Pop Goes The Political Culture Week of May 14
By Rebekah Kuschmider, MPU Co-host All of us here at the More Perfect Union have spent the week reviewing our financial records to make sure we didn’t accidentally fail...
Pop Goes The Political Culture Week of May 7
By Rebekah Kushmider, MPU co-host We’ve had another week of groundbreaking hard news. From the release of hostages in North Korea to the release of Michael Cohen’s shady financial...
“Impeachment” Not A Dirty Word for Dems
by Kevin Kelton Rep. Adam Schiff and others in the Democratic party have argued that talking about impeaching President Trump would only “normalize it” as a four year ritual,...
How NBC News Helped Trump
by Kevin Kelton Last week, NBC News broke an exclusive report that Robert Mueller’s special counsel office had “wiretapped” Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime attorney. As NBC later acknowledged,...
The Myth of the Monolithic Trump Base
by Kevin Kelton I keep hearing wizened political pundits saying that no matter what President Donald Trump says or does, “his base” will not abandon him, and therefore he...
Pop Goes The Political Culture Week of April 30
By Rebekah Kuschmider, MPU Co-Host We here at MPU are hard at work analyzing the serious news of the week. With all the research we’re doing on based on...
Pop Goes The Political Culture!
By Rebekah Kuschmider, MPU Co-host Every week we create a segment list for the podcast that includes the hottest trending news topics. Hard news topics, that is. We pull...
Democrats Need Their Own MAGA
by Kevin Kelton As we head into the 2018 midterm elections, it’s astounding that the national Democratic Party still has yet to formulated a coherent message to voters. While...
“Not a Target” Doesn’t Mean “Exonerated”
by Kevin Kelton The border wall between a “subject” and “target” is thin and can crumble quickly. Much has been made about reports that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein...
The “Fair & Balanced” Fallacy
by Kevin Kelton A lot of Republicans complain that the news media is “out to get Donald Trump.” I agree with them, I think a lot of the media...
Bank Robber Cornered By Police, Claims Robbery Is ‘Fake News’
by Kevin Kelton Like most people, I turn on cable news every morning and am endlessly bemused to hear the same story reported the same way time after time...
Why Do You Support Trump?
MPU listeners often tell us they love our show, but they wish we had someone to present the Trump side of things. So here’s your chance. If you love...
Defining Progressive Conservatism
by D.J. McGuire I have often said that in the past three years, the political spectrum has thrown me around “like a Martian Congressional Republic Navy vessel dropping into...
Who the “Australian Diplomat” Is and Why It Matters
by D.J. McGuire The revelations in The New York Times about the initial phase of the Trump-Russia investigation has been noted for the president’s assertion (without evidence) that the Obama Administration...