Jason Dick

Jason Dick and Jim Saksa discuss how easy it was to be angry in 2010, tea-party-infused town halls, AstroTurf versus paid protesters, the Koch brothers and George Soros, and the wisdom of politicians reminding constituents that we’re all going to die anyway. Show Notes:

After Carla Hayden became the librarian of Congress in 2016, Roll Call spoke to her about her place in history and those who inspired her.

Good Friday seems like as, ahem, good a time as any to reflect on the journey we’re on and how we got here. For this recess edition of the podcast, we revisit the tumultuous party nominating conventions of last year, when the political world tried to make sense of the flurry of news that hit […]

Is it possible to find beauty amid the horror of the Ukraine-Russia war? The Academy Award-nominated documentary “Porcelain War” argues that it is not only possible but also essential. Co-director Slava Leontyev discusses how ordinary people keep their culture, art and themselves alive, and how even in a time of fear, “it’s hard to forbid people […]

Tim Curran, the former Roll Call editor who died recently, was not just a good journalist, he was a good Capitol Hill neighbor.

The 119th Congress is tall on ambition, but short on time. The reason parties with unified control are in a hurry is because it does not last.

OPINION — Take it from Freedom Award recipients Williams Timmons and Derek Kilmer: Congress needs to spend more time working.

President-elect Donald Trump has picked several current and former members of Congress for his Cabinet and senior staff. Here’s a quick and dirty on the roster, which includes former Democrats, former critics and one avowed dog killer.  Show Notes:

For many film buffs, October is Scary Movie Month, when we go to the vault to watch “Last House on the Left” or head to the theater to catch “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” It is also election season. So does “The Apprentice” fit in here? It’s a biopic about the relationship between Roy Cohn and a young […]

A former president, Donald Trump is running against first the current president, Joe Biden, and now the current vice president, Kamala Harris. There aren’t a lot of parallels.