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Lanae Erickson (Senior Vice President for Social Policy, Education & Politics at Third Way) joins host Ron Steslow to discuss President Biden’s executive order canceling student loans 

(02:07) Biden’s student loan cancellation plan 

(12:29) How canceling student loans could impact inflation

(17:20) What this could mean for future tuition hikes

(26:10) How it could impact non-college educated voters 

(30:23) The legal problems with canceling student loans

(39:55) The Major Questions Doctrine

(43:58) The use of emergency powers in non-emergent situations

(48:53) The underlying problems in higher education and what lawmakers can do to solve these problems

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Susan Del Percio (MSNBC political analyst and crisis communications expert) and Liz Gilbert (President of the 2020 Democratic National Convention) join host Ron Steslow to unpack some of the most important stories of the week:

(02:21) New revelations in the Mar-a-Lago search saga

(25:15) Are America’s best days behind us? Recent polling and what it could mean for the midterms

(41:15) How Republicans got steamrolled on the Inflation Reduction Act

[Politicology+ Members Only] Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin and what parts of the private lives of political power holders should matter.

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What does it take for a mid-west mayor to become a viable presidential candidate?

What’s it like to be a crisis communications expert in the eye of New York City Tabloids?

What does it take to go from a field organizer to one of the most well respected communications strategists in American politics?

Lis Smith (former senior advisor to presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg) joins host Ron Steslow to discuss her career working on twenty-something political campaigns, and her new memoir, Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story 

(01:25) Why “Any Given Tuesday?”

(02:56) What drew her to politics?

(07:48) Candidates as people, not two-dimensional characters

(10:57) What can losing campaigns teach you?

(14:45) Being in the eye of a tabloid news story

(29:32) How not to use Twitter (and how you can use it well)

(37:50) Tailoring comments on cable news

(45:11) Candidate Pete’s communications strategy

(56:21) The Gay Talk Express

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Lucy Caldwell (Walsh 2020 Campaign Manager) and Molly McKew (Lead author of GreatPower.US) join host Ron Steslow to unpack some of the most important stories of the week:

(02:46) The Mar-a-Lago search saga and the developing politics

(24:09) Tuesday’s elections, Senate Republicans pulling down their ad buys, and Liz Cheney’s second act begins

(41:09) The Big Lie candidates trying to run state elections are now advancing to general elections

[Politicology+ Members Only] “Looking up” at the world and the U.S. role in it.

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In Part 1 of this wide-ranging conversation between Mike Madrid and Ron Steslow, co-founders of The Lincolns Project, the two political strategists discuss hidden Latino voting trends and how Democrats must better understand this part of the electorate in order to win pivotal electoral fights.

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(02:05) How we’re getting hispanic voting patterns wrong

(06:13) How Latino voter trends in California are different from the rest of the country

(19:35) How the California Latino population influences national polls

(30:13) Some lessons Democrats can learn to win more Latino votes

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In Part 2 of this wide-ranging conversation between Mike Madrid and Ron Steslow, co-founders of The Lincoln Project, the two political strategists discuss what Latino voter trends can tell us about future elections and the erosion of democracy around the globe

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(01:49) Mike’s advice to Democrats and Republicans 

(03:53) What the trend lines of Latino voters can tell us about 2024

(07:12) The new Reagan Democrats 

(21:17) The erosion of institutions

(42:43) The tension between technology and democracy

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[Note: we recorded this episode before Attorney General Merrick Garland gave a statement about the warrant the FBI received to search Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago. 

In the statement, Garland said the Department of Justice has filed a motion to unseal that warrant and the property receipt. As of right now, we don’t know if Trump will support or oppose that motion, but it will be up to a federal judge to decide either way.]

Lanae Erickson (Senior Vice President for the Social Policy & Politics Program at Third Way) and Catherine Sanderson (Poler Family Professor of Psychology and Chair of Psychology at Amherst College) join host Ron Steslow to unpack some of the most important stories of the week:

(03:00) The FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago

(21:20) Republicans’ reaction to the search

(39:39) Lessons from John Fetterman’s campaign to win over rural voters in Pennsylvania

[Politicology+ Members Only] Liz Cheney’s primary election is next week. Her latest ad attacking Donald Trump features her father, Dick Cheney.

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Michele Gelfand (Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Professor of Psychology by Courtesy at Stanford University) joins host Ron Steslow to discuss culture, social norms, and her book Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World 

(01:46) Why she decided to study culture 

(04:34) What are tight and loose cultures

(06:12) Why tight and loose cultures evolve

(10:38) The tradeoffs between tight and loose and how different cultures responded to the Covid pandemic

(16:19) Tightness-looseness and willingness to change

(19:57) Red and Blue vs Tight and Loose 

(30:36) Tightening around core values, even in loose cultures

(34:56) Real and manufactured threats 

(44:15) How we we can put this framework into action 

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Al Cardenas (former advisor to Presidents Regan and George H.W. Bush) and Susan Del Percio (MSNBC political analyst and crisis communications expert) join host Ron Steslow to unpack some of the most important stories of the week:

(02:11) The Manchin-Schumer deal on the Inflation Reduction Act

(18:00) The U.S. kills the leader of al-Qaeda and Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan

(37:25) This week’s primary elections in Arizona and Michigan and the abortion rights ballot measure in Kansas

[Politicology+ Members Only] The success of moderate Democrats in primary elections 

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Anne Applebaum (Pulitzer-prize winning historian and staff writer for The Atlantic)joins host Ron Steslow to discuss her book Twilight of Democracy, why America isn’t immune to the lure of authoritarianism, and the warning signs that we’re in danger of losing our republic. 

(02:12) Why she wrote Twilight of Democracy

(06:30) The allure of authoritarianism 

(10:40) What led to an authoritarian shift in the US

(19:29) The willingness to give up democracy for policy wins

(28:28) Rationalizing the descent to authoritarianism 

(35:36) The importance of of state media in authoritarian regimes 

(41:58) Breaking out of the media filter bubbles 

(50:11) The paths forward for democracy

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