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Forbes
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
A Surprising ‘The Pitt' Season 2 Update As It Takes On Trump
The Pitt was unabashedly progressive in season 1 when it came to issues like treatment of certain patient populations (overlooking conditions that disproportionately affect black patients) or larger scale issues (extolling the efficacy of vaccines). Now, it's plainly stated that the show is going to be incorporating current Trump-era policy changes in season 2. A new interview in Variety with The Pitt star Noah Wyle, Dr. Robby, who might be about to win an Emmy for that part, has him discussing how The Pitt will take on these issues in season 2: 'You're not making value judgments. You're just painting a picture, and if it's accurate enough and it's representative enough, it becomes a bit of a Rorschach test. You see what you want to see in it and you draw your own conclusions from it. If it looks like the system is untenable, unfair and skewed towards one population over another, maybe it is.' Executive producer John Wells spells out specific issues that will be brought up, some of which stem from Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' that went into effect this year: 'The Medicaid changes are going to have a significant impact, and you don't have to take a political position to discuss what the impact is actually going to be,' Wells says. 'I don't want to have an argument about whether or not they're appropriate, what Congress did or didn't do. But they're going to have on-the-ground, immediate consequences in emergency rooms, and nobody's arguing with that. That's a bipartisan agreement. You've got very Republican senators from Missouri like Josh Hawley agreeing that this is going to be a problem.' The article also goes on to say that issues like undocumented families and ICE raids may play into season 2 as well. That said, The Pitt season 2 is already filming, so much of that writing is already in place no matter what Trump does next. The Pitt was accused of perhaps being overly 'preachy' with some of its progressive aspects in season 1, pausing in the middle of the action to lay out of a series of talking points, no matter if they are in fact accurate. Doing checkboxes of modern day political issues does seem like a recipe to perhaps turn off some audiences. However, those may be audiences that need to hear it. Wyle says they have a responsibility to 10 million viewers to lay facts bare about the current situation in American medicine. As someone deeply embroiled in that community, I can tell you that yes, without question issues like Medicare availability and vaccine denial are enormous problems that plague doctors and staff, and it does make sense the show would reflect that if it's aiming to continue to be a realistic depiction of medicine. I do expect all this to be controversial when The Pitt is released next January, a year into Trump's term and based on very real policies that have been put in place over that time period, rather than just larger, structural issues the way we saw him year one. We'll see how everyone reacts then. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
The Democratic strategist had some pie-in-the-sky proposals for Democrats to resist President Donald Trump.
Democratic strategist James Carville has some bold proposals for Democrats in the Trump era. On Wednesday's episode of his Politics War Room podcast, Carville said that Democrats 'are right when they say this democracy is really imperfect.' With that diagnosis in mind, Carville unleashed a flood of recommendations for Democrats if they win back both chambers of Congress and the presidency in 2028—a prospect that Carville said is 'certainly not impossible.'
Al Arabiya
4 days ago
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Legacy media, polarized politics & America's future
On this episode of the Riz Khan Show, veteran journalist Christian Caryl joins the conversation. A sharp voice in global affairs, Caryl breaks down the polarized state of American politics – from the Biden presidency to the Trump era – and what it all means for the American people and the world.
Bloomberg
5 days ago
- Politics
- Bloomberg
The Texas Gerrymandering Fight Could Ignite a National Fire
The gerrymandering arms race triggered by Texas Republicans at President Donald Trump's behest marks an ominous new milestone in the unraveling of America. With the White House pushing other Republican-controlled states to redraw their lines, and Democratic states including California and New York pledging to respond, the rapidly escalating confrontation encapsulates how the Trump era is threatening the nation's fundamental cohesion in ways unmatched since the Civil War. It reflects a vision of the United States not as a unified nation, but as irrevocably hostile blocs of red and blue states uneasily sharing the same land mass.
Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Biden claims he's 'getting calls' from European leaders wanting him to 'get engaged'
Former President Joe Biden claimed during a rare public appearance on Wednesday that he keeps getting calls from officeholders and European leaders asking for advice during the Trump era. Biden gave a keynote speech at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) convention in San Diego and later sat down with SHRM president and CEO Johnny Taylor in a video published by Democratic operative Chris Jackson on X. The two talked about how he has been spending his time since leaving office. After touting his accomplishments, the former president said he still stays engaged with world efforts and is constantly told by international leaders to get more involved. Biden Scolds Reporters Saying He 'Knows More World Leaders' Than They Do In Their Whole 'Goddamn' Lives "I'm getting calls. I'm not going to go into it, I can't, from a number of European leaders asking me to get engaged," Biden said. "I'm not, but I'm giving advice. Because things are different." "How can you just walk away?" Biden added. "You don't see me out there publicly doing a lot of this. But I'm also dealing with a lot of Democrats and Republican colleagues, all of them, wanting to talk, not because they think I have the answer, just to bounce things off me. I'm seeing a lot of officeholders… I'm not looking for them. They asked to see me, I see them." Read On The Fox News App Fox News Digital reached out to Biden's office for comment. Biden also revealed that he was working on a memoir since "every president is expected to write a memoir." He described himself as "working like hell" to write a 500-page book that his publisher wants out by "March of this year." Biden's Media Blitz Met With Democratic Disdain, Wishes He Would 'Go Away' Since leaving office, Biden has largely stayed out of the public spotlight. Biden didn't give his first public speech as a former president until April, almost three months after leaving the White House. His brief return to the limelight in May was met with backlash by his fellow article source: Biden claims he's 'getting calls' from European leaders wanting him to 'get engaged'
