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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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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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March 27, 2026
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Transcript: How Democrats Can Defeat Trump’s Identity Politics
Author Justin Gest says that economic policy alone won’t defeat the far-right in the United States and Europe.
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March 27, 2026
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How Democrats Can Defeat Trump’s Identity Politics
Author Justin Gest says that appealing to voters’ sense of belonging and identity is essential and can’t be done with economic policy alone.
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March 20, 2026
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Transcript: Trump Has No Idea How To End the War Against Iran
Foreign policy expert Matt Duss says there is no easy way for Trump to declare victory and end the war in Iran.
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March 20, 2026
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Trump Has No Idea How to End the War Against Iran
Foreign policy expert Matt Duss says there is no easy way for Trump to declare victory and end the war in Iran.
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March 16, 2026
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Transcript: Why So Many of Trump’s Authoritarian Moves Have Failed
Historian Thomas Zimmer says Trump is still dangerous, but that his authoritarian project has been derailed on a number of fronts.
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March 16, 2026
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Why So Many of Trump’s Authoritarian Moves Have Failed
Historian Thomas Zimmer says that American democracy is still in a bad place but that Trump has been slowed on a number of fronts.
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March 10, 2026
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Transcript: Tom Steyer Says That He’s A Good Billionaire
California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer understands frustration with billionaires like himself, but says that he’s different.
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March 10, 2026
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Tom Steyer Says He Can Be a Good Billionaire
California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer understands the growing opposition to billionaires like himself, but argues that his record shows that he cares about Americans who aren’t wealthy.
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