For The Win

On an all-AI episode, Yochi and guest host Andrea Nill Sánchez talk with media advocate Jessica J. González the co-CEO of Free Press, about how artificial intelligence can spread election disinformation, why tech companies can't be trusted to police themselves, and why lawmakers need to regulate AI before it's too late.

Congress is a mess. From ongoing threats of government shutdowns to turmoil around picking a House Speaker, it's clear that the People's House is in disarray. On our newest episode, Jasmine and Elliot sit down with Kevin Madden, a longtime aide to House Republican leaders Tom DeLay and John Boehner, and presidential nominees George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, to discuss Mike Johnson's recent appointment as Speaker, the current climate in Congress, and what it will take to save the GOP from itself.

Now that Republicans have a new speaker, they are going to try pushing through the harsh cuts to federal funding for HIV prevention and treatment that they've been threatening for months. Here’s the surprising thing: that would hit Black women harder than any other. On our newest episode, Jasmine and Yochi sit down with Toni Newman, a leading HIV advocate, to talk about why Black women have the highest HIV rates in the country and what can be done to prevent the epidemic from ravaging them even more harshly.

These have been busy weeks in the world of unions, with an ongoing actors strike in Hollywood stopping production of your favorite shows and movies and a strike by the United Auto Workers slowing production of our favorite cars. On our newest episode, Jasmine, Yochi, and guest host Andrea Nill Sanchez sit down with Faiz Shakir, the founder and executive director of More Perfect Union and former campaign manager for Bernie Sanders, to discuss the current surge in support for unions and what opportunities — and pitfalls — lie ahead.

Conservatives won their long legal fight to eliminate affirmative education in higher education — and now they've trained their sights on corporate America. On our newest episode, Jasmine and Elliot sit down with Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, to talk about the new wave of lawsuits designed to force companies to abandon their diversity and inclusion efforts, why the Supreme Court might hand them another victory, and how progressives should fight back.

Generations of journalists have been told to be impartial when reporting the news. But how can reporters remain objective when American democracy is under attack? On our newest episode, Elliot, Yochi, and Jasmine speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Wesley Lowery about his departure from The Washington Post, the media’s white supremacy problem, and his provocative new book, “American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress.”

Conservatives are using their hardline view of Christianity to justify banning abortion and waging war on the LGBTQ+ community. With faith increasingly shaping politics, Jasmine and Yochi sit down with Rachel Laser, CEO of Americans United For Separation of Church and State, and The Raben Group’s Dr. Derrick Harkins to talk about why progressives have ceded the public debate over religion to conservatives — and what they need to do to take it back.