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    <title>Beg to Differ with Mona Charen - Episodes Tagged with “Politics”</title>
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    <description>Beg to Differ is a weekly roundtable podcast brought to you by TheBulwark.com. Host Mona Charen is joined by Linda Chavez of the Niskanen Center, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution, and Damon Linker of The Week to discuss the news of the week in a respectful, rational forum.
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    <itunes:subtitle>Mona Charen hosts a roundtable with Linda Chavez, Bill Galston, and Damon Linker discussing the news of the week.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Manchin's Ultimatum</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>On this week’s Beg to Differ, Sarah Longwell sits in for Mona Charen, and discusses with the panel the future of the filibuster, GOP fundraising tactics and their new embrace of boycott culture, H.R. 1 and election law, and China and the Olympics.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Is There a Trapdoor in the Recovery Plan?</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 13:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>AEI's Desmond Lachman analyzes the inflation risk in our gargantuan spending and loose money policies. The panel then considers the border crisis and the GOP's outreach to the working class.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Farewell to All That</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 11:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>A.B. Stoddard joins the group on New Year's Eve to discuss the lows (many) and highs (there were some) of 2020.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Roid Rage</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>David Frum returns to B2D. He and the panel discuss the VP debate, the president’s mental state, abuse of power, and the future of the political parties.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:04:46</itunes:duration>
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  <title>No Platform. Trump All The Way Down</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2020 12:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>On this week's Bulwark Beg to Differ with Mona Charen, Bill Galston, Linda Chavez, and Damon Linker discuss the unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the RNC and DNC conventions, and what happens when parties abandon ideas.</itunes:subtitle>
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