The Big Picture (Full Episodes)

On this week's show:
Turi Ryder fills in for Edwin and her guests are:
– Audrey Francis, artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre and director of Steppenwolf’s “You Will Get Sick,” playing through July 20
– Ron Gleason, former director of News and Programming at WBBM Radio
– Matt Cole, senior editor of Commercial Carrier Journal, talking about holiday thievery against commercial vehicles
– David Levine, professor at UC Law San Francisco

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On this week's show:
– Tomás Kloosterman, national political director at Swing Left
– David Pepper, lawyer, political activist, author (of fiction and nonfiction), and former chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party
– John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation
– Tom Bonier, CEO of the TARA Group, and senior adviser for Target Smart, a Democratic political data and data services firm

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On today's show:
– Amanda Zurawski, reproductive rights activist, ahead of the Our Voices, Our Stories, Our Future: Free & Just Storyteller Summit, June 22-24
– Chris Geidner, author of The Law Dork newsletter on Substack
– Susan Demas, CEO and executive editor of Lincoln Square Media
– Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress

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On this week's show:
– Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH)
– Tom Nichols, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of the Atlantic Daily newsletter
– Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer national opinion columnist
– Lisa Graves, founder and executive director of True North Research, “a national investigative watchdog group that works with journalists and other researchers to shine a bright light on the dark money fueling regressive agendas targeting vital institutions in our republic.”

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On this week's show:
– Joe Walsh, former Illinois Congressman (and former Republican)
– Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL)
– Nancy MacLean, professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University
– Dean Baker, co-founder and senior economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research

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On this week's show:
– Seth Cotlar, professor of history at Willamette University
– Susan Demas, CEO and executive editor of Lincoln Square
– Ashton Pittman, Mississippi Free Press
– Andrea Ducas, VP for health policy at Center for American Progress

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On this week's show:
– 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
– Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL)
– Colette Holt, founder, Colette Holt & Associates
– Bill Scher, politics editor at The Washington Monthly

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On this week's show:
– David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America
– Tamar Jacoby, Kyiv-based director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s New Ukraine Project
– Amanda Marcotte, senior politics writer at Salon.com

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On this week's show:
– Abraham Newman, director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown
– Jeff Mandell, co-founder of Law Forward
– James Grossman, executive director at the American Historical Association
– Jennifer Berkshire, adjunct faculty member at the Economic Policy Institute and creator/co-host of the education policy podcast “Have You Heard”

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On this week's show Edwin hosts a special one-hour 20th anniversary program focusing on the media. His guests are:
- Jeff Jarvis, visiting professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University
- Dan Froomkin, editor at Press Watch

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On this week's show:
– Tiffany Muller, president of End Citizens United
– Jonathan Katz, senior director of Anti-Corruption, Democracy, and Security (ACDS) at The Brookings Institution
– Renée DiResta, professor and writer whose research interests include propaganda, disinformation, social media, and technology policy
– Donna Ladd, editor at Mississippi Free Press

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On this week's show:
- 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
- J. Holly McCall, columnist and editor-in-chief at the Tennessee Lookout
- Greg Sargent, staff writer at The New Republic, host of the "The Daily Blast" podcast, author, and former Washington Post opinion writer
- David Pepper, lawyer, author, political activist, former chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party

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On this week's show:
– David Roberts of the Volts newsletter and podcast (which focus on the technology, politics, and policy of decarbonization)
– Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic
– Dean Baker, economist, co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and author of Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer

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On this week's show:
- Jill Lawrence, award-winning journalist, opinion writer and author
- Aaron Rupar, journalist
- Sam Levine, reporter for The Guardian
- John Archibald, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and opinion writer, and author of “Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution"

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On this week's show:
– Amanda Marcotte, senior writer at Salon.com
– Ben Wikler, chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party
– Meteorologist Tom Skilling
– Legal analyst Jill Wine-Banks

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On this week's show:
- Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL)
- David DeWitt, Ohio Capital Journal editor-in-chief
- 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"
- Laura Belin, publisher, editor, and reporter for Bleeding Heartland, a community website focused on Iowa politics

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On this week's show:
- Peter Gleick, water and climate scientist, author, and co-founder of The Pacific Institute   - Chris Geidner, author of the Law Dork Substack newsletter
- Seth Cotlar, professor of history at Willamette University
- John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation

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On today's show:
– Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic and author of The Middle Out: The Rise of Progressive Economics and a Return to Shared Prosperity
– Bill Scher, politics editor at The Washington Monthly
– Hadar Harris, PEN America’s managing director, Washington
– Ezra Levin,  co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible

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On this week's show:
- Jonathan Katz, senior director of Anti-Corruption, Democracy, and Security (ACDS) at The Brookings Institution
- Dean Baker, co-founder and senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Dan Shafer, author of the award-winning political opinion column and online publication The Recombobulation Area, covering the "discombobulating politics of Milwaukee and Wisconsin"
- 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:
– George Packer, staff writer at The Atlantic
– Dana Wormald, editor of the New Hampshire Bulletin
– Donald Moynihan, University of Michigan Ford School’s J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy
– Jill Lawrence, opinion writer and author of The Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock

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On this week's show:
– Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist
– Anderson Clayton, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party
– Yasmin Radjy, executive director of Swing Left
– Abraham Newman, director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown

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On this week's show John St. Augustine guest hosts for Edwin and his guests are:
- Jerry Kramer, Pro Football Hall of Famer and former Green Bay Packer who played in Super Bowls I and II
- John T. Pawlikowski, professor emeritus of Social Ethics at Catholic Theological Union, speaking about  environmental ethics and stewardship
- Christine Todd Whitman, former Republican governor of New Jersey (and former Republican)
- Kirsten Bergin of Naval Air Station Museum Glenview and the Hangar One Foundation- Christine Pentracosta, owner of LaVilla Restaurants

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On this week's show:
– Sam Bagnestos, Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University of Michigan
– Dave Levitan, deputy editor at Splinter and author of “Not A Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science”
–  Lisa Graves, legal expert and host of the new podcast “Grave Injustice”

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On this week's show:
– Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale University and distinguished professor at the Kyiv School of Economics
– Tiffany Muller, president of End Citizens United
– Alex Aronson, co-founder and executive director of Court Accountability
– Andrew Freedman, senior climate reporter for Axios

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On this week's show:
- Douglas Bock Clark, reporter in ProPublica’s South unit; he investigates threats to democracy and abuses of power throughout the region
- Mark Follman, national affairs editor at Mother Jones
- Jill Wine-Banks, legal analyst and author of The Watergate Girl
- David Pepper, lawyer, writer, political activist, former elected official, adjunct professor, and former chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party

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On this week's show
:– Chris Geidner, author of the Law Dork newsletter on Substack
– Will Bunch, national columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer
– Nancy MacLean, professor of history and public policy at Duke University
– Michele Goodwin, professor at Georgetown Law

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On this week's show:
- Larry Diamond, senior fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University
- Laura Rodriguez, vice president of government affairs at The Center for American Progress Action
- Bill Scher of The Washington Monthly
- Legal analyst Jill Wine-Banks

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On this week's show:
- Tom Nichols, staff writer at The Atlantic
- John Nichols, national affairs correspondent at The Nation
- Holly McCall of Tennessee Lookout
- Jill Lawrence, former USA Today columnist 

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On this week's show:
- Tamar Jacoby, director of the New Ukraine Project at the Progressive Policy Institute
- Josh Cowen, author of "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers"
- Amanda Marcotte, politics writer for Salon.com
- David Roberts, author of the “Volts” Substack newsletter

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On this week's show:
- Seth Cotler, author of the Substack newsletter Rightlandia and a forthcoming book on the far-right takeover of the GOP
- Daniel Nichanian, founder and editor-in-chief of Bolts
- David Pepper, author of “Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines”
- Trans activist Charlotte Clymer, author of Charlotte's Web Thoughts on Substack

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On this week's show:
– David DeWitt, Ohio Capital Journal editor-in-chief and opinion columnist
– Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic
– Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer national opinion columnist
– Jill Lawrence, columnist and author

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On this week's show:
– Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible
– Dr. Elizaveta Gaufman, author of “The Trump Carnival”
– Dean Baker, founder and senior economist at The Center for Economic and Policy Research
– Jill Wine-Banks, MSNBC legal analyst and #SistersInLaw podcast co-host

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On this week's show:
– Tom Nichols, The Atlantic
– Amanda Marcotte, Salon.com
– Jeremy Young, program director of the Freedom to Learn program at PEN America

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On this week's show:
– Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler
– Michigan Democratic Chair Lavora Barnes
– North Carolina Democratic Party Anderson Clayton
– Voting rights reporter for The Guardian Sam Levine
– Journalist Donna Ladd; she writes about racism, poverty, gender and the criminal-justice system and is the co-founder of The Jackson Free Press (of Jackson, Mississippi)

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On today's show:
– Independent journalist Aaron Rupar
– Brian Beutler, senior editor at The New Republic
– Mark Maxwell, Emmy Award-winning political editor for KSDK News St. Louis
– Sarah Posner, journalism fellow at Arizona State University and author of “Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump”

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On this week's show:
- Tiffany Muller, president of End Citizens United
- Reid McCollum, program outreach director at Progressive Turnout Project
- Opinion writer Jill Lawrence
- John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation

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On this week's show:
- Max Boot, author of "Reagan: His Life and Legend"
- Marj Halperin, political commentator with the Mincing Rascals podcast and volunteer with Indivisible Chicago
- Will Bunch, opinion columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Bill Scher, reporter for The Washington Monthly

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On this week's show:
- A.B. Stoddard, associate editor and columnist for Real Clear Politics
- Billy Ball, managing editor of Cardinal & Pine
- Charlotte Clymer, founder of Charlotte's Web Thoughts
|- Sam Levine, voting rights reporter for The Guardian

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