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Bonus: The Battle Over Jordan Neely’s Death (with Anand Giridharadas) LOGIN TO LISTEN Photo by Andrew Savulich/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images Show Notes In the Stay Tuned podcast bonus for Insiders, Preet and Anand Giridharadas, writer, political analyst, and author of the popular Substack newsletter The Ink, discuss how public reactions to Jordan Neely’s death evolved as the story gained national attention and became part of a broader debate over what his death represented.

This week on the Stay Tuned with Preet podcast, Anand Giridharadas, writer, political analyst, and author of the popular Substack newsletter The Ink, joins Preet to discuss his new book, Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City, about the NYC subway chokehold case of Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely.

Donald Trump plainly intends to either win or steal the 2026 midterms. The man has never accepted an electoral outcome he doesn’t like, whether he’s won or lost. That’s held true in general elections and in primaries, Republican and Democratic alike. Trump has made little effort to mask his intent this year.

On this week’s episode of the Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss: – A federal judge’s order directing the Trump administration to restore press passes for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico journalists after they were revoked; – The Supreme Court decision that blocked Missouri Republicans from using a gerrymandered map for the midterm elections; and – The Supreme Court ruling that the Trump administration can use a Department of Homeland Security database to identify noncitizens on...

In the Stay Tuned podcast bonus for Insiders, Preet and Danny Meyer, renowned restaurateur and founder of Shake Shack, discuss their takes on competitiveness. Plus, what it’s like for Meyer to dine at his own restaurants. For more content at the intersection of law, politics, and policy, sign up to receive the weekly CAFE Brief newsletter, for free: cafe.com/brief Tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #AskPreet, email us at letters@cafe.com, or call 833-997-7338 to leave a voicemail.

This week on the Stay Tuned with Preet podcast, Danny Meyer, renowned restaurateur and founder of Shake Shack and Union Square Hospitality Group, joins Preet to discuss his new book, What Could Possibly Go Right? The Essential Journey to Scale an Enduring Culture. Through personal stories and many metaphors, Meyer shares the most important lessons he’s learned from opening, closing, and reopening restaurants across New York City, including why it’s so important not to fear failure.

When it comes to the First Amendment, Vice-President JD Vance is either dumb or full of crap, and he’s not dumb. Even as right-wing media outlets and legal experts have lambasted Donald Trump’s smashingly unconstitutional White House press ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, Vance and other bad-faith sycophants have argued that government policing of the media is not only appropriate but necessary to ensure some subjective, unmeasurable quantum of feel-good journalistic fluff.

On this week’s episode of the Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss: – President Trump’s decision to bar CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, and the lawsuit challenging the ban; – The legal battle over Trump’s efforts to reshape and rename the Kennedy Center, including a judge’s recent order requiring advance notice of any renovations; and – A report on Trump Housing Director Bill Pulte’s scrutiny of mortgages belonging to Trump rivals like Adam Schiff, as well as...

This week on the Stay Tuned with Preet podcast, Jessica Tarlov, co-host of Fox News’s The Five and Vox Media’s Raging Moderates podcast, joins Preet to discuss her new book, I Disagree: Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends. Drawing on her experience as the lone liberal on The Five, Tarlov shares best practices for debating people on the opposite side of the political spectrum and why the initial goal shouldn’t be to change their mind.

Bonus: Trump’s Sway on Elections & the Republican Who Could Win 2028 (with Jessica Tarlov) LOGIN TO LISTEN Photo by Fernando Vergara / POOL / AFP via Getty Images Show Notes In the Stay Tuned podcast bonus for Insiders, Preet and Jessica Tarlov, the lone liberal co-host on Fox News’s The Five, discuss Tarlov’s predictions for the midterm elections and whether President Trump can still sway the results. Plus, who Tarlov sees as viable candidates for the 2028 presidential election.