Join Puck’s chief political columnist, MSNBC/NBC News national affairs analyst, and best-selling author John Heilemann as he roams the corridors of power and influence in America on this twice-weekly interview show, taking you behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the people who shape and shift our culture: icons and up-and-comers, incumbents and insurgents, moguls and machers in the overlapping worlds of politics, entertainment, tech, business, sports, media, and beyond. The conversations are rich and revealing, unrehearsed and unexpected … and reliably impolitic. A Puck-Audacy joint, new episodes drop every Wednesday and Friday.
Impolitic with John Heilemann
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Join Puck’s chief political columnist, MSNBC/NBC News national affairs analyst, and best-selling author John Heilemann as he roams the corridors of power and influence in America on this twice-weekly interview show, taking you behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the people who shape and shift our culture: icons and up-and-comers, incumbents and insurgents, moguls and machers in the overlapping worlds of politics, entertainment, tech, business, sports, media, and beyond. The conversations are rich and revealing, unrehearsed and unexpected … and reliably impolitic. A Puck-Audacy joint, new episodes drop every Wednesday and Friday.
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Recent Episodes
September 21, 2026
Alex Wagner: Trump’s AI Hallucinations & Reagan’s Court Burglars
Host John Heilemann interviews Alex Wagner, host of Runaway Country and senior political analyst at MS Now, about her book on the conservative judicial takeover and recent political events.
September 18, 2026
Jacob Weisberg: Bonfire of the Enablers
Host John Heilemann interviews Jacob Weisberg, co-founder of Pushkin Industries, about his book "Profiles in Cowardice" and the complicity of public figures in the Trump era.
September 14, 2026
Adam Jentleson: Senate Battleground Update + The Case for Big Tent Populism
Host John Heilemann interviews Searchlight Institute president Adam Jentleson about the Senate battleground and building lasting Democratic power through big tent populism.
389 total episodes available with 253 transcripts
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