The Horse Race With Henry Olsen Podcast
1) Behind the Decision Desk
Listeners of this podcast have surely spent an election day evening glued to a screen as they watched results trickle in. But have you ever wondered how those results are disseminated? Or how races ar...Show More
2) More Cowbell!
We're one week into the government shutdown, and every day it remains thus Democrats have reason to fear what OMB Director Russ "The Reaper" Vought is planning. This is only the latest development tha...Show More
3) A Shutdown Amid Trench Warfare
Federal employees may be out of the office indefinitely, but politics breaks for no one in America. So Henry is back with a rant to keep us up on the unsettled terrain that partisans are clamouring ov...Show More
4) A Conversation with We The People
The great trouble with contemporary polling comes down to drawing a representative analysis from one-word responses. It's not just polling sceptics that have noticed this limitation, which is why Scot...Show More
5) Michele Tafoya, Off the Sidelines
If you've ever been of the habit this time of year to watch primetime professional football, you will have certainly encountered today's guest, Michele Tafoya. What you may not have known was that she...Show More
6) Chris Hayes on The Sirens' Call
The game has changed, and it's time to throw out the old playbook. So asserts Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes," in his latest book, The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the Wo...Show More
7) Sorting Out The Storting
Norwegian polls close on Monday, and a whopping 10 parties are vying to expand their share of the 169 seats in the nation's parliamentary body, the Storting. Nils Andresen of Minerva, Norway's conserv...Show More
8) Distinguishing Disarray from Disaster with Bill Galston
There's no denying that Democrats are in hot water after Donald Trump's surprising big win last November. The Brookings Institution's William Galston considers the party's oft-mentioned "disarray" to ...Show More
9) A Mid-Decadal Clustercuss
Texas has fired the first shots of the redistricting war of 2025, so Henry's back with a rant for all who are still a tad confused, either by the controversy as it stands and/or where it's headed now ...Show More
10) Hammering out the Meaning of MAGA
A decade has passed since Donald Trump rode down the golden escalator to initiate a movement to make America great again, but conflicts within the coalition emerge like clockwork, proving that a defin...Show More