On today's show
– Nicholas Grossman, professor of International Relations at the University of Illinois, editor of Arc Digital, and the author of “Drones and Terrorism”
– Jen Bendery, senior politics reporter for HuffPost
– Jill Lawrence, opinion writer for The Bulwark and other publications, including the “History Keeps Happening” Substack newsletter
– Dr. John P. Holdren, professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, former science adviser to President Obama, and Senate-confirmed director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during both Obama terms

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On today's show
– David Roberts of the Volts newsletter and podcast, which focus on the technology, politics, and policy of decarbonization
– Mike Nellis, Democratic strategist and host of “Endless Urgency with Mike Nellis
– Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic; his latest articles are “The Sickening Image That Will Haunt Pam Bondi the Rest of Her Life” and “What the Democrats Need to Do Now”
– Jill Wine-Banks, legal analyst, former general counsel of the U.S. Army, author of “The Watergate Girl,” co-host of #SistersInLaw and host of Just The Facts with Jill Wine-Banks

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On today's show:
– Joan Esposito, host of "Live, Local & Progressive," weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Central on WCPT
– J. Patrick Coolican, editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Reformer
– Holly McCall, editor of Tennessee Lookout, a news outlet covering Tennessee politics and government
– Bill Scher is the politics editor of the Washington Monthly; his latest article is "Three Takeaways from the Taylor Rehmet Texas Shocker"

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On this week's show:
– George Packer, staff writer at The Atlantic and author; his latest piece for The Atlantic is “What Should Americans Do Now?” and his latest book is “The Emergency: A Novel”
– James Santelle, former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (2010 to 2015), and a 30-year veteran of the Department of Justice
– Steve Held, co-publisher of Unraveled Press
– Betsy Hodges, former mayor of Minneapolis (2014-2018) and member of the Minneapolis City Council (2006-2014)

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On this week's show:
– Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer national opinion columnist
– Abraham L. Newman, professor and John Powers Chair in International Business Diplomacy, and director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies
– Elizaveta Gaufman, assistant professor of Russian Discourse and Politics at the University of Groningen (in The Netherlands), and author of the 2023 book “Everyday Foreign Policy: Performing and Consuming the Russian Nation”
– David Nir, publisher of The Downballot

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On this week's show:
– Laura Jedeed, investigative and features journalist who focuses on the American conservative movement and far right; Slate recently published her article “You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof”
– David Pepper, lawyer, political activist, author (of fiction and nonfiction), and former chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, and 2026 candidate for lieutenant governor of Ohio
– J. Patrick Coolican, editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Reformer
– Joe Walsh, former Republican congressman from Illinois and host of The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

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On this week's show:
– Elizabeth Jacobs, professor emerita of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a founding member of the public health advocacy group Defend Public Health
– Jill Lawrence, opinion writer for The Bulwark and author of the History Keeps Happening Substack newsletter
– Don Moynihan, professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy
– Matt Caffrey, Swing Left‘s director of Grassroots Organizing

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On this week's show:
– Seth Cotlar, professor of history at Willamette University
– John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation
– Mark Jacob of Stop the Presses, “a weekly newsletter about how right-wing extremism has exploited the weaknesses in American journalism, and what we can do about it”
– Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic Policy and Research

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