Progressive Matters: Education Through Conversation

Progressive Matters: Education Through Conversation

Political conversations that matter! Talking to guests about todays increasingly polarized political environment through a progressive lens.

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June 20, 2025 52 mins

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Call center employees once blended skill and emotional intelligence to solve customer problems while the workplace itself encouraged camaraderie and job satisfaction. Ten years after telecom industry deregulation, management had isolated the largely female workforce in cubicles, imposed quotas to sell products, an...

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Donald Trumps willingness to sell out the Ukrainian people for it's resources has reached a breaking point. Join me as I interview Author and Professor Greta Uehling as we do a deep dive on what it means if America chooses to sit this fight out.

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Join me as I interview Author, Historian and former CEO Ronald Gruner about his book COVID Wars: America's struggle over public health and personal freedoms.
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We Americans take pride in our American Exceptionalism.

Yet the United States failed badly in its management o...

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During the red scare McCarthy used Americans paranoia of communism to create an insurmountable divide between the political parties. Today Donald Trump (Roy Cohns best friend) is using those same tactics to once again divide America. Join me and author Clay Risen of the New York times as we explore the parallels of the red scare and today's MAGA political movement.

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Housing segregations racist policies caused a generational wealth gap between black and white families. Join me as I interview Leah Rothstein author of "Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law" .

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In the late 1980s, a band of New York civic groups set out to stop Donald Trump from building his "masterpiece," a half-mile of gargantuan buildings overlooking the Hudson River on Manhattan's West Side. After five years of community organizing and strategic opposition, they defeated his proposal. The v...

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In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The Parrot and the Igloo, best-selling author David Lipsky tells the aston...

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Join me as we talk about Trumps legal woes and his aspirations if he is elected a second time. Will he be Dictator? Will he use his powers for revenge against those he believes have wronged him?

Richard Abel teaches Torts, Legal Profession, and Law and Social Change. Over the years, he has been president of the Law and Society Association, editor of African Law Studies and of the Law & Society Review, and...

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Lowell Baier talks with the Angry Ginger about the future of the many endangered species in the United States. How does the current political polarization affect its future? Will climate change hasten the extinction of the bees? 

Lowell Edward Baier (born January 6, 1940) is an American attorney, successful entrepreneur, and an environmental historian and author. He has dedicated his life to natural resources...

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In two previous highly regarded books on the U.S. Senate, Ira Shapiro chronicled the institution from its apogee in the 1970s through its decline in the decades since. Now, Shapiro turns his gaze to how the Senate responded to the challenges posed by the Trump administration and its prospects under President Biden. The Founding Fathers gave the US Senate many functions, but it had one fundamental responsibility—its ra...

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 @Whick-TV joins me on this podcast to discuss how he got started in the crazy political youtube/twitch debate space. We also talk about todays progressive party, cancel culture, MAGA insanity and more. Come see what all the fuss is about on this episode of education through conversation.
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Join me as  we talk to Lindesy Prather about the American educational system. We cover everything from access to free college to mass shootings and what we can do to prevent them to why Michelle Morrow is not the choice for North Carolina. Lindsey Prather is making a difference in American politics! #interview #podcast #northcarolina #michellemorrow

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Katrina Christiansen is running for Senate in North Dakota against career politician Kevin Cramer. Join me on this episode of Education through conversation as we cover topics like climate change, common sense gun laws and the effect overturning Roe V Wade has had on women's rights.
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Join me on this episode of Education Through Conversation as we discuss the insanity of the extremist MAGA crowd and the things he has learned  from interviewing crazy Trump supporters. #adammockler #interview #podcast #politics 

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Join me for a conversation with John Padora who is running for Congress in Colorado's  District 4 against maga extremist Lauren Boebert. In this conversation we cover how everything from the for profit prison and healthcare systems to the extreme miseducation of right wing voters is affecting America. If you want a progressive take on the controversi...

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