In this episode, host Charles Denyer investigates Donald Trump’s meteoric rise during the 2016 presidential campaign, exploring how a political outsider used spectacle, grievance, and unfiltered strategy to dominate the Republican primary and defeat Hillary Clinton.

In this episode, host Charles Denyer examines the presidency of Barack Obama not as a victory lap, but as a collision—between optimism and resentment, precision and chaos, symbolism and backlash. It explores how Obama entered office as a symbol of renewal, only to confront forces far older...

In this episode, host Charles Denyer examines the presidency of George W. Bush at the moment where fear hardened into policy—and consequences spiraled beyond control. This episode moves from the smoke of September 11 into the invasion of Iraq, the collapse of intelligence credibility...

In this episode of our new mini-series, Chasing Power: The Oval Office, host Charles Denyer investigates the unprecedented moment inside Trump Tower when a CIA veteran realized the incoming commander-in-chief was not reading the nation’s most classified intelligence.

In this compelling episode of our new mini-series, Chasing Power: The Rhetoric of War, host Charles Denyer dissects the January 29, 2002 State of the Union address where George W. Bush introduced a phrase that would define his presidency and justify a preemptive war.

In this episode of Chasing Power: What Presidents Don’t Know, host Charles Denyer explores how the system itself limits what presidents can know. From Bush–Obama transition briefings to the evolution of the Stuxnet cyber weapon, it shows how programs can grow beyond presidential control.

In this electrifying episode of our new mini-series, Chasing Power: The Defining Moments, host Charles Denyer takes you inside the night of July 27, 2004, when Barack Obama, a little-known Illinois politician, stepped onto the stage at Boston's Fleet Center and delivered a keynote address that would redefine...

In this episode of Chasing Power, host Charles Denyer concludes the two-part story of Mike Pence by going inside January 6, 2021—the day the vice president was forced to make the defining decision of his political career.

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In this episode, host Charles Denyer explores the dramatic downfall and astonishing resurgence of Donald Trump—from the turmoil of the 2020 election and January 6 to impeachments and indictments, followed by one of the most improbable comebacks in American history.

In this episode, host Charles Denyer examines Barack Obama’s second term not as a continuation of hope, but as a reckoning—between belief and trust, transformation and endurance. It explores how Obama, reelected in 2012, redefined himself as a guardian of stability in a nation exhausted...

In this episode, host Charles Denyer concludes the definitive examination of George W. Bush’s presidency as it staggers under the weight of financial collapse, broken alliances, and the sobering legacy of power shared—and contested. This episode moves from the brink of economic...

In this urgent episode of our new mini-series, Chasing Power: The Digital Presidency, host Charles Denyer dissects the 16-minute window on a February night in 2026 when a single social media post detonated a national firestorm.

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In this episode of Chasing Power: The Defining Moments, host Charles Denyer revisits September 14, 2001, when George W. Bush shifted from embattled president to wartime leader—tracing how a single bullhorn moment in lower Manhattan helped define a generation of war.

In this gripping third episode of our mini-series, Chasing Power: What the President Doesn't Know, host Charles Denyer begins the presidential stories with Richard Nixon—a man who entered the Oval Office with a fully formed distrust of the CIA and spent five years trying to bend the system to his will.

In this episode, host Charles Denyer revisits one of the most dramatic vice-presidential rollouts in politics. On September 3, 2008, Sarah Palin delivered a Republican National Convention speech that electrified conservatives and transformed her into the Republican Party's star.

In this episode of Chasing Power, host Charles Denyer continues What Presidents Don't Know with Jimmy Carter, who entered Washington after the Church Committee exposed decades of covert abuses, promising transparency and reform.

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In this episode, host Charles Denyer unpacks the extraordinary rise of Barack Obama. From a childhood spent navigating identities to the construction of a data driven national movement, this episode explores how Obama transformed empathy into strategy and symbolism into structure.

In this episode, host Charles Denyer examines George W. Bush not as a caricature, but as a study in contingency—between dynasty and dispute, legitimacy and catastrophe. It traces his rise from contested heir to wartime commander in chief, and how fear, faith, and preemption reshaped...

In this explosive episode of Chasing Power: The 2024 Unraveling, host Charles Denyer examines the 90-minute debate collapse that led Joe Biden to become the first incumbent in 56 years to exit a re-election race—tracing the fallout from stunned silence at CNN to the party-wide panic that followed.

In this episode of Chasing Power: The Defining Moments, host Charles Denyer revisits September 14, 2001, when George W. Bush shifted from embattled president to wartime leader—tracing how a single bullhorn moment in lower Manhattan helped define a generation of war.

In this landmark premiere episode of our new mini-series, Chasing Power: What Presidents Don't Know, host Charles Denyer launches a 10-part investigation into one of the most persistent and consequential myths in American political life—that winning the presidency means finally being told the full truth.

In this revealing fourth episode of our mini-series, Chasing Power: What the President Doesn't Know, host Charles Denyer turns to Gerald Ford—the only man to become president without being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency. This chapter traces how Ford, unlike Nixon, did not...​

In this episode of Chasing Power, host Charles Denyer begins a two-part examination of Mike Pence and the political journey that took him from the Republican National Convention stage in Cleveland to the constitutional crisis of January 6, 2021.