The PoliticsGirl Podcast
1) This is America: A Conversation with Dr. Terence Lester
It’s back to school, and while school shootings are a given, actual education is not. It’s September 2025 and the Department of Education is being systematically dismantled while the policy impacts of...Show More
2) Is Putin Running the Show? - A conversation with international expert Jon Finer
While international relationships are essential in a changing, increasingly dangerous world, under the Trump Administration America is doing major damage to both our safety and security by eroding tru...Show More
3) WTF is HAPPENING America?!
Things are not right. I’m doing my pod from the road today because something wasn’t right. In my particular case it was my son’s appendix, but the wrongness of what’s going on isn’t limited to my imme...Show More
4) Trump wants you Dumb & Mean: A Conversation with Ben Sheehan
Don’t feel bad if you don’t know how the government works. It’s by design. Today we talk to the Host of PBS’s Civics Made Easy about the importance of offering Americans the kind of knowledge we shoul...Show More
5) I Feel That Way Too!: A Conversation with Michelle MiJung Kim
Things are getting so bad in America that many people are checking out, but we can’t keep pretending things are normal when we know they aren’t. We must collectively wake up to what’s happening, to ho...Show More
6) America’s $200 Billion Dollar Mistake: A Conversation with Garrett Graff
We can’t afford pediatric cancer research, healthcare for seniors, or testing to make sure our water is clean, but we have $200 billion dollars to spend on masked, secret police to terrorize us on our...Show More
7) What If I Don’t Believe in the Supreme Court? A Conversation with Dahlia Lithwick
This year Supreme Court issued decisions on birthright citizenship, nationwide injunctions, religious freedom, transgender rights, gender affirming care, gun violence, and the executive branch’s appar...Show More
8) Don’t Die: A conversation about American healthcare with Dr. Anahita Dua
America’s health is in danger. We’re not testing our food, water and drugs like we should. We’re limiting access to vaccines. We aren’t testing for covid or bird flu or any other communicable illness ...Show More
9) How to Be a Good Person in a Bad World: A Conversation with Rutger Bregman
Historian and author, Rutger Bregman believes there’s an antidote to the sense of emptiness that so many people feel, and it’s the will to make the world a better place. To devote your career to the g...Show More
10) Hold the Line: with the ACLU’s Deborah Archer
The foundations of our democracy are being torn apart and organizations like the ACLU are showing up every day to hold us together. As their president Deborah Archer says, this might be the work the A...Show More