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Four White House reporters from The New York Times sat down with President Trump on Wednesday for an extended interview in the Oval Office.

David E. Sanger, one of the reporters, walks us through their conversation.

Guest: David E. Sanger, a White House and National Security Correspondent for The New York Times

Background reading: 

• The many faces of Mr. Trump: what we saw when we interviewed the president.
• On topic after topic, President Trump made clear that he would be the arbiter of any limits to his authorities, not international law or treaties.

Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times

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Mary Katharine Ham interviews Daniel Di Martino, a Venezuelan-born economist and Manhattan Institute fellow, about the recent political changes in Venezuela and the implications of socialism versus capitalism. DiMartino shares his personal experiences growing up in Venezuela, the impact of the regime on the economy, and the importance of educating young people about the dangers of socialism. He emphasizes the need for charismatic leaders in politics and discusses the future of Venezuela and the hope for a free society.

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Michael A. Cohen, author of the Truth and Consequences newsletter, and Charles Fain Lehman, Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, debate the capture of Nicolas Maduro and whether Marco Rubio is positioning himself as the "Governor General of Latin America." The panel analyzes Tim Walz's exit from the Minnesota governor's race amid a $9 billion pandemic fraud scandal and the controversial appointment of Cea Weaver to New York's housing office. Plus,the debunking of the "Heritage American" myth that only 37–39% of the population meets the pre-1860 ancestry criteria, the New York Times' creative statistics on 8.5 MPH bus speeds, and Larry David's strict January 7th statute of limitations on wishing anyone a "Happy New Year."

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On this episode of “The Kylee Cast,” Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Chief Development Officer Sara Prinzi join Kylee Griswold to highlight The Federalist’s biggest stories of 2025, preview what to look for in 2026, and talk about the excellent reporting that won our team the Dao Journalism Award grand prize. 

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• Ryan's 2022 piece on progressive advocacy groups
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In the first year of President Donald Trump’s new term, he issued hundreds of executive actions and his administration implemented sweeping changes to the federal government.

Changes to federal grant funding, DEI policies, the federal workforce were all met with fierce resistance and legal challenges, totaling more than 350 lawsuits so far. Judges across the country are also mulling whether Trump’s attempt to change birthright citizenship and his deployment of ICE agents for mass deportations are legal.

The administration has spent a lot of time defending its policy actions in court. We get up to speed on their record over the past year.

How successful has the administration been in the courts? And what cases from 2025 remain up in the air?

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Introducing the newest thing in higher (and we really mean higher — like look UP) education: The Flying Pig Academy. A dream of The Village Square (with support from Florida Humanities) for many years, it's finally aloft. The division in American society is big and seems impossible at times to address.

The Flying Pig Academy is kind of an insider's how to.

This Flying Pig Episode: We live in a highly individualistic society, so maybe it's not a surprise that when we're trying to solve a big wicked problem like our deepening political division our approach is based on the individual. Most of us think that we need to wrestle with the problem of political polarization in our own hearts, or we need better skills for talking to people who don't look or think like us. Of course those things are partly true, but The Village Square has learned through two decades of building trust across divisions that human beings are very groupish and that the solution to polarization is at a group level, not at an individual one. Bonus: you get bigger results way more quickly that way. It SCALES, which we need to do more quickly if we're going to really tackle of societal polarization.

Mentioned: Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind

The second in the Flying Pig Academy series is an homage to our intellectual hero (and lucky for us, our friend and colleague) Dr. Jonathan Haidt who - literally - wrote the book for Pigs With Big Dreams.

Here are the rest of our Flying Pig episodes:

• Location, Location, Location
• Carom Shots: Why Working Upstream From Conflict is So Powerful OR how to become a civility pool shark
• Criss Cross Applesauce OR Complexity Changes Everything
• Core Catalyst Model OR What Old Trees Have to Teach Us About Rebuilding Civic Life
• Walk Away from That Box OR Why Fixing Civil Discourse Requires Less Politics, not mr