1335 Michael Cohen + News & Clips

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Pete Dominick

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4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Michael A. Cohen has been a columnist for the Boston Globe on national politics and foreign affairs since 2014. He is also the author of “American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division,” “Live From the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America” and is the co-author with Micah Zenko of “Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans.” Michael has written for dozens of news outlets, including as a regular columnist for the Guardian, Foreign Policy, the London Observer, and World Politics Review. He previously worked as a speechwriter at the US State Department, on Capitol Hill, and at NBC; was a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and a fellow at the Century Foundation, the American Security Project, and the World Policy Institute; and has also been a lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

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0:00.0	Hi, it is Thursday. That means we hang out tonight. You should come to the hangout. It's always
0:07.3	rejuvenating. It fills your bucket. So if you're not a subscriber, join us. You know what?
0:12.0	As a matter of fact, even if you aren't a subscriber, sign up for Patreon. You can sign up for
0:17.7	free and not even pay. And you will get the link for the hangout, and you can join us tonight.
0:22.9	I've done that a couple times.
0:24.0	I didn't even know Patreon allowed free subscribers, but there's like over 1,000 subscribers now, but about like 250 or more are unpaid.
0:34.1	So if you're one of those people, I'm glad to have you.
0:36.8	Thanks for being part of our world.
0:39.2	I hope that you'll upgrade to a paid subscription. But let's have a party tonight. It's Thursday night.
0:44.1	It's mid-April. Spring is in the air. I hope everybody comes to tonight's hang out at 8 p.m.
0:51.2	East. And today on the show, Michael Cohen joins us. And Michael, of course, not Trump's
0:57.3	former lawyer, the former Boston Globe columnist now doing his own independent thing. He's a senior
1:02.4	fellow at Tufts University. He's also got a great substack called Truth and Consequences. Michael
1:08.1	joins us for the first time in a while and had a great conversation with him.
1:13.5	He actually made me feel better in a weird kind of way and all the darkness that is happening,
1:18.3	even though he sees a lot of bad things that are going to happen.
1:21.6	There was some moderating feelings and opinions that Michael had that I thought were great.
1:26.2	I think you're going to love that conversation. If you like that kind of thing, if you like Michael,
1:31.3	and even if you don't, because he's a real original thinker.
1:35.3	He's not very much influenced by the algorithm, by people's respect or like for him.
1:41.1	He likes to speak his mind.
1:42.2	You may disagree with him.
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