Podcasts by Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
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At Your Cervix: A'magine Goddard on Nonconsensual Pelvic Exams on Anesthetized Patients from 2023-12-11T06:23
I like to think we’re living in a more consent-aware world than we used to be. We speak about the sexual ideal of enthusiastic consent required before engaging in sexual acts. And yet, recent re...
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The Rural Voter with Nick Jacobs and Dan Shea from 2023-12-04T06:36
The Democratic Party used to view the rural voter as part of its base. That’s shifted, with many attributing the shift to social, religious, and racial beliefs. Our guests today argue that the r...
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Who Owns Your Face? AI, Extremism, and Facial Recognition with Kashmir Hill from 2023-11-27T06:20
We live in a time where technology is advancing faster than our ability to regulate and culturally adapt to it—and sometimes that results in truly terrifying realities. Our guest this week is Ka...
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Thanksgiving 2023 with Denise Kiernan from 2023-11-20T06:40
In what's become a Thanksgiving week tradition, we revisit our 2020 Thanksgiving episode with Denise Kiernan. At this time, Joe Biden had been elected but had not yet taken office. Donald Tr...
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Oxfam's Abby Maxman on Trying to Save Lives in Gaza from 2023-11-13T06:37
Every day since October 7th, our hearts have been breaking. The unconscionable terrorist attack on Israel killed so many innocents. And yet, in the Israeli response, many times more innocents in...
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Kristin Song on Ethan's Law: A common-sense, life-saving idea for gun safety from 2023-11-06T06:31
We hear about mass shootings all of the time. They dominate our news for a couple of days, and then we move on, doing nothing. Sometimes, in our local news, we might hear about a local shooting ...
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Our Scariest Stories from 2023-10-30T05:07
It’s Halloween week, and we thought we’d cap off spooky season with a look back at some of the scariest stories we’ve covered over the years here at Sorry Not Sorry. So sit back, turn on all the...
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A Needed Dose of Hope: Our Conversation with Kwame Alexander from 2023-10-23T05:07
The world feels very hopeless right now. This week's episode is a piece of magic that we hope makes it easier, even if just for an hour. We're revisiting one of our very favorite episode...
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An Alternative to the Congressional Chaos from 2023-10-16T05:28
The Republican Party is in chaos. The far-right GOP in the House of Representatives is at the mercy of the extreme right GOP in the House. Matt Gaetz and a handful of GOP extremists ousted Speak...
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Cat Bohannon, author of EVE: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution from 2023-10-09T05:09:10
This shouldn’t shock any woman in the world: most medical research is based on male bodies. The effects of that reach out across our societies, leaving women behind not only in medicine but in s...
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#BannedBooksWeek with Emily Drabinski, President of the American Library Association from 2023-10-02T05:43:20
Nefarious groups, driven by hate, are challenging books in school and public libraries at an unprecedented pace. To discuss the problem, what's being done about it, and the state of this yea...
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Colleen Eren, author of Reform Nation, on #Prison Reform from 2023-09-25T05:38:55
The United States imprisons more of its population than any other nation on earth. We also incarcerate more people than any other nation. This reality, combined with the conditions and injustice...
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Fred Guttenberg on the State of Gun Violence in America and President Biden's Efforts to Close the Background Check Loophole from 2023-09-18T12:44:14
46,000 - That's the number of Americans who die every year from gun violence. More than double that number are shot but survive. Fred Guttenberg knows the toll of that devastation more than ...
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Esau McCaulley of the New York Times on his new book How Far to the Promised Land from 2023-09-11T05:32:42
It is no secret that there are different standards for Black families than for white families in the United States. Our guest this week, Dr. Esau McCaulley, has a new memoir titled How Far to th...
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Natalia Abrams talks Student Debt and the End of the Repayment Pause from 2023-09-04T04:57:20
Student debt is a crushing burden to millions of families in the United States. Recent efforts by the Biden Administration to relieve some of the burden for some borrowers were dashed by the Sup...
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Kai Cheng Thom on Falling Back in Love with Being Human from 2023-08-28T05:09:40
The world is full of hate. Alyssa certainly sees a lot of it sent her way online—but people who hold less privilege see so much more. That hate, always present around us, has taken some of the j...
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Protecting Children and our Future with Senator Richard Blumenthal from 2023-08-21T05:08:13
Our guest this week is Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. Senator Blumenthal is right at the heart of legislative initiatives that are so important for our nation, whether it’s regulatin...
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Dr. Dave Rabin on tackling stigmas and activating mental health treatments from 2023-08-14T05:47:45
One of the things Alyssa has been very open about is her mental health. We have stigmas in our culture which not only affect those who struggle with mental health conditions, but also new and ex...
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Kate Brookes, Author of Transister, on raising a trans child from 2023-08-07T05:08
We live in a time where right-wing politicians and activists are stoking anti-trans fear and hate for political gain. Around the country, legislators are enacting laws which prevent trans youth ...
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Ro Khanna on the State of the House from 2023-07-31T05:10:18
2023 has been a tumultuous year in the House of Representatives, to say the least. Kevin McCarthy barely won the speakership and has been chained to the whims of the furthest extremes of his par...
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Victim/Suspect's Rae de Leon and Nancy Schwartzman from 2023-07-24T05:58
One of the things that makes Alyssa angriest is when she sees men denying the scope of our national sexual violence epidemic by claiming that there are many false reports of sexual assault, and ...
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SCOTUS Decisions in Review from 2023-07-17T05:18
Once again, the Supreme Court ended its term with monumental decisions which will affect the way millions of Americans are able (or not able) to do important things in their lives. As usual, we ...
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Bright Sunshine: Samuel Freedman on Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights from 2023-07-10T07:27
We live in dangerous times. Zealots on the extreme right are working to ban books which actively teach our history, particularly around civil rights and racial justice. That’s why it’s so import...
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Fighting Book Bans with PEN America's Nadine Farid Johnson and Author Ashley Hope Perez from 2023-07-03T05:25
It’s hard to believe we have to say this in 2023, but across the nation, right-wing forces are banding together at all levels of government to ban access to books in schools and libraries. Flori...
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I Kick and Fly: Ruchira Gupta on Fighting Sex Trafficking from 2023-06-26T05:20:10
Fighting sex trafficking is a cause that we are passionate about at Sorry Not Sorry, and our guest this week has made it her life’s work. Ruchira Gupta is a former journalist and founder of Apne...
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Jamie Manson of Catholics for Choice on the Dobbs Anniversary from 2023-06-19T05:53:20
This week marks a year since the Supreme Court's immoral and dangerous Dobbs decision. Unless you’ve been hiding with your head in the sand, you know that abortion rights are under threat in the Un...
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Christian Cooper on Living Through Racism and Better Living Through Birding from 2023-06-12T05:17:05
Just a few hours before George Floyd was murdered, Christian Cooper was birdwatching in Central Park when he was the victim of a white woman who attempted to weaponize race and policing against ...
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Mneesha Gellman of the Emerson Prison Initiative and the Importance of Education for Incarcerated People from 2023-06-05T05:53:47
It’s no secret that there are huge cultural and structural barriers which prevent many people in the United States from accessing education. These barriers are even higher when it comes to tho...
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Organizer Michelle Eisen on Unionizing Starbucks from 2023-05-29T05:49:12
One of the interesting side effects of the post-Covid economy has been a surge in the power and influence employees hold. Wages in service industry jobs have risen dramatically as employers stru...
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Built for the Fire: Victor Luckerson on the Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street from 2023-05-22T05:36:41
Many of us know about the Tulsa Massacre. But fewer of us know about the long history of innovation and the struggle for equity that continues in Greenwood to this day. Author Victor Luckerson a...
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Neil Gross on Police Chiefs Walking the Walk on Police Reform from 2023-05-15T05:54:19
Over the past decade, bad policing has been a constant presence in the headlines, particularly in coverage of police violence against people of color. It makes us wonder if policing can be impro...
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Amanda Zurawski and Molly Duane: Suing Texas Because Abortion Saves Lives from 2023-05-08T05:23:29
Since the right-wing activist judges on the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, pregnant people across the country have been put in great jeopardy. Our guests today are fighting back. Amanda ...
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Fred Guttenberg on guns and American Carnage from 2023-05-01T05:54:57
46,000 deaths in America, every single year. We have more guns than people in the United States. And yet somehow, many states across the country are working to make it easier to get guns, easier...
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Alyssa Milano in the Guest Chair - The ERA, Guns, Abortion Rights, and Supporting Women from 2023-04-24T04:59:32
Ben the Producer here! Every so often, we like to switch things up here, and we're doing it again this week. Alyssa Milano switches roles and joins us as the guest to discuss the GOP's i...
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Award-winning Journalist and Russia Expert Owen Matthews on Putin's Overreach from 2023-04-17T05:02:04
As Putin's war in Ukraine continues to rage on more than a year after his initial invasion, the toll it is taking is astonishing. A private Russian army seems to be running rampant without K...
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CNN's Joan Biskupic on Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences. from 2023-04-10T05:16:47
Donald Trump fulfilled one of the decades-long goals of the American far right when he transformed the Supreme Court into a far-right majority body that will have huge impacts long after he is g...
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Author Jane Roper on Her New Novel The Society of Shame from 2023-04-03T05:59:34
Our guest this week is Jane Roper. Jane is the author of two previous books: a memoir, Double Time, and a novel, Eden Lake. Her short fiction, essays, and humor have appeared in publications inc...
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#WomensHistoryMonth: Julie Suk on the Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment from 2023-03-27T05:46:19
As we wrap up Women's History Month, the Equal Rights Amendment is on the cusp of being adopted into the Constitution, if Congress gets its stuff together. It’s the product of more ...
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Mike Lux on the Overlooked Voices of Factory Towns from 2023-03-20T05:55:03
The past decades have seen a steady erosion of Democratic support from what used to be core voters: blue collar workers in factory towns. There are many reasons for this, and to explain what...
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Oxfam's Nabil Ahmed on the Wealth Gap and Economic Justice from 2023-03-13T05:18:37
If it seems like the richest people in the world are getting richer—at the expense of everyone else—it’s because they are. A recent report from Oxfam illustrates just how much richer the wealthi...
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Empowering Women in the Workplace with Laura Casselman from 2023-03-06T05:47:33
International Women’s Day is March 8th. To talk about the state of women in the workplace in 2023, I’ve invited Laura Casselman on the show. Laura is a former Radio City Rockette who beat the bo...
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You Can't Always Say What You Want - Dennis Baron on the First Amendment from 2023-02-27T06:00
We live in a time where our speech has unlimited potential reach given the communications advancements of the 21stcentury. Of course, that has led to a national and international debate on free spe...
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UNICEF in Egypt - Reflecting on Alyssa's trip with UNICEF's Dina Heikal from 2023-02-20T05:57:31
This year, Alyssa is celebrating her twentieth year as a UNICEF ambassador. That work has taken her around the world, including a trip she made to Egypt in 2022. To talk about the state of affai...
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Electing a New Generation of Progressive Leaders with The Next 50 from 2023-02-13T06:13:02
Two things we know about our political leadership in America is that it is too old, and too white. Our guests this week are working to change that. I’m happy to be joined by Zak Malamed and Sydn...
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Jared Yates Sexton on The Midnight Kingdom from 2023-02-06T11:40:13
Jared Yates Sexton is a political analyst and author. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Politico, The Daily Beast, and elsewhere. He is the co-host of The Muckrake Podc...
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David Mura and the Stories Whiteness Tells Itself from 2023-01-30T06:12:09
It shouldn’t be a secret that white supremacy was baked into the founding of this nation, but it’s still not a story we like to tell as part of our history. Our guest this week is working to cha...
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Cisco Aguilar, Nevada Secretary of State from 2023-01-23T06:00
Our guest this week is Cisco Aguilar. Cisco was elected as Nevada Secretary of State in 2022 and assumed office on January 2, 2023. As an attorney and small business owner, and with years of exp...
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#MLKDay Continues: Heather McGhee from 2023-01-19T12:44:44
We continue our week-long observation of MLK Day with Heather McGhee. On this episode we welcomed Heather McGhee back to the show. Heather is a bestselling author, a speaker, and the Board Chair...
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#MLKDay Continues: Rep. Barbara Lee on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation from 2023-01-18T13:19:54
We're continuing our observation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day by highlighting episodes in our archive with just some of the people we've interviewed doing the hard work of Racial Justice. Peopl...
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#MLKDay Continues with Mondale Robinson of the Black Male Voter Project from 2023-01-17T06:03:56
We're continuing our week-long honoring of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by highlighting some of the episodes in our archives featuring people doing the hard work of racial justice, like Mondale ...
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#MLKDay: The Black Agenda with Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman from 2023-01-16T06:52:17
In honor of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, we will be highlighting an episode from our archives each day this week with someone fighting for racial justice. To start, we're joined by ...
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Keith Boykin on Quitting from 2023-01-09T06:13:27
We live in a culture which stresses self-sacrifice and perceived security and stability over the potential happiness and self-discovery which can come with quitting work and moving on to somethi...
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TikTok Influencer/Activists from 2023-01-02T06:11:35
If you've followed Alyssa or her career since the 1980s, you know that the only reason she cares that she has a platform is that it allows her to work to make the world a better place. And that'...
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2022 Year in Review from 2022-12-26T06:15:51
Our annual end-of-year tradition: recapping some of the moments that defined 2022 for Sorry Not Sorry. Did we miss some of yours? Let us know by leaving us a voicemail!
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Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood with Jessica Grose from 2022-12-19T06:37:01
Our guest this week is Jessica Grose, an opinion writer at The New York Times who writes a popular newsletter on parenting. Jess was the founding editor of Lenny, the email newsletter and websit...
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The Queer Stories of Young Bloomsbury with Nino Strachey from 2022-12-12T06:05:32
One of the issues that is so close to our heart is how art influences culture. We often say that nothing can change the world the way art can—it brings us together across so many of our divides ...
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Saving SCOTUS with Indivisible's Meagan Hatcher-Mayes from 2022-12-05T06:34:54
The Supreme Court recently began a new term, the first with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. There are a number of important cases on the docket. We’ve invited Meagan Hatcher-Mayes, Director of De...
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The Big Truth with Major Garrett and David Becker from 2022-11-28T06:24:53
We’ve heard it before: the consequences of our elections have never been more important. We’ve just seen that in the midterms, and it’s already time to saddle up for the 2024 general. The Big Li...
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Thanksgiving Special: We Gather Together with Denise Kiernan from 2022-11-21T06:22:10
It’s Thanksgiving week, and we have an episode for you that will change the way you see the holiday. Our guest today is Denise Kiernan. Denise is an author, journalist and producer. Her books, T...
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David Corn on his New Book American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy from 2022-11-14T06:27:37
David Corn is a veteran Washington journalist and political commentator. He is the Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine and an analyst for MSNBC. He is also the author or coauthor o...
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Nazanin Nour on the New Iranian Revolution: The #MahsaAmini Protests Explained from 2022-11-07T06:32:56
If you’ve listened to this podcast, or really anything Alyssa's done or said in her adult life, you know that fighting against the oppression of women is her life’s work. Recently, in Iran, we’v...
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#Election2022: Previewing the Midterms from 2022-10-31T05:10:17
The 2022 Midterms are on November 8th. In this episode, Alyssa and Ben Jackson discuss what to expect, how to get involved, and how to make sure your vote is counted. There's so much at st...
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Shauna Siggelkow on Fighting Hate by Telling Immigrant Stories from 2022-10-24T05:44:15
While the Trump regime has ended, the hate-fueled machinery of lies and disinformation around immigrants in America has not. To look at the sources and impacts of this machine, we’ve invited Sha...
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Heather McGhee on the Power of Our Stories from 2022-10-17T05:10:42
On this episode we’re welcoming Heather McGhee back to the show. Heather is a bestselling author, a speaker, and the Board Chair for Color of Change, the country’s largest online racial justice ...
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Saving Our Democracy with Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold from 2022-10-10T05:00
Secretaries of State are the chief election administrators around the country. As the midterm elections unfold, we’re seeing just how important that role is. Our guest for this episode is Colora...
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Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis with Dr. Nicholas Kardaras from 2022-10-03T05:58:28
Our guest this week is Dr. Nicholas Kardaras. Nick is an Ivy League educated psychologist, one of the country’s foremost addiction and mental health experts and the bestselling author of Glow Ki...
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Kate Kelly on Abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment from 2022-09-26T05:04:02
When the Supreme Court took away the right to abortion it said loudly and clearly that in America, women are not entitled to equal protection under the law. But the Equal Rights Amendment has be...
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Donna Jackson Nakazawa on Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media from 2022-09-19T05:41:22
Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning journalist and internationally-recognized speaker whose work explores the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion. Her mission is t...
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Andy Borowitz on Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber from 2022-09-12T05:09:48
Our guest this week is Andy Borowitz. Andy is an award-winning comedian and New York Times bestselling author. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard College, wh...
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Abortion, Dobbs, and the Twisted Ethics of an Extremist Supreme Court with Katie Watson from 2022-09-05T05:07:15
The cruel, bizarre, and frankly evil supreme court decision taking away a woman’s right to choose is wreaking havoc in the medical community. To help us make sense of the legal lay of the land a...
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Michael Pollan on how Psychedelics can Change Your Mind from 2022-08-29T05:00:20
Our guest today is Michael Pollan. Since the 2018 publication of his New York Times bestseller How to Change Your Mind, Michael’s work on psychedelics has steered the national ...
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Anya Kamenetz on The Stolen Year from 2022-08-22T05:17:40
Our guest this week is Anya Kamenetz. Anya has covered education for many years including for NPR, where she co-created the podcast Life Kit: Parenting. She speaks, writes, and thinks about lear...
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Congresswoman Veronica Escobar Fights for Texas and You from 2022-08-15T05:26:16
Our guest this week is Congresswoman Veronica Escobar. Congresswoman Escobar represents the 16th Congressional District in Texas, a position she’s held since 2019. When elected, she became one o...
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Victor Ray on Critical Race Theory from 2022-08-08T04:50:27
Critical Race Theory is widely maligned by those on the right, but poorly understood. Our guest for this episode, Dr. Victor Ray, can help us sort out the truth from the lies. Victor is nonresid...
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Oh Sh!t, Malcolm! Intelligence Expert Malcolm Nance on his New Book They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency,” from 2022-08-01T05:11:58
This is an episode you can't afford to miss. Malcolm Nance is a globally renowned expert on terrorism, extremism, and insurgency, and a multiple New York Times bestselling author. A 34-year, Arabic...
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Bold Solutions from 2022-07-25T05:00:55
Over the years, this podcast has focused on highlighting those people who are not only experts in identifying the significant problems facing the United States and its institutions, but those wh...
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Screenwriter Abi Morgan on Caretaking and Her New Book "This Is Not a Pity Memoir" from 2022-07-18T05:16:07
When you share your life with someone, you take on the idea of being a caretaker if something goes wrong, but only in the abstract. But when that idea becomes a reality, life changes in so many ...
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Stimulus Wreck with author Gaby Dunn, Host of the Podcast "Bad With Money" from 2022-07-11T05:24:43
Our guest this week is Gaby Dunn. Gaby is a New York Times bestselling author, comedian, and LGBTQ advocate living in Los Angeles. They are the host and creator of the podcast Bad with Money wit...
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Keri Blakiniger, Author of Corrections in Ink from 2022-07-04T05:21:38
We have a mass incarceration problem in America, with entire industries created to lock people up, keep them locked up, and make it difficult or impossible for many of the people they catch in t...
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Reform SCOTUS with Congressman Hank Johnson from 2022-07-01T10:12:56
The Supreme Court has gone rogue. It's radically reduced the right to privacy, the right to bodily autonomy, the right to hold rogue police accountable, the ability of the government to protect ...
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Our Abortion Stories from 2022-06-27T04:56:01
The extremist extreme court just stripped away the right to bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom from millions of Americans when it overturned Roe v. Wade. One in four women in the U.S. will...
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Senator Chris Murphy on the Bipartisan Historic Gun Violence Prevention Framework from 2022-06-20T05:12:51
It’s been nearly thirty years since the Congress passed meaningful gun violence prevention legislation despite overwhelming support for these measures from the American people. In those decades,...
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Bill McKibben on The Flag, The Cross, and The Station Wagon from 2022-06-13T09:48:20
This week, we’re welcoming Bill McKibben back to the show. Bill is the author of more than a dozen books, including the best sellers Falter, Deep Economy, and The End of Nature, which was the fi...
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Wil Wheaton - Still Just a Geek, But So Much More from 2022-06-06T05:07:12
There aren’t a lot of people who have a life which resembles Alyssa Milano's. As an actor from childhood who is still working on the cusp of fifty, our guest Wil Wheaton is one of the few. He jo...
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Tajja Isen on Lip Service from 2022-05-30T05:06:08
Over the past several years, corporations and entire industries have quickly made statements and some policy changes in response to social and racial justice movements. Those statement and initi...
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Dr. Kermit Jones, Candidate for Congress from 2022-05-23T05:48:25
We’re already into the midterm election season. California will host its primary elections on June 7th, and my guest this week is hoping to advance into the general. Kermit Jones is running for ...
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Bestselling Author Angela Garbes On Her New Book Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change from 2022-05-16T05:40:59
Mothering is work. It’s creative, it’s exhausting, it can be financially crushing, and it is immeasurably rewarding. But always, it is work. Our guest this week is Angela Garbes, bestselling aut...
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Dr. Thomas Fisher, Author of The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER from 2022-05-09T05:00:32
It’s almost impossible to quantify the problems with the way we approach healthcare in this country. For something which should be a human right, high-quality healthcare is often provided in unl...
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The History of Abortion with Alyssa Milano from 2022-05-04T13:15:30
The Supreme Court appears poised to rip bodily autonomy from millions of American women. The draft opinion written by Justice Alito relies heavily on historical rights. In this short film, Alyss...
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Celeste Headlee on "You're Cute When You're Mad" from 2022-05-02T05:00:18
Our guest this week is Celeste Headlee. Celeste is award-winning journalist, professional speaker and best-selling author. In her 20-year career in public radio, Celeste has anchored programs in...
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From the Hood to the Holler with Charles Booker, Candidate for Senate in Kentucky from 2022-04-25T05:12:32
The midterm elections are quickly approaching, and the stakes are so high. Our guest this week is Charles Booker, candidate for the United States Senate in Kentucky. His new book From the Hood t...
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How to Be A Woman Online with Nina Jankowicz from 2022-04-18T05:00
The internet is a cesspool of horrible people saying and doing horrible things. So much of the worst behavior is directed at women, in an effort to shame and silence us - and if you don't believ...
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The Color of Abolition with Linda Hirshman from 2022-04-11T05:00
We know Frederick Douglass as a towering figure in America’s fight for the abolition of slavery in the United States. In the early days of his ascent, he was allied with and managed by publisher...
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Surviving Sex Trafficking from 2022-04-04T05:00
Sex trafficking affects millions of women around the globe, generating billions of dollars for the criminals who traffick women. For the few women who escape, it can be extremely difficult to fi...
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ERA Fiftieth Anniversary from 2022-03-28T05:00
It’s been more than a century since the Equal Rights Amendment was first drafted. And it’s been fifty years since the Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress and sent to the states. In 202...
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The Shame Machine With Cathy O'Neil from 2022-03-21T05:00
Shame is everywhere. From advertising to the dinner table, and on every last inch of social media. To examine the origin and effect of this reality, we’ve invited Cathy O’Neil to join us this we...
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The Marshall Plan for Moms with Reshma Saujani from 2022-03-14T05:00
The pandemic has been devastating for everyone in America, but especially for women. We’ve seen our economic power set back years—maybe decades—by the changes to the labor market since the start...
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LIVE SPECIAL on Voting Rights and Ethics at the Supreme Court with Rep. Hank Johnson from 2022-03-08T20:01:35
The Supreme Court is supposed to be above partisan politics, but that has not been the case in the past several years. Recent in-depth reporting by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Polit...
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Live Ukraine Special with Andrea Chalupa from 2022-03-07T06:00
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been devastating for the people of that country. It's also had ripple effects throughout the global economic and security systems, created an unfolding humani...
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How Civil Wars Start with Barbara F. Walter from 2022-02-28T06:00
In January of 2020, we witnessed an attack on our capitol by American citizens. At the time, many of us said that we didn’t think it could happen here. But it did happen, and it was just one eve...
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The Black Agenda with Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman from 2022-02-21T06:00
This week, we're joined by Anna Gifty Opoku-Ayeman. Anna is a is a researcher, writer, science communicator and activist. She is the co-founder of The Sadie Collective, the only nonprofit organi...
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Ben Rawlence, Author of The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth from 2022-02-14T06:00
We’re at a last-gasp inflection point for the climate. Humans have so polluted the world that our entire climate is changing. We talk a lot about the human cost of this change, but what about th...
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Mayor Bryan Osorio, Candidate for Congress from 2022-02-07T06:00
This week, we're joined by Bryan Osorio. Bryan is a Berkeley graduate, the 26 year old mayor of Delano, California, and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for congress in California’s 21s...
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Luis Daniel Munoz, Candidate for Governor of Rhode Island from 2022-01-31T06:00
Rhode Island is a small state, but one which is so reflective of so much of the country. It has a governor’s race this year, and Dr. Luis Daniel Munoz is running for the office. He's a medical d...
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Wajahat Ali On His New Book "Go Back to Where You Came From" from 2022-01-24T06:00
The last five years highlighted the racism, xenophobia, and islamophobia which exists in American society—but it didn’t start then. In his new book Go Back to Where You Came From And Other Helpf...
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Path to the 2022 Midterms: North Carolina Candidate Erica Smith from 2022-01-17T06:00
If the Democrats want to increase their razor-thin majority in the Senate, allowing them the possibility of changing senate rules and passing voting rights legislation and other critical goals o...
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Stephanie Kelton on the Economy and The Deficit Myth from 2022-01-10T06:00
The past several years shocked both our national and global economies. As the government undertakes massive spending programs to counteract the damage, the national debt, the deficit, and inflat...
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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Covid and Mental Health from 2022-01-03T06:00
The United States is entering its third COVID winter, with no end to the pandemic in sight. There is a loud minority of vaccine-averse Americans, and a dangerous number of anti-science politicians ...
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2021 Year in Review from 2021-12-27T06:00
This year started in an attempted coup and an attack on our capitol. It’s ending with criminal indictments for some of those who took part in the planning and execution of that attack—but so muc...
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Michael Tubbs, Former Stockton Mayor, on his new book "The Deeper The Roots" from 2021-12-20T06:00
Our guest this week is Michael Tubbs. Michael served as the mayor of Stockton, CA. He was the city’s first Black mayor and the youngest ever mayor of a major American city. He is the founder of ...
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Congressman Conor Lamb on Running for Senate in Pennsylvania from 2021-12-13T06:00
If the Democrats want to retain control of the Senate in 2022, the path goes through Pennsylvania. With a retiring republican incumbent and a state that voted for President Biden, it’s seen as o...
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Tony Messenger, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist and Author of Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice from 2021-12-06T06:00
The wealth gap in America creates any number of problems—but perhaps the most pressing is its expansion of poverty. When this poverty intersects with a broken criminal justice system, it becomes...
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Climate Scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe on #ClimateChange, #COP26 and Courageous Conversations from 2021-11-29T06:00
It seems like we live in a world where every issue divides us on the extremes, and Climate Change is no exception. It’s killing people and economies, and yet it seems like all we can do is yell ...
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Stories of Gratitude from 2021-11-22T06:00
Thanksgiving is an American holiday with, at best, a complicated history. Rooted in colonization and stolen land, it is also a time when families often come together and many of us reflect on th...
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Adam Schiff on his new book Midnight in Washington from 2021-11-15T06:00
There is no doubt that our democracy remains threatened. Donald Trump and those who supported his election lies and other corruption continue to exert influence over our political system, and th...
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Congressional Hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment - #ERANow from 2021-11-08T06:00
In October of 2021, Alyssa Milano joined other advocates and activists in the first hearing about the Equal Rights Amendment in Congress in decades. This episode is the unedited (safe to remove ...
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Tim Mak, Author of Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA from 2021-11-01T05:00
In the view of this podcast, the National Rifle Association is one of the most evil organizations in America. Through its financial influence, it’s allowed the wholesale slaughter of 40,000 Amer...
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Alyssa Milano on Being Unapologetic and Her New Book "Sorry Not Sorry" from 2021-10-25T05:00
For a special episode of Sorry Not Sorry, Alyssa Milano leaves the host's microphone and takes the guest chair to discuss her new book "Sorry Not Sorry," which releases October 26th. She d...
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Sarah Burgess, Showrunner of Impeachment: American Crime Story from 2021-10-18T10:00:01
It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a quarter century since the impeachment of Bill Clinton. This season of the American Crime Story franchise is focused on that impeachment and the events surrou...
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Kurt Eichenwald on Discredited Doctor Andrew Wakefield and the Origin of the Anti-Vax Movement from 2021-10-11T10:25:06
Over the past nearly two years, we’ve seen the horrible and deadly harm the anti-vaccine movement has done to our nation and our world. While we know that vaccines are safe and effective, charlatan...
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Believing Women with Deborah Tuerkheimer, Author of Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers from 2021-10-04T05:00
Deborah Tuerkheimer served for five years as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office, where she specialized in domestic violence and child abuse prosecut...
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BONUS - Alyssa Milano Speech at LA Women's March for Reproductive Rights from 2021-10-03T14:07:41
On October 2nd, 2021, women and allies across the country marched in opposition to the attacks on women's reproductive freedom. Alyssa Milano spoke at the Los Angeles march. This is a recording ...
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John Pavlovitz on A Loving God and Progressive Christianity from 2021-09-27T05:00
Our guest this week is John Pavlovitz. John is a pastor, writer, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. He’s spent nearly three decades teaching, studying, dissecting, deconstructing, an...
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Adrian Grenier on Aligning Our Lives And Our Money with Our Values from 2021-09-20T05:00
We talk a lot on this podcast about the importance of using whatever platforms we have to make the world a better place. Those of us with large platforms, especially, have a responsibility to us...
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Justin Baldoni on Being Man Enough and Undefining Masculinity from 2021-09-13T05:00
There is a masculinity crisis in America. Men are taught to suppress emotions, creating a world where not only are women harmed, but men as well. Justin Baldoni is working to change that, and jo...
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Back to School with NYC High School Teacher Sari Beth Rosenberg from 2021-09-06T05:00
Schools are getting back in session for the third academic year impacted by COVID-19. To discuss this, along with the weaponization of education and educators by right-wing political forces, cri...
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LIVE Special on the Global Covid Pandemic with Dr. Peter Hotez from 2021-08-30T05:00
Around the world, the Covid pandemic is as deadly as ever. Vaccines are widely available in some countries, and completely out of reach to others. Here at home, tens of millions are refusing to ...
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Building Back Better - The First 100 Days of the Biden Administration with Kelly Hyman from 2021-08-23T05:00
This year brought so many changes to America, most notably the arrival of the Joe Biden administration. We often look at the first 100 days of a new presidency as a measuring stick for how effec...
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Dr. Myron Rolle, Neurosurgeon and Former NFL Safety on Saving Lives at Home and in the Caribbean from 2021-08-16T05:00
Our guest this week is Dr. Myron Rolle. Myron is a former NFL Safety, a Rhodes Scholar, and now a neurosurgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. Born in the Bahamas, he lost his aunt to a traumati...
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Run 51 and Electing Women with Erin Vilardi of Vote Run Lead from 2021-08-09T05:00
Our guest this week is Erin Vilardi. Erin is the Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead, an organization dedicated to training and empowering women to run for office. Vote Run Lead recently launched R...
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A Senate Of The People with Malcolm Kenyatta from 2021-08-02T05:00
Our guest this week is Malcolm Kenyatta. Malcolm is a member of the Pennsylvania State Assembly and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate election in 2022. He’s ...
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Fighting for the Soul of Democracy with Edward-Isaac Dovere of the Atlantic from 2021-07-26T05:00
Donald Trump and his regime posed a serious threat to the very soul of our nation. Beginning with Hillary Clinton's loss and continuing through Joe Biden's decisive victory, Isaac Dovere provide...
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#StopAAPIHate with Varun Nikore of the AAPI Victory Alliance from 2021-07-19T05:00
As a direct result of the racist and hateful lies and rhetoric Donald Trump and his followers spread about COVID, violence and hate directed at Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in this coun...
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Supernatural's Misha Collins on Acting, Activism, and What's Next from 2021-07-12T05:00
I first met my friend Misha Collins more than twenty years ago. Since then, we've become dear friends and have worked together on projects on and off screen. Now that Supernatural is over, he jo...
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Fixing Our Courts with Tamara Brummer of Demand Justice from 2021-07-05T05:00
The Trump administration, with a complicit Senate, completely overhauled the United States judiciary-filling it unqualified and far-right extremist activist judges all the way to the Supreme Cou...
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Senator Jeff Merkley on the For the People Act and Defending Democracy from 2021-06-28T05:00
Recently, the United States Senate failed spectacularly in its duty to protect democracy when every member of the GOP joined a filibuster against the For the People Act, a sweeping and incredibl...
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The Case for DC Statehood with Bo Shuff, Executive Director of DC Vote from 2021-06-21T05:00
The nation’s capital has a population of nearly 700,000 people, and has no voting representation in Congress—because it’s not a state. But efforts to change this are heating up, and so we've inv...
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Mondale Robinson and the Importance of Black Male Voters from 2021-06-14T05:00
Our guest this week is Mondale Robinson, my friend and a hero of electoral activism. Mondale is the founder and Principal of The Black Male Voter Pro...
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After the Fall: Ben Rhodes on Authoritarianism and What It Means to Be An American from 2021-06-07T05:00
Ben Rhodes is a former Senior National Security Staffer and speechwriter for Barack Obama, co-host of Pod Save the World, and author of the new book "Listen
Julie Suk and the Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment from 2021-05-31T05:00
The Equal Rights Amendment is on the cusp of being adopted into the Constitution, if the Senate gets its stuff together. It’s the product of more than a century of work of women and allies, and ...
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Raising Joyful, Change-Making Girls with Janice Johnson Dias from 2021-05-24T05:00
I’m so excited for this week’s episode. Raising girls in a way that empowers them to break barriers and change the world is one of the most important things we can do as parents. This week, I’m ...
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Mutualism and the Next Economy With Sara Horowitz from 2021-05-17T05:00
The economy has fundamentally changed, and workers have been left behind. To get into why and how, and what we can do about it, I’ve invited Sara Horowitz. Sara is the founder and executive dire...
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Reforming the Financial System with Carter Dougherty from 2021-05-10T05:00
Wall Street is one of the largest contributors to our political system, and that translates into political power which often benefits the rich over the rest of us.
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Let the Lord Sort Them: Capital Punishment in America with Maurice Chammah from 2021-05-03T05:00
Despite the push for federal executions in the last days of the Trump regime, there is huge momentum for the elimination of the Death Penalty in America. Maurice Chammah joins the podcast this w...
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Fixing What We Broke with Former White Supremacist Christian Picciolini from 2021-04-26T05:00
Our guest this week is Christian Picciolini. Christian is an activist, author and speaker who is a former white supremacist but is doing the hard work of reconciliation and helping other people ...
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Disinformation and Misogyny Online with Nina Jankowicz from 2021-04-19T05:00
Disinformation is overwhelming our culture. From politics to medicine, investments to history, we’re drowning in it, and so we've invited our friend Nina Jankowicz back to the show. Nina is the ...
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Racism in the Tax Code and the Whiteness of Wealth with Dorothy Brown from 2021-04-12T05:00
April 15th is normally Tax Day in America, and while COVID has prompted the IRS to extend the deadline this year, we wanted to take a look at inequities in the tax code. Dorothy Brown, Law Profe...
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The Power of Nonviolence with Jamila Raqib from 2021-04-05T05:00
Nonviolence and peace are not the same thing. Nonviolent action is action. It’s not passive. It requires courage and dedication and perseverance and being very, very smart and even more strategi...
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Good to Vote with Ben Relles and Tess Finkle from 2021-03-29T05:00
Our guests this week are Ben Relles, Head of Innovation for Youtube Originals, and Tess Finkle, Founder of Metro Public Relations. Together, they lead #GoodToVote, a non-partisan voter registrat...
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Ending the Filibuster to Save America with Adam Jentleson from 2021-03-22T05:00
Critical legislation on issues ranging from racial justice, the Equal Rights Amendment, gun violence prevention, economic justice, LGBTQIA rights, and so much more are at risk of dying in the se...
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The Black Panther Party with David F. Walker from 2021-03-15T05:00
Our guest this week is David F. Walker. David is an award-winning writer known primarily for his work in comics including Luke Cage and Bitter Root. He is the co-creator, with illustrator Marcus...
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The People's Vaccine With Gina Cummings and Dr. Vanessa Kerry from 2021-03-08T06:00
It's been a year since the coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. As bad as COVID is in the United States, we have the resources to confront it head on. But what about people in poorer coun...
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Congressman John Sarbanes on H.R. 1 - the "For the People Act" from 2021-03-01T06:00
On February 23rd, 2021, Alyssa Milano hosted a special live episode of Sorry Not Sorry with Congressman John Sarbanes of Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District. He’s the lead sponsor of H.R. 1, t...
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Heather McGee on the Solidarity Dividend and The Sum of Us from 2021-02-22T06:00
Our guest this week is Heather McGhee. Heather is the Chair of the Board of Directors for Color of Change, America’s largest racial justice organization. She’s also the author of the new book “<...
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Scott Budnick Produces Criminal Justice Reform from 2021-02-15T06:00
After producing The Hangover and its sequels, Scott Budnick took the incredibly rare step of leaving Hollywood to work full-time on sentencing reform and keeping young people out of jail. Throug...
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Expel Marjorie Taylor Greene with Rep. Jimmy Gomez from 2021-02-08T06:00
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been stripped of her committee assignments in Congress, but California Congressman Jimmy Gomez doesn't think that's enough. In this week's episode, he joins Alyssa Mil...
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Restoring Felon Voting Rights with Desmond Meade from 2021-02-01T06:00
Our guest this week is Desmond Meade. When Desmond was sentenced on felony charges, he lost his right to vote. After completing his sentence, on the other side of addiction and the recipie...
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Saving the Affordable Care Act with Laura Packard from 2021-01-25T06:00
Our guest is Laura Packard. Laura is a Stage 4 cancer survivor, a national co-chair of Health Care Voter, and an advocate for effective and affordable health care for everyone. In 2017, just as ...
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Marc Elias Saves Democracy, One Court Victory At A Time from 2021-01-18T06:00
Our guest this week is Marc Elias. Marc is an election law attorney who has been at the forefront of protecting voting rights and stopping political interference in elections. Marc is also the f...
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A Light for the World to See: Kwame Alexander on Race, Justice, Poetry, and Hope from 2021-01-11T06:00
In the week before this episode airs, the sickness and violence in our country again came into harsh focus. An insurrection, spurred by the delusional, hateful, and outgoing President of the Uni...
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SPECIAL - Full Audio of Trump's Shocking Phone Call Trying to Steal Election in Georgia from 2021-01-04T16:00
On January 3rd, 2020, the Washington Post broke news of a truly shocking phone call between Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Since then, multiple media outlets hav...
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Trump's Folly: D.W. Gibson on Building the Border Wall from 2021-01-04T06:00
Our guest this week is D.W. Gibson. D.W. is an awarding-winning writer who shared a National Magazine Award for his work on “This is the Story of One Block in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn” for New York ma...
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2020 Year in Review from 2020-12-28T06:00
2020 was one hell of a year. On January 1st, none of us could have imagined that a pandemic would completely change the way we interacted with one another and that our government would be so ver...
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Surviving Prostate Cancer and What it Means to Be a Man with Mark Shanahan, Host of Mr. 80% from 2020-12-21T06:00
Mark Shanahan is a writer and reporter for the Boston Globe. He’s also a prostate cancer survivor who developed the podcast Mr. 80 percent for the globe detailing his experience with prostate ca...
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Why Good Sex Matters with Neuroscientist Dr. Nan Wise from 2020-12-14T06:00
Sex is the elephant in the room that most people can’t stop thinking about but also which most of us have no good language to discuss. We hide it, or we flaunt it, and far too many learn from po...
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Everyone Gets a Say: Teaching Kids about Voting with Jill Twiss, Bestselling Author and Former Writer for "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver from 2020-12-07T06:00
Our guest this week is Jill Twiss. Jill is a former writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where she won Emmy and Peabody awards and wrote “A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo.” She’s the ...
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Jim Sciutto on Donald Trump and the Madman Theory from 2020-11-30T06:00
As the Trump presidency winds to its chaotic end, we examine Trump's approach to the world stage with our guest Jim Sciutto. Jim is an Emmy-award wining journalist, Senior National Security Corr...
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We Gather Together - Creating an American Thanksgiving with Denise Kiernan from 2020-11-23T06:00
It’s Thanksgiving week, and we have an episode for you that will change the way you see the holiday. Our guest today is Denise Kiernan. Denise is an author, journalist and producer. Her books, <...
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Fighting Infertility with Samantha Busch from 2020-11-16T06:00
Our guest this week is Samantha Busch. Samantha is a lifestyle blogger, writer, business owner, and infertility activist. Her husband, Kyle Busch, is a two-time NASCAR cup champion. The pa...
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LIVE Election Roundup with EJ Dionne, Jesse Wegman, Po Murray, Laura Packard, and Hassan Ahmad from 2020-11-09T06:00
So the 2020 election is in the history books. On Thursday, November 5th – two days after the polls closed – we hosted the first ever live episode of Sorry Not Sorry to put it in perspective. Our...
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Angela Glover Blackwell on Building Equity by Lifting Up What Works from 2020-11-02T06:00
Angela Glover Blackwell is an attorney and founder in residence of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity by lifting up what works. Her work ch...
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Prom at the Polls - Young Voters Taking Charge from 2020-10-26T05:00
Santiago Mayer, Randi Garcia, Jerome Foster, Sophia Shapiro, and Matthew Weinstein are young voters and activists attending colleges across America. They—and their generation—lost so much this year...
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Bringing Democracy to the People: Amanda Litman and Kat Calvin from 2020-10-19T05:00
This episode features two amazing women doing hugely important things for our democracy. Our first guest is Amanda Litman. Amanda is the co-founder and executive director of Run for Something, a...
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Cassandra Speaks and the Power of Women as Storytellers with Elizabeth Lesser from 2020-10-12T05:00
Elizabeth Lesser is a bestselling author and the cofounder of Omega Institute, the renowned conference and retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. Elizabeth’s first book, The Seeker’s...
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Our America with Julian Castro, Obama's HUD Secretary and 2020 Presidential Candidate from 2020-10-05T05:00
Julian Castro has been many things: Mayor of San Antonio, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Obama Administration, Author of An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My America...
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Children of Incarcerated Parents with Ebony Underwood from 2020-09-28T05:00
Our guest this week is Ebony Underwood. Ebony is a Soros Justice Fellow and the daughter of William Underwood, who has served decades of a cruel and unnecessarily harsh mandatory life sentence w...
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Nasty Women Barbara Boxer, Valerie Plame, and Kelli Stanley are Shattering Glass from 2020-09-21T05:00
In the new book Shattering Glass: A Nasty Woman Anthology, Kelli Stanley of Nasty Woman Press brought together essays from so many rem...
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Senator Chris Murphy On The Violence Inside Us from 2020-09-14T05:00
Chris Murphy is the United States Senator From Connecticut. Before his election to the senate in 2012, he served the people of Connecticut’s fifth congressional district in the House of Represen...
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Find the Helpers with Fred Guttenberg from 2020-09-10T12:11:16
Fred Guttenberg is the first person we’ve asked back on the podcast for a second episode. His brother Michael was a doctor and a 9/11 responder who died in 2017 from 9/11 related cancer. Fred's ...
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Jesse Wegman and the Case for Abolishing the Electoral College from 2020-09-07T05:00
In 40% of presidential elections this century, the electoral college selected a candidate who lost the popular vote. This institution results in mostly white, rural voters having votes which cou...
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Rep. Carolyn Maloney on Saving the Postal Service and Delivering For America from 2020-09-03T11:19:14
The United States Postal Service is under attack—from our own government. Donald Trump, terrified of a landslide loss, is manipulating the mail to make it harder to vote. And his new Postmaster ...
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Back To School in a Pandemic with Nicholas Ferroni from 2020-08-31T05:00
Shockingly, in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century, children and teachers are being forced back into schools at the risk of their own lives. Already, we’ve seen outbreaks in schools ac...
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President Obama's Ebola Czar Ron Klain from 2020-08-27T11:44:01
Ron Klain served as Chief of Staff to both Vice President Gore and Vice President Biden before being appointed by President Obama as his Ebola Czar in 2014. He’s now an advisor to the Biden Camp...
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She Will Rise: Fighting Nonconsensual Pornography with Katie Hill from 2020-08-24T05:00
Last year, Katie Hill left the House of Representatives after her abusive ex-husband released personal photos of her without her consent. In a swarm of misogyny and puritanical faux outrage of t...
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Mindfulness and Breathe For Eight with Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan from 2020-08-17T05:00
Representing Ohio’s 13th district since 2013, Tim Ryan has been a stalwart voice for blue-collar workers and manufacturing jobs. He ran for the Democratic nomination for president in the 2020 el...
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Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation with Rep. Barbara Lee from 2020-08-13T05:00
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who has been representing California’s 13th district since 1999. She was the only person in Congress to vote against the expanded use of force authorization immediatel...
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Getting Things Done with Senator Doug Jones from 2020-08-10T05:00
In 2018 Doug Jones won a special election to replace Jeff Sessions in the United States Senate. Since then, he’s been one of the few members who can reach across the aisle and find common ground...
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How to Lose the Information War with Nina Jankowicz from 2020-08-03T05:00
In 2016, disinformation from foreign sources like Russia had a devastating effect on our domestic politics, and we’re still paying the price. They’re not stopping in 2020, and their tactics are ...
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Femicide and the Forgotten Women of Juarez with Oz Woloshyn and Monica Ortiz Uribe from 2020-07-27T05:00
For nearly thirty years, women in the Mexican border city of Juarez have been disappearing, many of them turning up dead in mass graves. We don’t know who the killers are. Very few people have been...
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Abolition, #DefundThePolice, and Richie Reseda's Success Stories from 2020-07-20T05:00
Richie Reseda experienced the school to prison pipeline first-hand when he was sentenced to ten years in prison as a teenager. While incarcerated, Richie started Success Stories, a feminist grou...
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Eliza Orlins' Amazing Race from 2020-07-13T07:00
In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and too many more people, criminal justice reform has surged to the forefront of the national debate. From the racial biases in ...
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Military Sexual Trauma and the Trump Purge List with A.G. of Mueller, She Wrote from 2020-07-06T05:00
Our guest this week is A.G., co-host of the brilliant podcasts Mueller She Wrote and the Daily Beans. She’s also a Navy veteran who experienced sexual assault while serving and a former Veterans Af...
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Talking the Trumpocalypse with Anti-Trump Conservative David Frum from 2020-06-29T05:00
Many of you may be surprised by our guest for this episode. David Frum is a proud conservative, having served in the George W. Bush administration as a speechwriter, where he is credited with coini...
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Democracy in One Episode or Less with David Litt, Barack Obama's Funny Speechwriter from 2020-06-22T05:00
Today’s episode is a treat. We’ve invited David Litt, one of President Obama’s speechwriters, on to the show. He’s very funny, and we’d be lying if we said it wasn’t a bittersweet interview reme...
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SPECIAL: Juneteenth and the Dangers of Authoritarianism with Ben Jealous from 2020-06-18T05:00
This special Juneteenth Eve episode features Ben Jealous. Ben is the newly elected president of People for the American Way, the former Democratic nominee for governor of Maryland, and the youngest...
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Making Their Way Home: Historian Blair Imani talks Juneteenth, Police Violence, George Floyd from 2020-06-15T05:00
George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Stephon Clark. Tamir Rice. Michael Brown. Philando Castile. John Crawford. Akai Gurley. Freddie Gray. We say their names over and over again. The lis...
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COVID-19 Impact on ICE Detainees and the Immigrant Community from 2020-06-08T05:00
ICE and CBP continue to detain immigrants in facilities without adequate medical care, sanitation supplies, or even the ability to maintain a safe social distance. At the same time, our weak, faile...
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Special - Weak President Attacks Governors on Call About Protests, Full Call Audio from 2020-06-02T20:10:55
On the same day Donald Trump’s regime ordered the national guard to violently clear several city blocks with tear gas and rubber bullets so that he, surrounded by secret service, police, and milita...
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An Honest Politican - Rep. Steve Cohen Speaks His Mind from 2020-06-01T11:30:36
Alyssa Milano first met Congressman Steve Cohen when she went to Washington for a shadow hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment. She was instantly impressed with his candor, his humor, and his passi...
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"Rogue Secretary of State" Jocelyn Benson from 2020-05-25T05:00
In 2018, Jocelyn Benson was elected as Secretary of State in Michigan. It was part of an historic sweep, where women were also elected to the Governorship and to the Attorney General’s office. Then...
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Code Red: Uniting Moderates and Progressives with E. J. Dionne from 2020-05-18T05:00
When we think of smart, insightful political commentary, one of the first names that comes to mind is E.J. Dionne. He’s a regular on NPR, MSNBC, and PBS, an opinion journalist for The Washington Po...
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Laughing through the Coronavirus Pandemic with Ben Gleib from 2020-05-11T05:00
When the nation was shut down due to the coronavirus, people in all professions were impacted. Hit especially hard were up-and-coming performers, including musicians, actors, dancers, and comedians...
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Vital Voices: Supporting Women Leaders from 2020-05-04T05:00
We all know the stats. Women make up more than half of the population around the world, and yet are dramatically underrepresented in government, in business, and in leadership positions. But we als...
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Protecting Your Spiritual And Mental Health During the Coronavirus Pandemic from 2020-04-27T05:00
We are so focused on our physical health right now, but we are a social species and our emotional and spiritual health is suffering in isolation. There are increased calls to suicide hotlines, and ...
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Coronavirus Update with Dr. Peter Hotez from 2020-04-22T18:48:45
A few weeks ago, renowned doctor, vaccine scientist, and educator Peter Hotez came on the show to answer some questions about the state of the coronavirus. Since then, we’ve seen the pandemic flood...
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Earth Day with Bill McKibben from 2020-04-20T05:00
This week marks the 50th celebration of Earth Day. This week's guest is Bill McKibben. Bill is one of the premiere environmental activists and educators in the world. His book “The End of ...
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Healthcare is a Human Right with Andy Slavitt from 2020-04-13T05:00
Our guest this week is Andy Slavitt. Andy is a leading expert on healthcare in America. As Acting Administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid services under President Obama, he took ov...
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Special Episode - Healing Politics with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed from 2020-04-09T05:00
Many of the failures we are seeing around the coronavirus response could have been prevented by strong leadership in the area of public health. My guest today, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, is no stranger...
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Hacking the Vote: Protecting our Elections from 2020-04-06T05:00
The 2020 election is just months away and states around the nation are using outdated and vulnerable voting machines. To make matters worse, many of these machines leave no audit trail and no wa...
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Special - Chuck Schumer on the Coronavirus Stimulus Bill from 2020-04-01T06:00
Recently, Congress passed an historic $2 Trillion stimulus bill in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Before it passed, Democrats had to fight tooth and nail to make sure that most of the mon...
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Fighting Youth and Teen Suicide with Kendra Fisher from 2020-03-30T05:00
We are facing an increasing crisis of teen and youth suicide in America, and it is especially hurting young girls. Today’s episode is a difficult one. Kendra Fisher—a former elite ice hockey player...
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COVID-19 Special with Dr. Dena Grayson from 2020-03-26T08:00
In our second Coronavirus special episode, Alyssa Milano asked Dr. Dena Grayson to join us. Dena is a former Congressional candidate from Florida, an infectious disease expert and medical resear...
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Nifty Schiff: Adam Schiff Fights Corruption from 2020-03-23T07:00
If you’ve paid even a little bit of attention to the political news of the past several years, you are familiar with this episode's guest. Congressman Adam Schiff represents the 28th district of...
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Coronavirus Special Episode with Dr. Peter Hotez from 2020-03-18T09:00
In the past few days, life changed in America and around the world more than any of us likely ever imagined. Entire cities are on lockdown. Restaurants and bars and schools are closed in an all-...
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Empty The Pews with Ex-Evangelical Chrissy Stroop from 2020-03-16T08:00
Chrissy Stroop is one of the leaders of the #Exvangelical movement of those raised in evangelical traditions who are leaving their churches. As the editor of the book Empty the Pews: Stories...
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Fighting to Save Our Democracy with Congressman David Cicilline from 2020-03-09T07:01
From the small but mighty state of Rhode Island, Rep. David Cicilline has been a stalwart progressive voice in Congress since his election in 2010. Before that, he was the mayor of Providence, Rho...
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White Nationalism in the White House: Katie McHugh Kept Receipts from 2020-03-02T05:00
Katie McHugh is a former white nationalist who renounced those views and is working hard to undo the damage she did when she held them. She is a former writer for alt-right propaganda websites T...
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F*ck Silence: Joe Walsh Takes on the Trump Cult from 2020-02-24T05:00
Joe Walsh is a former republican congressman from Illinois’ eighth district, a conservative radio commentator, and a former candidate for president who challenged Donald Trump for the 2020 nomin...
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Trans People Taking Office: Brianna Titone Leads the Way from 2020-02-17T05:00
In 2018, Brianna Titone became the first trans person elected to the Colorado General Assembly, winning a seat that had been held by a Republican in a Republican district. In this episode, she s...
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Parkland School Shooting Second Anniversary: Fred Guttenberg Honors His Kids by Fighting for Yours from 2020-02-10T05:00
In February of 2018, one of our nation's greatest tragedies struck. In just over six minutes, a gunman armed with an AR-15 entered the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida, k...
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Impeach and Remove: Tae Phoenix Takes Civil Disobedience Personally from 2020-02-03T05:00
You’ve heard what happened—and more importantly, what didn’t happen—inside the sham impeachment trial of Donald Trump. This episode is about what happened outside while the Senate Republ...
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Episode 40: Andrea Chalupa Knows Ukraine from 2020-01-27T05:00
America is carving out new history. For only the third time we have impeached a president. At the center of this drama is Ukraine—a nation many of us know almost nothing about. But my guest toda...
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The Iran Crisis: Arwa Damon, Rep. Ro Khanna, and Sen. Chris Murphy from 2020-01-20T05:00
This is a special episode of Sorry Not Sorry, focused entirely on the developing military situation in Iran. It’s such an unnecessary mess—remember that three years ago, we had a working peace a...
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Ben and Jerry Serve Up Ethical Business Leadership, Bernie Sanders, and Fighting for a Better Future from 2020-01-13T05:00
In Vermont in the 1970s, childhood friends Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield started Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream. They pioneered equitable business practices, fair trade, and championed local farms w...
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Episode 37: Peter Morley Protects Your Care from 2020-01-06T05:00
When Peter Morley fell off a ladder, he had no idea that his spinal injury would reveal lurking kidney cancer. He's turned this tragedy, along with even more dire health issues, into purpose, pa...
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Episode 36: 2019 Year in Review from 2019-12-30T05:00
2019 started with a record number of women being sworn into office around the nation. It’s ending with the impeachment of the President of the United States. So much happened this year and in this ...
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Episode 35: A Call to Men - Ted Bunch Talks Healthy Masculinity from 2019-12-23T05:00
For more than two decades, Ted Bunch has been teaching men how to respect, value, and interact with women in ways which are not toxic. As one of the founders of A Call to Men, Ted works directly w...
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Episode 34: Royce White, Elite Athlete and Mental Health Advocate from 2019-12-16T05:00
Royce White was a standout basketball player at Iowa State, where he was the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year for the 2011-2012 season. He played professional basketball in the NBA and the Canadian N...
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Episode 33: Ammar Campa-Najjar, Candidate for Congress in California's 50th District from 2019-12-09T05:00
Alyssa Milano sat down to talk with Ammar Campa-Najjar, a candidate for congress who nearly beat Duncan Hunter in 2018. Since the election, Hunter pleaded guilty to misuse of campaign funds, and...
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Episode 32: Heather Matarazzo from 2019-12-02T05:00
Heather Matarazzo (The Princess Diaries, Welcome to the Dollhouse) is a brilliant actor, an activist, and a mental health warrior. She and Alyssa both started their acting careers as ch...
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The Student Debt Crisis with Natalia Abrams from 2019-11-25T05:00
The great promise of success in America has been this: work hard, get an education, and there’s nothing you can’t do. That promise is no longer being kept for far too many of us. Student loan de...
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Taking on the NRA: NoRA Co-Founder Ben Jackson from 2019-11-18T09:00:10
Every day, 100 Americans are killed by guns and hundreds more are shot and injured. On this episode of "Sorry Not Sorry," Alyssa is joined by Ben Jackson, one of the co-founders of NoRA, an organiz...
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22Kill's Executive Director Corporal Jacob Schick from 2019-11-11T09:00:14
Jacob Schick is the Chief Executive Officer of 22KILL, a non-profit which raises awareness and combats suicide by empowering veterans, first responders, and their families through traditional and n...
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Former Senior Border Patrol Agent Jenn Budd from 2019-11-04T14:48:57
Jenn Budd is a former senior border patrol agent turned immigrant rights activist. She joins Alyssa on "Sorry Not Sorry" to talk about how she decided to become a border agent, what went into the t...
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Hope: The Power of Youth Activists from 2019-10-28T08:25:09
Children are the future and we have increasingly seen the power of youth activists (who are getting younger and younger) and their ability to effect change. In collaboration with the release of her...
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"Insatiable" Creator Lauren Gussis from 2019-10-21T08:35:10
Lauren Gussis is a television writer and producer, known for her work on "Dexter" and for creating Netflix's "Insatiable." She sits down with Alyssa to discuss her career, how she learned to naviga...
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#MeToo Anniversary from 2019-10-14T08:00:23
On this episode, Sorry Not Sorry listeners share how #MeToo has impacted them and Alyssa shares her Hollywood #MeToo story. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alyssa-milano-sorry-not...
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Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang from 2019-10-07T08:30:07
Andrew Yang is a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, entrepreneur, lawyer, and philanthropist. He joins Alyssa to discuss how he’s taking a different approach than the other candidates - from h...
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Joe Sanberg: Working to End Poverty from 2019-09-30T08:45:02
Joe Sanberg is a progressive entrepreneur who is working to end poverty. He joins Alyssa on the latest episode of Sorry Not Sorry to discuss his personal story, how he’s working through the public...
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Matt McGorry: Actor, Activist and Ally from 2019-09-23T08:55:07
Matt McGorry is an actor and activist. He joins Alyssa on the latest episode of Sorry Not Sorry to talk about the importance of being an ally, how to educate and immerse yourself in the causes you ...
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A Conversation with Senator Ted Cruz, Fred Guttenberg, and Ben Jackson from 2019-09-16T08:00:12
This episode of Sorry Not Sorry features a conversation about gun violence prevention between Alyssa, Senator Ted Cruz, Fred Guttenberg whose daughter Jaime was one of 17 people killed in the Parkl...
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Jaime King: Body Image, Bullying, and the Importance of Being Kind from 2019-09-09T08:15:08
Jaime King is a mother, actor, filmmaker, writer, and activist. She joins the latest episode of Sorry Not Sorry to discuss the impact of starting her career at such a young age, the shame surroundi...
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Marijuana, Mental Health, and Eliminating Stigma from 2019-09-02T08:30:11
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a multiple Emmy-award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN and a practicing neurosurgeon. This week, he sits down with Alyssa to discuss his career, why he changed his mi...
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Gloria Allred: Fighting for Equal Rights from 2019-08-26T08:30:01
Gloria Allred is one of the top women’s rights attorneys in the country. Her firm has fought for more women’s rights cases than any other private firm in the nation and this year she will be induct...
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My Abortion Story from 2019-08-19T08:25:17
One in four women in the U.S. will have an abortion by the age of 45. But since the beginning of 2019, more than 250 bills restricting access to abortion care have been introduced in forty one stat...
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Frances Fisher on the Importance of Art and Activism from 2019-08-12T08:00:08
Actor and activist Frances Fisher does not hold back when it comes to speaking out on crucial issues. She joins Sorry Not Sorry to talk about the importance of activism, why we need to keep art in ...
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To Impeach or Not to Impeach? from 2019-08-05T08:00:08
What happens in an impeachment inquiry? Is this the best thing to do ahead of the 2020 election? In this episode, Alyssa Milano and guests explore why now is the time to call for the impeachment of...
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Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson from 2019-07-29T08:00:09
Author and activist Marianne Williamson is running for president in 2020. She joins Sorry Not Sorry to share why she’s decided to join the race, her thoughts on how the media is treating outsider c...
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The Investigation: A Live Reading of the Mueller Report from 2019-07-22T08:00:08
This week, ahead of the Mueller hearings, we wanted to share “The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts,” which was adapted by playwright, screenwriter, and actor Robert Schenkkan and p...
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Tara Strong Finds Her Voice from 2019-07-15T08:00:33
Tara Strong has played “Bubbles” in The Powerpuff Girls, “Timmy Turner” in The Fairly Odd Parents, “Dil Pickles” in Rugrats, “Raven” in Teen Titans, “Twilight Sparkle” in My Little Pony, and so man...
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Rafael Agustín: TV Writer and Formerly Undocumented American from 2019-07-08T08:00:33
Rafael Agustín, a writer for Jane the Virgin, executive director of the Youth Cinema Project and a formerly undocumented American joins Alyssa on the latest episode of Sorry Not Sorry. --- Send ...
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Presidential Candidate Ben Gleib from 2019-07-01T08:00:27
Comedian and 2020 presidential candidate Ben Gleib joins the latest episode of Sorry Not Sorry to share why he's seriously running for president of the United States, the reasons why he thinks care...
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#ERA Now: The Fight For Gender Equality in the Constitution from 2019-06-24T09:00:23
After 36 years, Congress finally held a hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment, which would provide equal protection to women under the law. In this episode, you’ll hear from Representative Carolyn...
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Predator Priests: PA AG Shapiro Unmasks a Systematic Cover-Up from 2019-06-17T08:30:33
In his first week on the job, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro began an investigation into Catholic clergy sexual abuse. The report unmasked a huge cover-up, leading all the way to the Va...
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Kim Raver: Director, Executive Producer and Actor from 2019-06-10T08:00:09
Kim Raver is an actor, director, and executive producer. She discusses her latest project “Tempting Fate,” the importance of getting more women behind the camera, and why the narrative of "female-d...
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Erin Brockovich: Clean Water Activist from 2019-06-03T08:30:03
Erin Brockovich is a consumer advocate and clean water activist who continues to inspire people to take control of their health. She shares her story, the importance of clean water, and why we nee...
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Trans Rights are Human Rights: Charlotte Clymer from 2019-05-27T08:30:13
Charlotte Clymer is a transgender woman, army veteran, and activist who came out publicly on Twitter in 2017. She shares her story and weighs in on what’s happening to LGBTQ people in our country u...
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Kentucky Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Adam Edelen from 2019-05-20T08:30:06
Adam Edelen is running for governor of Kentucky. He wants to create more renewable energy jobs, is pro-choice, and has a lot to say about education in this country. Even if you don’t live in Kentu...
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Criminal Justice Reform with Van Jones from 2019-05-13T09:00:32
6.6 million people are currently in the criminal justice system in the United States. On this episode, Alyssa sits down with Van Jones to talk about prison reform, restorative justice, and his CNN ...
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Fighting to Save Your Kids: Manuel Oliver from 2019-05-06T08:30:33
Manuel Oliver’s 17-year-old son, Joaquin, was murdered in the 2018 Parkland shooting. Since then, he has taken to art and activism to fight to protect the lives of children across the country. ---...
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Tarana Burke and Joe Biden from 2019-04-29T07:01:03
Tarana Burke joins Alyssa to discuss the power of the Me Too Movement, the importance of what happens after survivors say those words, and the most rewarding part of the work she’s doing. We also ...
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Introducing "Sorry Not Sorry" from 2019-04-25T19:07
Sorry Not Sorry launches on April 29th. The podcast, hosted by Alyssa Milano, will tackle social, political and cultural issues from the perspective of unapologetic guests while highlighting activi...
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