Impolitic with John Heilemann

John welcomes Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, to discuss the midterm elections and the fierce fights among the Democratic Party’s warring factions. Tanden explains the combination of factors that she believes will lead to a thorough repudiation of Donald Trump and the GOP on November 3; why the unexpected strength of Democratic Senate candida...

John welcomes journalist Anand Giridharadas to discuss his new best-selling book, “Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City,” about the death of Jordan Neely on a New York subway train after being placed in a chokehold by another passenger, Daniel Penny. Anand explains what drew him to the headline-making story of Neely, a homeless, mentally ill Black...

John welcomes back Skybridge Capital founder and Trump Wall Street apostate Anthony Scaramucci to discuss the president’s mindset and machinations as he barrels towards a brutish repudiation in the midterm elections. Scaramucci—who served an inglorious, 11-day stint as White House communications director in 2017—explains how Trump’s view of his power to save his party sits along...

John welcomes former UCLA and Milwaukee Bucks star Marques Johnson to discuss his new book, “The Crenshaw Chronicles,” and all things NBA. Johnson explains why the infamy of his high school alma mater as an epicenter of South Central LA's gang culture, though not unearned, is only part of the story; what it was like to be a five-time All Star in the 1980s still overshadowed by B...

John welcomes Washington Post tech culture reporter Nitasha Tiku to discuss this mind-blowing, deeply unnerving moment in the evolution of AI. Tiku explains the genesis of the fears that the systems being developed by the AI frontier labs could ultimately end the human race; how AI extinction scenarios migrated from fringe Bay Area subcultures into the labs themselves, then into...