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So That Happened
An inside-the-beltway show that's truly for beltway outsiders. Each week the HuffPost Politics team offers an entertaining alternative to the Sunday shows you've stopped watching. Along with their outside the beltway guests, join Arthur Delaney and Elise Foley as they analyze the news of the week an...
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Government Workers Await News Of Whether They Have Friday Off
The government is on the verge of another shutdown, which is lots of fun for people who like political drama but less so for people who work in govern...
Trump Truly Owns The Republican Party Now
Republicans are helping President Donald Trump undermine an investigation into his campaign's collusion with the Russian government, revealing that Tr...
Only President Trump Can Save The Dreamers
The government's open, but where do we go from here? Democrats want legal status for 700,000 Dreamers, and they'll ultimately need President Donald Tr...
The So That Happened Shutdown Special
In this special dispatch, So That Happened takes a look at the Schumer Shutdown. Or was it the Trump shutdown? Did Dems cave? Or was this the best the...
The Government Might Shut Down Because No One Knows What Donald Trump Wants
The government might shut down this week and this is the ONLY podcast that can tell you HOW, WHY and also WHO to blame. We interviewed Congressman Ted...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Government Shutdowns
The government might shut down next week partly because Donald Trump refuses to help Dreamers without getting his wall or other policy changes -- Elis...
Nazis, North Korea And The World's Biggest, Dumbest Feud
This week, America gained new insight into the fraught relationship between Donald Trump and his erstwhile white house strategist, Steve Bannon. It's...
Trump's Biggest Win Of The Year
Tax reform is a big deal, but Donald Trump's reshaping of the judicial branch of government might be his biggest achievement of 2017.
Republica...
Republicans Pass Sweeping Tax Plan, Still Working On Basic Governance
Republicans Pass Sweeping Tax Plan, Still Working On Basic Governance
This week, Republicans succeeded in passing their tax bill. So what did Ar...
Paul Ryan Is So Tired
There are whispers that Paul Ryan might resign -- we asked Matt Fuller why and when this could happen and who could be the next speaker.
Accuse...
Politician Accused Of Creepy Behavior Does Highly Unusual Right Thing
Al Franken is resigning, which we boldly predicted would happen! But what does it mean for partisan politics?
The Supreme Court took up the Mas...
Tax Cuts Might Pass And The Government Might Shut Down
This week, the U.S. Senate stumbled forward on tax reform with a government shutdown looming around the corner.
North Korea launched a missile...
Donald Trump Is Thankful For Plausible Deniability
This week, Donald Trump pardoned some turkeys and endorsed Roy Moore. Then: long ago, legendary British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that i...
Political Men Continue To Be Disgusting
Republicans are really moving their tax reform legislation -- does it have a chance of becoming law? We'll hear from Huffpost reporters Elise Foley, A...
Looks Like A Democratic Wave Is Coming
Democrats crushed Republicans in off-year elections on Tuesday, delivering a resounding rebuke to President Donald Trump. Daniel Marans and Elise Fol...
Tax Reform Is Not For The Poor
Republicans say their tax reform plan will massively benefit the middle class, but the most direct beneficiaries of their plan are corporations and we...
Republicans Are Not Joining #TheResistance
Two Senate Republicans denounced their party's leader this week, accusing President Donald Trump of "debasing" the United States and betraying its val...
Trump Acts Like He Owns The Military
During the campaign Donald Trump ridiculed Sen. John McCain for having been a prisoner of war in Vietnam and said he knew more than the generals about...
The President Seems Really Sad
President Donald Trump has been unhappy lately, according to his own tweets and reports that he "hates everyone in the White House" and is often "cons...
The Toddler President Demands Praise
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called a press conference this week to insist that he believes President Donald Trump is "smart," because it had come...
Sorry NFL Fans, Protests Don't Work If They Aren't Annoying
Earlier this year Donté Stallworth and three other former and current NFL football players spent three days lobbying Congress in favor of criminal jus...
Zombie GOP Health Bill Temporarily Exits Grave
Republicans in the U.S. Senate have been unable to garner enough support within their own conference for their latest bill to repeal Obamacare. One wa...
Single Payer Is Alive And Obamacare Repeal Is Dead
President Donald Trump dined with Democrats repeatedly this week and on Wednesday night struck some sort of agreement with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)...
Oh Donald Trump, What Is You Doing
This week President Trump struck a surprising deal with congressional Democrats to fund the government for only three months. The move was a slap in t...
After Harvey
In the wake of one of the worst storms in US history, Huffpost national reporter Roque Planas talks to Zach Young about what it was like to report fro...
Trump Reads Fake Version Of Own Speech
President Donald Trump read what he pretended was an excerpt of his own speech this week in order to claim he'd been wrongly criticized, except he omi...
What Happens Now That The President Has Openly Embraced White Supremacists?
President Trump this week spoke of "very fine people" among the Nazis and Ku Klux Klanners who staged a violent protest that resulted in the deaths of...
HuffPost Hits The Road
This week, we turn the show over to the New York office and HuffPost reporters Jeff Young and Sam Levine. First, they’re joined by our editor-in-chief...
LIVE From Politicon
This week, we take a little break from things that happened this week to head to Pasadena, California, for Politicon! Over the weekend, So That Happen...
Jeff Sessions Is A Great Attorney General... For Trump To Poop On
Donald Trump rose to power thanks in large part to his fame from having done a TV game show in which he ceremoniously "fired" contestants. Candidate T...
Happy Birthday, Dodd-Frank!
This week on So That Happened: Zach Carter takes a break from book leave to return and host the show! He’s joined by ProPublica reporter Jesse Eisinge...
Donald Trump Junior Stepped In Deep Doo Doo
For months, President Trump and his supporters said it was all just a political witch hunt, that his campaign had not colluded with the Russian govern...
The Battle For The Soul Of The Anti-Anti Trump Movement
Did CNN screw up this week by seemingly threatening to reveal the identity of a Reddit user who made a silly gif that President Trump tweeted? The Wa...
Zombie Senate Healthcare Bill Will Be Back To Eat Your Brains
Republicans in the U.S. Senate completely boofed their health care bill, so this week on "So That Happened" we discuss the politics of their failure a...
Republicans Could Really Pass Their Obamacare Repeal Bill
Senate Republicans finally released their secret Obamacare repeal bill, so this week on "So That Happened" we explore the real possibility that this t...
The Worst Week In Washington
So, that happened. This week, we discuss the assassination attempt on members of Congress, which has left House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La...
James Comey Calls Donald Trump A Liar Because Of How Much He Lies
So, that happened. This week, the White House celebrated Infrastructure Week. Or at least, they wanted to, but couldn't because this week was James Co...
The Trump Doctrine: Go %#&$ Yourself, Other Countries
So, that happened. This week, we're going in search of a Trump Doctrine. President Donald Trump has returned from his first lengthy trip abroad. You'v...
Draconian Budget Cuts And Fake News Conspiracy Theories: Just Another Week In Trump's America
So, that happened. This week, while President Donald Trump was away on foreign business, the wider world got a look at the latest White House budget p...
Donald Trump Is Taking His Clown Show To Europe
So, that happened. This week, President Donald Trump had another one of those weeks where Donald Trump is president. By which I mean, total omnidirect...