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The answer: Between seasons — last episode August 5, 2025, no return date announced yet.
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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?
Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes episode schedule
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| Date | Ep. | Title |
|---|---|---|
| August 5, 2025 | S2025·E32 | 'Not My Type' with E. Jean Carroll |
| July 29, 2025 | S2025·E31 | The United States' Standing in the Global Economy with Aya Ibrahim |
| July 22, 2025 | S2025·E30 | The Resistance vs. Trump 2.0 with Omar Wasow |
| July 15, 2025 | S2025·E29 | The Supreme Court's Power Grab Under Trump |
| July 8, 2025 | S2025·E28 | Crypto in Trump 2.0 with Zeke Faux |
| July 1, 2025 | S2025·E27 | Discussing the Context of the US Bombing Iran with Robert Malley |
| June 24, 2025 | S2025·E26 | "My Brain Finally Broke" with Jia Tolentino |
| June 17, 2025 | S2025·E25 | Strategies for the Resistance 2.0 with Leah Greenberg |
| June 10, 2025 | S2025·E24 | The Narrative vs. Real Effects of This Economy with Joe Weisenthal |
| June 3, 2025 | S2025·E23 | "Empire of AI" with Karen Hao |
| June 2, 2025 | S2025·E22 | Special Preview of "The Best People with Nicolle Wallace" |
| May 27, 2025 | S2025·E21 | Where Do We Go From Here? with Anna Galland (2024) |
| May 20, 2025 | S2025·E20 | What's Behind the Tax Revolt? with Arjun Singh |
| May 13, 2025 | S2025·E19 | How Project 2025 is Reshaping America with David Graham |
| May 6, 2025 | S2025·E18 | Protests, Political Violence and Its Alternatives with Erica Chenoweth |
| April 29, 2025 | S2025·E17 | "Trump Is Not a King" with NY Attorney General Letitia James |
| April 22, 2025 | S2025·E16 | ‘America, América' with Greg Grandin |
| April 15, 2025 | S2025·E15 | ‘Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza' with Peter Beinart |
| April 8, 2025 | S2025·E14 | How Process is Killing Progress with Ezra Klein |
| April 1, 2025 | S2025·E13 | Why ‘Everything is Tuberculosis' with John Green |
| March 25, 2025 | S2025·E12 | Weaponization of the FBI from Hoover to Trump 2.0 with Beverly Gage |
| March 18, 2025 | S2025·E11 | What's the Deal with Congestion Pricing? with Janno Lieber |
| March 11, 2025 | S2025·E10 | Resisting Threats to Democracy with Rep. Robert Garcia |
| March 4, 2025 | S2025·E9 | The Darkest Corners of the Internet with Elle Reeve |
| February 25, 2025 | S2025·E8 | The Stalled Engine of American Opportunity with Yoni Appelbaum |
| February 18, 2025 | S2025·E7 | The Uncertain Future of USAID with Jeremy Konyndyk |
| February 11, 2025 | S2025·E6 | Crypto in Trump 2.0 with Zeke Faux |
| February 4, 2025 | S2025·E5 | The Reality at the Border with Jonathan Blitzer |
| January 28, 2025 | S2025·E4 | WITHpod Special: Hear a Chapter of Chris' New Book: ‘The Siren's Call' |
| January 21, 2025 | S2025·E3 | Musk in the Trump 2.0 Era with Kate Conger |
Show next 200 of 374 earlier episodes
| January 14, 2025 | S2025·E2 | Weight Loss Drugs for Curing Addiction? with Nicholas Reville |
| January 7, 2025 | S2025·E1 | Strategies for the Resistance 2.0 with Leah Greenberg |
| December 24, 2024 | S2024·E55 | What Happens When Americans Get $1,000 a Month Unconditional Cash Transfers? with Elizabeth Rhodes a |
| December 17, 2024 | S2024·E54 | "The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi" with Wright Thompson |
| December 10, 2024 | S2024·E53 | How Democratic Backsliding Happens with Steve Levitsky |
| December 3, 2024 | S2024·E52 | Chris is the guest this week! |
| November 26, 2024 | S2024·E51 | Conservatism in the Trump 2.0 Years with McKay Coppins |
| November 19, 2024 | S2024·E50 | The Role of the Press in This Moment with Matt Pearce |
| November 12, 2024 | S2024·E49 | Where Do We Go From Here? with Anna Galland |
| November 5, 2024 | S2024·E48 | "Polarized by Degrees" with Matt Grossmann and Dave Hopkins |
| October 29, 2024 | S2024·E47 | Talking Harris, Hawaii and More with Senator Brian Schatz |
| October 22, 2024 | S2024·E46 | The Rise of The Latino Far Right with Paola Ramos |
| October 15, 2024 | S2024·E45 | Harris' Media Blitz and Strategy with Symone Sanders-Townsend |
| October 9, 2024 | S2024·E44 | Listen to "Kamala: Next in Line" |
| October 8, 2024 | S2024·E43 | Reflecting on October 7th with Amir Tibon |
| October 1, 2024 | S2024·E42 | Crafting a Bipartisan Miracle with Chris Murphy |
| September 24, 2024 | S2024·E41 | The Coalition of the Weird with Dave Weigel |
| September 17, 2024 | S2024·E40 | The Threat of Project 2025 on Climate |
| September 11, 2024 | S2024·E39 | MSNBC Live: Democracy 2024 |
| September 10, 2024 | S2024·E38 | Building a New South with Anderson Clayton |
| September 3, 2024 | S2024·E37 | The Biden Miracle with Jay Turner |
| August 27, 2024 | S2024·E36 | Recapping an Electric DNC with Alex Wagner |
| August 20, 2024 | S2024·E35 | What Would a Fair Society Look Like? with Daniel Chandler |
| August 13, 2024 | S2024·E34 | The Rise of Kamala Harris with Heather McGhee |
| August 6, 2024 | S2024·E33 | Book Bans with Dave Eggers |
| July 30, 2024 | S2024·E32 | "When the Clock Broke" with John Ganz |
| July 23, 2024 | S2024·E31 | "The Big Dig" with Ian Coss |
| July 16, 2024 | S2024·E30 | What's Next for Biden? with Jamelle Bouie |
| July 9, 2024 | S2024·E29 | SCOTUS Doing Its Worst - Strict Scrutiny Crossover |
| July 2, 2024 | S2024·E28 | The End of Libraries as We Know Them? with Brewster Kahle and Kyle Courtney |
| June 25, 2024 | S2024·E27 | WTH is Project 2025? with Thomas Zimmer |
| June 18, 2024 | S2024·E26 | Criminal Justice, Faith and Politics with Rep. Jasmine Crockett |
| June 11, 2024 | S2024·E25 | The Stakes for Antitrust with Timothy Wu |
| June 4, 2024 | S2024·E24 | Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age with Sasha Issenberg |
| May 28, 2024 | S2024·E23 | Reimagining Leadership & Protests with Eddie S. Glaude Jr. |
| May 21, 2024 | S2024·E22 | The Stakes for Climate and Energy with David Roberts |
| May 14, 2024 | S2024·E21 | Resisting The Right-Wing Attack on Democracy with Ari Berman |
| May 7, 2024 | S2024·E20 | The Stakes for Reproductive Rights with Jessica Valenti |
| April 30, 2024 | S2024·E19 | Inside The Trump Courtroom with Lisa Rubin |
| April 23, 2024 | S2024·E18 | This Moment in Tech with Meredith Whittaker |
| April 16, 2024 | S2024·E17 | The Stakes of Tax Policy with Kimberly Clausing |
| April 9, 2024 | S2024·E16 | The Stakes of Immigration with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick |
| April 2, 2024 | S2024·E15 | The Story of an Israeli Dissident with Meir Baruchin |
| March 26, 2024 | S2024·E14 | The State of Polling with Nate Cohn |
| March 19, 2024 | S2024·E13 | "Who's Afraid of Gender?" with Judith Butler |
| March 15, 2024 | S2024·E12 | BONUS: TikTok's Uncertain Future with Jacob Ward |
| March 12, 2024 | S2024·E11 | Confronting Christian Nationalism with Doug Pagitt |
| March 5, 2024 | S2024·E10 | A Mediapocalypse? with Ben Smith |
| February 27, 2024 | S2024·E9 | The Explosion in Green Tech with Jigar Shah |
| February 20, 2024 | S2024·E8 | Protecting Voting Rights with Eric Holder |
| February 13, 2024 | S2024·E7 | 2020: The Year Everything Changed with Eric Klinenberg |
| February 6, 2024 | S2024·E6 | Winning Progressive Change with Deepak Bhargava |
| January 30, 2024 | S2024·E5 | The Mystery and Miracle of Polynesia with Christina Thompson |
| January 23, 2024 | S2024·E4 | "Your Face Belongs to Us" with Kashmir Hill |
| January 16, 2024 | S2024·E3 | Creating Global Routes to Hope with David Miliband |
| January 9, 2024 | S2024·E2 | 2023: A Turning Point for the Climate? |
| January 2, 2024 | S2024·E1 | The Future of Energy with Jonah Goldman (2022) |
| December 26, 2023 | S2023·E56 | The Future of Friendship with Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow (2022) |
| December 19, 2023 | S2023·E55 | The Future of Entertainment with Seth Meyers (2022) |
| December 12, 2023 | S2023·E54 | "Homeschool Nation" with Laura Meckler |
| December 5, 2023 | S2023·E53 | WITHpod Live - Answering Your Questions |
| November 28, 2023 | S2023·E52 | The Origins of the Universe with Marcelo Gleiser |
| November 23, 2023 | S2023·E51 | Live with Chris Hayes & Rachel Maddow |
| November 14, 2023 | S2023·E50 | Life in the West Bank with Sari Bashi |
| November 7, 2023 | S2023·E49 | Defending Democracy Amid Division with Adam Kinzinger |
| October 31, 2023 | S2023·E48 | The Making of Joy Reid |
| October 24, 2023 | S2023·E47 | "Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World" with Naomi Klein |
| October 17, 2023 | S2023·E46 | Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop with Trymaine Lee, Imani Perry and Vic Mensa |
| October 10, 2023 | S2023·E45 | Recovering Native Narratives and Data with Abigail Echo-Hawk |
| October 3, 2023 | S2023·E44 | The Case for Unconditional Cash Transfers with Jiaying Zhao |
| September 26, 2023 | S2023·E43 | Prosecuting Donald Trump with Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord |
| September 19, 2023 | S2023·E42 | The Progressive Prosecutor Movement with Chesa Boudin |
| September 12, 2023 | S2023·E41 | Hot Labor Summer with Alex Press |
| September 5, 2023 | S2023·E40 | The Care Economy with Ai-jen Poo (2023) |
| August 29, 2023 | S2023·E39 | Answering Your Questions in Our #WITHpod Mailbag |
| August 22, 2023 | S2023·E38 | "The Heat Will Kill You First" with Jeff Goodell |
| August 15, 2023 | S2023·E37 | The "Existential" Climate Crisis with Bill McKibben |
| August 8, 2023 | S2023·E36 | "A Moral Moment in America" with Sen. Raphael Warnock |
| August 2, 2023 | S2023·E35 | BONUS: Prosecuting Donald Trump: The 2020 Election Indictment Read by Ali Velshi |
| August 1, 2023 | S2023·E34 | AI: "An Exponential Disruption" with Kate Crawford (2023) |
| July 25, 2023 | S2023·E33 | Being "Irrepressible" with Little Rock Nine Member Minnijean Brown-Trickey (2023) |
| July 18, 2023 | S2023·E32 | #WITHpod & Strict Scrutiny Crossover |
| July 11, 2023 | S2023·E31 | From Prison to Politics with Yusef Salaam |
| July 4, 2023 | S2023·E30 | Decoding The Information Age with Scott Shapiro |
| June 27, 2023 | S2023·E29 | Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism with Jeffrey Toobin |
| June 20, 2023 | S2023·E28 | Why Americans Are Dying So Young with Anne Case and Angus Deaton |
| June 13, 2023 | S2023·E27 | Leading Chicago with Mayor Brandon Johnson |
| June 11, 2023 | S2023·E26 | BONUS: Prosecuting Donald Trump: The Full Indictment Read by Ali Velshi |
| June 6, 2023 | S2023·E25 | "The Phoenix Economy" with Felix Salmon |
| May 30, 2023 | S2023·E24 | The Care Economy with Ai-jen Poo |
| May 23, 2023 | S2023·E23 | "The Shadow Docket" with Steve Vladeck |
| May 16, 2023 | S2023·E22 | A gun industry insider perspective with Ryan Busse (2022) |
| May 9, 2023 | S2023·E21 | The Explosion of Online Sports Betting with Eric Lipton |
| May 2, 2023 | S2023·E20 | TikTok's Uncertain Future with Jacob Ward |
| April 25, 2023 | S2023·E19 | The Abortionist "Written Out of History" with Jennifer Wright |
| April 18, 2023 | S2023·E18 | AI: "An Exponential Disruption" with Kate Crawford |
| April 11, 2023 | S2023·E17 | What's Behind Israel's Unprecedented Protests with Edo Konrad |
| April 4, 2023 | S2023·E16 | The Fixation on Anti-Trans Legislation with Chase Strangio |
| March 28, 2023 | S2023·E15 | WTH Happened at Silicon Valley Bank? with Mike Konczal |
| March 21, 2023 | S2023·E14 | The Dire Threat of Global Authoritarianism with Rula Jebreal |
| March 14, 2023 | S2023·E13 | Changing Cop Culture with Neil Gross |
| March 7, 2023 | S2023·E12 | Cities After Covid with Brad Lander |
| February 28, 2023 | S2023·E11 | Treating Trans Youth with Dr. Izzy Lowell (2021) |
| February 21, 2023 | S2023·E10 | The ‘Havana Syndrome' with Jon Lee Anderson and Adam Entous |
| February 14, 2023 | S2023·E9 | Being "Irrepressible" with Little Rock Nine Member Minnijean Brown-Trickey |
| February 7, 2023 | S2023·E8 | "The E-bike is Here to Stay" with Mike Radenbaugh |
| January 31, 2023 | S2023·E7 | The Effects of the ‘Stop W.O.K.E' Act with Jonathan Cox |
| January 24, 2023 | S2023·E6 | WTH Happened with FTX? with Tonya Evans |
| January 21, 2023 | S2023·E5 | BONUS: Chris Hayes co-hosts National Day of Racial Healing town hall |
| January 17, 2023 | S2023·E4 | Has the Lottery Played Us? with Jonathan Cohen |
| January 10, 2023 | S2023·E3 | Celebrating 250 #WITHpod Episodes |
| January 10, 2023 | S2023·E2 | Strengthening America's Immigrant ‘Resilience Force' with Saket Soni |
| January 3, 2023 | S2023·E1 | The Debate Inside Progressive Politics with Maurice Mitchell |
| December 27, 2022 | S2022·E59 | What the End of ‘Zero Covid' in China Means with Bill Bishop |
| December 20, 2022 | S2022·E58 | The #WITHpod Holiday Mailbag |
| December 13, 2022 | S2022·E57 | Dads Who "Lean Out" with Tim Lee |
| December 6, 2022 | S2022·E56 | What ‘The Communist Manifesto' Means Today with China Miéville |
| November 29, 2022 | S2022·E55 | Ask a Swole Woman with Casey Johnston (2021) |
| November 22, 2022 | S2022·E54 | Fighting on the Frontlines in Ukraine with Macer Gifford |
| November 15, 2022 | S2022·E53 | Twitter's Elon Musk Era with Kara Swisher |
| November 10, 2022 | S2022·E52 | WITHpod BONUS: Chris and the MSNBC Insiders on the Midterms |
| November 8, 2022 | S2022·E51 | Iran's Growing Protests with Sussan Tahmasebi |
| November 1, 2022 | S2022·E50 | Echoes of the 1994 Midterms in 2022 with Steve Kornacki |
| October 31, 2022 | S2022·E49 | Special Preview: "The Revolution with Steve Kornacki" |
| October 25, 2022 | S2022·E48 | The Klan and Reconstruction with Kidada Williams |
| October 18, 2022 | S2022·E47 | Lady Justice in the Age of Trump and Dobbs with Dahlia Lithwick |
| October 11, 2022 | S2022·E46 | An exclusive #WITHpod conversation with Rachel Maddow |
| October 4, 2022 | S2022·E45 | The Death and Life of Seth Rich with Andy Kroll |
| September 27, 2022 | S2022·E44 | The Power of the Black Vote with Trymaine Lee |
| September 20, 2022 | S2022·E43 | Joe Biden and the End of Reaganomics with Felicia Wong |
| September 13, 2022 | S2022·E42 | What's Going on With the Economy? with Matthew Klein |
| September 6, 2022 | S2022·E41 | The Case for Public Schools with Courtney Martin |
| August 30, 2022 | S2022·E40 | ‘Out of Office' with Anne Helen Petersen |
| August 23, 2022 | S2022·E39 | How Pandemics End with Ellie Murray |
| August 16, 2022 | S2022·E38 | Our First Live #WITHpod Mailbag |
| August 11, 2022 | S2022·E37 | What It's Like to Be Great at Something with Dirk Nowitzki (2022) |
| August 9, 2022 | S2022·E36 | Performance in a Pandemic with Ani DiFranco (2021) |
| August 4, 2022 | S2022·E35 | The Future of Entertainment with Seth Meyers (2022) |
| August 2, 2022 | S2022·E34 | ‘Allow Me to Retort' with Elie Mystal (2022) |
| July 26, 2022 | S2022·E33 | ‘The G Word' with Adam Conover |
| July 19, 2022 | S2022·E32 | ‘His Name is George Floyd' with Robert Samuels |
| July 12, 2022 | S2022·E31 | The Most Conservative Supreme Court in Nearly a Century with Jamal Greene |
| July 5, 2022 | S2022·E30 | The Affordable Housing Crisis with Ned Resnikoff |
| June 28, 2022 | S2022·E29 | ‘Why People Are Acting So Weird' with Olga Khazan |
| June 21, 2022 | S2022·E28 | "Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's" with Connie Walker |
| June 14, 2022 | S2022·E27 | ‘How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics' with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò |
| June 7, 2022 | S2022·E26 | A gun industry insider perspective with Ryan Busse |
| May 31, 2022 | S2022·E25 | 'Liberalism and Its Discontents' with Francis Fukuyama |
| May 30, 2022 | S2022·E24 | Special Preview – Born to Rule: When Charles is King |
| May 24, 2022 | S2022·E23 | ‘A Genetic History of the Americas' with Jennifer Raff |
| May 17, 2022 | S2022·E22 | Unpacking Title 42 with Thomas Saenz |
| May 10, 2022 | S2022·E21 | ‘Allow Me to Retort' with Elie Mystal |
| May 3, 2022 | S2022·E20 | ‘A Year of Healing and Heartbreak' with Thomas Fisher |
| April 26, 2022 | S2022·E19 | Telling the Climate Story with Adam McKay and Omar El Akkad (2019) |
| April 19, 2022 | S2022·E18 | ‘Love Thy Neighbor' with Collier Meyerson |
| April 12, 2022 | S2022·E17 | What It's Like to Be Great at Something with Dirk Nowitzki |
| April 5, 2022 | S2022·E16 | The True Origins of Putin's War with Timothy Snyder |
| March 29, 2022 | S2022·E15 | The Future of Energy with Jonah Goldman |
| March 22, 2022 | S2022·E14 | The Future of Friendship with Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow |
| March 15, 2022 | S2022·E13 | The Future of Innovation with Cathie Wood |
| March 8, 2022 | S2022·E12 | The Future of Entertainment with Seth Meyers |
| March 8, 2022 | S2022·E11 | Introducing the inaugural #WITHpod "Future of" miniseries |
| March 1, 2022 | S2022·E10 | ‘White Space, Black Hood' with Sheryll Cashin |
| February 22, 2022 | S2022·E9 | Treating Trans Youth with Dr. Izzy Lowell |
| February 15, 2022 | S2022·E8 | An Indoor Clean Air Act? with Linsey Marr |
| February 8, 2022 | S2022·E7 | Celebrating 200 #WITHpod Episodes! |
| February 8, 2022 | S2022·E6 | The State of the Taliban with Anand Gopal |
| February 1, 2022 | S2022·E5 | ‘Gangsters of Capitalism' with Jonathan Katz |
| January 25, 2022 | S2022·E4 | The #WITHpod Mailbag |
| January 18, 2022 | S2022·E3 | #WITHpod & Strict Scrutiny Crossover |
| January 11, 2022 | S2022·E2 | The Unthinkable with Jamie Raskin |
| January 4, 2022 | S2022·E1 | Democracy on a Knife's Edge with Bart Gellman & Sherrilyn Ifill |
| December 28, 2021 | S2021·E53 | Ask a Swole Woman with Casey Johnston |
| December 21, 2021 | S2021·E52 | NFTs: WTF? with Kevin Roose |
| December 14, 2021 | S2021·E51 | Statistically True with Kareem Carr |
| December 7, 2021 | S2021·E50 | Not Too Old for TikTok with Hank Green |
| December 6, 2021 | S2021·E49 | Chris Hayes previews a new MSNBC podcast |
| November 30, 2021 | S2021·E48 | Bringing News Inside Prisons with Lawrence Bartley |
| November 23, 2021 | S2021·E47 | The Art of Filmmaking with Alex Gibney |
| November 16, 2021 | S2021·E46 | From Refugee to Congresswoman with Ilhan Omar |
| November 9, 2021 | S2021·E45 | ‘The Loneliest Americans' with Jay Caspian Kang |
| November 2, 2021 | S2021·E44 | Climate, Weather and Trust with Al Roker |
| October 26, 2021 | S2021·E43 | The Race to Become Socialist Mayor of Buffalo with India Walton |
| October 19, 2021 | S2021·E42 | ‘The Invisible Child' with Andrea Elliott |
| October 12, 2021 | S2021·E41 | Inside China's High-Tech Penal Colony with Darren Byler |
| October 5, 2021 | S2021·E40 | Who was Marquis de Lafayette? with Mike Duncan |
| September 28, 2021 | S2021·E39 | ‘Dirty Work' with Eyal Press |
| September 21, 2021 | S2021·E38 | The Ten Year War with Jonathan Cohn |
| September 14, 2021 | S2021·E37 | The Electric Vehicle Revolution with Dana Hull |
| September 7, 2021 | S2021·E36 | Reforming Sexual Justice with Alexandra Brodsky |
| August 31, 2021 | S2021·E35 | The War on Terror with Spencer Ackerman |
| August 24, 2021 | S2021·E34 | Performance in a Pandemic with Ani DiFranco |
| August 17, 2021 | S2021·E33 | Withdrawing from Afghanistan and the Impact of Global Corruption with Sarah Chayes |
| August 10, 2021 | S2021·E32 | "Here, Right Matters" with Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman |
| August 3, 2021 | S2021·E31 | The Summer #WITHpod Mailbag |
| July 27, 2021 | S2021·E30 | Locked Out with Justin Fox |
| July 20, 2021 | S2021·E29 | From Activist to Congress with Rep. Cori Bush |
| July 13, 2021 | S2021·E28 | Inside Palestine with Rashid Khalidi |
| July 6, 2021 | S2021·E27 | "The Line" with Dan Taberski |
| June 29, 2021 | S2021·E26 | Who's Flying the UFOs? with Gideon Lewis-Kraus |
…and 174 earlier episodes not shown. Long-running show.
