The Powers That Be: Daily
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The Powers That Be: Daily
Join Emmy Award-winning journalist Peter Hamby, along with the team of expert journalists at Puck, as they let you in on the real conversations insiders are having across the four corners of power in America: Wall Street, Washington, Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Puck's contributors will bring you s...
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Is There Anything Left of the Voting Rights Act?
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to break down the Supreme Court’s recent blow to the Voting Rights Act, ruling that Louisiana must eliminate a majority...
Hegseth’s Pentagon Purge
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to dig into the power struggle reshaping the Pentagon, where Pete Hegseth’s promotion of Christopher LaNeve to Army Chief of S...
Will the WHCD Show Go On?
Dylan Byers joins Peter to assess the state of political media in the wake of the attempted Trump assassination at the White House Correspondents’ Din...
Media Monday: Malice at The Hilton & The NFL’s D.C. Blitz
After an unexpectedly off-script night at The Hilton in D.C., Jon Kelly and Peter trade their WHCA reflections and observations before turning their a...
Sen. Jim Banks’ G.O.P. Reality Check
Leigh Ann Caldwell sits down with Indiana Sen. Jim Banks to discuss the red lines for any ceasefire agreement with Iran, before getting into whether t...
Is Netflix Meddling in the Paramount-WBD Merger?
Eriq Gardner joins Peter to dig into the whispers around Washington that Netflix is quietly working to torpedo the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. mer...
The Beltway’s MAGA Prom
Dylan Byers joins Peter to preview this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where Donald Trump’s first-ever attendance is already rattling t...
Wall Street’s Iran Bump
Bill Cohan joins Peter to make sense of Wall Street’s latest head-scratcher—big banks posting record profits, even as an Iran-driven energy shock acce...
JD Vance’s Deadline Diplomacy
Julia Ioffe joins Peter as the clock runs down on Wednesday’s deadline to reach a deal with Iran and end the conflict. Julia explains why a resolution...
Media Monday: The Times' Russini Sub-Plot & Ellison's Antagonists
Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby pick over the lingering threads of the Diana Russini scandalette and why it's driving some people at the Times nuts. Then th...
Senator Todd Young on Trump’s Iran Endgame
Live from Washington, Leigh Ann Caldwell sits down with Republican Senator Todd Young to discuss Trump’s “little excursion” in the Middle East: why he...
YouTube’s Coachella Moment & Smart Specs Appeal
Julia Alexander joins Peter to discuss YouTube’s exclusive Coachella deal and what it signals about the future of live entertainment. They also dig in...
The Eric Swalwell Domino Effect
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to examine the fallout from Eric Swalwell’s resignation from Congress and the collapse of his gubernatorial campaign am...
Anthropic’s Fear Factor
Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to size up Anthropic’s mysterious new model—one the company claims is too powerful to release—and whether that’s genuine ca...
Hegseth’s Enemy Within
Julia Ioffe joins Peter with fresh intel on Pete Hegseth’s simmering vendetta against Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll, a well-liked Washington figu...
Media Monday: The Politico Pivot & YouTube ’28
Peter Hamby phones in from the Puck Coachella satellite office for a scintillating conversation with Jon Kelly about the big idea behind Politico’s ma...
How Much NFL Is Too Much?
NBC Sports’s Mike Florio joins John to tackle the most pressing questions facing the NFL as it stares down a highly consequential offseason—from loomi...
Lululemon’s Midlife Crisis & FashionGPT
Malique Morris joins Peter to discuss Lululemon’s slide from category king to just another player in an increasingly crowded activewear market—and whe...
ESPN Cuts Deep
John Ourand joins Peter to break down ESPN’s looming layoffs amid the lingering financial fallout from Disney’s carriage dispute with YouTube TV last...
Sam Altman’s $100M TBPN Trap
Dylan Byers joins Peter to discuss OpenAI’s head-scratching decision to buy TBPN—and the very real possibility that it proves to be more headache than...
Trump’s “Stone Age” Ultimatum
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to break down Trump’s maximalist threat to bomb Iranian civilian infrastructure “back to the Stone Age” unless they agree to r...
Media Monday: TBPN's Sugar Mama & Goodell's Hollywood War
Besties Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby reunite during the Final Four to trade hypotheses on why OpenAI acquired TBPN, the vodcast-maximalist media company,...
Carr Crash at the F.C.C.
Former F.C.C. chairJessica Rosenworcel and former NPR chief Gary Knell join Dylan at the Common Sense Media Summit to discuss the precarious state of...
The NFL’s Robo Ref Era
Eriq Gardner joins Peter to explore a hypothetical where the NFL hands officiating over to A.I. as the league barrels toward a potential replacement-r...
The G.O.P.’s ICE Box
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to break down Republicans’ strategy to lock in funding for DHS and ICE through the remainder of Trump’s term—effectivel...
Bernie vs. the Bots
Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to discuss the wide range of political responses to the growing public anxiety over A.I.—from Trump’s promise to hold down...
Etch-a-Sketch Democracy
Abby Livingston joins Peter to break down the latest front in the redistricting wars. In Virginia, Governor Abigail Spanberger is pushing a Democratic...
Media Monday: The Vox Auction & Sora Eulogies
The besties Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby reunite to sermonize over the real value of Jim Bankoff’s podcast business and hypothesize about secondary sales...
Netflix’s First Pitch
John Ourand joins Peter to unpack the promise—and persistent chaos—of watching Major League Baseball in 2026, from Netflix’s Opening Day splash to the...
The G.O.P.’s ’26 Brain Transplant
Abby Livingston joins Peter to break down a bit of primary election role reversal: in California, a crowded and underwhelming Democratic field risks s...
Wall Street’s Iranomics
Bill Cohan joins Peter to follow the money trail of the Iran war, as Trump’s off-the-cuff remarks send oil, Treasury yields, and commodities like gold...
Who’s Winning the War in Iran?
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to confront the central question looming over the war in Iran: Is the U.S. actually winning? Despite the on-brand, overconfide...
Media Monday: Bari’s Bloodletting & An MLB Wild Pitch
Besties Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby reunite to pore over Bari Weiss’ latest RIFs and the subsequent agony. Then they turn their attention to Major Leagu...
Presenting The Draymond Green Show | Draymond Green Versus Skip Bayless
On the Draymond Green Show, no topic is off limits. In this episode Draymond welcomes Skip Bayless to discuss Michael Jordan, Stephen A Smith, LeBron...
Miyako Supreme
Lauren’s guest is Oscar nominated costume designer Miyako Bellizzi, the frequent Safdie collaborator who is responsible for everything from Naomi Fry’...
Amazon’s $200M Anti-Netflix Playbook
Matt Belloni joins Peter with an inside look at Amazon’s blockbuster movie ambitions, spearheaded by Ryan Gosling’s new $200 million film, Hail Mary,...
Allbritton’s WaPo War & Politico Hunger Games
Dylan Byers joins Peter to whip-around the latest Washington media news: Robert Allbritton’s campaign to revamp NOTUS into a veritable Washington Post...
Trump’s War Without Friends
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to scrutinize Trump’s attempt to drag NATO into his war with Iran and explain why America’s allies, after years of insults and...
Between Trump and a Hard Place
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to pull back the curtain on Republican senators and their private worries about Trump’s war in Iran. She reveals what t...
Media Monday: The Bari-CNN Org Chart & An NBA Windfall
Besties Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby work through their Oscars and March Madness hangover to tear through all the CBS News-CNN machinations: what will ge...