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    Zach Young

    Zach Young

    Podcast Producer, HuffPost Politics

  • This Ex-NFL Player Is On A Mission To Become A Chess Master

    Having mastered football and math, John Urschel has his sights on chess.

  • I'm Still Here Episode 3: An Epidemic Of Epidemics

    Two addicts hope this time recovery will be different.

  • Sorry NFL Fans, Protests Don't Work If They Aren't Annoying

    Earlier this year Donté Stallworth and three other former and current NFL football players spent three days lobbying Congress in favor of criminal justice reform. This week, Stallworth and HuffPost reporter Travis Waldron join the So That Happened podcast to talk football and politics. The Republican health care bill is officially dead, but HuffPost reporters Jeffrey Young and Igor Bobic explain what’s next in the Trump administration’s quest to kill the Affordable Care Act.

  • Zombie GOP Health Bill Temporarily Exits Grave

    Republicans in the U.S. Senate have been unable to garner enough support within their own conference for their latest bill to repeal Obamacare. One way they could do it, though, is by adding special provisions to woo holdout senators ― like an amendment that would exempt the state of Alaska from the underlying bill's harsh provisions. This week on So That Happened, The Intercept's Ryan Grim and HuffPost health care reporter Jeffrey Young discuss the absurd GOP health care agenda and the unlikelihood of its enactment.

  • Single Payer Is Alive And Obamacare Repeal Is Dead

    This week on So That Happened: President Donald Trump dined with Democrats and on Wednesday night struck some sort of agreement with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Nancy Pelosi to avoid the deportation of Dreamers ― immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. For answers, we talk to HuffPost White House correspondent S.V. Date and D.C. bureau chief Amanda Terkel. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and 16 Senate Democrats introduced legislation to expand Medicare for all Americans ― a huge deal.

  • DACA And The Debt Ceiling

    div> This week on So That Happened: President Trump struck a surprising deal with congressional Democrats to fund the government for only three months. The move was a slap in the face to Republicans but Trump reportedly raved about the news coverage. HuffPost White House Correspondent S.V. Date joins us to explain if there will be more of Trump collaborating with Democrats in the future.

  • As Hurricane Harvey Moves On, What Now?

    This week on So That Happened: in the wake of one of the worst storms in US history, Huffpost national reporter Roque Planas talks to Zach Young about what it was like to report from Houston during Hurricane Harvey and witness the destruction firsthand. Then, former Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis talks about how Texans are responding to the storm ― and how the state’s politics make a bigger-picture reckoning with the dangers of unchecked urban sprawl difficult.

  • Trump Reads Fake Version Of Own Speech

    div> This week on So That Happened: president Donald Trump read what he pretended was an excerpt of his own speech in order to claim he'd been wrongly criticized, except he omitted the part that caused all the criticism. You know, the part in which he excused white supremacists for domestic terrorism in Charlottesville. p> Journalist and former NFL veteran Donte Stallworth joins the show to talk Trump and also the phenomenon of NFL players refusing to stand for the national anthem.

  • What Happens Now That The President Has Openly Embraced White Supremacists

    President Trump this week spoke of “very fine people” among the Nazis and Ku Klux Klanners who staged a violent protest that resulted in the deaths of three people on Saturday. Trump’s comments drew cascades of condemnation, but we already knew he had white supremacist tendencies. Jamelle Bouie, the chief political correspondent for Slate.com, joins So That Happened to talk about what has really changed, and whether Nazis are now in a real position of power.

  • HuffPost Hits The Road

    This week, we turn the reins of So That Happened over to the New York office, and HuffPost reporters Jeff Young and Sam Levine. First, they’re joined by our editor-in-chief Lydia Polgreen to talk about the HuffPost “Listen to America” bus tour. Starting in September a whole bunch of HuffPost reporters are going to be touring the country on a bus, starting in St. Louis, then heading through the South, up to the Midwest, over to Montana, down to Arizona, and finally back east to New Orleans.

  • What Can We Learn From 2016's Outsider Presidential Campaigns?

    This week, we take a little break from things that happened this week to head to Pasadena, California for Politicon! Over the weekend, So That Happened producer Zach Young attended the “unconventional political convention” and talked with Symone Sanders, National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders campaign, and Austin Petersen, runner-up to Gary Johnson in last year’s Libertarian presidential primary. As Cenk Uygur and Ben Shapiro debated loudly in the adjacent auditorium, we had an insightful conversation on what it was like to be part of an outsider presidential campaign in 2016 and what lessons that year holds for the future.

  • Happy Birthday, Dodd-Frank!

    div> This week on So That Happened: Zach Carter takes a break from book leave to return and host the show! He's joined by ProPublica reporter Jesse Eisinger and Huffpost's Alexander Kaufman to talk about why bankers never seem to go to jail. Then, Michelle Kuo stops by to talk about her book Reading With Patrick, a memoir about a teacher's relationship with a gifted student who ends up jailed for murder.

  • Donald Trump Jr. Steps In It

    For months, President Trump and his supporters said it was all just a political witch hunt, that his campaign had not colluded with the Russian government’s interference in last year’s presidential election. This week Donald Trump, Jr. revealed that he had, in fact, sought incriminating information on Hillary Clinton from a Russian government source. Also, the Roosevelt Institute’s Mike Konczal joins the podcast to explain a new policy from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that will allow credit card and other financial product customers to sue if they get ripped off ― unless Republicans in Congress stop the agency in its tracks.

  • The Battle For The Soul Of The Anti-Anti Trump Movement

    This week on So That Happened: did CNN screw up by seemingly threatening to reveal the identity of a Reddit user who made a silly gif that President Trump tweeted? The Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney says the episode represents the kind of media excess that gives rise to Anti-Anti-Trumpism, a sort-of movement animated by the belief that Trump’s critics somehow lie more than Trump does. The Anti-Anti-Trump argument loses credibility, Carney says, the minute it serves as an excuse to avoid criticizing the president.

  • The Zombie Senate Healthcare Bill Will Be Back To Eat Your Brains

    This week on So That Happened: Republicans in the U.S. Senate completely boofed their health care bill, so we discuss the politics of their failure as well as how the underlying policy could change when the zombie Senate bill rises from the dead next month. President Trump continues to seem completely unaware of what’s in the legislation, and even resigned to its failure. “So That Happened” is hosted by Jason Linkins, Zach Carter and Arthur Delaney and produced by Zach Young.

  • Republicans Could Really Pass Their Obamacare Repeal Bill

    div> Senate Republicans finally released their secret Obamacare repeal bill, so this week on “So That Happened” we explore the real possibility that this thing could actually pass and become law. We also take a look at Democrats' total fecklessness in special elections and the several high-profile acquittals of police officers who killed civilians for no good reason. p> This week's episode also includes a sneak peak of the second season of Huffpost's Candidate Confessional podcast.

  • Why Political Losers Tell Us More About American Politics Than The Winners

    Welcome to season two of Candidate Confessional, a podcast dedicated to those who came up short in the world of governance.

  • The Worst Week In Washington

    This week, we discuss the assassination attempt on members of Congress, which has left House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) grievously injured. Fallout from the shooting included efforts to blame political opponents, as well as a familiar debate over whether it’s appropriate to question permissive gun laws for gun violence, which it always is. Also, HuffPost suffered a round of layoffs occasioned by the merger of our corporate parent with another company, and we lost So That Happened host Jason Linkins.

  • James Comey Calls Donald Trump A Liar (Because He Is)

    This week on So That Happened: the White House celebrates Infrastructure Week. Or at least, they wanted to, but couldn’t because this week was James Comey-A-Go-Go in the Senate Intelligence Committee. Yes, the former FBI director debuted his testimony in front of an eager gaggle of Senators and he seemed pretty bent on making sure everyone knew that President Donald Trump was a serial liar.

  • What Can The Orb Teach Us About Trump's Foreign Policy?

    President Donald Trump has returned from his first lengthy trip abroad. Now it’s time to consider the ways Trump’s dealings with our European allies and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia point to a coming shift in American foreign policy, and illustrate the way Trump wants to reshape the world and the United States role in it. After looking beyond our borders, we’ll then come home to Capitol Hill, where the lives of Republican legislators have continued to get more and more complicated, and more and more frustrating, as the ongoing Russia probes steal time away from shaping a legislative agenda.