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Right Now With Perry Bacon is a twice-weekly show about national politics with a focus on the radicalism of the Trump administration and tactics to combat it. The program, hosted by New Republic staff writer Perry Bacon on Substack, features in-depth discussions with experts and politicians. It goes beyond the daily headlines to explain why things are happening and put them in a broader context.

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May 1, 2026
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Transcript: Why Graham Platner Trounced Janet Mills in Maine
Maine reporter Alex Seitz-Wald says Janet Mills ran such a bad campaign that Graham Platner was almost destined to win.
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April 30, 2026
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How Graham Platner Trounced Janet Mills in the Maine Senate Primary
Maine reporter Alex-Seitz Wald says Governor Janet Mills ran a terrible campaign that ensured Graham Platner’s likely Democratic primary victory in Maine.
April 22, 2026
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Transcript: Trump’s Choices in Iran Are “Humiliation or Escalation”
Columbia University professor Elizabeth Saunders says any deal with Iran that Trump reaches now will fall short of America’s initial goals for the war.
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April 22, 2026
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Transcript: How the Media Failed the Palestinians
Author Adam Johnson’s new book argues that the media downplayed the brutality of the Israeli military offensive in 2023-24 and President Biden’s role in it.
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April 22, 2026
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How the Media Failed the Palestinians
Author Adam Johnson’s new book shows how the media’s coverage after October 7, 2023 downplayed the brutality of Israel’s months of bombing in Gaza.
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April 21, 2026
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Trump’s Choices in Iran Are “Humiliation or Escalation”
Columbia University professor Elizabeth Saunders says any deal with Iran that Trump reaches now will fall short of America’s initial goals for the war.
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April 14, 2026
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A Racist Theory Is Poisoning Politics Across the World
Author Ibram Kendi says the rise of “great replacement theory” is driving many problems both in the United States and abroad.
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April 14, 2026
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Transcript: A Racist Theory Is Poisoning Politics Across the World
Author Ibram Kendi says the rise of “great replacement theory” is driving many problems both in the United States and abroad.
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April 12, 2026
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Why Affordability Replaced Abundance as the Democratic Buzzword
Policy expert Lindsay Owens says Americans are much more concerned about greedy corporations than overly complicated housing regulations.
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April 12, 2026
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Transcript: Why Affordability Replaced Abundance as the Dems’ Buzzword
Groundwork Collaborative’s Lindsay Owens says that while the idea of “abundance” received a lot of attention last year, voters prefer hiking taxes on the rich and reining in corporate power.
April 9, 2026
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Trump’s War May Have Further Empowered Iran
Journalist Ishaan Thahoor says Iran may have emerged from this war in a stronger position than when it started.
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April 9, 2026
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Transcript: Trump’s War May Have Further Empowered Iran
Journalist Ishaan Thahoor says Iran may have emerged from this war in a stronger position than when it started.
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April 7, 2026
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Transcript: What Democrats Can Learn from the Right’s Media Strategy
Author A.J. Bauer says that over the last eight decades conservatives have both created a massive alternative media ecosystem and successfully undermined traditional news outlets.
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April 7, 2026
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What Democrats Can Learn From the Right’s Media Strategy
Author A.J. Bauer says that over the last eight decades, conservatives have both created a massive alternative media ecosystem and successfully undermined traditional news outlets.
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April 2, 2026
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Inside the Democrats’ Ambitious, Controversial New Tax Proposals
Former Warren and Biden aide Bharat Ramamurti praises new proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy, but is more skeptical of tax cut plans being rolled out by likely 2028 candidates.
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April 2, 2026
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Transcript: Democrats’ Ambitious, Controversial New Tax Proposals
Former Warren and Biden aide Bharat Ramamurti praises new proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy, but is more skeptical of tax cut plans being rolled out by likely 2028 candidates.
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March 31, 2026
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The U.S. and Israel No Longer Have the Same Interests in Iran
Foreign affairs journalist Ishaan Tharoor argues that Trump has no good options in Iran and that America’s and Israel’s interests are increasingly diverging in this war.
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March 31, 2026
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Transcript: The U.S. and Israel Don’t Have the Same Interests in Iran
Foreign affairs journalist Ishaan Tharoor argues that Trump has no good options in Iran and that America’s and Israel’s interests are increasingly diverging in this war.
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March 30, 2026
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Transcript: What the Democratic Moderation Debate Gets Wrong
Political scientist Jake Grumbach explains why Democrats are doing well in recent elections despite not moving to the center in the way that some pundits want.
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March 30, 2026
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What the Democratic Moderation Debate Gets Wrong
Political scientist Jake Grumbach says it’s not surprising that Democrats are doing well electorally even though the party has not moved rightward in the way that some centrist pundits want.
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