Fiasco

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Host Leon Neyfakh transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of our country's most pivotal historical events, bringing to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present.   

  • 18 minutes 58 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Bonus - Legacy.

    The late Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens talks about his memories of Bush v. Gore, and why the ruling’s legacy, years after the fact, looks even worse than he thought it would.

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    23 December 2024, 5:01 am
  • 33 minutes 17 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Bonus - Lawfare

    Attorneys David Boies and Ted Olsen, who represented the Gore and Bush sides, respectively, talk about the unique challenges that came with representing their clients before the Supreme Court.

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    16 December 2024, 5:01 am
  • 24 minutes 22 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Bonus - What If…

    An interview with Ralph Nader on his role as a “spoiler” in the 2000 election, and historian Mary Frances Berry, who led the 2001 commission looking into the impact that ballot box irregularities involving Black voters may have had on the outcome in Florida.

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    9 December 2024, 5:01 am
  • 22 minutes 56 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Bonus - Information Wars

    A conversation with Craig Waters, spokesman for the Florida Supreme Court, about becoming the face of an embattled, apolitical institution during a partisan battle.

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    2 December 2024, 5:01 am
  • 39 minutes 24 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Bonus - Inside the Florida Secretary of State’s Office During the 2000 Recount

    Conversations with Florida’s former Secretary of State Katherine Harris, the Bush supporter who presided over the 2000 recount, and self-described Republican operative and “Bush liege” who embedded in Harris’s office during the recount and helped her bring the election “in for a landing.”

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    25 November 2024, 5:01 am
  • 26 minutes 54 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Bonus - A Mile In Their Shoes

    An interview with Brian Noyes, who worked on the Bush 2000 presidential campaign, and what it was like to feel like an election is being stolen. Noyes oversaw an oral history project with recount alums from the Bush campaign. 

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    18 November 2024, 5:01 am
  • 53 minutes 7 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Episode 6 – No Precedent

    In the season finale: How the 2000 presidential election was distilled and decided in a case called Bush v. Gore.

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    13 November 2024, 5:01 am
  • 46 minutes 25 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Episode 5 – Contingencies

    Democrats and Republicans hope for the best and plan for the worst.

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    6 November 2024, 5:01 am
  • 53 minutes 20 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Episode 4 – Spin-Off

    How public relations battles yielded big legal wins for the Bush team.

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    30 October 2024, 4:01 am
  • 55 minutes 45 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Episode 3 – Ballot With Butterfly Wings

    What happened in Palm Beach County when a bitterly-contested national election came to town–and who paid the price?

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    23 October 2024, 4:01 am
  • 50 minutes 31 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Episode 2 – Real Numbers

    On election night 2000 an ad hoc network of statisticians, news producers, TV anchors, and political operatives tried to figure out what the hell was going on in Florida–and failed spectacularly.

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    16 October 2024, 3:45 am
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