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	Pub. Date	Title	Duration
	07 Jul 2017	Introducing 'The Daily 202's Big Idea'	00:00:48
National political correspondent James Hohmann's email newsletter The Daily 202 debuts in audio on July 10. Listen to a preview and subscribe now by going to washingtonpost.com/bigidea.
	10 Jul 2017	Perils of speaking for a president who constantly changes his story	00:04:45
Debut edition: Trying to keep up with someone who routinely shifts his story often leaves White House surrogates holding the bag. Sunday brought three fresh illustrations of how perilous it can be to speak for Trump.
	11 Jul 2017	Email to Donald Trump Jr. could be a smoking gun	00:04:34
The president's son hires a criminal defense attorney amidst new revelations about what he knew before meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower last year.
	12 Jul 2017	Dysfunction followed the Trumps from the campaign to the White House	00:03:53
The Trumps struggle to take personal responsibility.
	13 Jul 2017	Trump is the disrupter-in-chief in an age of disruption	00:04:42
Like Uber, the president won by cutting corners and now pays a price.
	14 Jul 2017	Trump’s children become bigger liabilities for the White House	00:03:35
You can’t fire family.
	17 Jul 2017	Only 1 in 4 Americans strongly support Trump	00:03:24
President Trump is not Teflon, and the conventional wisdom that “nothing matters” is wrong.
	18 Jul 2017	Republicans don’t have the votes to repeal Obamacare after Senate bill falls apart	00:04:27
A last-gasp Hail Mary for full repeal of Obamacare appears certain to fail. There are not the votes in either chamber of Congress.
	19 Jul 2017	Teflon Trump gets less blame for Obamacare fail than Senate GOP	00:04:04
As Republicans all but admit defeat in their seven-year quest to overturn the Affordable Care Act, the president made one thing clear yesterday: “I’m not going to own it.”
	20 Jul 2017	Trump shows disdain for rule of law	00:04:10
President Trump attacks his own attorney general, the Russia investigation and the special counsel.
	21 Jul 2017	Asking about a pardon for himself is a quintessentially Trumpian move	00:03:56
Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the probe.
	24 Jul 2017	Trump marginalizes experts, debases expertise	00:04:48
President Trump has repeatedly dismissed the knowledge and wisdom of experts while elevating non-experts who lack relevant experience into important jobs across the federal government.
	25 Jul 2017	Trump’s pick to run DOJ criminal division worked for Russia bank	00:04:12
Almost every day, it feels like someone else in the administration’s orbit gets sucked into the Russian vortex.
	26 Jul 2017	Senate Republicans still face narrow path to pass health-care bill after procedural victory	00:04:20
Mitch McConnell is like a quarterback who has just converted on fourth-and-long. The Senate majority leader kept the drive to repeal Obamacare alive, but he’s still trailing by a touchdown, the game clock keeps ticking down and a win is not inevitable.
	27 Jul 2017	Growing GOP backlash to transgender troop ban underscores Trump’s political miscalculation	00:04:51
Reflecting how dramatically the national conversation on LGBTQ rights has shifted in recent years, Trump's ban on transgender troops drew swift rebukes from top Senate Republicans.
	28 Jul 2017	Trump’s hardball tactics backfire as ‘skinny repeal’ goes down	00:03:44
President Trump’s attacks on Republican senators are finally catching up with him, and Lisa Murkowski will not be bullied.
	31 Jul 2017	Trump’s warped view of loyalty	00:04:49
The president holds an absolutist, black-and-white view: You’re either with him or against him. There is no in between.
	01 Aug 2017	John Kelly foreshadows how he might be as White House chief of staff	00:05:04
John Kelly proved he can manage up by firing communications director Anthony Scaramucci on his first day. Many in the West Wing saw Trump’s firing of Scaramucci -- who served just 10 days as communications director -- as a sign he wants to impose order.
	02 Aug 2017	Jeff Flake delivers the most courageous conservative rebuttal of Trumpism yet	00:04:52
The Arizona Republican senator now stands athwart Trump, yelling stop, at a time when few others in the conservative movement are inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.
	03 Aug 2017	Trump stumbles are undercutting executive power, which may be healthy for America long-term	00:04:47
The White House has accumulated vastly more power than the men who wrote the Constitution intended, and one unintended consequence of the Trump presidency may be a long-term rebalancing between the three branches of the federal government.
	04 Aug 2017	Mueller impaneling a grand jury makes it more politically difficult for Trump to fire him	00:05:18
Last night’s news that Robert S. Mueller III has begun using a grand jury in federal court in Washington, as part of his investigation into possible coordination between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign, further boxes in the president.
	07 Aug 2017	Headlines for Aug. 7	00:02:40
Allison Michaels fills in for James Hohmann with today's politics headlines.
	08 Aug 2017	Headlines for Aug. 8	00:03:39
Allison Michaels fills in for James Hohmann with today's politics headlines.
	09 Aug 2017	Headlines for Aug. 9	00:02:03
Kelsey Snell fills in for James Hohmann with today's political headlines.
	10 Aug 2017	Headlines for Aug. 10	00:02:42
Kelsey Snell fills in for James Hohmann with today's political headlines.
	11 Aug 2017	Headlines for Aug. 11	00:03:18
Kelsey Snell fills in for James Hohmann with today's political headlines.
	14 Aug 2017	Evidence of climate change abounds amid extreme weather in the Pacific Northwest	00:04:37
Seattle, known for its rain, just went a record-breaking 55 days without any. Climate change is leading to more extreme weather, and no other region has experienced that so much over the last year as the Pacific Northwest.
	15 Aug 2017	Trump acts like the president of the Red States of America	00:05:46
Donald Trump often behaves as if he’s first and foremost the president of the states and the people who voted for him. That’s at odds with the American tradition, and it’s problematic as a governing philosophy – especially in a moment of crisis.
	16 Aug 2017	False moral equivalency is not a bug of Trumpism. It’s a feature.	00:05:28
President Trump has a troubling tendency to blame “both sides.” It's not just Charlottesville.
	18 Aug 2017	Trump’s embrace of Confederate statues as a wedge issue underscores Bannon’s enduring influence	00:04:41
Trump’s sudden decision to become the leading cheerleader for preserving Confederate memorials is a strategic political maneuver designed to change the terms of the post-Charlottesville conversation.
	21 Aug 2017	The elites strike back	00:05:11
The growing number of charities canceling galas, stars boycotting ceremonies and chief executives resigning from advisory boards is further isolating President Trump.
	22 Aug 2017	Trump acknowledges changing his mind as he unveils new Afghanistan strategy	00:04:10
Reading carefully from a teleprompter, in his first prime-time address to the nation, the president sought to explain why he’s been persuaded that staying in Afghanistan is in America’s national interest.
	24 Aug 2017	Trump’s border wall brinkmanship may leave Republicans in Congress holding the bag	00:04:59
By creating a new artificial crisis and making a demand that’s unlikely to be met, Trump is setting up his supporters to be disappointed once again. But he’s banking that Republicans on Capitol Hill will get blamed far more than him if the gambit fails.
	25 Aug 2017	Hurricane Harvey will be Trump’s first major natural disaster test	00:05:01
Storms like this can define presidencies.
	28 Aug 2017	Headlines for Aug. 28	00:03:14
National reporter Elise Viebeck fills in for James Hohmann with today's political headlines.
	29 Aug 2017	Headlines for Aug. 29	00:02:44
National reporter Elise Viebeck fills in for James Hohmann with today's political headlines.
	30 Aug 2017	Headlines for Aug. 30	00:03:16
National reporter Elise Viebeck fills in for James Hohmann with today's political headlines.
	31 Aug 2017	Headlines for Aug. 31	00:03:35
National reporter Elise Viebeck fills in for James Hohmann with today's political headlines.
	01 Sep 2017	Headlines for Sept. 1	00:03:38
National reporter Elise Viebeck fills in for James Hohmann with today's political headlines.
	04 Sep 2017	Headlines for Sept. 4	00:03:40
National reporter Elise Viebeck fills in for James Hohmann.
	05 Sep 2017	By their fruits you will know them	00:04:28
Trump's DACA decision highlights chasm between Trump’s compassionate rhetoric and reality.
	06 Sep 2017	Immigration has become a litmus test for Democrats	00:05:07
The untold story on DACA is the degree to which Democrats are now in lockstep on what not long ago was an issue that divided them.
	07 Sep 2017	Trump’s triangulation shows what might have been	00:05:05
Entertaining counterfactuals can be silly, but what if Trump had acted this way from Day One?
	08 Sep 2017	Rep. Charlie Dent announces retirement with a parting shot at the GOP	00:04:42
Exhausted from his ideological battles with the House Freedom Caucus and clashes with Donald Trump’s White House, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) has decided to retire.
	09 Sep 2017	The Daily 202 Live: Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross	00:11:23
In this special episode, James highlights a portion of his interview with Ross on trade and NAFTA during The Daily 202 Live on Sept. 8. You can watch the full interview and learn more about The Daily 202 Live by visiting wapo.st/202Ross.
	11 Sep 2017	Hurricane Irma would have killed vastly more people in the past	00:05:13
Any loss of life is a tragedy, but it’s remarkable the extent to which the human cost of a storm as destructive and powerful as this one can be mitigated.
	12 Sep 2017	Trumpism makes strange bedfellows	00:05:03
Donald Trump’s ascension to the presidency has created a feeling of misery for leading figures in the establishment of both parties. Two such figures are now teaming up to push back on Trumpism as an ideological force.
	13 Sep 2017	McCain and Kerry outline lessons from Vietnam	00:05:01
Hundreds of Washington insiders gathered last night in the Kennedy Center Opera House for an advance screening of Ken Burns’s new documentary on Vietnam.
	14 Sep 2017	Bipartisan initiative to thwart election hacking gains steam	00:05:11
Four secretaries of state and other election officials from around the country huddled with cybersecurity experts and federal officials yesterday to talk about what they can do differently in the future to prevent election hacking.
	15 Sep 2017	Trump’s DACA ‘deal’ is another humiliation for Jeff Sessions	00:05:09
Immigration has always been Sessions' signature issue. But Trump's DACA deal was too good to be true.
	18 Sep 2017	Reading helped Hillary Clinton cope	00:04:59
The collection of works that she cites across the 494 pages of her new memoir showcases a top-flight intellect and would make for a compelling graduate school seminar.
	19 Sep 2017	Mueller tightens the screws on Manafort	00:04:51
Could there be tapes after all?
	20 Sep 2017	Why conservatives loved Trump’s U.N. speech	00:05:00
Many conservatives don’t want leaders to speak the language of diplomacy. They want a streetfighter. For those on the right, Trump offered a little something for everyone.
	21 Sep 2017	Gillespie keeps the door open to campaigning with Trump	00:03:46
With the Virginia governor’s race neck-and-neck, whether Republican Ed Gillespie chooses to campaign with President Trump could be determinative.
	22 Sep 2017	In Alabama Senate debate, a noun, a verb and Donald Trump	00:04:50
If you took a shot of liquor every time Luther Strange name-dropped the president during a televised debate last night, you’d probably be too hammered to attend Donald Trump’s rally for him in Huntsville later today.
	25 Sep 2017	Why the divider in chief embraces culture wars	00:05:46
Picking fights with people like Colin Kaepernick is Trump’s modus operandi. He thrives on feuds, and he likes setting up binary contrasts between himself and others.
	26 Sep 2017	Trump’s plutocracy problem complicates push for tax cuts	00:04:12
The dichotomy between what the president promises his tax plan will do and what’s he’s planning to unveil on Wednesday is just the latest example of the president’s actions not backing up his rhetoric.
	27 Sep 2017	A Senate that's coming apart	00:05:01
Roy Moore’s victory and Bob Corker’s retirement are fresh indicators of a Senate that’s coming apart.
	28 Sep 2017	Influx of Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Maria could tip Florida toward Democrats	00:05:01
Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans are expected to permanently move into Florida as the result of Hurricane Maria. That could tip the swingiest of swing states toward the Democrats.
	29 Sep 2017	Tom Price’s charter flights in perspective	00:06:21
Is this a distraction from what should be the bigger scandals?
	02 Oct 2017	Trump’s tweets make matters worse in Puerto Rico and North Korea	00:05:06
If Donald Trump doesn’t have anything presidential to say, maybe he shouldn’t say anything at all.
	03 Oct 2017	How politics may (or may not) change after the Las Vegas shooting	00:05:02
The horror in Las Vegas may not dramatically change the debate about guns. But the response to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, which has left at least 59 dead and hundreds more wounded, reveals a great deal about our politics.
	04 Oct 2017	Why a Republican strategist thinks we’re in a new Gilded Age	00:16:38
Everywhere he looks, Republican strategist and lobbyist Bruce Mehlman sees “eerie” parallels between the Gilded Age and today. Stay tuned to the end of the episode to hear part of James' conversation with Mehlman on what those parallels are.
	05 Oct 2017	It's all about the base	00:05:02
The Virginia governor’s race is a base election, and Ed Gillespie has a problem with his base. A new Virginia poll shows why Gillespie is fighting the culture wars.
	06 Oct 2017	Baseball is a salve for our national wounds	00:05:00
A love letter about the game as the playoffs begin in Washington.
	09 Oct 2017	Trump's Bob Corker tirade encapsulates why Trump has failed at governing	00:05:27
Donald Trump’s escalating feud with Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, captures in miniature why he’s been ineffective during his first nine months as president.
	10 Oct 2017	Final Virginia governor’s debate spotlights Democratic problems in rural America	00:04:59
Democrats have a real problem in rural America, and it was on display in the third and final Virginia governor’s debate last night.
	11 Oct 2017	Foreign intelligence agencies might be using your anti-virus software against you	00:05:01
Several worrisome stories popped overnight that underscore the growing vulnerability of the United States to hacking and cyberespionage by foreign governments, specifically Russia and North Korea.
	12 Oct 2017	Stepped-up attacks on the press reflect Trump’s bunker mentality	00:05:13
The president's latest comments add fresh data points to the cementing narrative that the brooding president has become increasingly isolated and angry.
	13 Oct 2017	Trump now owns the broken health-care system	00:05:48
Remember the Pottery Barn rule: You break it, you own it.
	16 Oct 2017	Trump’s attacks on Senate Republicans are paying political dividends	00:06:46
It was striking how little criticism there was of Trump at the Koch retreat in Manhattan last Thursday and Friday. Meanwhile, the anger directed toward moderate Republicans in the Senate was palpable.
	17 Oct 2017	Hawks worry about the lack of American resolve to confront North Korea	00:06:17
President Trump’s bellicose rhetoric toward North Korea is making it harder to marshal domestic support for potential United States intervention.
	18 Oct 2017	Ex-CIA officers are running for Congress as Democrats	00:05:48
The spooks have come in from the cold, and they’re running for Congress.
	19 Oct 2017	What Jeff Sessions wouldn’t say was more revealing than what he did	00:06:16
Jeff Sessions was the personification of a hostile witness whenever a Democratic lawmaker questioned him during a contentious five-hour oversight hearing on Wednesday.
	20 Oct 2017	Obama and Bush deliver calls to action against Trumpism	00:05:49
On Thursday, both former presidents used major speeches to repudiate President Trump’s brand of politics and approach to the world.
	23 Oct 2017	The corrosion of support for First Amendment principles started before Trump. He’s supercharged it.	00:05:28
Donald Trump celebrated Sunday that his campaign to delegitimize the free press is working.
	24 Oct 2017	Don't spike the football after Raqqa	00:06:18
At a conference sponsored by the conservative Hudson Institute, veterans of the war in Iraq caution against declaring that the Islamic State is in its last throes.
	25 Oct 2017	Flake and Corker feel liberated to speak their minds. That should terrify Trump.	00:06:00
In a year of remarkable days, yesterday was one of the most remarkable. Whether it will be a pivot point remains unclear.
	26 Oct 2017	The GOP civil war is bigger than Trump	00:06:42
Republican leaders are trying to downplay the significance of Jeff Flake’s retirement speech by insisting that the party is unified and that critiques of President Trump are entirely about his personality — not his policies.
	27 Oct 2017	Trump bowing to CIA on JFK files is a reminder of how the presidency changes people	00:06:05
President Trump’s decision to acquiesce to the CIA over the John F. Kennedy assassination files will only add to the cloud of public suspicion that hangs over the official story line — even 54 years later — that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
	30 Oct 2017	Ohio Democrats say talking about Mueller’s probe is not the way to win in 2018	00:06:21
While Washington elites are fixated on Robert Mueller, the chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party is doing everything he can to prevent his activists and candidates from becoming distracted by the special counsel and his next moves.
	31 Oct 2017	Sam Clovis is about to be in the hot seat	00:06:56
By unveiling the first batch of criminal allegations to come from probes into possible Russian influence in the American political system, Robert S. Mueller III proved Monday that he is not messing around.
	01 Nov 2017	Negative ads are helping Ed Gillespie win Trump supporters in the Virginia governor’s race	00:06:04
The dirty little secret about attack ads is that they usually work.
	02 Nov 2017	Red state Democrats are proposing ideas to cut taxes and work with Trump	00:07:35
10 Senate Democrats are up for reelection next year in states that Trump carried in 2016. These lawmakers each insist they are not just willing, but eager, to work with the president on taxes.
	03 Nov 2017	Republican committee chairmen are retiring in droves	00:06:49
Even though they have unified control of all three branches of the federal government, a lot of Republican lawmakers are just not having that much fun in this unproductive Congress.
	06 Nov 2017	Democratic drama on eve of Virginia governor’s race	00:06:10
A rainy get-out-the-vote rally in Fairfax on Saturday night was a fitting coda to a rough week for Virginia Democrats. Virginians will finally head to the polls on Tuesday.
	07 Nov 2017	How the Virginia governor’s race might scare Republicans away from criminal justice reform	00:06:49
The potency of Ed Gillespie’s law-and-order message in the Virginia governor’s race may have a chilling effect on criminal justice reform efforts around the country by deterring other Republicans from taking up the issue.
	08 Nov 2017	Anti-Trump backlash fueled a Democratic sweep in Virginia and elections nationwide	00:06:27
Tuesday was the best day for Democrats politically since Barack Obama won reelection in 2012.
	09 Nov 2017	Fresh Democratic faces emerge from anti-Trump backlash	00:06:24
Revenge is a dish best served at the ballot box.
	10 Nov 2017	As Roy Moore declines to step aside, a tale of two Republican parties emerges	00:06:38
The reactions to the allegation that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore initiated sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl when he was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney have highlighted deep divisions within the Republican Party.
	13 Nov 2017	Trump’s Putin comments on Asia trip erode U.S. credibility	00:05:47
After a week of impressive message discipline across Asia, President Trump reopened a wound Saturday when he indicated that he believes Vladimir Putin’s denials that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign.
	14 Nov 2017	Republicans face a lose-lose situation in the Alabama Senate race	00:06:08
If Roy Moore goes down next month, the GOP’s working majority becomes much more fragile. If he wins, Republicans would struggle to get rid of him, and his presence would cause countless headaches in 2018.
	15 Nov 2017	Inside Scott Walker’s comeback strategy	00:06:27
Last week, James joined the Wisconsin governor at three events over three days as he launched his campaign for a third term.
	16 Nov 2017	Trump voters have buyer’s remorse in North Carolina focus group	00:05:25
Republican women who voted for President Trump in North Carolina said during a focus group Wednesday night that they are embarrassed by and exasperated with him.
	17 Nov 2017	How EPA chief Scott Pruitt wants to redefine ‘environmentalism’	00:08:24
Pruitt said the work he’s doing right now “is some of the most consequential things domestically that can occur.”
	20 Nov 2017	Elephant trophy reversal shows what persuades Trump	00:05:51
How the president decided to overrule his own Interior secretary
	21 Nov 2017	Why the DOJ lawsuit to stop AT&T from buying CNN is suspicious	00:06:57
The administration’s denials are full of wiggle room.
	22 Nov 2017	2018 could be ‘The Year of the Woman’ on steroids	00:06:50
The daily stream of revelations about sexual harassment should be viewed, at least in part, as a belated backlash to Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, which came despite the emergence of the “Access Hollywood” video.
	27 Nov 2017	Lawmakers have their hands full this December	00:07:41
December is going to be a wild month on Capitol Hill. As lawmakers return today from Thanksgiving, they’ve got so much on their plates that many are holding off on making Christmas plans.
	28 Nov 2017	Trump keeps giving in-kind contributions to Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 campaign-in-waiting	00:06:56
Senator Elizabeth Warren decries Mick Mulvaney’s takeover of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in an interview with James.

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