Wong, SC. Attorney-General Wong explains that under Singapore’s constitution, his office is an independent organ of the state which does not answer to either the cabinet or the legislature. His office includes four divisions: the criminal division which conducts all prosecu…
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Members Only #282 – There Will Be Spoilers (One Battle After Another, Cartoon Politics, and Car Chases)
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11:24This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Rooting against the dancing Irish poor Does One Battle After Another “whitewash left-wing violence?” LOTS OF SPOILERS, FYI In praise of Bullitt-esque car chases… The Lockjaw cartoon The genius of Jim Downey Matt is hemophobic Right-wing SNL Could you reverse the politi…
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Members Only #281 - When You've Eaten the Poison, You Might as Well Lick the Plate (w/ Jake Adelstein)
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21:43This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Check out Jake Adelstein’s new book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin •A Japanese literacy test •Chvalry is not dead •They don’t teach you how to drink in J school •The Ansel Elgortification of Jake Adelstein •The Yakuza throw a killer Halloween party •Lions, and Tigers and Joe…
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Inside the Largest Copyright Recovery in History
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32:32John is joined by Rachel Geman, partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, and Justin A. Nelson, and Rohit Nath, both partners at Susman Godfrey. They discuss the groundbreaking $1.5 billion copyright class action settlement Rachel, Justin, and Rohit reached with AI company Anthropic on behalf of the authors of copyrighted materials —the l…
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