Offline with Jon Favreau

A blue wave swept America on Tuesday, but where is it headed? Jon sits down with top campaign advisor Morris Katz to talk about what lessons Democrats should take away from the midterm landslide, why the progressive vs. moderate debate is misguided, and how Republicans got impaled on their own culture war sword. 
Morris worked on several midterm campaigns—including Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa’s—and he shares what he learned in the races he helped win: what made the best campaign ads break through? Is the Democratic Party more united than it seems online? And what should Democrats take from all of this into 2028—besides absolute certainty that whatever they already believed was right?
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In a world of little trust and big echo chambers, how do campaigns persuade voters that their candidates are worth voting for? With the midterms nearly upon us, Jon sits down with campaign expert Greta Carnes—who ran organizing for Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign and collaborates with Vote Save America—to discuss why the old campaign playbook is breaking down, what organizing looks like in a world of unanswered calls, ignored texts, and increasingly sophisticated technology, and how Democrats can actually build relationships with voters that last beyond Election Day. 
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Adam Jentleson, Democratic strategist and author of Supermajority: How Democrats Can Build Lasting Power, joins Offline to debate what Democrats will gain and lose as they run candidates who don’t fit neatly into one ideological box. He and Jon dicuss what the midterm campaigns teach us about political heterodoxy, what Democrats can learn from Obama about entertaining opposing viewpoints, and how to disagree about the party’s future without losing the ability to work together.
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What would you do if your son texted you in the middle of the night that he'd stumbled upon a bizarre castle lorded over by a creepy man? For Jon Ronson, the journalist and bestselling author of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and The Psychopath Test, the answer is simple: write a book about it. The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men is an empathetic, humorous, and startling investigation of men who are struggling to find purpose, connection, and place in a rapidly changing world. 
Jon and Jon talk about what happened to the institutions that once gave people a sense of belonging, how the internet has offered new—and sometimes dangerous—substitutes, and what all of this means for raising boys.
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Frances Haugen became one of the most influential whistleblowers in tech history when she revealed in 2021 that Facebook knew the havoc it was wreaking—addicting teenagers, derailing politics, fomenting ethnic violence—and chose to do very little about it.
Now the subject of Aaron Sorkin’s new movie, "The Social Reckoning," Frances joins Offline to reflect on what she learned trying to change Facebook from the inside, and how it applies to the growing number of AI employees who are now wrestling with the same questions. She and Jon discuss whether whistleblowing actually works, what it takes to hold powerful tech companies accountable, and how one person speaking up can get others to act.
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