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Swing State

Swing State

25 Episodes • By Tom Ashbrook and Heidi Legg • swingstatepod.libsyn.com/website...
Heidi Legg and Tom Ashbrook take on the state of the nation in crisis. From Covid-19 to Trump to the culture and economy, America is in a dizzying Swing State. Anything seems possible in 2020. Swing State brings the voices looking into a wildly uncertain American future at an extraordinary moment in ...more
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Our Final Swing State Episode: How We Rebuild Our Economy
It will be Trump or Biden, with everything that choi... more
Oct 29 2020 1h 8m
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The Final Push: Trump, Biden and The Media
Voters are already out in record-setting millions, m... more
Oct 21 2020 49m
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Why Are We Ignoring The Big One? Climate Migration
The 2020 election campaign season is fraught with un... more
Oct 8 2020 47m
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Are Americans Even Listening To Each Other Anymore?
Is there a better way to do journalism than American... more
Sep 30 2020 1h 4m
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Longtime GOP Strategist Stuart Stevens Games Out 2020 and Says It Was All A Lie
Republican super-strategist Stuart Stevens knows the... more
Sep 17 2020 1h 6m
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The Stakes Are High. Letters From An American.
It's been quite an August, for the country and host ... more
Sep 8 2020 1h 12m
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Bob Dylan's Art of Conversation: Should We Demand More From Dylan and Boomers Right Now?
Bob Dylan was the protest icon of a generation. “The... more
Jun 24 2020 53m
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A Watershed Moment: Dr. Andre Perry on How We Make Substantive Structural Changes To End Inequality
Know Your Price, Dr. Andre Perry's dynamic new book,... more
Jun 14 2020 57m
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The Risk of The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
At the same time as protests erupted across American... more
Jun 5 2020 1h
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What Do We Tell the Kids? And How – and When – Do We Get Them Back to School?
The country is in crisis. Riots, protest, police bru... more
Jun 3 2020 57m
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Race in America: Bakari Sellers on My Vanishing Country, his new book
In a hard week, Bakari Sellers– the youngest-ever me... more
May 29 2020 55m
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AI + Robots = Revolution.
Drawing on real life research and technology, P.W. S... more
May 22 2020 56m
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Inside the Trump White House Now – The Washington Post’s Ashley Parker
The scenes at the White House press briefings have b... more
May 19 2020 55m
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Where Is The Vaccine? Omar Khan, PhD Lays It Out
The world is desperate for a vaccine. It’s a life or... more
May 15 2020 57m
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Will Big Tech save us or enslave us in the Covid-19 meltdown? Dipayan Ghosh says: YES.
Dipayan Ghosh’s new book, Terms of Disservice: How S... more
May 12 2020 48m
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American Economist Robert Reich On How We Get Out of This
Robert Reich, American economist, professor, and aut... more
May 7 2020 1h
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Is A Criminal Syndicate Taking Over Our Democracy? Sarah Kendzior Rings the Bell.
Sarah Kendzior, author of The View From Flyover Coun... more
Apr 30 2020 56m
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Are Universities Screwed? Will We Reinvent Higher Ed and The American Dream in Coronavirus Time?
When, how and will college students get back on camp... more
Apr 26 2020 50m
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The Great Bill McKibben On How We Use This Wild Moment As a Dramatic Reset To Save The Planet
In 1989, at the age of 29, Bill McKibben wrote The E... more
Apr 21 2020 45m
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A Massive Game of Stratego - The Spectator’s Dominic Green on the Eurozone, Boris’ Britain, and America and China a...
Rich countries, poor counties, China or America: who... more
Apr 16 2020 53m
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November: Will You Get To Vote This November? How? Are We Ready?
Voting rights in America have long been fraught but ... more
Apr 15 2020 51m
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How Will We Cope? We Bring In the Therapist
How are we all doing four-weeks in? Tom and Heidi ta... more
Apr 12 2020 38m
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The Bottleneck to Cash and Test and Trace: How We Restart The Economy with The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson
Where’s the relief money? Derek Thompson of The Atla... more
Apr 8 2020 55m
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How Will This Change Us? Is There Room for Optimism?
Heidi and Tom head into a freewheeling conversation ... more
Apr 5 2020 1h 1m
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We Are Under Siege In America and the Generals Are Our Doctors
We turn to doctors on the frontline in two of our na... more
Apr 1 2020 47m
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