A weekly politics podcast where Erin Flanagan and Jacob Shropshire help you navigate through the noise, so you walk away with all the stuff you need to know and none of the stuff you don't. Each week, they break down the three biggest stories around the world and discuss how different parts of the global machinery fit together.

A weekly politics podcast where Erin Flanagan and Jacob Shropshire help you navigate through the noise, so you walk away with all the stuff you need to know and none of the stuff you don't. Each week, they break down the three biggest stories around the world and discuss how different parts of the global machinery fit together.

Then, in Have You Heard?, they go through the rest of the headlines, giving you just what you need to know to stay informed—and even throw in some animal news for fun.

This podcast also turns into an article summary for each week's episode on Substack. We'd love for you to subscribe!

Erin Flanagan is a former U.S. Coast Guard intelligence officer and Agence France-Presse digital investigations journalist.

Jacob Shropshire is an editorial intern at Worldcrunch and the managing editor of Peacock Media at the American University of Paris. He spent two years working for Democratic political campaigns in the U.S.