This week: Adam Jentleson’s book Supermajority, released in September, calls for Democrats to stop eking out Senate majorities and instead broaden their appeal to win 55-60 Senate seats and a comfortable House majority. Last week’s election puts the party most of the way there. We talk with Adam about why that happened and what Democrats need to do to maintain it. Plus: Adam makes a case for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to keep their leadership positions, and we talk about what the Democratic party can do if it wins full control in 2029 and actually has to make policy choices.

That later part of the conversation is for paying subscribers, as is this week’s cocktail hour, in which we discuss the Jensen Huang honeypot scandal. Finally: do you want advice from us? Email your problems, big and small, to josh@joshbarro.com and we may take them on in a future episode.

This week: well, Republicans got absolutely shellacked in the midterms. Megan, Ben and Josh discuss what comes next: After a loss this bad, will the Trump-era Republican politics of gratuitous nastiness finally fade away? Can Ron DeSantis position himself as the Republican who can actually make a positive pitch to voters? What should Democrats do with their new majorities, and who is positioned to lead the party into the 2028 election? (This week’s show is free for all subscribers.)

This week: friend-of-the-pod Nate Silver prepares us for next week's elections and lays out why his model gives Democrats overwhelming odds to reclaim the House of Representatives and a nearly three-in-four chance to retake the Senate, despite the unfavorable map.

Also this week, for premium subscribers: We talk about the spate of fake pollsters putting out made-up polls this cycle and we get Nate’s guidance for interpreting early returns on Election Night. In cocktail hour this week, we discuss Cheesecake Factory-gate and what kind of gay President Trump is.

For that list of special opportunities to see us next week — online, and, if you are in New York, in person, go to www.centralairpodcast.com.