27 episodes
What Keeps You Up at Night? St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Editorial board member Lynn Schmidt will host conversations about the big issues and worries facing America — the things keeping her guests up at night. Schmidt wants to begin conversations about how we can begin solving those issues. Guests will include experts and politicians from across the country, political spectrum and generations, including presidential candidates, authors, former Congress members and more. Schmidt is a member of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board.
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Breaking down the stereotypes of rural voters
Political scientist and author of "The Rural Voter. The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America" Nicholas Jacobs joins Lynn Schmidt for some political wonkery. They discuss the misconceptions of rural voters and why we should all work to overcome the "Us versus Them" mentality.
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The future looks bright
Futurist Ari Wallach talks about his PBS docuseries "A Brief History of the Future" and how innovators and entrepreneurs are addressing the four big megatrends facing all of us.
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Reengaging conservatives and independents in the fundamental American ideals
Co-founder and president of the San Francisco Briones Society Jay Donde and Lynn Schmidt talk about the practical ways principled conservatives can engage in progressive enclaves.
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Click to read Lynn's column about the closure of a north city Walgreens. -
The Radicalization of the Republican Party and the Purging of RINOs
The Washington Post's national political reporter Isaac Arnsdorf talks with Lynn Schmidt about his new book "Finish What We Started. The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy" and the ways the radicalized MAGA movement has transformed Republican Party politics from the ground up.
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On Surviving and Accountability
Naomi Petel Adler and Mirjam Heutlink, survivors of Oct. 7, share their stories of enduring Hamas' terrorist attacks of their homes on Kibbutz Nahal Oz and why Hamas is responsible for the Palestinian humanitarian crisis.
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Measles outbreaks and the unintended consequences of vaccine misinformation
Dr. Susan Polan talks with Lynn Schmidt about the frightening rise of measles outbreaks in the U.S. and the need to push back on vaccine misinformation.
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