Progressive Matters: Education Through Conversation

About Progressive Matters: Education Through Conversation

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

Publisher

JP

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Jan 2024

Latest episode

20 Jun 2025

Latest episodes

16 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Jun 2025

   Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age (Working Class in American History) An Interview with Debbie Goldman

   Debbie Goldman discusses how call center work has changed since deregulation, isolating workers and prioritizing sales quotas, in this interview about the digital age.

2. 

   14 Apr 2025

   Is AMERICA ABANDONING UKRAINE At The Worst Possible Time? An Interview With Greta Uehling Author of Decolonizing Ukraine The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom.

   Send us a text 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. Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Decolonizing-Ukraine-Uehling/dp/B0DFP8ST71?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&gQT=0 In this ground-breaking book...

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   4 Apr 2025

   COVID Wars: Media Literacy, Conspiracy, Disinformation And The Battle For America's Future. An Interview With Ronald Gruner!

   Send us a text 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. #podcast #interview #ronaldgruner

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   22 Mar 2025

   Is TRUMP Using MCCARTHYISM To DESTROY America? An Interview With The New York Times Clay Risen.

   Send us a text 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. #Trump #theredscare #newyorktimes Support the show at: https://progressivematters.com/home#hosts

5. 

   22 Feb 2025

   How Housing Segregation DESTROYED Black Wealth: With Leah Rothstein.

   Send us a text 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" . Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/T71hCfK34dM #endracism #blackhistorymonth #leahrothstein #housingjustice Support the show at: https://progressivematters.com/home#hosts Join the new discord and help me form a community that ...

6. 

   27 Jan 2025

   George Boutwells Fight For Racial Justice And Economic Equality With Grant And Lincoln! A Conversation With Author And Descendant Jeffrey Boutwell.

   Send us a textBuy the book:https://www.amazon.com/Boutwell-Radical-Republican-Champion-Democracy/dp/1324074264?&linkCode=ll1&tag=angryginger0a-20&linkId=8403df330c0cc444248e2da29d8738f3&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tlThis is an Amazon affiliate link. The Book is also available through many other sites!About The Author:Jeffrey Boutwell is a writer, historian, and science policy specialist whose forty-year career spanned journalism, government, and international scientific r...

7. 

   19 Oct 2024

   Turf Wars How A Group Of Activists DEFEATED Donald TRUMP And The City Of NEW YORK! An Interview with Steven Robinson

   Send us a textBuy The Book:https://www.amazon.com/Turf-War-Activists-Donald-Masterpiece/dp/1665763523In 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 victorious civic groups had a radically different vision for the site - one that was suited t...

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   20 Aug 2024

   How Dangerous Is Climate Change? Is Climate Change Real? An Interview With David Lipsky! (Audio Only)

   Send us a Text Message.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 astonishing story of how we moved from one extreme (the correct...

9. 

   5 Jun 2024

   Is Trump a Dictator? Is Trump Racist? An Interview With Richard Abel.

   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 member of the editorial boards of other journals in the law and society field in the United States, Europe, and Australia. He participated in the founding of the Conference on Critical Legal Studies in 1977 and helped organize the meeting on "Law and Racism: The Sounds of Silence." At UCLA, he has been faculty coordinator for the Public Interest Law Program. Professor Abel spent two years after law school reading African law and legal anthropology in London, and then a year of field work in Kenya studying the ways in which primary courts staffed by and serving the African population had preserved indigenous notions of law and procedure within European institutions. He began teaching at Yale in 1969 and spent the 1971-72 year practicing with the New Haven Legal Assistance Association. Professor Abel's books include Lawyers in the Dock: Learning from Attorney Disciplinary Proceedings (2008); English Lawyers between Market and State: The Politics of Professionalism (2003); Speaking Respect, Respecting Speech (1998); Lawyers: A Critical Reader (1997); Politics by Other Means: Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid, 1980-1994 (1995); The Law & Society Reader (1995); Speech and Respect (1994); American Lawyers (1989); The Legal Profession in England and Wales (1988); The Politics of Informal Justice (editor, 1982); and Lawyers in Society (co-editor, 1988-89).

10. 

    21 May 2024

    Is The Endangered Species Act In Danger? An Interview With Lowell Baier!

    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 and wildlife conservation. Throughout his career he has been an advisor to many elected officials and educators, including every successive presidential administration since George H. W. Bush (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush), and has been an active and instrumental member of several national conservation groups.

11. 

    13 Apr 2024

    Can The Senate SAVE America? An Interview With: Ira Shapiro

    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 raison d’etre: to provide the check against a dangerous president who threatened our democracy. Two hundred and thirty years later, when Donald Trump, a potential authoritarian, finally reached the White House, the Senate should have served as both America’s first and last lines of defense. Instead, we had the nightmare scenario: today’s Senate, reduced through a long period of decline to a hyper-partisan, gridlocked shadow of its former self, was unable to meet its fundamental responsibility. Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-McConnell-Republicans-Abandoned-America/dp/1538163977 Ira Shapiro: Ira Shapiro is a Senior Advisor with ASG’s East Asia & Pacific practice, where he assists clients in formulating trade and investment strategies in Japan, across Asia, and globally. A specialist in trade law and policy, he has extensive experience serving clients in and from Japan. Mr. Shapiro was Chairman of the National Association of Japan-America Societies (NAJAS) from 2012-2017 and was one of a handful of Americans who received Commendation from then-Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida for his work to advance the friendship between the U.S. and Japan. Ambassador Shapiro served as Chief U.S. Trade Negotiator with Japan and Canada and as General Counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative during the Clinton administration. In these roles, he was centrally involved in completing the negotiations of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the multilateral Uruguay Round and successfully resolved contentious bilateral disputes between the U.S. and Japan on automobiles and semiconductors. As a partner at a leading global law firm, Mr. Shapiro advised clients on international trade matters, market access, and intellectual property rights. He also played a key role in the legal team that won two landmark victories in World Trade Organization cases against China, representing the U.S. motion picture, recording, and publishing industries. A veteran of U.S. politics, Mr. Shapiro served twelve years in senior staff positions in the U.S. Senate and was part of the legal teams that helped the Democratic presidential candidates select their vice-presidential running mates in 1992 and 2000. Mr. Shapiro is the author of three critically acclaimed narrative histories of the U.S. Senate, covering the period from the late 1970s to the present time. His articles about U.S. politics and international trade have appeared in the New York Times, U.S. Today, Nikkei Asian Review, Bloomberg, The Hill, Washington Monthly, and other publications. He holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in politics from Brandeis University. #podcast #interview  #politics Mr. Shapiro is based in Washington, D.C. Support the show at: https://progressivematters.com/home#hosts Join the new discord and help me form a community that makes a difference! https://discord.gg/CGWvTRjhxD Join the Ginger Army to get access to the Prison Trump, Tantrum Trump and more emojis! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLt0hsW2cumhrawfsc6sTHQ/join

12. 

    7 Apr 2024

    What Is The Future Of Online Political Debate? An Interview With @Whick-TV

    @Whick-TV (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCad4Ab-jaz0-CBkZ21d2Fvw) 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. #interview #debate #podcast #whicktv Watch on youtube: https://youtu.be/uokFaAtEayk Support the show at: https://progressivematters.com/home#hosts Join the new discord and help me form a community that makes a difference! https://discord.gg/CGWvTRjhxD Join the Ginger Army to get access to the Prison Trump, Tantrum Trump and more emojis! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLt0hsW2cumhrawfsc6sTHQ/join Amazon affiliate links. If you're looking for the equipment anyways you can help support my show by buying from these links. I get a % of every sell at no added cost! My mic: https://amzn.to/40g10D2 My camera: https://amzn.to/3JPh1ZN My lights: https://amzn.to/3noDaGP

13. 

    25 Mar 2024

    An Interview With Lindsey Prather: Education Is FAILING Americans.

    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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    26 Feb 2024

    Katrina Christiansen: A Common Sense Choice For North Dakota Senate

    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. #podcast #northdakota #senate #interview

15. 

    8 Feb 2024

    CRACKING The Code Of The MAGA Insanity With Adam Mockler!

    Support the show at: https://progressivematters.com/home#hosts 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 Follow Adam @: https://www.youtube.com/@adammockler https://www.instagram.com/adammockler/ https://twitter.com/adammocklerr 💾CHAPTERS💾 00:00 - 00:19 Intro 00:20 - 03:56 What Sets Adam Apart 03:57 - 08:04 How to Deal With MAGA Family Members 08:05 - 13:23 Will Young People Vote For Biden? 13:24 - 18:25 Can You Be To Progressive? 18:26 - 20:55 Who Are Young People Looking Forward To Running? 20:56 - 26:08 What's In Adams Future Join the new discord and help me form a community that makes a difference! https://discord.gg/CGWvTRjhxD Join the Ginger Army to get access to the Prison Trump, Tantrum Trump and more emojis! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLt0hsW2cumhrawfsc6sTHQ/join

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    14 Jan 2024

    Fighting Right Wing EXTREMISM In America With John Padora.

    Watch on youtube at: https://youtu.be/tYV3i5JyWr8 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 controversial issues facing us in the 2024 election cycle, this is the podcast for you. #johnpadora #politics #democrats  #vote #podcast 💾CHAPTERS💾 00:00 - 00:35 Intro 00:36 - 03:40 Motivations To Run For Congress 03:41 - 09:40 What Sets John Padora Apart 09:41 - 16:05 Crowded Republican Primary 16:06 - 22:44 Boebert Chances Of Winning Primary 22:45 - 27:53 Removing Trump From The Ballot 27:54 - 35:27 California v Colorado Values 35:28 - 42:23 Importance Of The Chips Act 42:24 - 50:25 Fixing The Healthcare System 50:26 - 1:02:07 The Prison System And Americas Drug Problem 1:02:08 - 1:07:45 Bipartisanship 1:07:46 - 1:14:42 Getting Money Out Of Politics Join the new discord and help me form a community that makes a difference! https://discord.gg/kmaYmNXp

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