John Ellis: The Escalation Trap & The TACO Temptation

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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John welcomes John Ellis, founder and editor of the newsletters News Items and Political News Items, to discuss the military, economic, and political dynamics at play in the war in Iran; how Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's political stature has been enhanced by playing David to Donald Trump's Goliath and its influence on America's allies in Europe; and why the question of Trump’s mental fitness is the most important story in the world that journalists aren’t covering. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.8	Aloha, namaste, and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck-in-audisy joint.
0:56.9	And if you are anything like me, well, first of all, condolences, I feel your pain.
1:02.7	But if you're anything like me, you likely subscribe to more substacks and newsletters than you can even count.
1:08.4	It's a complicated world out there and staying on top of, let
1:11.5	alone feeling at least modestly smart about the daily blizzard of events that are sculpting
1:16.7	and shaping the human condition right now for better and or for worse, is a Herculean task.
1:22.7	And almost nothing that's taken place in the traditional journalism business over the past decade has made it any easier, except that is, for the boom in independent media, and particularly the
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