Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow a Broken Foster Care System Fuels Crime, Homelessness and the Addiction Crisis in Blue Cities
Season 1 Episode 31
Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care was a National Book Award finalist. Drawing on the life stories of several foster childre…
5 months, 1 week ago
What Makes a Great City?
Season 1 Episode 30
This Thanksgiving week, Blue City Blues sits down with former traffic engineer and urban planner Ray Delahanty, better known as “CityNerd” on YouTube…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Danny Westneat on Why Seattle Can’t Seem to Solve Its Problems
Season 1 Episode 29
One of Seattle's most insightful chroniclers, longtime Seattle Times metro columnist Danny Westneat, joins us in this episode to discuss the blues th…
6 months ago
Nick Gillespie on Whether Socialism Is the Future of Blue Cities
Season 1 Episode 28
In New York City, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani routed scandal-tainted Andrew Cuomo, completing his at first unthinkable, then inevitable rise …
6 months ago
Can Blue Urban America Find Common Ground with Trump on Homelessness?
Season 1 Episode 27
On July 24, Donald Trump declared war on the homeless. At least that was how his Executive Order, titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Stre…
6 months, 1 week ago
Blue City Crime: What Both Sides Get Wrong According to Criminologist David Kennedy
Season 1 Episode 26
Like almost everything else in present day America, crime in blue cities has become a deeply partisan and polarized issue. While progressives routine…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Hard Hats and Blue Cities: David Paul Kuhn on the Roots of the Working Class Revolt
Season 1 Episode 25
The modern Democratic Party has a class and culture problem. Blue city leaders struggle to understand their cultural and political disconnect with wo…
7 months ago
Whitney Tilson on Why Kids in Blue City School Districts Are Being Left Behind
Season 1 Episode 25
Children in urban public school districts are falling behind. While a handful of lower spending red states – Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and, most …
7 months ago
Has Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Cracked the Code on Progressive Governance in Blue Cities?
Season 1 Episode 24
Four years ago, a 36 year-old Harvard Law grad and City Councilmember named Michelle Wu rolled to victory as the first elected female, non-white mayo…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Did Blue City America Get Covid Wrong, Too?
Season 1 Episode 23
This week we take a look back at the COVID-19 pandemic with Steven Macedo, a professor of politics at Princeton University and co-author of "In Covid…
7 months, 3 weeks ago