Podcast Episodes
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Season 1 Episode 15
Public safety policy reformer Lisa Daugaard won a MacArthur Genius Award in 2019 for her work creating the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) …
9 months, 1 week ago
Why Does Progressive Megadonor Nick Hanauer Blame Blue Cities’ Woes on … Barack Obama?
Season 1 Episode 14
Seattle venture capitalist and Democratic megadonor Nick Hanauer doesn’t fit neatly into pre-fab boxes. He’s a wildly successful tech investor who de…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Why is San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan Breaking So Many Eggs?
Season 1 Episode 13
In a quest to reinvent municipal governance, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is breaking ranks and breaking a few eggs. A Harvard grad who made his bones i…
10 months, 1 week ago
NYT’s Peter Goodman on Tariffs, Trade Wars and the New Crony Capitalism
Season 1 Episode 12
This week, we take a close look at Trump's tariff-happy trade war and its impact on blue cities with New York Times global economics correspondent Pe…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Dan Savage: How Blue Cities Should Resist Trump 2.0
Season 1 Episode 11
Donald Trump is in full retribution mode and the anxiety – and anger – in blue cities is spiking. Sex advice columnist and friend o’ the podcast Dan …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Inside Story on How Tech Billionaires Sparked San Francisco’s Moderate Backlash
Season 1 Episode 10
In recent years San Francisco, widely regarded as America’s most progressive city, has experienced a far-reaching anti-progressive backlash. In 2022,…
11 months ago
Mike Pesca: Is Blue City Media Up to the Challenge of Covering Trump 2.0?
Season 1 Episode 9
Former National Public Radio and Slate journalist Mike Pesca, host of the longest-running (and highly entertaining!) daily news podcast, "The Gist," …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Has the American Labor Movement Lost Touch with the Urban Working Class?
Season 1 Episode 8
In this episode, we dive deep into some of the big questions every left-of-center political observer has been asking: what the hell went so wrong in …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Keith Humphreys: Why Drug Reform Failed In West Coast Blue Cities
Season 1 Episode 7
The wave of bold new decriminalization-centered approaches to drug policy reform that swept West Coast cities from San Francisco to Vancouver, B.C. s…
1 year ago
Why Does Rep. Adam Smith Believe Blue Cities Contributed to Trump’s Win?
Season 1 Episode 6
Democrat Adam Smith has spent the last several years engaged in a (perhaps quixotic?) crusade to save the Democratic Party from itself. The veteran c…
1 year ago