{"podcast":{"title":"The Oath and The Office","slug":"the-oath-and-the-office-7209235","podcast_index_feed_id":7209235,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6518729/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-oath-and-the-office--6518729","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a23d8652338e9782711f8f63f5c2a304.jpg","author":"Corey Brettschneider","episode_count":68,"summary":"Mixing sharp wit and serious political fire, The Oath and The Office is where hard-hitting constitutional analysis meets razor-sharp comedy. Distinguished political science professor Corey Brettschneider teams up with comedian John Fugelsang to break down the most powerful 35 words in American democracy—the presidential oath of office. Every president swears to “preserve, protect, and defend” the Constitution, but what happens when one openly attacks democracy and the rule of law itself? Each week, Corey and John pull no punches, exposing the latest threats to the rule of law and demanding accountability. Smart, fearless, and wickedly funny—this is the civics lesson you can’t afford to miss.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-oath-and-the-office-7209235"},"episode":{"title":"Trump’s War on Truth and Science (with James Morone)","slug":"trump-s-war-on-truth-and-science-with-james-morone","published_at":"2026-04-30T09:30:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-oath-and-the-office-7209235/trump-s-war-on-truth-and-science-with-james-morone","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-oath-and-the-office-7209235","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/trump-s-war-on-truth-and-science-with-james-morone--71752120","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71752120/043026_tonto.mp3","summary":"Trump briefly talked about “cooling things down.” Then came the escalation. This week on The Oath and The Office, Corey Brettschneider and John Fugelsang look at how President Trump is using political violence not as a reason for restraint, but as a weapon against his opponents. Jimmy Kimmel and Trevor Noah are targeted for jokes. A 60 Minutes interview becomes another venue for attacking the press. And the administration’s suit against the Southern Poverty Law Center raises a larger question: is law enforcement being turned into a tool of political retaliation? We also turn to the Supreme Court’s major Fourth Amendment case over geofence warrants and cell location data. The old law-school hypotheticals about government surveillance no longer feel hypothetical. With companies like Palantir helping build the modern surveillance state, the threat of databases tracking protesters, dissidents, and political opponents is suddenly very real. Then Corey is joined by James A. Morone, Professor Emeritus at Brown University and one of the country’s leading political scientists, to discuss his new book with David Blumenthal, \"Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science\". The book tells the inside story of how Obama, Trump, and Biden transformed health care politics, from the fight over Obamacare to COVID, Operation Warp Speed, anti-poverty policy, and Trump’s war on science itself. Get the book from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300263480/whiplash/","meta_description":"Trump briefly talked about “cooling things down.” Then came the escalation. This week on The Oath and The Office, Corey Brettschneider and John Fugelsang…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3484,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-oath-and-the-office-7209235/episodes/trump-s-war-on-truth-and-science-with-james-morone/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-oath-and-the-office-7209235/trump-s-war-on-truth-and-science-with-james-morone.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}