The 99% Invisible Breakdown: The Power Broker
Hosted by Roman Mars and Elizabeth Joh and Elizabeth · 99% Invisible
4.6from 38 ratings
- 25
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 38
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About The 99% Invisible Breakdown: The Power Broker
What if the most powerful man in New York never held elected office? In our first audio book club, Roman Mars and comedian Elliott Kalan dive deep into The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s epic biography of Robert Moses, the master builder who reshaped New York City with highways, bridges, and raw political force. Each episode unpacks each chapter from the book and features guests like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mike Schur, and, of course, Robert Caro. Together, they explore how one unelected man used ambition and bureaucracy to bend an entire metropolis to his will.
- Publisher
- 99% Invisible
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 5 Dec 2023
- Latest episode
- 2 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 25 episodes have a transcript.
2 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Constitution Breakdown #9: Alondra Nelson
2 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Constitution Breakdown #8: Jill Lepore
2 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Constitution Breakdown #7: California AG Rob Bonta
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Constitution Breakdown #9: Alondra Nelson
Published 2 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So what does that mean, practically speaking? Well, what that means is if you can think of supremacy as stating the simple fact that federal law is supreme, but arising out of supremacy is the idea that Congress now has the power when it legislates to preempt, or that really means displace or override any contrary state or local law. So you can think of preemption as being based in the constitutional power of supremacy. So Congress doesn't have to exercise preemption. But when it does pass laws in this way, it's very clear that any directly conflicting state or local law has to give way. So that's kind of the genius or the simplicity of the supremacy clause. […]
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- Alondra Nelson
- Jill Lepore
- Rob Bonta
- Adam Liptak
- Tom Frieden
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