On this week's show
– Adam Klasfeld, founder and editor-in-chief of All Rise News
– Ian Gary, executive director of the FACT Coalition
– Mark Jacob, publisher of the Stop the Presses Substack
– Mica Rosenberg, investigative reporter on ProPublica’s national desk focusing on immigration

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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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On this week's show Professor Joel Ostrow fills in for Edwin Eisendrath, and his guests are
– Scott Sakiyama, Oak Park attorney who was detained temporarily by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Oct. 20 near his child’s elementary school after trying to warn the community about ICE presence in the area
– Juan Garcia, founder of Kalpulli Across Borders
– Geoffrey R. Stone, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago
– Peter Shane, the Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law Emeritus at the Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, and distinguished scholar in residence at NYU School of Law; his latest piece for Washington Monthly is “How the Roberts Court Indulges Trump’s Constitutional Workarounds”
– Rima Ziuraitas, certified TACMED instructor and medic in Ukraine

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