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Focusing on issues, not tweets, Joshua Holland talks politics and culture with newsmakers, journalists and academics.... more
FAQs about We've Got Issues:How many episodes does We've Got Issues have?The podcast currently has 204 episodes available.
May 21, 2021Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick: 'Nobody did more to defund the police than Donald Trump'Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at our post-truth Republican Party. Then we're joined by Svante Myrick, the mayor of Ithaca, New York, who is leading one of the most ambitious police reform efforts in the country. And then Wall Street Journal reporter Drew Hinshaw brings us a bizarre but surprisingly common story from the shady world of international shipping....more1hPlay
May 14, 2021Judd Legum: Republicans are using 'mob-style tactics' to advance voter suppression lawsJoshua Holland speaks with Judd Legum about how corporate America is trying to move past the January 6 insurrection under intense pressure from the GOP. And then Alex Kane talks to us about why the outburst of violence currently engulfing Israel and Palestine is unlike anything we've seen in over a generation....more54minPlay
May 07, 2021Everything you thought you knew about Trump and white working-class voters is wrongJoshua Holland is joined by author Natasha Lennard to talk about the right's latest phony threat, critical race theory, and the very real danger of white backlash politics. And then Vanderbilt University political scientist Noam Lupu shatters some very widespread myths about Donald Trump's performance among white working-class voters....more49minPlay
April 23, 2021Conservative media's latest big lie is a sinister myth of American cities burningJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at how conservative media is covering peaceful protests. Then we're joined by economist Dean Baker from the Center for Economic Policy and Research to talk about the newly robust economy. And finally we welcome Lila Corwin Berman, a professor of American Jewish history at Temple University, to discuss how the very definition of anti-semitism has become polarized....more54minPlay
April 16, 2021Civil rights attorney: Daunte Wright's killing is the 'inevitable consequence' of bad policingCivil rights attorney Tahir Duckett speaks to Joshua Holland about the Derek Chauvin murder trial and the killing of Daunte Wright just miles away. Then journalist Katelyn Burns talks about a spate of nasty, gratuitous anti-trans bills being pushed through red state legislatures....more1h 6minPlay
April 09, 2021Glenn Kirschner: Convicting Trump of negligent homicide is 'entirely doable'Glenn Kirschner joins Joshua Holland to talk about how corporate America is pushing back on Republican efforts to make it harder to vote. And then we speak with Dr. Brandy Schillace about the macabre Cold War race to perform a human head transplant and the fascinating surgeon who almost pulled it off....more56minPlay
April 02, 2021The tawdry, bizarre Matt Gaetz scandal has unleashed so much schadenfreudeJoshua Holland talks with The Washington Post's Paul Waldman about Joe Biden's big infrastructure and jobs bill. Then Kaili Joy Gray joins Joshua to run through Rep. Matt Gaetz's latest bizarre scandal....more1h 2minPlay
March 26, 2021Media malpractice and a border crisis that wasn'tThe New Republic's Alex Shephard debunks the legacy media's border "crisis" narrative. Then Stephanie Langel of Duke University's Human Vaccine Institute joins Joshua Holland for an update on COVID-19 vaccines and variants....more1h 1minPlay
March 19, 2021Are Trump's own Deep State loyalists fabricating a crisis at the Mexican border?Eric Boehlert of PressRun joins Joshua Holland to talk about media coverage of the Biden administration. Then Joan McCarter from Daily Kos discusses next steps for Democrats now that President Joe Biden has signed historic COVID relief into law....more53minPlay
March 12, 2021Study finds Democrats and Republicans actually do live in different worldsJoshua Holland speaks to Harvard professor Ryan Enos about why Democrats and Republicans tend to live in different areas. Then Eli Zupnick, a spokesperson for Fix Our Senate, discusses the grassroots efforts to... fix our Senate, and in turn, our democracy....more1h 3minPlay
FAQs about We've Got Issues:How many episodes does We've Got Issues have?The podcast currently has 204 episodes available.