Best MTV Podcast Network w/ Holly Anderson Podcasts (2025)

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Florence and Normandie: 25 Years After the L.A. Riots 31:32

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On April 29th, the 25th anniversary of the L.A. riots, the residents of South Los Angeles came together to commemorate, reflect, and organize. Producer Mukta Mohan and Senior National Correspondent Jamil Smith went to the corner of Florence and Normandie, where the unrest began, to speak to the people, young and old, who have been rebuilding and st…

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Jason Kander 28:29

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Welcome to The Stakes. This week, Senior National Correspondent Jamil Smith sits down with Let America Vote founder Jason Kander—the Army veteran and former Missouri Secretary of State who narrowly lost his U.S. Senate race last fall to Republican incumbent Roy Blunt. They talked about his new organization's mission to stop voter suppression and ge…

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Revisiting Standing Rock 42:55

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For several months beginning in late summer 2016, protesters camped out in North Dakota to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline — a $3.7 billion project that is currently transporting oil across four states. The self-described "water protectors" wanted to protect sacred Standing Rock Sioux sites that pipeline construction could destroy, …

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Friendship Park 30:20

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Welcome back to “The Stakes.” This week, producer Mukta Mohan brings us stories from Friendship Park: the only place along the 2,000 miles of border between the United States and Mexico where people from both countries can talk to each other face-to-face.By MTV Podcast Network w/ Holly Anderson

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The Family of Kalief Browder 19:53

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This week on The Stakes, senior national correspondent Jamil Smith speaks to Nicole and Akeem Browder, the siblings of Kalief Browder, who spent three years in Rikers Island without a trial. His powerful story was made into a six-part documentary series, Time: The Kalief Browder Story, which premiered on Spike on March 1.…

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Maxine Waters On Going Viral In Her 13th Term 27:45

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Senior national correspondent Jamil Smith talks with Congresswoman Maxine Waters about going viral after 37 years of public service, and why she's no fan of the current administration. Plus, producer Mukta Mohan speaks with Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong of GoNightClubbing about the time they spent documenting New York City’s punk and no wave scenes…

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Painter Kerry James Marshall On The ‘Creative Convening’ Of His Work 23:41

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Welcome back to “The Stakes,” where this week we're diving into the art world. Doreen St. Félix spoke with 61-year-old painter Kerry James Marshall — whose just-closed show "Mastry" drew huge crowds to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Met Breuer building in New York. The legendary artist reflected on what has changed over the course of his 35-year …

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Dean Obeidallah 34:06

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"You know you try to have fun with how scary this might be. I think ultimately comedy is cathartic. I think it's empowering. I think it's important to laugh at the things that scare you because I think it can help you. You can fight that person more effectively. But I'm telling jokes but I'm going to be honest it's a hard time." We’ve got a special…

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The Resistance Will Be Podcasted 32:50

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Welcome back to “The Stakes,” where we're trying our best to make sense of a world that increasingly defies the rules of logic. Coming up on the show today: Part 1: MTV News staff writer Doreen St. Félix talks with I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck, whose film continues the legacy of one of America’s most notable writers and social critics. P…

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The Future Is Female And So Is The Past 52:01

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Welcome back to “The Stakes,” a rundown of the week’s news — without the talking heads. Coming up: Part 1: We venture to a small town upstate with a long history in the fight for women’s rights, as writer Jaime Fuller and producer Kasia Mychajlowycz report from the Women’s March in Seneca Falls, New York — the birthplace of the American women’s suf…

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Trump’s America, Day 1 37:27

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Welcome back to “The Stakes,” a rundown of the week’s news — without the talking heads. As always, we’ve got a great show for you, so grab your coffee or tea, put in your earbuds, and let’s get to it. Coming up: Part 1: Politics writer Jane Coaston talks with transgender equality advocate Erica Lachowitz about what the Trump presidency means for th…

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Rebecca Carroll on Michelle Obama's Legacy 25:02

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While the nation reflects on President Barack Obama's impact during his last days in office, we can't forget FLOTUS Michelle Obama. MTV Founders editor Julie Zeilinger speaks with WNYC Editor of Special Projects and LA Times critic-at-large Rebecca Carroll about her essay about Michelle Obama's impact on her as well as the position of First Lady — …

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A Practical Guide To Resisting Trump's Agenda 42:08

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Welcome back to “The Stakes,” a rundown of the week’s news — without the talking heads. This week is all about action, so let’s get into it. Coming up on the show today: Part 1: Writer Marcus Ellsworth talks with Ash-Lee Henderson, co-director of Tennessee's Highlander Research and Education Center — otherwise known as the place Rosa Parks was trai…

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Will Magic Save 2017? 36:44

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Welcome back to “The Stakes,” where this week is all about looking ahead. Coming up on the show today: Part 1: We take a look at the future of humanitarian aid as producer Kasia Mychajlowycz speaks with Sunita Grote, manager of UNICEF’s Innovation Fund, about how they’re investing in drones to help children around the world. Part 2: Producer James …

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The Stakes Remix: Rep. John Lewis 30:13

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Welcome to a special edition of “The Stakes,” where we’re taking a look back at one of our best pieces from the past year — plus a little something new. Coming up: Part 1: Senior national correspondent Jamil Smith sits down with civil rights legend John Lewis and his two collaborators on a recent graphic-novel trilogy. Part 2: Our poet in residence…

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The Stakes Remix: The Blow's WOMANPRODUCER 35:13

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Welcome to a special holiday edition “The Stakes,” where we’re taking a look back at one of our best pieces from the past year — plus a little something new. Coming up, we’ve got an extended version of music writer Hazel Cills’s interview with Khaela Maricich and Melissa Dyne, a.k.a. The Blow, on womanproducer.com — their digital archive of women m…

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When The Pipe Bursts 36:03

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Welcome back to “The Stakes,” MTV’s “orange in your Christmas stocking” of podcasts. We’re tasty and sweet! Just peel us! That’s not weird, and I resent any implications to the contrary! Coming up on the show today: - MTV Podcast Director Michael Catano speaks to Rebecca Craven of the Pipeline Safety Trust, an independent organization that promotes…

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Radical Safety 36:32

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Welcome back to “The Stakes,” where we don’t mind that it’s getting darker earlier and earlier, because there are no windows in our podcast studio. Coming up on the show today: - We check in with organizers at Standing Rock to learn what’s next in the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. - Bandcamp managing editor Jes Skolnik talks to Jessica …

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At Standing Rock 43:03

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For months, protesters have been camping out in North Dakota to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.7 billion project that will transport oil across four states. Supporters state that the pipeline will bring millions of dollars to the area, create jobs, and decrease U.S. reliance on foreign oil; opponents want to protect sacred St…

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Do The Work 50:33

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Welcome back to "The Stakes," the podcast where we collectively try to untangle the colossal clusterfuck that is politics, news, and social justice in the year 2016. Coming up on the show today: Part 1: MTV News podcast producer James T. Green talks to Al Buford, who calls himself the spark of the 1966 and 1968 Chicago riots and who once shared som…

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Daughters Of The American Revolution 43:47

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This week on The Stakes: - Producer James T. Green spends an evening with Assata's Daughters, an abolitionist group formed to address a shortage of programming and community for young Black women in Chicago. - MTV Style Editor Haley Mlotek interviews director Brett Story about The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, a documentary about our prison system t…

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The Stakes After Dark (SAD!): Election Eve Edition 18:33

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Welcome to "The Stakes After Dark," where we're one day from this all being over. Holly Anderson, Ana Marie Cox, Jane Coaston, and Jamil Smith are in our New York studio, staring down November 8 and asking a few of the questions that remain unanswered. Are Republicans in for a post-election reckoning? Will the surge of Latino voters we've already s…

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Future Sex and Rubber Bullets 49:57

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Welcome to “The Stakes,” our political-ish podcast where even though the World Series is over, we are, politically speaking, still biting our nails at the bottom of the ninth. Coming up: - MTV Politics writer Jaime Fuller speaks to two North Carolina residents about the transgender bathroom bill HB2 and the conservative takeover of that state. - Th…

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Saved By DNA: Yusef Salaam Of The Central Park Five Speaks Out 38:50

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Welcome to “The Stakes,” MTV’s political-ish podcast that winces at any mention of the election but is glued to political Twitter anyways. Y’all sure do love your chain restaurants! Coming up on the show: — MTV Founders editor Julie Zeilinger speaks with Ansley Calandra, whose story of a run-in with Trump surrogate Omarosa before the second preside…

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Pussy! Tacos! The Blow! 53:11

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Welcome to “The Stakes.” We’ve got a protest-filled show for you today, plus some voices you haven’t heard on our li’l podcast before. Coming up: - SlutTalk founder Alicia Swiz sits down with producer James T. Green to discuss the feminist protests outside Chicago’s Trump Tower. - Our editorial director of music, Jessica Hopper, speaks to writer Sa…

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The Stakes After Dark (SAD!): Children Will Listen 14:22

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Welcome to “The Stakes After Dark" (SAD!) for our final post-debate dispatch. MTV's Director of News and Politics Holly Anderson is in Las Vegas talking with our resident teen-whisperer Taylor Trudon about what the #youths can take away from debate number three.By MTV Podcast Network w/ Holly Anderson

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The Stakes Extra: What Happens In Vegas 14:34

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We’re bringing you an extra special episode of “The Stakes” from Las Vegas, where MTV News senior correspondents Ana Marie Cox and Jamil Smith are staking out the final (praise be) presidential debate of 2016. We'll be back with more “Stakes After Dark (SAD!)” later tonight, plus our regular “Stakes” programming on Friday. In the meantime, listen r…

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Voting Is Not A Form of Self-Expression 46:58

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Welcome to “The Stakes,” the reluctantly political podcast that’s being dragged by the ankles into the yawning abyss of the looming election. Won’t you join us? Coming up on the show today: - MTV Founders editor Julie Zeilinger speaks with Rise founder Amanda Nguyen about how she helped create the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights. - Congres…

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The Stakes Extra: On Self-Care, Sexual Assault, and Being Triggered By Trump 17:33

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It’s Thursday, October 13th, 2016 and last night we bore witness to a rising tide of women who have come forward with allegations of indecent and inappropriate behavior — and even sexual assault — against GOP nominee Donald Trump. As part of our ongoing coverage of this election cycle, we’re bringing you this conversation between Senior Political C…

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The Stakes After Dark (SAD!): An Ode To Ken Bone 2:45

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Tonight on The Stakes After Dark (SAD!), Marcus Ellsworth brings us a poem on the one small glimmer of red-sweatered hope we saw during the second presidential debate.By MTV Podcast Network w/ Holly Anderson

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The Stakes After Dark (SAD!): Tweet Me In St. Louis 19:56

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Welcome back to “The Stakes: After Dark” (SAD!), the occasional late-night version of our semi-political podcast. We’re coming to you tonight from our Los Angeles studio, with Holly Anderson, Marcus Ellsworth, and Mukta Mohan mulling over whatever the hell it was we just watched.By MTV Podcast Network w/ Holly Anderson

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Ava DuVernay Makes The Case For Prison Abolition 45:29

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Welcome to “The Stakes,” MTV’s relentlessly political podcast. Coming up on the show today: - Jamil Smith sits down with Ava DuVernay to talk about 13th, her new documentary about mass incarceration. - Kaleb Horton and Ana Marie Cox reflect on their summer at the Republican and Democratic conventions, and what they tell us about the coming election…

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The Stakes After Dark (SAD!): Actually Quite Unironically Sad 4:19

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Fitter. Happier. Engaged with the day's political news.By MTV Podcast Network w/ Holly Anderson

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Protecting and Serving 41:40

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Welcome back to "The Stake," MTV's relentlessly tangential political podcast. Coming up: - Artist and activist Bree Newsome joins MTV News senior national correspondent Jamil Smith to contextualize protests in Charlotte that have sprung up in the wake of the police shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott. - Continuing our Charlotte coverage, MTV News …

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The Stakes After Dark (SAD!): Half The Story 14:02

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Welcome back to “The Stakes: After Dark” (SAD!), the occasional late-night version of our semi-political podcast. We're bicoastal for this post-presidential-debate episode, as Holly Anderson in Los Angeles and Julianne Ross in New York break down whatever the hell we all just watched.By MTV Podcast Network w/ Holly Anderson

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Alive and Aware 42:53

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Welcome to “The Stakes,” where we’re coming to you from a terribly familiar position. Over the summer, we found ourselves on something of an editorial hamster wheel on more than one occasion, as we struggled to put together a weekly magazine show that couldn’t keep up with the sheer volume of shooting deaths in this country. We open our show this w…

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Get Up, Stand Up 52:20

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Welcome to "The Stakes," the soothing cup of tea for your aggravated scratchy throat that you may have gotten from yelling at whatever news item of the week made you personally angry this week. Coming up on the show today: Part 1 - Jamil Smith talks to Symone Sanders, former press secretary for Bernie Sanders (no relation), about her voter mobiliza…

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You're Projecting 44:52

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This week on The Stakes: Part 1: Our podcast czar Michael Catano speaks with the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s senior staff attorney Mitch Stoltz, and learns why wireless earbuds are also a clever way to stop music piracy. Part 2: Jane Coaston sits down with Adam Holz, senior associate editor for a conservative Christian entertainment blog, abou…

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Raw Hearts 44:16

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This week on The Stakes: Part 1: Ana Marie Cox speaks with Ron Honberg, senior policy advisor at the National Alliance on Mental Illness, about Hillary Clinton’s new platform dedicated to mental health reform. Part 2: Jamil Smith talks to Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, about a new project dedicated to putting the voices of women of…

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L8r America 41:07

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Welcome to "The Stakes," our serenade to politics and social justice. Coming up on the show today: Part 1: Jane Coaston and Belinda O'Donnell speak with Zimbabwean Pastor Evan Mawarire, who helped trigger his country's #ThisFlag protest movement with a YouTube video. Part 2: Jamil Smith talks with Jonathan Katz, a journalist who lived in Haiti duri…

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The Stakes Extra: Betty Okino 20:04

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A bonus episode of The Stakes for all you Olympic gymnastics stans featuring Jane Coaston's full interview with the legendary Betty Okino. Before Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and the rest of the US Women’s Olympic team swept gold in Rio and cemented their position as the most dominant force in world gymnastics, Betty Okino was there, paving the way. A…

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What Comes Next 42:49

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This week on The Stakes: - Jamil Smith speaks with Earledreka White — the black woman who called 911 after being pulled over by a police officer for a traffic stop, and then was violently arrested — about what happened, and how it’s affected her life. - Ana Marie Cox talks to Christian Picciolini, a man who helps former white supremacists, neo-Nazi…

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Crossroads 51:33

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This week on The Stakes: - Jamil Smith sits down with Democratic Congressman John Lewis of Georgia to talk about the final book in his graphic memoir trilogy March. - MTV News style editor Haley Mlotek speaks with fashion designer and U.S. Army first lieutenant Julian Woodhouse about how his identity influences his fashion. - Hannah Stoudemire tell…

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Saints And Poets 52:27

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This week on The Stakes: Part 1: Ana Marie Cox speaks with Sarah McBride, the national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign who made history Thursday night by being the first openly transgender person to address a major party convention. Part 2: Jaime Fuller tracks down two millennial delegates, one Democrat and one Republican, to explain …

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The Stakes After Dark (SAD!): Capture The Flag 16:17

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Hello and welcome back to "The Stakes: After Dark," a.k.a. SAD! The acronym is gloomy, but our hearts are not. This is our ninth show in two weeks, and there’s a tenth dropping tomorrow, and if we remain upright for the rest of this podcast, we will have survived this entire miniseries. It’s OK if you weren’t betting on us. Lord knows we weren’t be…

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The Stakes After Dark (SAD!): A Moment Alone In The Shade 22:42

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Hello and welcome back to "The Stakes After Dark," our nightly review of all the action from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. We're almost through, and on this penultimate night of our miniseries, we're a little bit ... buoyant? Bear with us. It's strange for us too. Together in…

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The Stakes After Dark (SAD!): The Absence Of Agony 16:53

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Hello and welcome back to “The Stakes After Dark,” our nightly dispatch from the summer conventions, which do NOT Comic-Con or anything remotely fun. Although there are some neat hats. Together in our New York studio to bang an unnecessarily mic’d rhetorical gavel on this day are Holly Anderson and Jane Coaston. DNC yeah you know me.…

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The Stakes After Dark (SAD!): Bridge To Terabitchia 27:47

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...aaaaaaaaand we're back with another FOUR AIRHORN BANGER from America’s best politics podcast that is also a sleep-deprivation experiment! Another week, another major political party convention, another chalice full of tears. What kinds of tears? Tune in and find out - we'll be here each night of the Democratic National Convention to run down the…

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The World Outside 41:56

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This week on The Stakes we take a look at some blessedly non-RNC related stories: • How Tramps Against Trump use snapchat nudes to encourage voting • The murder of Pakistani social media icon, Qandeel Baloch • Librarian-activists, Storytime Underground • A poem on the plentiful contributions of non-white people to civilization…

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The Stakes After Dark (SAD!): Papa Is Weak And We Are Hungry 29:13

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Hello and welcome back to "The Stakes: After Dark" for our fourth and final night of Republican National Convention coverage. We made it. In one piece. Mostly! The theme of tonight’s RNC sessions was "Make America One Again." Together in our New York studio to answer the question "One what?" are Holly Anderson and Jane Coaston.…