On this week's Political Scene podcast, Dorothy Wickenden asked me why inequality has suddenly emerged as a live political issue.

Hendrik Hertzberg, looking back at the debt-ceiling compromise, has encouraging words on this week's Political Scene podcast.

"Everybody loves a good scandal," Dorothy Wickenden notes on this week's Political Scene podcast, "except the perpetrators and the victims, of course."

Monday's ruling challenging the legality of stem-cell research could have been avoided, Peter J. Boyer says on this week's Political Scene podcast.

On the Political Scene podcast, Hertzberg and Peter J. Boyer debated whether the project's developers should find a new location.

In this week's Political Scene podcast, Laura Secor talks about the latest developments in Iran.

"European politics are beginning to make all the scurrilous news about Republican Presidential candidates look tame," says Dorothy Wickenden on this week's Political Scene podcast.

"I think it's inevitable that the Supreme Court will address this issue," Jeffrey Toobin says on this week's Political Scene podcast.

In this week's Political Scene podcast, host Dorothy Wickenden asks, "Why are we working with Pakistan?

"Three cheers to the State Department," Ryan Lizza says on this week's Political Scene podcast.