Joan Esposito (Featured Interviews)

Steve Pink talks about his new Adam Kinzinger documentary, “The Last Republican," which will be shown twice at the Chicago International Film Festival: Friday, October 18th at 5:00 p.m. and Saturday, October 19th at 12:00p.m. at the AMC NEWCITY 14, 1500 North Clybourn Ave in Chicago. Steve Pink will be at the Saturday screening to do a Q&A with WGN political analyst Paul Lisnek.

For the conversation Joan was joined by Spencer Critchley, author of "Patriots of Two Nations," and host of “Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good” podcast.

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Joan talks to Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview), executive director for the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia University, columnist for The Guardian U.S., and former public editor of The New York Times. 

She'll be in Chicago for "Election 2024: Is the News Media Up for the Job? A Conversation with Margaret Sullivan," Saturday, October 19, 4:00-6:00 p.m. at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 East 60th Street in Chicago.  Learn more.  

In the second half of this conversation, media critics Jennifer Schulze and Mark Jacob join Joan and Margaret. 

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Illinois Congressman Eric Sorensen talks to Joan Esposito. The first-term Democrat, who represents the 17th District, is seeking re-election on November 5.  His district is one of the congressional battlegrounds that could determine which party holds the majority in the next Congress.  Visit Eric Sorensen's campaign website: https://www.ericforillinois.com.

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Barbara McQuade, NBC and MSNBC legal analyst, University of Michigan law professor, #SistersInLaw podcast co-host, and author of "Attack From Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America," talks to Joan Esposito ahead of her October 21 appearance at the Union League Club of Chicago.

"We do have to agree on facts so that we can argue of what our policy preferences are. And I think those who want to defeat the concept of truth or facts just want to muddy the waters so much that we lose our agency in decision making, McQuade told Esposito.  

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Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL) joins Joan Esposito on the one-year anniversary of Hamas's 10/7 attack on Israel.

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Joan Esposito welcomes Richard M. Daley biographer and former commissioner of the Cook County Board of Appeals Forrest Claypool. He is the author of "The Daley Show: Inside the Transformative Reign of Chicago's Richard M. Daley" (2024).

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Bestselling author and radio host Thom Hartmann talks to Joan Esposito about his new book, "The Hidden History of The American Dream: The Demise of the Middle Class -- and How to Rescue Our Future" (available October 8). 

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Majid Padellan, better known as Brooklyn Dad Defiant (@mmpadellan), joins Joan Esposito for a conversation about his illustrated political humor book "The Liddle’est President" and its forthcoming sequel "The Bigliest Loser," undecided voters in the 2024 presidential race, and the psychological toll of spending 12 hours a day on X in an election year.

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In an October 1 interview, former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn talked to Joan Esposito about the nonbinding Illinois Property Tax Relief Amendment, which is on the 2024 ballot.  He explained: "Basically, it calls for a 3 percent surcharge on the income of millionaires in Illinois, that anybody who declares more than a million dollars in income in a particular year would pay a 3 percent surcharge, but that money would be used to give property tax relief to 3 million Illinois homeowners, people who live from paycheck to paycheck. This is tax reform at its best, in my opinion."  

Quinn also talked about his work creating a referendum on whether the Bears should get tax dollars for the team's Soldier Field multibillion-dollar renovation.

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Joan Esposito talks to former Illinois Congressman and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, who is currently part of the group Former Republican Members of Congress for Harris.

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