Podcasts by Town Hall Seattle Civics Series
The Civics series at Town Hall shines a light on the shifting issues, movements, and policies, that affect our society, both locally and globally. These events pose questions and ideas, big and small, that have the power to inform and impact our lives. Whether it be constitutional research from a scholar, a new take on history, or the birth of a movement, it's all about educating and empowering.
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342. Washington’s Leadership in the Global Climate Movement: Setting Examples for Progressive Climate Policies from 2023-12-06T23:11
Washington is leading the nation as a model for the transition to a climate-safe future.
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341. Amanda Montei and Kristi Coulter with Gemma Hartley: Ambition, Women, and Work from 2023-11-22T21:56
Many parents struggle with the physicality of caring for children, but even more with the growing lack of autonomy new moms may feel in their perso...
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340. Heather Cox Richardson with Marcus Harrison Green: Notes on the State of America from 2023-11-20T22:33
Although social media may not be a typical source of enlightenment, historian Heather Cox Richardson decided to become an exception to the rule.
339. Michael Harriot with Marcus Harrison Green: America Unredacted from 2023-11-16T00:53
Have you ever wondered if there was another version of this country besides the one that was taught in schools?
For many Americans, especially Black Americans, t...
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338. Rebecca Clarren with Rena Priest: The Cost of Free Land from 2023-11-07T23:03
Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant family’s origins.
337. Martin Baron with Frank Blethen A Marriage of Press and Politics from 2023-10-31T00:55
If you’ve felt like the news cycle has been out of control in the past few years, imagine being the editor of one of the most prominent papers in the US.
336. Franklin Foer with Katy Sewall: Reflecting on the First Two Years of the Biden Presidency from 2023-10-20T19:58
Upon taking the oath, every president is met both with endemic issues that persist over time, as well as a unique set of challenges of the day. Listen
335. Ken Grossinger with Dr. Carmen Rojas: Beyond Aesthetic: Art as a Catalyst for Change from 2023-10-17T19:55
Throughout history, art has been a vehicle for social change.
334. Michael Waldman with Prof. Liz Porter: Courting Controversy from 2023-10-13T19:31
What do we do when the Supreme Court challenges the entire nation?
The 2021-2022 term o...
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333. Sonali Kolhatkar with Sunnivie Brydum: Media in Color from 2023-10-11T23:16
While people of color have been more widely represented in media in recent years, most of that media is neither created nor consumed by them Listen
332. Naomi Klein with Mike Davis: A Trip into the Mirror World from 2023-09-27T22:25
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all?
331. Jocelyn Simonson with Emily Thuma: The Power of the People from 2023-09-26T17:43
How can we fix the problems in our criminal justice system?
In a feat that can seem insurmo...
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330. James Brosnahan: A Lawyer’s Career Through Groundbreaking Cases from 2023-09-22T21:01
To study history, we often look at court cases as representations of the societal issues and debates of their day. With landmark cases like Plessy v. Fer...
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329. Jennifer Pahlka with Tarah Wheeler: Outdated Policymaking in the Digital Age from 2023-09-18T18:42
These days, it feels like customer service has been nearly all digitized. While confusion over ticket orders and lost packages can be frustratin...
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328. Chris Guillebeau: Finding New Pathways to Prosperity from 2023-09-07T19:50
If you consider yourself a Millennial or part of Generation Z, chances are you’ve felt a little jaded by the usual dusty office job. According to bestselling a...
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327. Barry Long and David Tatro with Rebecca Crichton: Disability and Aging: New Perspectives from 2023-07-06T18:45
Long-time disability advocate Barry Long and Dave Tatro from Sound Generations share their lives and learning with Rebecca Crichton, ED of Northwest Center for C...
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326. Saving Journalism, Saving Our Democracy With Florangela Davila, Jelani Cobb, Michael McPhearson, and Frank Blethen from 2023-06-28T18:37
If journalism is the lifeblood of our democracy, then why does it feel like its chronically on life support?
325. Simon Johnson: Can AI Power Up Progress? from 2023-06-21T17:00
With today’s emerging technologies, including things like artificial intelligence, are quickly becoming mainstream. AIs like ChatGPT, the chatbot...
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325. Raja Shehadeh: A Portrait of a Palestinian Father and Son from 2023-06-15T19:43
In his life, Aziz Shehadeh was many things — among them a lawyer, a political detainee, and the father of activist and author, Raja Shehadeh.
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324. Simon Sebag Montefiore: Family Matters: Famous Families Throughout History from 2023-06-06T19:29
323. S. C. Gwynne: The Tragic Tale of British Airship R101 from 2023-06-01T21:41
Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half of the twentieth century, were a symbol of the future. Listen
322. Josephine Ensign with Anna Patrick: Health and Houselessness in Seattle from 2023-05-23T19:02
Home to over 730,000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population in ...
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321. Andrea Ritchie and Angélica Chazaro: A Primer on Police Abolition from 2023-05-19T20:17
A primer on police abolition from veteran organizers.
What could it look like to live in a worl...
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320. Gregory Smithers with Hailey Tayathy: Decolonizing Gender from 2023-05-15T19:54
Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people who identified as neither male nor female, but both. Listen
319. Nate G. Hilger with George Durham: The Parent Trap from 2023-05-12T21:45
Few people realize that raising children is the single largest industry in the United States.
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318. Nate Gowdy: The Insurrection in Photos from 2023-05-05T21:18
Nate Gowdy had previously photographed 30 Donald Trump rallies. He thought he was fully prepared for what should have been the grand finale, but the events that unfolded on January 6th, ...
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317. Timothy Egan: The Revolutionary Woman Who Revealed the Cruelty of the KKK from 2023-05-02T19:34
The Roaring Twenties – the Jazz Age – has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate grou...
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316. Kathleen McLaughlin with Shaun Scott: Selling Blood to Make Ends Meet from 2023-04-17T17:49
Journalist Kathleen McLaughlin knew she’d found a treatment that worked on her rare autoimmune disorder. She had no idea it had been drawn from the veins ...
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315. Afterglow - Envisioning a Radically Different Climate Future from 2023-04-03T20:16
314. Krista R. Pérez with Jasmine M. Pulido - Deracinating Racism from 2023-03-28T20:55
No matter how we identify, we all have a lot to unpack. While there is a multitude of texts with universal application, community organizer Krista R. Pérez h...
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313. Erik M. Conway with David Roberts - The Big Myth of Free Markets from 2023-03-21T20:22
Why do Americans believe in the “magic of the marketplace”?
The answer, as Erik M. Conway cont...
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312. Claudia Chwalisz with Marcus Harrison Green and Brandi Kruse - The Future of Democracy from 2023-03-15T22:32
What would the world look like if we shifted political and legislative power to everyday people — on the premise that everyone is worthy and capa...
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311. Labor and Literature - An Evening of Songs, Poetry, and Witness from 2023-03-14T17:58
Join local writers, musicians, and activists for an evening of songs, poetry, and witness.
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310. Dr. Emma Belcher with Gael Tarleton - Confronting the Threat of Nuclear Weapons from 2023-03-13T18:32
As President Vladimir Putin flung threats of nuclear retaliation during Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, we were given an important reminder of the dangers p...
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309. Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow with Jane Park - Say the Right Thing from 2023-02-25T00:03
Do you ever wish you had a manual for what to say in certain situations? Cultural Awareness powerhouses Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow’s Say the Right T...
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308. Jeff Guinn - David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage from 2023-02-21T23:31
On February 28, 1993, agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) raided the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. Acting on reports that the group and their leader,...
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307. Dan Berger with Carmen Rojas - Love and Liberation from 2023-02-16T21:39
The Black Power movement is often associated with iconic spokespeople, but its momentum was due, in part, to the work of those with untold stories. Universit...
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306. Tori Dunlap with Aleenah Ansari: An Inclusive Guide to All Things Money from 2023-02-09T00:17
Do you recall your earliest memories about managing money? Did you squirrel away pennies in a bank or watch your parents balance the checkbook? Author Tori Dunlap had those memories as a child a...
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305. Marion Nestle with Dr. Jim Krieger: It’s Never Too Late To Begin from 2022-11-30T18:15
By the time food politics expert Marion Nestle obtained her doctorate in molecular biology, she had been married since the age of nineteen, dropped out of college, worked as a lab technician, di...
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304. Anya Kamenetz with Bonnie J. Rough: How the U.S. Has Failed to Put Children First from 2022-11-23T20:31
Over 49 million children attend public school in the United States, with over 52,000 of them here in our Seattle Public Schools alone. The U.S. public school system guarantees every child in eve...
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303. RepresentUs: Protecting Our Nation for Future Generation from 2022-11-16T20:26
Are you are frustrated with the political dysfunction our country is experiencing? From unresponsive and unrepresentative government that fails to tackle our largest problems, to extremists unde...
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302. Anand Giridharadas with Naomi Ishisaka: Progressive Change Through the Art of Persuasion from 2022-11-09T23:23
It can be said that the lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people’s minds in order to change things. But what happens when people increa...
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301. Ruha Benjamin with Jazmyn Scott and Vivian Phillips: How We Grow the World We Want from 2022-11-03T18:32
Can the choices you make on a daily basis transform society? Sociologist and Princeton professor Dr. Ruha Benjamin thinks so, and has the research to support the idea.
Dr. Benjamin’s grou...
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300. Cody Keenan with Marcus Harrison Green: Putting Words in the President’s Mouth from 2022-10-27T19:13
What is it like to be the mouthpiece for the President of the United States? You or I may have found ourselves stressed about writing an essay or sending a letter, but imagine having to craft se...
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299. Robin D.G. Kelley with Reagan Jackson - Freedom Dreams: The 20th Anniversary from 2022-10-19T17:45
It was in 2002 that Robin D.G. Kelley published Freedom Dreams, a history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora throughout the twentieth century. The book presen...
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298. Peniel E. Joseph with Naomi Ishisaka - The Racial Reckoning of the Third Reconstruction from 2022-10-12T19:58
One of the most profoundly human experiences that most of us share, at some point in our lives, is the feeling that we are living through a monumental shif...
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297. Margaret McKeown and Sally Jewell - The SCOTUS Steward: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas from 2022-10-05T21:39
Long before “going green” became a hashtag, people like William O. Douglas were on the front lines of the environmental justice movement. Despite being known for some notable accomplishments — f...
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296. Michael Mandelbaum with Jacqueline Miller: How America Became the World’s Sole Hyperpower from 2022-08-10T23:17:51
With its massive economy and military budget, America is the world’s most powerful country. How did the U.S. come to have so much power to affect nations and people around the globe? How did the...
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295. M. Nolan Gray with Shaun Scott: How Zoning Broke the American City from 2022-07-13T21:38:47
With exponential growth in the Seattle area, demand and costs for housing are high and availability is low. Affordable housing is difficult for so many to come by, and the regio...
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294. Antong Lucky with Beverly Aarons: A Former Gang Founder’s Path to Peace from 2022-06-29T23:23:10
The fight for racial justice within the U.S. criminal legal system — and the call for its reform — has intensified in recent years. Studies show that Black Americans are almost ...
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293. Francis Fukuyama with Eric Liu: The Discontents of Liberalism from 2022-06-22T18:20:02
As a philosophy that means different things to different people and groups, it can be hard to know what liberalism stands for. Traditionally, liberalism is viewed as a political...
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292. Levi Vonk with Courtney Hudak: Treachery, Trafficking, and Two Friends on the Run from 2022-06-15T10:00
In 2015, anthropologist and writer Levi Vonk found himself on a journey filled with twists, turns, and a chance meeting that would forever impact his life. With a desire to repo...
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291. Monica De La Torre with Gabriel Teodros: Building Community Through Radio in the Yakima Valley from 2022-06-08T21:41:56
Beginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift Mexican American listeners across the United States. Listen
290. Erin L. Thompson with Sarah Mirk: The Turbulent History of American Monuments from 2022-06-01T21:54:20
Hundreds of public monuments have come down during the social and racial reckoning currently sweeping our country. And while Seattle has not been at the epicenter of the furor o...
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289. Gish Jen with Daniel Tam-Claiborne: Thank You, Mr. Nixon from 2022-05-26T00:06:57
In 1972, Richard Nixon made a historic visit to China. The trip broke 25 years of silence between the U.S. and China, paving the way for the establishment of full diplomatic rel...
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288. Lily Geismer with Margaret O’Mara: How Democrats Have Failed to Solve Income Inequality from 2022-05-18T22:47:40
It’s sometimes easy to forget that the U.S. has reached its present state over decades and centuries of political decision-making, not just a handful of years. Every move builds...
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287. Robert W. Gehl and Sean T. Lawson: Propaganda, Deception, and the Manipulation of Information from 2022-05-10T19:53:11
The United States is awash in manipulated information about everything from election results to the effectiveness of medical treatments. C...
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286. Mónica Guzmán with David Horsey: How to Stay Fearlessly Curious in Divided Times from 2022-05-04T20:44:39
There’s no way around it — it’s a challenging time in America. Societies have lived through pandemics and political strife before, but nev...
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285. Howard Zehr and Barb Toews with Omari Amili and Freddie Nole: Stories and Portraits of Life Sentences in Prison from 2022-04-28T03:31:11
Each night in the United States, more than 200,000 people incarcerated in state and federal prisons — 1 in 7 prisoners — will go to sleep facing the reality that they may die without eve...
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284. Patrick Sylvain, Jalene Tamerat, and Marie Lily Cerat with Danielle McKoy: Immigration, Race, and Identity in the Classroom from 2022-04-20T20:36:58
Students today face a barrage of stressors that impact every corner of their lives, from academic and social stress to family dynamics and personal trauma. The added layers of n...
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283. Thom Hartmann: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America from 2022-04-13T21:43:13
Most Americans are well aware that companies like Facebook are harvesting our data, but do we fully understand how their information is being used — and misused? In his new book...
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282. Laura Shin with Steve Scher: The Making of the Cryptocurrency Craze from 2022-04-07T00:30:22
Cryptocurrency has been making steady waves — no doubt because of its almost too-good-to-pass-up promise of fortune that isn’t consistently regulated or controlled by any single...
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281. Elie Mystal with Shaun Scott: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution from 2022-03-30T12:00
Casual political discussions are anything but easy to navigate. Committing each of the 4,500+ words in the U.S. Constitution to memory and interpreting them effectively in conve...
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280. Nick Timiraos with David Wessel: How Jay Powell and the Fed Prevented Economic Disaster from 2022-03-24T01:35:01
The inner workings of the Federal Reserve System are an enigma to most of us. But as the early months of 2020 unfolded with a massive public health crisis, huge drops in the sto...
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279. Erik Larson with Mary Ann Gwinn—The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz from 2022-03-16T20:04:59
Bestselling author Erik Larson is widely known for masterful works of narrative nonfiction, and has a particular penchant for drawing a certain ric...
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278. Tiffanie Drayton with Krystal A. Sital: Black Womanhood and the Toll of Racism from 2022-03-09T11:00
In the early ’90s, young Tiffanie Drayton and her siblings left Trinidad and Tobago to join their mother in New Jersey, where she’d been making her way as a domestic worker, eag...
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277. Jacob Mchangama with C.E. Bick: A History of Free Speech from Socrates to Social Media from 2022-03-02T11:00
Freedom of speech or expression is a fundamental element of democracy around the globe. Many countries have adopted constitutional laws that protect free speech; it’s also recog...
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276. Howard W. French with Drego Little: A Vital Reframing of World History from 2022-02-24T02:22:43
When we think about how the “modern world” came to be, history tends to focus on Eurocentric milestones: The Age of Discovery, which centered the expeditions of seafaring Europe...
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275. Jules Boykoff with Bill Radke: A Critical Take on Sports and Capitalism from 2022-02-17T00:56:35
The Olympic Games are no stranger to political controversy; a look back at over a century of modern Olympic history reveals countless boycotts, scandals, and international confl...
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274. Diane C. Fujino and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez: A Contemporary Look at Asian American Activism from 2022-02-09T11:00
Can we transform our society through unruly resistance, defiant love, and radical care? ...
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273. David Cay Johnston with Sarah Reyneveld: How Donald Trump Fleeced America from 2022-02-02T22:55:37
It’s not uncommon for commentary about former president Trump’s spending habits to be met with raised eyebrows and stifled chuckles; soundbites about golf resorts and hotel empi...
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272. Jeffrey S. Sutton with Joe Nguyen—State v. Federal: Who Decides the Law? from 2022-01-28T11:00
In September of 2021, Senate Bill 8 passed in the state of Texas. With it, some of the most restrictive abortion regulations in the country were enacted into law, going against ...
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271. Gregg Mitman with Kerri Arsenault: How Liberia Was Transformed Into America’s Rubber Empire from 2022-01-26T11:00
Rubber is one of those things that goes unnoticed most days, even though our modern lives depend on it for building supplies, medical and industrial equipment, and so many things that he...
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270. Timothy Frye with Michael Rawding: How Putin’s Russia Really Works from 2022-01-19T21:06:17
When it comes to Russian politics, public discussion tends to zero in on either Russia’s unique history and culture or the omnipotence of Vladimir Putin, who has held positions of power ...
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269. erin Khuê Ninh with Takeo Rivera: Model Minority Identity and the Pressure for Excellence from 2022-01-15T05:18:14
In 2007, Azia Kim pretended to be a Stanford freshman and even lived in the school’s dormitory for several months. In 2010, Jennifer Pan h...
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268. Keisha N. Blain with LaNesha DeBardelaben: What a New Generation of Activists Can Learn from Fannie Lou Hamer from 2022-01-12T21:21:12
Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the youngest of 20 children in a family of Mississippi sharecroppers. Black, poor, disabled by polio, and forced to leave school early to supp...
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267. Joshua Prager with Kiana Scott: The Family Roe from 2022-01-05T21:28:03
In the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade legal case, the United States Supreme Court voted 7-2 to affirm the right to get an abortion. Despite both the colossal impact of the case and h...
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266. Ryan Busse with Bill Radke: A look into the U.S. gun industry with a former firearms executive from 2021-12-22T20:48:05
Ryan Busse is an avid hunter, outdoorsman, conservationist, and gun owner. He built a successful career as a firearms executive and helped grow one of the biggest gun companies ...
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265. Beth Simone Noveck with Eric Klinenberg: Solving Public Problems from 2021-12-15T11:00
Many of our current public institutions are trying to solve today’s problems by using outdated, cumbersome tools of the past. It’s no wonder that many of our public institutions...
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264. David Wessel—Only the Rich Can Play: How Washington Works in the New Gilded Age from 2021-12-08T21:18:53
The Trump-era Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was passed in December of 2017; the tax code hadn’t seen such a massive overhaul in over 30 years. Bobbing along in a sea of sweeping ...
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263. Derecka Purnell with Nikkita Oliver and Darnell L. Moore: Becoming Abolitionists from 2021-12-01T22:10:46
The police cannot be reformed. This is the assertion of human rights lawyer Derecka Purnell. Instead, she believes, new systems need to be created to address the root causes of ...
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262. Todd Litman—New Mobilities: Planning for the Future of Transportation from 2021-11-18T00:04:24
Did you get to work on an e-bike? Go to meet your friends at the restaurant on a scooter? Go to your vacation get-away on an air taxi? There are more and more ways to get from p...
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261. Claudia Goldin with Kiana Scott: The Century-Long Fight to Close the Gender Pay Gap from 2021-11-10T22:46:34
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, women still make 82 cents for every dollar earned by a man. The gap is even wider for women of color. Black women were paid 63% of wha...
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260. Keith Boykin: America’s Overdue Reckoning with Systemic Racism from 2021-11-03T08:00
Four crises have faced America in the recent past: the Covid-19 pandemic, the sweeping economic downturn because of it, the strengthening Black Lives Matter movement, and the shaky found...
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259. Tom Standage with Mark Harris: A Brief History of Motion from 2021-10-27T21:48:10
Horse poop propelled us into automobiles. In the early 20th century there were health concerns over all the manure taking up urban streets. That said, we shifted from an actual ...
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258. Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy M. Weinstein with Lauren Sato: How to Reboot Big Tech from 2021-10-21T00:05:53
It took no time at all. In the beginning, we looked at computers and the internet with wide eyes and open arms. It was a technology of liberating potential for us all. Now, it i...
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257. Evan Osnos and Eric M. Johnson: American Fury, from 9/11 to 1/6 from 2021-10-13T22:27:09
We are all connected. We are all far apart. This is our American reality as we all become more and more polarized. Inequities of wealth, class, and culture are pulling us furthe...
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256. Gene Slater with Jay Reich: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate America from 2021-10-06T22:49:02
Fair housing has never been that fair. In fact, in California at one point, realtors successfully campaigned for a California constitutional amendment that would permanently pro...
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255. Suchitra Vijayan with Dr. Amrita Ghosh: Intimate stories from India’s disputed border from 2021-09-29T21:03
India’s border meanders over 9,000 miles from Pakistan to Myanmar, crossing desert, fertile plains, rivers, and snow-capped mountains. India’s border is also the site of a massi...
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254. Tracy Swinton Bailey: A True Story of Hope in the Fight for Child Literacy from 2021-09-22T18:09:55
Arguably the single most essential aspect of a good education is literacy. “To learn to read is to light a fire,” Victor Hugo wrote. By becoming literate, one develops a whole h...
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253. Thom Hartmann: Replacing America’s “Sickness for Profit” Healthcare System from 2021-09-15T23:28:24
“For-profit health insurance is the largest con job ever perpetrated on the American people—one that has cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives since the 1940s,” says p...
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252. Omar G. Encarnación with ChrisTiana ObeySumner: The Case for Gay Reparations from 2021-09-01T19:13:05
In the last two decades, many nations have adopted “gay reparations,” or policies intended to make amends for a history of discrimination, stigmatizati...
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251. Sasha Issenberg with Aditi Roy: A Chronicle of America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Marriage Equality from 2021-08-25T19:49:38
On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United Stat...
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250. Annette Gordon-Reed with Marcus Harrison Green: The History and Future of Juneteenth from 2021-08-19T22:59:35
On June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, the end of legalized slavery in the state was announced. Since then, a certain narrative and lore has e...
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249. Charles R. Wolfe with Steve Scher: Strategies for Creating and Enhancing Distinctive City Culture from 2021-08-17T02:07:16
Somewhere, between character and caricature, there exists an authentic and unique urban place, believes urbanism consultant and author Charles R. Wolfe...
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248. Industrialized Agriculture: A Fight for Human Rights in India with Arjun Singh Sethi, Navyug Gill, and Manpreet Kaur Kalra from 2021-08-12T04:51:24
India is in a crisis. In September 2020, the Indian government passed three new agricultural bills that deregulate and privatize India’s agric...
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247. Virtual Civic Cocktail: One Guilty Verdict – What’s Next? from 2021-08-09T22:23:32
The guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd, was celebrated as a victory for racial equity progress in our country. As our nation cont...
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246. Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth: Project Censored’s State of the Free Press from 2021-08-05T08:00
How healthy is journalism in the United States today? Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff of Pr...
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245. Nesrine Malik and Ece Temelkuran: Making Progress in a Moment of Inequity and Division from 2021-07-28T00:15:11
In 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump declared: “I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct.” This led many after his victory to blame “identity politics” ...
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244. Brad Stone with Karen Weise: The Evolution of Jeff Bezos and Amazon from 2021-07-20T23:54:03
Jeff Bezos’ empire, once housed in a garage, now spans the globe. Between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud compu...
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243. Virtual Civic Cocktail—Downtown Seattle: Rebuilding a Troubled Superstar from 2021-07-14T22:26:51
What’s the state of downtown Seattle? How are businesses and other sectors navigating the ongoing impact of the pandemic, recent protests, lack of af...
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242. Danielle Sered and Nikkita Oliver: Violence, Incarceration, and a Road to Repair from 2021-07-02T02:29:30
Although over half the people incarcerated in America today have committed violent offenses, the focus of reformers has been almost entirely on non...
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241. Kate Aronoff with Bill McKibben: How Capitalism Broke the Planet and How We Fight Back from 2021-06-23T23:24:15
It has become impossible to deny that the planet is warming, and that governments must act. But some believe that a new denialism is taking root in the halls of power, shaped by...
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240. Combating Racial Animus Against the AAPI Community: Solutions for Change from 2021-06-16T23:55:54
Xenophobia and bigotry against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community are on the rise in cities throughout the country, including...
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239. Senator Mazie K. Hirono with Viet Thanh Nguyen: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story from 2021-06-10T02:32:15
A young girl was raised on a rice farm in rural Japan when, at seven years old, her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder childre...
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238. Colin Jerolmack with Ralph Kisberg: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in An American Town from 2021-06-02T22:18
The United States is the only country in the world where property rights commonly extend “up to heaven and down to hell,” which means that landowne...
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237. Morris Pearl and Erica Payne: The Patriotic Millionaires Explore the Rigging of The US Economy from 2021-05-26T22:27:58
The vast majority of American—71 percent—believe the economy is rigged in favor of the rich. Guess what? They’re right! And Morris Pearl and Erica Payne would know—they’re some ...
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236. Cass Sunstein: Falsehoods and Free Speech In An Age of Deception from 2021-05-19T22:34:02
Lying has been a part of society since the beginning. Over the past decade, however, it has become increasing...
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235. Virtual Civic Cocktail: The State of Our Democracy – Next Steps for the Democratic Party from 2021-05-13T04:45:03
What’s ahead for Republicans, Democrats, and Independents when it comes to civics in our country and communities? How can we work together...
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234. Kerry Killinger and Linda Killinger with Enrique Cerna: How the Last Financial Crisis Informs Today from 2021-05-05T23:42:01
In 2008, the American economy collapsed, taking with it millions of Americans’ jobs, homes, and life savings. The ...
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233. Nicholas Freudenberg and Mark Bittman: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health from 2021-04-28T18:47:43
Freedom of choice lies at the heart of American society. Every day, individuals decide what to eat, which doctors to see, who to connect w...
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232. Alec MacGillis with Margaret O’Mara: Winning and Losing in One-Click America from 2021-04-22T21:36:56
In 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He blasted the callousness of a company worth “a billion do...
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231. Christopher Sebastian Parker with Lance Bennett and Kenan Block: What the Attack on the Capitol Means for the Future of American Democracy from 2021-04-16T04:05:42
On January 5, the run-off election in Georgia flipped the state and created opportunity for a Democrat-led Senate. On January 6, armed insurrectionists s...
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230. Virtual Civic Cocktail—The State of Our Democracy: Bridging the Political Divide in WA from 2021-04-07T23:01:24
Many believe that partisan politics has created a roadblock in efforts to reach across the aisle and forge ahead. Nationally, the chasm separating Democrats and Republicans can ...
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229. Abdul El-Sayed and Micah Johnson: A Citizen’s Guide to Medicare for All from 2021-03-31T23:19:14
The coronavirus pandemic reignited a debate that has been raging for years: healthcare. There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as he...
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228. Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire with Diane Ravitch: The Threat to Public Education and the Future of School from 2021-03-25T19:20:16
Betsy DeVos may be the most prominent face of the seeming push to dismantle public education, but educational policy experts Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider believe she’s part of a larger ...
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227. Jesse Hagopian and Denisha Jones: Black Lives Matter at School from 2021-03-17T22:55:03
How can educators help destroy entrenched inequalities and enact the values of Black Lives Matter in their classrooms, schools, and communities? Listen
226. Sara Sinclair with Gladys Radek and Althea Guiboche: Voices from Indigenous North America from 2021-03-11T01:25:55
“Over the last three years in cities and on reserves and reservations across the continent, I have listened to Native people’s stories of loss, inj...
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225. Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala with Jacqueline Miller: Real Lessons from Women in National Leadership from 2021-03-04T21:24:53
Women make up fewer than ten percent of national leaders worldwide, and behind this eye-opening statistic lies a pattern of unequal access to power. Julie Gillard and Ngozi Okon...
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224. Virtual Civic Cocktail—The State of Our Democracy: Next Steps for the Republican Party from 2021-02-25T02:49:51
What’s ahead for Republicans, Democracts, and Independents when it comes to civics in our country and communities? How can we work together when parties are often divided themse...
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224. Virtual Civic Cocktail—The State of Our Democracy: Next Steps for the Republican Party from 2021-02-25T02:49:51
What’s ahead for Republicans, Democracts, and Independents when it comes to civics in our country and communities? How can we work together when parties are often divided themse...
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223. Thom Hartmann: The Hidden History of the American Oligarchy from 2021-02-18T00:12:30
The United States was born in a struggle against the oligarchs of the British aristocracy, and ever since then the history of America has been one of dynamic tension between democracy an...
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222. Sarah Jaffe with Kathi Weeks: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone from 2021-02-10T22:12:56
You’re told that if you “do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” Whether it’s working for “exposure” and “experience,” or enduring poor treatment in the name of...
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221. John Ghazvinian: A History of America and Iran, From Allies to Adversaries from 2021-02-03T05:47:42
How did the US and Iran lapse from a once-friendly relationship to that of hostile enemies?
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220. Astra Taylor with E. Tammy Kim: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition from 2021-01-28T01:48:03
Even before a national pandemic that sent the country into a crisis, almost 40% of Americans wouldn’t be able to cover a $400 emergency. Nearly a third of Americans have medical...
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219. Elliott Young with Mayra Machado: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System from 2021-01-22T21:46:07
Today over half a million immigrants are caged each year, some serving indefinite terms in what history professor Elliott Young argues is the world’s most extensive immigrant de...
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218. Michael Eric Dyson with Robin DiAngelo: Reckoning with Race in America from 2021-01-13T20:59:17
The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that n...
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217. Tamara Payne: An Unprecedented Portrait of the Life of Malcolm X from 2020-12-17T07:42:14
In 1990, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Les Payne embarked on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X. Listen
216. Steve Davis with Chelsea Clinton: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism from 2020-12-09T21:38:23
It feels like every day there’s something new to be outraged about, or a new piece of information about something that is already outrageous. But how can those feelings of outrage be use...
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215. The History of Housing Segregation Today: How the Legacy of Redlining Impacts Seattle’s Housing Crisis from 2020-12-03T03:43:18
Segregation in America—the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife—is the byproduct of explicit government policies at t...
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214. Eddie Cole with Shaun Scott: Campus Activism and the Struggle for Black Freedom from 2020-11-25T19:50:07
College campuses in the mid-twentieth century are an oft-forgotten battle ground in the fight for (and against) civil rights. Professor Dr. Eddie Cole believes the role of campus activis...
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213. Ronald Chew with Naomi Ishisaka: My Unforgotten Seattle from 2020-11-19T06:00:29
For more than five decades, Ron Chew has fought for Asian American and social justice causes in Seattle. Listen
212. Derek W. Black with Katherine Dunn: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy from 2020-11-15T05:20:42
From funding, to vouchers, to charter schools, public education policy has become a political football. Many feel that we are in the midst of a full-scale attack on our nation’s...
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211. Senator Sherrod Brown with Dow Constantine: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America from 2020-11-04T02:57
Hugo Black, Glen Taylor, George McGovern, Robert F. Kennedy, Herbert Lehman, Theodore Francis Green, Al Gore, William Proxmire, Sherrod Brown. Did you know the common thread is a desk? Listen
210. Laila Lalami with Viet Thanh Nguyen: Conditional Citizens from 2020-10-29T23:44:14
What does it mean to be an American? Author Laila Lalami joinsed us to discuss this ...
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209. Andrew Imbrie with Jen Psaki: Power on the Precipice—The Six Choices America Faces in a Turbulent World from 2020-10-21T21:53:54
Is America fated to decline as a great power? Can it recover?
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208. Ambassador Capricia Marshall with Thomas Corrigan: The Power of Diplomacy from 2020-10-14T23:28:22
History often appears to consist of big gestures and dramatic shifts. But for every peace treaty signed, someone set the stage, using diplomacy to effect the outcome. Nobody knows this b...
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207. Combating Hate: Empathy Through Storytelling from 2020-10-08T01:05:18
World Without Hate seeks to replace hate and violence with empathy and love, restoring peace through storytelling and empathy education. Listen
206. Senator Chris Murphy with Eric Liu: The Violence Inside Us from 2020-10-01T19:42:53
Many in America do not feel safe in spaces that used to be seen as refuges: our churches and schools, our movie theaters and dance clubs, our workplaces and neighborhoods. But this feeling begs ...
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205. Alice Wong with Elsa Sjunneson: Disability Visibility in the Twenty-First Century from 2020-09-22T00:38:12
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Listen
204. Thom Hartmann: The Hidden History of Monopolies from 2020-09-14T08:00
American monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system–but we’ve broken the hold of behemoths like these before, author Thom Hartmann says, a...
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203. Suzanne Nossel with Dinaw Mengestu: Defending Free Speech for All from 2020-09-01T08:00
Online trolls and fascist chat groups. Controversies over campus lectures. Cancel culture versus censorship. The daily hazards and debates surrounding free speech dominate headl...
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202. Bob Wodnik and Joni Earl: Sound Transit’s Fight to Save the Light Rail from 2020-04-08T08:00
Observing its bustling stations today, it is difficult to picture Seattle and surrounding cities without Sound Transit—let alone imagine the agency teetering near collapse. But,...
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201. E.J. Dionne with Ross Reynolds: Uniting Progressives and Moderates to Save Our Country from 2020-04-01T08:00
Broad and principled opposition to Donald Trump’s presidency has drawn millions of previously disengaged citizens to the public square and to the ballot boxes. Journalist Listen
200. Conor Dougherty with Alan Durning: The Fight for Housing in America from 2020-03-18T08:00
Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. But according to journalist Conor Dougherty, punishing rents and th...
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199. Susan Fowler with Carolyn Adolph: Fighting Sexual Harassment in Silicon Valley from 2020-03-09T20:57:11
In 2017, twenty-five-year-old Susan Fowler came forward to discuss the sexual harassment and retaliation she’d experienced as an entry-level engineer at U...
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198. Milenko Matanovič: The Case for Everyday Democracy from 2020-03-05T09:00
“The right of the people peaceably to assemble” is guaranteed in the First Amendment of the US constitution. Thanks to that right, every day thousands of community meetings are ...
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197. Karen Sherman with Dr. Rosita Van Coevorden: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women in Rwanda from 2020-03-03T23:42:29
After a twenty-five-year career spent fighting for women’s rights around the globe, author Karen Sherman moved to Rwanda with her three sons to oversee the construction of a first-of-its-kind wo...
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196. Nick Buccola: Baldwin, Buckley, and the Debate Over Race in America from 2020-02-28T00:12:02
On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd in Cambridge, England gathered to witness a televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, an...
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195. Thom Hartmann with Pramila Jayapal: The Hidden War on Voting from 2020-02-25T17:56:49
Donald Trump was elected by only 26 percent of eligible voters. In America today, only a slim majority of people register to vote and a large percentage of registered voters don...
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194. Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Innovation and Leadership for Changing the World from 2020-02-21T20:15:55
When traditional approaches are inadequate or resisted, advanced leadership skills are essential. Over a decade ago, renowned innovation expert Listen
193. Diane Rehm with Ross Reynolds: When My Time Comes from 2020-02-20T00:48:29
Death is an integral part of life—and according to the Right-To-Die movement we should have the freedom to choose to end their own life. Renowned radio host Listen
192. Diane Ravitch with Jesse Hagopian: The Fight to Save America’s Public Schools from 2020-02-12T09:00
According to Diane Ravitch, citizens across America are successfully fighting to stop corporations from privatizing our nation’s public schools. Listen
191. Art Wolfe and Dr. Samuel Wasser: Preserving Elephants in the Age of Extinction from 2020-02-10T21:11:15
Legendary for their size and intelligence, elephants are one of the most charismatic of megafauna. That they are under siege from poachers is no secret, and the rapidity of thei...
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190. Andrea Bernstein with Eli Sanders: American Oligarchs from 2020-02-05T09:00
Can American democracy survive in a system where more money means more power? Award-winning journalist Andrea Bernstein tackled this question with insight from her book Amer...
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189. Josephine Ensign: Catching Homelessness from 2020-02-03T21:11:52
At the beginning of the homelessness epidemic in the 1980s, Josephine Ensign was a young, white, Southern, Christian wife, mother, and nurse running a medical clinic for the homeless in ...
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188. Who Can We Trust? Technology’s Impact on Democracy from 2020-01-29T09:00
Technology has made communication easier than ever. As social networks, digital platforms, and emerging technologies keep us constantly connected, many have found that the volum...
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187. Peggy Orenstein: Boys, Sex, and the New Masculinity from 2020-01-28T00:09:55
Peggy Orenstein’s book Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and launched conversations about young women’s right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It ...
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186. Robert Frank: How Peer Pressure Can Save The Planet from 2020-01-22T09:00
Psychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But social influence is a two-way stree...
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185. Samuel Woolley: How Technology Will Break the Truth from 2020-01-15T09:00
Despite Samuel Woolley’s warnings as early as 2013, the problem of online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Listen
184. Michael Lerner: A Political Manifesto to Heal the World from 2020-01-07T09:00
Many liberals and progressives yearn for coherent alternatives to capitalism, but previous visions of socialism do not necessarily account for anything beyond material benefits....
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183. Erika Lee: A History of Xenophobia in the US from 2019-12-31T21:06:38
The United States is known as a nation of immigrants—but it is also a nation of xenophobia. Author Erika Lee took the sta...
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182. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández: Migrating to Prison from 2019-12-24T09:00
For most of America’s history, we did not lock people up for migrating here. Yet over the last thirty years, our country’s federal and sta...
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181. Eli Saslow with Simone Alicea: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist from 2019-12-19T19:00
Radio show host Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on ...
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180. Charlton McIlwain with Kamal Al-Mansour: Black Software from 2019-12-11T09:00
Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today’s digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. But according to Listen
179. Caitlin Zaloom with Ross Reynolds: Making College Work at Any Cost from 2019-12-05T21:17:52
The struggle to pay for college is one of the defining features of middle-class life in America today. Author Caitlin Zaloom took us into the hom...
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178. Daniel Brook: The Accident of Color from 2019-12-04T00:18:09
In nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston, many cosmopolitan residents eluded the racial categories the rest of America takes for granted. Before the Civil War, these fre...
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177. Allison Stanger: How Whistleblowers Preserve Our Democracy from 2019-11-27T09:00
Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they...
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176. Douglas Smith: How America Saved Russia From Famine from 2019-11-25T09:00
In 1921, facing one of the worst famines in history, the new Soviet government under Vladimir Lenin invited the American Relief Administration to save communist Russia from ruin. Listen
175. Just Food: A Conversation about Food as a Right in Washington from 2019-11-22T09:00
Hunger isn’t just the absence of food, it’s the absence of justice. When our systems are broken, the most vulnerable in our state suffer the most. Food justice aligns itself wit...
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174. Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear with Marcos Martinez: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration from 2019-11-20T09:00
As his campaign rhetoric in the 2018 midterms demonstrated, no issue matters more to Donald Trump than immigration. And no issue—with the possibl...
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173. Timothy A. Wise with Million Belay: The Battle for the Future of Food in Africa from 2019-11-18T09:00
Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—especially at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to s...
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172. Richard Stengel: The Global Battle Against Disinformation from 2019-11-14T19:22:37
During the final three years of the Obama administration, Richard Stengel—former editor of Time magazine and an Under Secretary of State—stood on the front lines of the new glob...
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171. Anand Giridharadas with Steve Scher: Winners Take All from 2019-11-11T09:00
What do we do when our society’s economic elite become more interested in celebrating their own magnanimity than bringing about real change? Former New York Times colum...
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170. Robert Shiller: How Viral Stories Can Drive Our Economy from 2019-11-08T09:00
In a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign elections, can we afford to ignore the power of viral stories to affect economies?
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169. Susan Rice with Sally Jewell: Tough Love from 2019-11-06T09:00
Mother, wife, scholar, diplomat, and fierce champion of American interests and values, Ambassador Susan Rice powerfully connects the personal and the professional. Listen
168. Democracy In Decline: After Local Media Disappears, What Comes Next? from 2019-11-04T09:00
Americans are losing trust in journalism. With the widespread consolidating and closing of American media outlets, many are worried that democracy supported by a free press may ...
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167: Christof Spieler: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit from 2019-10-31T00:46:15
In the US, the 25 largest metropolitan areas have fixed guideway rail or bus transit systems. Nearly all of them are talking about expanding—yet according to architecture and engineering expert ...
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166: Paul Tough: Who Needs College? from 2019-10-28T18:01
Does college still work? Can a college education today provide real opportunity to young Americans seeking to improve their station in life, or is the system designed only to protect the...
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165: Ijeoma Oluo with Charles Mudede: So You Want to Talk About Race from 2019-10-25T19:04:37
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy–from police brutality to the mass incarceration of African Americans–have made it impossible to ignore the issue of race. To g...
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164: Jenny Brown with Amelia Bonow: The Abortion Struggle Now from 2019-10-21T08:00
With an anti-abortion majority in the Supreme Court and several states with only one abortion clinic, many reproductive rights activists are on the defensive. Listen
163: People’s Town Hall on Nuclear Weapons from 2019-10-16T08:00
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Washington Against Nuclear Weapons Coalition presents a Listen
162: Timothy Faust: Single Payer Healthcare and What Comes Next from 2019-10-14T08:00
The concept of single payer healthcare is not complicated: tax funding pays for all care for all people. The idea is simple in theory, so what’s stopping us from implementing si...
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161: Naomi Klein with Teresa Mosqueda: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal from 2019-10-10T08:00
For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet—and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agen...
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160: Leta Hong Fincher: China’s Feminist Awakening from 2019-10-08T17:46:44
On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became internat...
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159: Samantha Power with John Koenig: The Education of an Idealist from 2019-10-03T23:51:09
Samantha Power is widely considered the moral voice of her generation. A relentless advocate for promoting human rights, she has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one o...
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158: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz with Nikkita Oliver: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People from 2019-10-01T22:00:19
The history of America as a country goes beyond that of a land “discovered” by a few brave men in the “New World.” Indigenous human rights advocate Listen
157: Peter Pomerantsev: This Is Not Propaganda from 2019-09-27T21:47:49
Perhaps the most important global trend of the last few years has been the rise and transformation of information warfare. Researcher of media and propaganda Peter Pomerantsev a...
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157: Rick Steves: Guatemala, Ethiopia, Hunger, and Hope from 2019-09-23T18:12:21
Guidebook author and travel TV host Rick Steves returned to Town Hall to take us behind the scenes of his new public te...
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156: Christopher Leonard with Paul Constant: The Rise of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America from 2019-09-16T20:10:27
The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and U.S. Steel combined. But few people know much about Koch Industries—and according to in...
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154: Ganesh Sitaraman: Public Options for Creating Freedom, Opportunity, and Equality from 2019-09-11T08:00
Whenever you go to your local public library, send mail via the post office, or visit Yosemite, you are taking advantage of a longstanding American tradition: the public option....
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153: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation from 2019-09-09T19:31:56
The summer of 2019 marks the five year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Missouri—an event that sparked tremendous protests, and which stirred a massive rise ...
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152: Alex Gallo-Brown with Nicole Vallestero Keenan-Lai: Variations of Labor from 2019-09-06T22:29:57
What does it mean to labor in modern-day America? Alex Gallo-Brown took the stage with visions from his book <...
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151: Labor Day with Robert Reich and Pramila Jayapal from 2019-09-04T18:26:36
What steps can we take in order to better our country by protecting the common interest of our workers? Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Listen
150: The Media is Dying from 2019-08-13T08:00
Even in a booming economy, the American media industry is contracting at an alarming rate. Reporters everywhere are being forced out of the business through layoffs and shutdowns, and many Ameri...
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149: Anthony McCann: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff from 2019-08-06T08:00
In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired right-wing protestors led by Ammon Bundy occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in the high desert of eastern Oregon. Encamped in the shadowla...
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148: Nada Bakos: The Life of a CIA Terrorist Hunter from 2019-07-30T08:00
In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Through determination and an affinity for intelligence work, she rose through the rank...
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147: Jonna Mendez: The Secret CIA Tactics That Won The Cold War from 2019-07-23T08:00
Stories of Cold War era espionage have inspired countless stories and films—but actual Cold War operatives can often deliver truths that are stranger than fiction. Former CIA spymaster Listen
146: Thom Hartmann: History of Guns and the Second Amendment from 2019-07-16T08:00
Thom Hartmann, often considered the most popular progressive radio host in America, invites us to an in-depth, historically informed discussion of one of the most controversial portions of the U...
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145: Mollie West Duffy and Liz Fosslien: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions At Work from 2019-07-11T08:00
How do we handle emotions in the workplace? What used to be taboo is now front and center when we talk about a day in the life of the modern worker. Listen
144: Adam Gopnik: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism from 2019-07-09T19:37:46
Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, come under such relentless attack, from both right and left. Some say that the crisis of democracy in our era has produced a c...
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143: Caroline Fredrickson: The Democracy Fix from 2019-07-04T08:00
Despite representing a minority of the American public, conservatives are in power in Washington, DC as well as state capitols and courtrooms across the country. Caroline Fredrickson—president o...
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142: Frank Langfitt: The Shanghai Free Taxi from 2019-07-02T18:10:44
The Chinese economic boom, with its impact on the environment, global trade, and the tech industry, has been one of the most important stories of the 21st century. Yet few Americans realize that...
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141: Lawrence Lessig: Fidelity and the American Constitution from 2019-06-27T18:30:09
The immense age of our nation’s Constitution presents a fundamental challenge for interpreters. After so much time has passed, how do we read such an old document? Legal scholar Listen
140: Anna Fifield: The Great Successor—Understanding Kim Jong Un from 2019-06-25T23:36:14
North Korea is one of the oddest and most isolated political regime in the world—one that is broken yet able to summon a US president for peace talks, bankrupt yet in possession of nuclear weapo...
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139: Parenting Without Pity: Disability Rights Washington from 2019-06-21T23:10:32
How many individuals with disabilities grow up isolated, wishing they could have built childhood connections with a larger community earlier in their lives? Town Hall Seattle an...
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139: Annie Jacobsen: The Secret History of the CIA from 2019-06-19T19:39:50
When diplomacy fails and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA’s Special Activities Division—a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective black operations force in the wo...
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137: Red May: Down With Work! from 2019-06-12T23:44:25
Many of us find ourselves frustrated with our 40-hour work weeks, wondering about the purpose and practicality of our jobs, and even whether or not work is necessary. We find ourselves questioni...
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136: George Packer: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century from 2019-06-07T08:00
From his days as a young adviser in Vietnam to his last efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke embodied the postwar American impulse to take the lead on the global stage. Journ...
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135: Rachel Louise Snyder with Sydney Brownstone: No Visible Bruises from 2019-05-30T01:24:56
Whether we call it domestic abuse, private violence, or even intimate terrorism in America domestic violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime. The Wor...
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Red May: Neoliberal Seattle from 2019-05-24T10:00
Red May is a month-long festival of radical thought and art that brings together speakers and thinkers to explore alternatives to capitalism. Listen
133: Red May: Nancy Fraser and Bhaskar Sunkara "The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born" from 2019-05-17T00:53:02
According to some, politics as usual is being rejected across the globe and faith in neoliberalism is fracturing beyond repair. Leading political theorist Nancy Fraser, in conversation with ...
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132: Stacey Abrams: Lead From The Outside from 2019-05-08T10:00
Leadership is hard. Convincing others—and often yourself—that you possess the answers and are capable of world-affecting change requires confidence, insight, and sheer bravado. Political leader ...
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131: Alex Kotlowitz with Ross Reynolds: Love and Death in Chicago from 2019-04-24T10:00
The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. What does that do to the spirit of individuals an...
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130: Roger McNamee with Ross Reynolds: A Reckoning With Facebook from 2019-04-17T10:00
Longtime Silicon Valley investor Roger McNamee would have howled with laughter just a few years ago if he had been told he would soon be devoting himself to decrying the massive social media eng...
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129: Karl Eikenberry: Fighting Extremism in Fragile States—From Crisis Response to Prevention from 2019-04-11T01:33:14
What can we do to prevent violent extremism and promote peace in the world? For some—such as Karl Eikenberry, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan—the answer com...
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128: Transforming Washington’s Mental Health System from 2019-04-03T10:00
With a lack of access to mental health services, people with mental illness often get swept into the criminal justice system. But on December 11, 2018 a federal judge approved a landmark class a...
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127: That’s Debatable: Technology Will Save Us from 2019-03-27T19:43:14
Will advances in artificial intelligence, geoengineering, and bioengineering save or destroy the human race? That’s debatable. Listen
126: 13th Annual Urban Poverty Forum from 2019-03-25T09:00
The Urban Poverty Forum is an effort to open a dialogue around the systemic issues surrounding urban poverty and to unite a diverse community of care—including faith based organizations, nonprof...
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