Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
Chris Hayes, MSNBC & NBCNews THINK - nbcnews.com
Latest episode: Tue Apr 30 2024
Every week Chris Hayes asks the big questions that keep him up at night. How do we make sense of this unprecedented moment in world history? Why is this (all) happening? This podcast starts to answer these questions. Writers, experts, and thinkers who are also trying to get to the bottom of them join Chris to break it all down and help him get a better night’s rest. “Why is this Happening?” is presented by MSNBC and NBCNews Think.
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- Apr30Inside The Trump Courtroom with Lisa Rubin52mins
- Apr23This Moment in Tech with Meredith Whittaker55mins
- Apr16The Stakes of Tax Policy with Kimberly Clausing39mins
- Apr9The Stakes of Immigration with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick65mins
- Apr2The Story of an Israeli Dissident with Meir Baruchin51mins
- Mar26The State of Polling with Nate Cohn52mins
- Mar19“Who’s Afraid of Gender?” with Judith Butler51mins
- Mar15BONUS: TikTok’s Uncertain Future with Jacob Ward60mins
- Mar12Confronting Christian Nationalism with Doug Pagitt58mins
- Mar5A Mediapocalypse? with Ben Smith49mins
- Feb27The Explosion in Green Tech with Jigar Shah56mins
- Feb20Protecting Voting Rights with Eric Holder44mins
- Feb132020: The Year Everything Changed with Eric Klinenberg60mins
- Feb6Winning Progressive Change with Deepak Bhargava54mins
- Jan30The Mystery and Miracle of Polynesia with Christina Thompson56mins
- Jan23“Your Face Belongs to Us” with Kashmir Hill57mins
- Jan16Creating Global Routes to Hope with David Miliband52mins
- Jan92023: A Turning Point for the Climate?56mins
- Jan2The Future of Energy with Jonah Goldman (2022)63mins
- Dec26The Future of Friendship with Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow (2022)59mins
- Dec19The Future of Entertainment with Seth Meyers (2022)51mins
- Dec12“Homeschool Nation” with Laura Meckler47mins
- Dec5WITHpod Live - Answering Your Questions58mins
- Nov28The Origins of the Universe with Marcelo Gleiser53mins
- Nov24WITHpod Live with Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow98mins
- Nov21PREVIEW: WITHpod Live with Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow9mins
- Nov14Life in the West Bank with Sari Bashi54mins
- Nov7Defending Democracy Amid Division with Adam Kinzinger49mins
- Oct31The Making of Joy Reid53mins
- Oct24"Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World” with Naomi Klein44mins
- Oct17Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop with Trymaine Lee, Imani Perry and Vic Mensa81mins
- Oct10Recovering Native Narratives and Data with Abigail Echo-Hawk52mins
- Oct3The Case for Unconditional Cash Transfers with Jiaying Zhao46mins
- Sep29BONUS: How to Win 2024: The “Kiddie Table” Debate32mins
- Sep26Prosecuting Donald Trump with Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord70mins
- Sep19The Progressive Prosecutor Movement with Chesa Boudin63mins
- Sep15Introducing “How to Win 2024”31mins
- Sep12Hot Labor Summer with Alex Press57mins
- Sep5The Care Economy with Ai-jen Poo (2023)52mins
- Aug29Answering Your Questions in Our #WITHpod Mailbag51mins
- Aug22“The Heat Will Kill You First” with Jeff Goodell48mins
- Aug15The “Existential” Climate Crisis with Bill McKibben53mins
- Aug8“A Moral Moment in America” with Sen. Raphael Warnock45mins
- Aug2BONUS: Prosecuting Donald Trump: The 2020 Election Indictment Read by Ali Velshi102mins
- Aug1AI: “An Exponential Disruption” with Kate Crawford (2023)59mins
- Jul25Being “Irrepressible” with Little Rock Nine Member Minnijean Brown-Trickey (2023)53mins
- Jul18#WITHpod & Strict Scrutiny Crossover66mins
- Jul11From Prison to Politics with Yusef Salaam55mins
- Jul4Decoding The Information Age with Scott Shapiro46mins
- Jun27Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism with Jeffrey Toobin51mins
- Jun20Why Americans Are Dying So Young with Anne Case and Angus Deaton57mins
- Jun13Leading Chicago with Mayor Brandon Johnson55mins
- Jun11BONUS: Prosecuting Donald Trump: The Full Indictment Read by Ali Velshi72mins
- Jun6“The Phoenix Economy” with Felix Salmon53mins
- May30The Care Economy with Ai-jen Poo52mins
- May23“The Shadow Docket” with Steve Vladeck54mins
- May16A gun industry insider perspective with Ryan Busse (2022)54mins
- May9The Explosion of Online Sports Betting with Eric Lipton46mins
- May2TikTok’s Uncertain Future with Jacob Ward59mins
- Apr25The Abortionist “Written Out of History” with Jennifer Wright50mins
- Apr18AI: “An Exponential Disruption” with Kate Crawford59mins
- Apr11What’s Behind Israel’s Unprecedented Protests with Edo Konrad49mins
- Apr4The Fixation on Anti-Trans Legislation with Chase Strangio48mins
- Mar28WTH Happened at Silicon Valley Bank? with Mike Konczal54mins
- Mar21The Dire Threat of Global Authoritarianism with Rula Jebreal59mins
- Mar14Changing Cop Culture with Neil Gross54mins
- Mar7Cities After Covid with Brad Lander55mins
- Feb28Treating Trans Youth with Dr. Izzy Lowell (2021)50mins
- Feb21The ‘Havana Syndrome’ with Jon Lee Anderson and Adam Entous54mins
- Feb14Being “Irrepressible” with Little Rock Nine Member Minnijean Brown-Trickey53mins
- Feb7“The E-bike is Here to Stay” with Mike Radenbaugh56mins
- Jan31The Effects of the ‘Stop W.O.K.E’ Act with Jonathan Cox45mins
- Jan24WTH Happened with FTX? with Tonya Evans58mins
- Jan21BONUS: Chris Hayes co-hosts National Day of Racial Healing town hall53mins
- Jan17Has the Lottery Played Us? with Jonathan Cohen53mins
- Jan10Celebrating 250 #WITHpod Episodes6mins
- Jan10Strengthening America’s Immigrant ‘Resilience Force’ with Saket Soni54mins
- Jan3The Debate Inside Progressive Politics with Maurice Mitchell63mins
- Dec27What the End of ‘Zero Covid’ in China Means with Bill Bishop59mins
- Dec20The #WITHpod Holiday Mailbag55mins
- Dec13Dads Who “Lean Out” with Tim Lee52mins
- Dec6What ‘The Communist Manifesto’ Means Today with China Miéville51mins
- Nov29Ask a Swole Woman with Casey Johnston (2021)52mins
- Nov22Fighting on the Frontlines in Ukraine with Macer Gifford51mins
- Nov15Twitter's Elon Musk Era with Kara Swisher57mins
- Nov10WITHpod BONUS: Chris and the MSNBC Insiders on the Midterms54mins
- Nov8Iran’s Growing Protests with Sussan Tahmasebi56mins
- Nov1Echoes of the 1994 Midterms in 2022 with Steve Kornacki54mins
- Oct25The Klan and Reconstruction with Kidada Williams51mins
- Oct18Lady Justice in the Age of Trump and Dobbs with Dahlia Lithwick58mins
- Oct11An exclusive #WITHpod conversation with Rachel Maddow51mins
- Oct4The Death and Life of Seth Rich with Andy Kroll57mins
- Sep27The Power of the Black Vote with Trymaine Lee47mins
- Sep20Joe Biden and the End of Reaganomics with Felicia Wong63mins
- Sep13What’s Going on With the Economy? with Matthew Klein58mins
- Sep6The Case for Public Schools with Courtney Martin52mins
- Aug30‘Out of Office’ with Anne Helen Petersen59mins
- Aug23How Pandemics End with Ellie Murray60mins
- Aug16Our First Live #WITHpod Mailbag52mins
- Aug11What It's Like to Be Great at Something with Dirk Nowitzki (2022)60mins
- Aug9Performance in a Pandemic with Ani DiFranco (2021)52mins
- Aug4The Future of Entertainment with Seth Meyers (2022)50mins
- Aug2‘Allow Me to Retort’ with Elie Mystal (2022)66mins
- Jul26‘The G Word’ with Adam Conover59mins
- Jul19‘His Name is George Floyd’ with Robert Samuels50mins
- Jul12The Most Conservative Supreme Court in Nearly a Century with Jamal Greene56mins
- Jul5The Affordable Housing Crisis with Ned Resnikoff56mins
- Jun28‘Why People Are Acting So Weird’ with Olga Khazan48mins
- Jun21“Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s” with Connie Walker51mins
- Jun14‘How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics’ with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò52mins
- Jun7A gun industry insider perspective with Ryan Busse54mins
- May31'Liberalism and Its Discontents’ with Francis Fukuyama57mins
- May24‘A Genetic History of the Americas’ with Jennifer Raff53mins
- May17Unpacking Title 42 with Thomas Saenz56mins
- May10‘Allow Me to Retort’ with Elie Mystal66mins
- May3‘A Year of Healing and Heartbreak’ with Thomas Fisher59mins
- Apr26Telling the Climate Story with Adam McKay and Omar El Akkad (2019)69mins
- Apr19‘Love Thy Neighbor’ with Collier Meyerson56mins
- Apr12What It's Like to Be Great at Something with Dirk Nowitzki59mins
- Apr5The True Origins of Putin’s War with Timothy Snyder59mins
- Mar29The Future of Energy with Jonah Goldman63mins
- Mar22The Future of Friendship with Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow57mins
- Mar15The Future of Innovation with Cathie Wood51mins
- Mar8The Future of Entertainment with Seth Meyers50mins
- Mar8Introducing the inaugural #WITHpod "Future of" miniseries1min
- Mar1‘White Space, Black Hood’ with Sheryll Cashin55mins
- Feb22Treating Trans Youth with Dr. Izzy Lowell (2021)49mins
- Feb15An Indoor Clean Air Act? with Linsey Marr49mins
- Feb8Celebrating 200 #WITHpod Episodes!4mins
- Feb8The State of the Taliban with Anand Gopal55mins
- Feb1‘Gangsters of Capitalism’ with Jonathan Katz61mins
- Jan25The #WITHpod Mailbag39mins
- Jan18#WITHpod & Strict Scrutiny Crossover62mins
- Jan11The Unthinkable with Jamie Raskin43mins
- Jan4Democracy on a Knife’s Edge with Bart Gellman & Sherrilyn Ifill62mins
- Dec28Ask a Swole Woman with Casey Johnston52mins
- Dec21NFTs: WTF? with Kevin Roose47mins
- Dec14Statistically True with Kareem Carr53mins
- Dec7Not Too Old for TikTok with Hank Green48mins
- Nov30Bringing News Inside Prisons with Lawrence Bartley51mins
- Nov23The Art of Filmmaking with Alex Gibney51mins
- Nov16From Refugee to Congresswoman with Ilhan Omar44mins
- Nov9‘The Loneliest Americans’ with Jay Caspian Kang53mins
- Nov2Climate, Weather and Trust with Al Roker47mins
- Oct26The Race to Become Socialist Mayor of Buffalo with India Walton48mins
- Oct19‘The Invisible Child’ with Andrea Elliott49mins
- Oct12Inside China's High-Tech Penal Colony with Darren Byler51mins
- Oct5Who was Marquis de Lafayette? with Mike Duncan56mins
- Sep28‘Dirty Work’ with Eyal Press50mins
- Sep21The Ten Year War with Jonathan Cohn56mins
- Sep14The Electric Vehicle Revolution with Dana Hull48mins
- Sep7Reforming Sexual Justice with Alexandra Brodsky55mins
- Aug31The War on Terror with Spencer Ackerman52mins
- Aug24Performance in a Pandemic with Ani DiFranco51mins
- Aug17Withdrawing from Afghanistan and the Impact of Global Corruption with Sarah Chayes53mins
- Aug10"Here, Right Matters" with Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman61mins
- Aug3The Summer #WITHpod Mailbag45mins
- Jul27Locked Out with Justin Fox51mins
- Jul20From Activist to Congress with Rep. Cori Bush45mins
- Jul13Inside Palestine with Rashid Khalidi54mins
- Jul6"The Line" with Dan Taberski40mins
- Jun29Who's Flying the UFOs? with Gideon Lewis-Kraus49mins
- Jun22Educating the Internet with Natalie Wynn49mins
- Jun15Fighting Back the Virus with Andy Slavitt48mins
- Jun8Energy and Evolution with Herman Pontzer46mins
- Jun1How the Word is Passed with Clint Smith52mins
- May25Treating Trans Youth with Dr. Izzy Lowell49mins
- May18A More Violent America with Patrick Sharkey53mins
- May11A Life in China with Te-Ping Chen49mins
- May4The Premonition with Michael Lewis44mins
- Apr27Is Bitcoin for Real? with Joe Weisenthal53mins
- Apr20The Whiteness of Wealth with Dorothy A. Brown52mins
- Apr13The Endurance of Wikipedia with Katherine Maher49mins
- Apr6Vaccines: How Do They Work? with Dr. Peter Hotez57mins
- Mar30Who Gets To Say with John McWhorter64mins
- Mar23One-Click America with Alec MacGillis57mins
- Mar16Minimum Wage 101 with Arin Dube54mins
- Mar9One Year of Plague Living with Michelle Goldberg64mins
- Mar2Finding Truth in Doubt with Anna Deavere Smith51mins
- Feb23Powering the Grid with David Roberts57mins
- Feb16Modi’s “Arrogance of Power” and the Indian Farmers’ Protests with Rana Ayyub48mins
- Feb9Whose Land with Rebecca Nagle54mins
- Feb2The Filibuster’s Sordid Past and Present with Adam Jentleson60mins
- Jan2613 Executions with Liliana Segura54mins
- Jan19The End of RealDonaldTrump with Kara Swisher53mins
- Jan15The Attack on the Capitol with Ta-Nehisi Coates61mins
- Jan5Family, Legacy, and Bourbon with Wright Thompson57mins
- Dec29The Foxconn Con with Josh Dzieza35mins
- Dec22No Regrets with Rep. Max Rose52mins
- Dec15The Democratic Coalition After 2020 with David Shor54mins
- Dec8Your Local Disinformation with Davey Alba48mins
- Dec1The Down-Ballot Democrats with Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell53mins
- Nov24The Problem with Political Hobbyism with Eitan Hersh52mins
- Nov17How Red is Texas with Abby Livingston54mins
- Nov10What We Got Wrong with Zeynep Tufekci68mins
- Nov3Donate Now with Michael Whitney49mins
- Oct27Understanding the “Latino Vote” with Chuck Rocha50mins
- Oct20America's Isolation with Samantha Power33mins
- Oct13Avoiding Election Disaster with Edward Foley60mins
- Oct6Money, Democracy, and John Maynard Keynes with Zach Carter61mins
- Sep29FAQAnon with Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins59mins
- Sep22Necessary Struggle with Barbara Smith57mins
- Sep15What Bush Left Behind with Robert Draper58mins
- Sep8Keeping a Restaurant Alive with Tony Bezsylko62mins
- Sep1America’s Right Turn with Rick Perlstein56mins
- Aug25The Invisible Power Struggle with Leah Stokes60mins
- Aug18REVISITED China's Secret Internment Camps with Rian Thum47mins
- Aug11Caste in America with Isabel Wilkerson50mins
- Aug4The Party of Trump with Stuart Stevens45mins
- Jul28REVISITED The Information Crisis with David Roberts50mins
- Jul21America’s Prophet of Freedom with David Blight58mins
- Jul14So You Want to Run for Office with Luke Hayes57mins
- Jul7America on Drugs with Dr. Carl Hart55mins
- Jun30Policing and Democracy with Brandon del Pozo68mins
- Jun23Where We Go Now with Sherrilyn Ifill54mins
- Jun16REVISITED: Abolishing Prisons with Mariame Kaba58mins
- Jun98 minutes 46 seconds with Trymaine Lee54mins
- Jun2Abolish the Electoral College with Jesse Wegman54mins
- May26Being Michael Jordan with David Roth and Joel Anderson46mins
- May19Home From School with Dana Goldstein58mins
- May12The Pandemic Behind Bars with Josie Duffy Rice53mins
- May5Saving the Economy with Saule Omarova57mins
- Apr28The Cost of Division with Heather McGhee59mins
- Apr21Solidarity in a Disaster with Rebecca Solnit52mins
- Apr14Going Viral with Carl Bergstrom51mins
- Apr7The Last Great Pandemic with John M. Barry46mins
- Mar31Battling the Darkness with Thomas Burke Jr.54mins
- Mar24The Fight for Asylum with Bridget Cambria and Tobias Barrington Wolff56mins
- Mar17REVISITED Breaking Government with Michael Lewis48mins
- Mar10The Origins of a Disaster with Adam Higginbotham50mins
- Mar3Exile and Basketball with Enes Kanter45mins
- Feb25Stacking the Courts with Dahlia Lithwick49mins
- Feb18Between God and Man with Daniel M. Lavery50mins
- Feb11The Gettable Voter with Jon Favreau52mins
- Feb4The Frontlines of Addiction with Beth Macy56mins
- Jan28Why We’re Polarized with Ezra Klein67mins
- Jan21The Uneven Playing Field with Howard Bryant57mins
- Jan14Trump and Evangelicals with Mark Galli58mins
- Jan7Who Is Reality Winner? with Kerry Howley49mins
- Dec31What Happened in the UK Election? with Sarah Jaffe54mins
- Dec24The #WITHpod Mailbag (2019)33mins
- Dec17LIVE IN NYC: American Psychodrama with Tony Kushner and Jeremy O. Harris65mins
- Dec10Understanding the Wealth Tax with Gabriel Zucman52mins
- Dec3The Meaning of Impeachment with Kate Shaw57mins
- Nov26Fighting ISIS with James Verini57mins
- Nov19LIVE IN CHICAGO: The 400 Year Legacy with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ibram X. Kendi74mins
- Nov12Reckoning with Linda Hirshman61mins
- Nov6EXCLUSIVE WITHpod Live New York Presale3mins
- Nov5The Meaning of Life with Martin Hägglund51mins
- Oct29LIVE IN LA: Telling the Climate Story with Adam McKay and Omar El Akkad68mins
- Oct22The Lockdown of Kashmir with Hafsa Kanjwal54mins
- Oct18EXCLUSIVE WITHpod Live Chicago Presale5mins
- Oct15Belonging & Unbelonging with Salman Rushdie63mins
- Oct8Undermining Black Homeownership with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor53mins
- Oct1LIVE: What Happened to Conservatism with Sen. Ted Cruz69mins
- Sep26Exclusive WITHpod Live Los Angeles Presale4mins
- Sep24Antisocial Media with Andrew Marantz55mins
- Sep17The Education of an Idealist with Samantha Power62mins
- Sep10Facing Trauma with Jason Kander57mins
- Sep3Trans Rights with Chase Strangio63mins
- Aug27College at Any Cost with Caitlin Zaloom54mins
- Aug20Seeking Asylum with Luis Mancheno56mins
- Aug13Holding Them Accountable with Rep. Katie Porter48mins
- Aug6This Land is Our Land with Suketu Mehta59mins
- Jul30Fury in Puerto Rico with Julio Ricardo Varela55mins
- Jul23The Climate Campaign with Gov. Jay Inslee63mins
- Jul16Building a Movement with Rev. Dr. William Barber II53mins
- Jul9The Case for Socialism with Bhaskar Sunkara58mins
- Jul2A History of Concentration Camps with Andrea Pitzer57mins
- Jun25From Red to Blue with Rep. Max Rose61mins
- Jun18Impeaching a President with Brenda Wineapple60mins
- Jun11Defending Liberalism with Adam Gopnik55mins
- Jun4Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza60mins
- May28The Anniversary #WITHpod Mailbag41mins
- May21A Family's Lost History During McCarthyism with David Maraniss49mins
- May14The Roots of Anti-Semitism with Deborah Lipstadt62mins
- May7Debunking the Deficit Hysteria with Stephanie Kelton55mins
- Apr30Breaking Government with Michael Lewis49mins
- Apr23China's Secret Internment Camps with Rian Thum45mins
- Apr18BONUS: The First Family of Opioids with Patrick Radden Keefe19mins
- Apr16The Ghosts of a Dirty War with Patrick Radden Keefe55mins
- Apr9Abolishing Prisons with Mariame Kaba62mins
- Apr2Are We a Democracy? with Astra Taylor52mins
- Mar26Dying of Whiteness with Jonathan Metzl56mins
- Mar19Building a Progressive Majority with Dorian Warren55mins
- Mar12Rethinking Identity with Kwame Anthony Appiah55mins
- Mar5The Uninhabitable Earth with David Wallace-Wells63mins
- Feb26LIVE: The Democratic Response with Stacey Abrams72mins
- Feb19Blocking Big Tech with Kashmir Hill51mins
- Feb12Can We Tax the Rich? with Jesse Eisinger58mins
- Feb5Thick Descriptions with Tressie McMillan Cottom55mins
- Jan30Live #WITHpod with Stacey Abrams! TICKET LINK IN DESCRIPTION1min
- Jan29Back to the Future of Transportation with Aaron Gordon59mins
- Jan25BONUS: The Census Decision with Dale Ho24mins
- Jan22Amazon's Wish List with Stacy Mitchell54mins
- Jan15Trade Wars with Lori Wallach55mins
- Jan8Organizing in Trump Country with George Goehl57mins
- Jan1The #WITHpod Mailbag (2018)27mins
- Dec25Revisiting The Rule of Law in the Era of Trump with Kate Shaw45mins
- Dec18America’s (Bad) Reputation with Fmr. Secretary of State John Kerry57mins
- Dec11Politics and Violence with Joanne B. Freeman67mins
- Dec4The Information Crisis with David Roberts53mins
- Nov27Live: A New Hope with Ta-Nehisi Coates63mins
- Nov20History and Scandal with Rachel Maddow50mins
- Nov13Slavery’s Enduring Political Legacy with Maya Sen and Matthew Blackwell58mins
- Nov6The Trump Scheme to Rig the Census with Dale Ho58mins
- Nov1BONUS: Midterm Watch with Daniel Nichanian17mins
- Oct30White Identity Politics with Michael Tesler52mins
- Oct23Medicare for All with Abdul El-Sayed52mins
- Oct16Voter Suppression Past and Present with Carol Anderson52mins
- Oct9The Myths of the Ruling Class with Anand Giridharadas49mins
- Oct2Women, Rage, and Power with Rebecca Traister61mins
- Sep25Social Infrastructure Week with Eric Klinenberg59mins
- Sep18Investigating the President with Nick Akerman53mins
- Sep11The Left Wing of the Democratic Party with Sean McElwee54mins
- Sep4America’s Role in the World’s Worst Crisis with Shireen Al-Adeimi51mins
- Aug28Trump, Brexit, and Racial Grievance with Mehdi Hasan56mins
- Aug21Why Trump's Corruption Matters with Zephyr Teachout65mins
- Aug14The Wicked Problem of Climate Change with Andrew Revkin58mins
- Aug7Roe V. Wade's Final Hour? with Nancy Northup53mins
- Jul31School Segregation in 2018 with Nikole Hannah-Jones58mins
- Jul24Our Real Estate Obsession with Giorgio Angelini50mins
- Jul17"Futureface" with Alex Wagner40mins
- Jul10Ending Mass Incarceration with Larry Krasner58mins
- Jul3Fracking Trump Country with Eliza Griswold47mins
- Jun26How Bad Is It? with Ezra Klein46mins
- Jun19Destruction in Puerto Rico with Naomi Klein40mins
- Jun12Political Tribalism with Amy Chua43mins
- Jun5Separating Immigrant Families with Lee Gelernt56mins
- May29Who Broke the Internet? with Tim Wu46mins
- May22The Rule of Law in the Era of Trump with Kate Shaw42mins
- May15The Conservative Movement with Corey Robin38mins
- May15The Middle East with Dexter Filkins34mins
- May15The Personal is Political with Brittney Cooper35mins
- May9Why IS this happening?