35 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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Facing the challenges of the loss of local media, part 1
Erica Beshears Perel, Director of the University of North Carolina's Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media joins Lynn Schmidt to discuss the what the loss of local media means to American society and some solutions that innovators are already doing
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Project 2025: Be very afraid
Lynn Schmidt hosts a solo podcast and share why Project 2025 and the current state of America's politics keeps her up at night. She dives into details about Project 2025, what a possible second Trump administration might bring, the current state of the race with Pres. Biden, and why this election should really be viewed through the lens of checks and balances.
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NewsGuard co-founder on the lack of truth
Author and co-founder of NewsGuard Steven Brill sits down with Lynn Schmidt and shares how we got to a place where there is little shared truths and offers some practical solutions for what we can do about it.
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Disproving the claims of massive voter fraud
Ken Block, data analyst and author of the new book "Disproven", talks with Lynn Schmidt about his unbiased search for voter fraud in the 2020 election, the data that shows Donald Trump lost, and how to push back on election denialism.
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Truth, Lies, and Leadership
Former FBI Director James Comey talks with Lynn Schmidt about his newest crime novel "Westport", the real threat that Donald Trump poses to our democracy and the rule of law, and why he is optimistic about our future. -
A primary solution to fixing our dysfunctional politics
Nick Troiano, executive director of Unite America talks with Lynn Schmidt about political polarization and extremism and how modernizing partisan primaries might be the primary solution
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