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Complete episodes from my weekly radio show, The Big Picture on WCPT 820am, where I talk to incredible, smart guests about politics and saving our democracy. edwineisendrath.substack.com
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WATCH: Progressive candidates have work to do with black and working class voters (opens the original)
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Journalist and political analyst Ahmed Baba joined me on my radio show this week. I suggested we have our conversation on video, and despite dealing with an HVAC issue and a summer heat wave, he graciously agreed, and made it look easy. We began where every political conversation for the last decade begins- with Donald Trump. I wondered whether Americans, finally, come to realize how corrupt the administration is. Ahmed didn’t need to think about that, he told me: T he grift is so apparent. It’s
WATCH: How to protect and renew our democracy (opens the original)
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Ami Fields- Meyer is a senior fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School. What that means is that he held important jobs in government and likely will again when administrations change. His work there is like our work here- it’s all about democracy- how to protect and renew it. He recently co-authored with Julia Angwin, a fabulous book called On Courage, How to be a Dissident in an Age of Fear. The book showcases examples of individuals who have faced repression and decided not to back down. Beginning w
Trump fans tolerance for misery is off the charts (opens the original)
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Laura Jedeed gets published by The New Republic, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone and other places that value solid journalism and good writing. You can also find her work at firewalled media. That’s where you will find her fabulous story, The Wet and Wild Freedom Day Catastrophe , where she reports on her Fourth of July on the National Mall. That story, and her report on the UFC match on the White House lawn for Donald Trump’s 80th birthday were the subjects of our latest conversation. Her repo
Happy 4th: What our country is and what it can be are worth celebrating (opens the original)
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This year, the Fourth of July holds special meaning because our captured government no longer believes it is self-evident that all are created equal and endowed with rights no one can take away. Yet all across our great nation Americans are celebrating precisely that belief. What’s more, we are celebrating the idea that governments exist to secure these rights even as our own has weaponized the justice system to deny them. I’ve written elsewhere that the American character is wedded to the idea
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