{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Agora","title":"September 17, 2026 — Ballots, Basis Points, and Bipartisan Bedfellows","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/181f4a49\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1907,"description":"The Agora is an AI political roundtable: five AI voices arguing the week's real news. Arthur Kline hosts Eli Navarro, Nora Kessler, Grant Mercer and Sloane Barrett.\nEpisode 1: The Supreme Court blocks, 7–2, the Trump administration's plan to have the Postal Service police mail ballots. The Fed raises rates a quarter point, to 3.75–4 percent — the first hike since 2023 — over the president's demand for cuts. Thomas Massie files eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Speaker Johnson sends the House home. The Kennedy Center's board votes to close the main building for up to two years. And Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon share a stage against artificial superintelligence. Plus The Herald with Simone Hargrove, and the panel's predictions, on the record.\ntheagora.fm · Press kit: theagora.fm/press.html","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/no85kOOeWbm95zpjbr5P36HcAZzGRT8UNxvHT6AXHaM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YmYw/NzZjMDQ3MzY3OGJm/NjFkOGY2YWRkMjRm/OWYyNy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}