It's the Democracy, Stupid Full Episodes

On today's show
– Amanda Marcotte, senior writer at Salon
– Gillian Brockwell, independent journalist 
– Sam Levine, reporter for the Guardian
– David DeWitt, Ohio Capital Journal editor-in-chief and opinion columnist

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On this week's show
– Victor Ray, University of Iowa associate professor in the Departments of Sociology & Criminology and African American Studies and vice president of The American Sociological Association
– Ahmed Baba, independent journalist, political analyst, and founder of the best-selling Substack publication “Ahmed Baba News”
– Dan Friedman, senior reporter Mother Jones’ D.C. bureau, whose latest article is “Trump Begins Branding America’s 250th Anniversary as a Christian Celebration“
– Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research

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On this week's show
– Bobby Kogan, senior director of Federal Budget Policy at the Center for American Progress
– Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondent at The Economist, and author of “How Long Will Israel Survive? The Threat From Within”
– Bill Scher, politics editor at Washington Monthly 
– 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 this week's show:
– G. Elliott Morris, data-driven journalist, pollster, author of the Substack newsletter “Strength In Numbers” and the book “Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them”
– Aaron Parnas, independent journalist on TikTok and Substack
– Jonathan Larsen, veteran journalist, TV news producer, and Substack content creator offering “adversarial journalism and commentary”
– Yusef Jackson, newly appointed president and CEO of Rainbow PUSH Coalition

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On this week's show
– Holly McCall, editor-in-chief of Tennessee Lookout
– Brian Lyman, editor of the Alabama Reflector
– Josh Orton, president of Demand Justice and former senior adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris
– Dr. Lisa Corrigan, social movement scholar, professor of communication at the University of Arkansas, and author of "Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation"

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On this week's show
– Kate Riga, reporter who covers the Supreme Court for TPM‘s Washington, D.C. bureau and co-hosts “The Josh Marshall Podcast“
– Dana Strohl, director of research for The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
– Oona A. Hathaway, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale University
– Maaria Mozaffar, attorney, policy drafter, mediator and author

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On this week's show
– Christopher Hale, author-publisher of “Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics” on Substack
– Alan Elrod, president and CEO of the Pulaski Institution and columnist and contributing editor at Liberal Currents; his latest article is “Two Lessons from Hungary for 2026 and 2028”
– Daniel Nichanian, editor, writer, and journalist who works on criminal justice, voting rights, local politics, and political theory; he is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bolts
– Karen Tallian, attorney, former member of the Indiana State Senate, and chair of the Indiana Democratic Party since March 2025

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On this week's show
– Liz Dye, legal journalist and host of the “Law and Chaos” podcast
– Elizabeth Saunders, professor of political science at Columbia University, director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and author of the 2024 book “The Insiders’ Game: How Elites Make War and Peace”
– Amanda Litman, co-founder and president of Run for Something, and author of the books “When We’re In Charge: The Next Generation’s Guide to Leadership” and “Run for Something: A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself”
– Emily Horne, founder and CEO of Allegro Public Affairs, and former spokesperson for the National Security Council under President Joe Biden

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Brian Endless fills in for Edwin and his guests are
– Kitty Kurth, public relations and political strategist, president of Kurth Lampe Worldwide
– Daniel Tully, attorney, former judge advocate in the U.S. Army Reserve, and 2026 candidate for Congress (he was defeated in the March 17 Illinois primary)
– 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 article is “How the Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling Could Save the Civil Service”
– Susan Corke, executive director of Democracy Defenders Fund and Democracy Defenders Action

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On this week's show:
– James Santelle, former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (2010 to 2015), 30-year veteran of the Department of Justice, now engaged in private (nongovernment) civil litigation in a variety of civil rights, housing, education, prisoner, and children’s matters
– Brian Finucane, senior adviser with the U.S. Program at the International Crisis Group and a former attorney-adviser at the U.S. Department of State
– Andrea Pitzer,  journalist and author of “One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps”
– Dean Baker, co-founder and senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research

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