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Back to SearchDid 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…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Nicole Gelinas: Blue City Lessons from NYC’s 100 Years' War Between Cars and Transit
Season 1 Episode 23
New York Times contributing opinion writer Nicole Gelinas, who writes regularly on New York City issues, is the author of a deeply researched and inf…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Dispatch from an Urban Drug Market
Season 1 Episode 22
In this special episode we venture outside our respective basements to explore a sprawling open-air drug market in Seattle’s Little Saigon neighborho…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
What’s the Matter with Chicago?
Season 1 Episode 21
The Windy City is not just a great American metropolis – the third largest in the United States – it is a world class city, recognized globally as a …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Trump Just Defunded Public Media. Did NPR Help Bring This Disaster on Itself?
Season 1 Episode 20
In the latest installment of Blue City Blues, we welcomed Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of the history of education at the University of Pennsylvania…
7 months, 1 week ago
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on What Urbanites Get Wrong about Rural America
Season 1 Episode 19
The political gulf between educated urban progressives and rural and blue collar Americans has accelerated in recent decades. The consequences for bl…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Celinda Lake on What NYC’s Political Earthquake Means for the Politics of Blue Cities
Season 1 Episode 18
Zohran Mamdani's upset victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary wasn't just a win; it was a seismic event that's shaking the foundatio…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Sherman Alexie: A Res Indian Take on Monsters, Colonizers and the Urban Left's “Minor League Maoism”
Season 1 Episode 17
In this episode of Blue City Blues, we invited writer Sherman Alexie on to weigh in on recent cultural trends in blue cities.
Alexie has long been r…
8 months ago
Katie Herzog on What the Decline and Fall of Twitter Means for Blue Cities
Season 1 Episode 16
In 2020, when the power of social media – Twitter, in particular – to police the boundaries of acceptable thought in blue cities was at its cultural …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Is Abundance the Answer to What Ails Blue Cities?
Season 1 Episode 15
In January of 2022, The Atlantic published staff writer Derek Thompson’s manifesto calling for a fundamental reform of progressive governance. “We ne…
9 months ago