Politics for the Exhausted American Voter with Jane Coaston

Conversations With Coleman

The Free Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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In this episode, I’m joined by Jane Coaston, a journalist and former host of The Argument podcast at The New York Times who is now a host at Crooked Media. We talk about how she became a libertarian, the spread of far-right conspiracies, why black support for conservatives is growing, and what the mainstream media continues to miss. A special thanks to our sponsors: New episodes of The Isabel Brown Show can be viewed on DailyWire+ here: ⁠⁠⁠www.dailywire.com/show/the-isabel-brown-show⁠⁠⁠Follow Isabel on X: ⁠⁠⁠www.x.com/theisabelb⁠⁠⁠Follow Isabel on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠www.instagram.com/theisabelbrown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Jane Koston.
0:06.5	Jane is a journalist who focuses on conservatism in the GOP. She was a senior politics reporter at Vox and a
0:13.3	contributing opinion writer and host of the Argument podcast at the New York Times.
0:18.0	She now hosts What a Day at Crooked Media and frequently appears on CNN.
0:22.7	In this episode, we talk about the far-right obsession with conspiracies about sexual deviance.
0:28.5	We talk about why black support for Trump has increased over the past 10 years.
0:33.0	We talk about what the mainstream media gets wrong about conservatives.
0:36.7	And we talk about why
0:37.7	Jane is a libertarian and much more. We had this conversation about an hour before Charlie Kirk
0:43.6	was assassinated, so that's obviously the reason why we didn't talk about that. So without further
0:48.8	ado, Jane Koston.
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1:29.7	wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, Jane Koston, thanks so much for coming on my show.
1:35.3	Absolutely. Any time. Thanks for having me. So I've been following you for a while. I think,
1:39.8	I assume a lot of my listeners will be familiar with you from your work at Vox for years and also your work at the New York Times.
1:48.0	And you ran the argument podcast, which is great podcast.
1:53.1	Used to do it with...
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