The Big Picture (Full Episodes)
Here are full episodes from "The Big Picture" with Edwin Eisendrath (Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT Chicago). Good conversations help us see the big picture. Edwin Eisendrath and his guests get specific about politics, government, campaigns, and the kind of country all this work is meant to build. Join us live every Saturday to be part of the conversation. Edwin served two terms in Chicago’s City Council before being appointed Midwest Region Director of HUD by President Bill Clinton. He was subsequently appointed Federal Receiver in charge of the takeover and turnaround of the Chicago Housing Authority. His last foray as a candidate came when he took on a crooked governor of his own party, but it was the U.S. attorney rather than the voters who sealed Rod Blagojevich’s fate. Off the campaign trail, Edwin worked in higher education and as a consultant to universities here and around the world. He was working primarily in Saudi Arabia during the 2016 election cycle, but after Donald Trump’s victory, he knew he had to focus back home. He brought business and labor leaders together to rescue the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Reader. He ran the company as its CEO until both publications were saved. Edwin continues his political, civic, and business engagement from his home in Chicago, where he and his wife, Jennifer, raised their three children. He and Jennifer can be seen walking their hound dog, Winston Churchill.
Episodes
On this week's show Edwin hosts a special one-hour 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
Catch “The Big Picture with Edwin Eisendrath” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/the-big-picture).
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 ...
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 th...
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
Catch “The Big Picture with Edwin Eisendrath” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/the-big-picture).
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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 Heartl...
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"<...
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)<...
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 th...
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
Catch “The Big Picture with Edwin Eisendrath” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCP...
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
Catch “The Big Picture with Edwin Eisendrath” Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/the-big-picture).
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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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