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The Georgia Way: Strategies that Work for Winning Elections

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform. What happened in Georgia in 2020? The election of two Democrats to the Senate from that state...

Soledad O’Brien on Rosa Parks: The Untold Story

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Bill McKibben & Akaya Windwood: Boomers, Big Banks & Solving the Climate Crisis

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform. Hey Boomers: When it comes to the climate crisis, are you the problem, the solution or both?...

Rising Against Asian Hate: Turning Violence into Action

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform. In March 2021, a 21-year-old man murdered eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at three spas...

Kim Stanley Robinson: Writing the Future Story People Want

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform. Can a novel become a catalyst to help us address impending climate disaster? That’s one question posed by...

A.M. Homes’ The Unfolding: On War and Also Walking Away

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. This summer we learned that the largest-ever political donation — $1.6b in shares of an about-to-be-sold business — was given to a non-profit set...

A.M. Homes: “The Unfolding” of American Democracy

Prefer to Listen? Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform. Salman Rushdie praised A.M. Homes’ latest novel, The Unfolding as, “A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in...

50 Years After Roe, Is Reporting on Abortion Still Too White?

Forty percent of those who get abortion services in the U.S. are African Americans. Would you know it from the media coverage of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe vs Wade? S. Mitra Kalita...

Reforming Prosecutor Power – Especially After Roe.

Prosecutors are immensely powerful, especially now, after the overthrow of Roe. They decide which cases to bring, what charges to make and what sentences to ask for. Until this year, only internal committees could...
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Democracy is Under Siege in Small Town USA

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. Can a racist coup happen in America? I was in Wilmington, North Carolina on the day the congressional hearings into the events of January...

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