It's the Democracy, Stupid Full Episodes

It's the Democracy, Stupid Full Episodes

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It's the Democracy, Stupid Full Episodes episodes

  • It's the Democracy. Stupid | March 28, 2026

    On this week's show:
    – Ilan Goldenberg, senior vice president and chief policy officer at J Street; he  previously served as special adviser on the Middle East to Vice President Kamala Harris
    – Adam Hanieh, director of the SOAS Middle East Institute,  professor in the Development Studies Department at SOAS, University of London, and author of “Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market”
    – 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”
    – 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


    Catch “It’s the Democracy, Stupid” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/edwin).  

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    2 hr 44 min
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | March 21, 2026

    On this week's show:
    – Todd Huntley, director of the National Security Law Program at Georgetown and a retired U.S. Navy JAG captain
    – Jonathan Shorman, journalist covering democracy for Stateline
    – U.S. Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL)
    – Will Bunch, national opinion columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer

    Catch “It’s the Democracy, Stupid” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/edwin).  

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    2 hr 48 min
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | March 14, 2026

    On this week's show
    – Tamar Jacoby, director of the New Ukraine Project at the Progressive Policy Institute and contributor to Washington Monthly; her latest article is “Ukraine: Requiem for a Citizen Soldier”
    – Ahmed Baba, independent journalist, political analyst, and founder of the best-selling Substack publication “Ahmed Baba News”
    – Elizabeth Jacobs, professor emerita of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a founding member of the advocacy group Defend Public Health
    – Bobby Kogan, senior director of Federal Budget Policy at the Center for American Progress

    Catch “It’s the Democracy, Stupid” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/edwin).  

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    2 hr 43 min
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | March 7, 2026

    On today's show
    – Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondent at The Economist, and author of “How Long Will Israel Survive? The Threat From Within”  
    – Jonathan Larsen, veteran journalist, TV news producer, and Substack content creator offering “adversarial journalism and commentary”
    – Rochelle Olson, editorial columnist at The Minnesota Star Tribune
    – Will Bunch, national opinion columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer

    Catch “It’s the Democracy, Stupid” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/edwin).  

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    2 hr 45 min
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | Feb. 28, 2026

    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

    Catch “It’s the Democracy, Stupid” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/edwin).  

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    2 hr 46 min
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | Feb. 21, 2026

    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

    Catch “It’s the Democracy, Stupid” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/edwin).  

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    2 hr 47 min
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | Feb. 14, 2026

    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

    Catch “It’s the Democracy, Stupid” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/edwin).  

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    2 hr 42 min
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | Feb. 7, 2026

    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" 

    Catch “It’s the Democracy, Stupid” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/edwin).  

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    2 hr 40 min
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | Jan. 31, 2026

    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)

    Catch “It’s the Democracy, Stupid” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/edwin).  

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    2 hr 47 min
  • It's the Democracy, Stupid | Jan. 24, 2026

    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

    Catch “It’s the Democracy, Stupid” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/edwin).  

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    2 hr 42 min

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