perfectly hingéd, why do you ask
Edward Simiyu, Mercy Corps Uganda country director, joins Jared to give an update on COVID-19 and humanitarian efforts.
Support Mercy Corps in Eastern Africa
Seg 1: COVID-19 in Uganda
Seg 2: Dignity and Equity, Lockdowns and Vaccines
Seg 3: Delta Variant in 2% vaccinated Uganda
Seg 4: Mercy Corps mission in Uganda
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
World Wildlife Fund’s Markets Institute proposes a new business model to connect farmers and consumers using the US mail. It could benefit all involved, improve conservation, enhance veterans' well-being, and reduce food waste throughout the economy. It's a perfect topic for At The Table, even before a certain family connection.
Guests: Katherine Devine, director of business case development, and Julia Kurnik, director of innovation start-ups, both at the World Wildlife Fund’s Markets Institute.
Katherine's op-ed in the Washington Post
WWF Farmers Post Business Case
Twitter: WWF | WWF Markets Institute | Katherine | Julia
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
Reflections on a violent American transfer of power.
Meredith Shiner was a Capitol Hill reporter from 2009-2016. She lives in Chicago with her husband and son.
Meredith's latest at The New Republic
Segment 1: “When the Terrorists Came for the View from Nowhere”
Segment 2: We need to think about 1/6 like Shanksville PA
Segment 3: Democrats say this is segment three
Segment 4: “Apolitical” coverage is a partisan choice
Segment 5: “I wrote this for them”
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
Ending soon (min 14 mins, max 20 days):
-2020
-Season 2 of At The Table
-Trump's Presidency
-Georgia Senate runoffs
-Your ignorance re: the word, "intercalary"
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
With the Trump campaign still litigating the general election results from November 3rd, and the two special Senate elections ahead on January 5th, Jared checks in with Atlanta Journal-Constitution politics reporter Patricia Murphy.
Segment 1: 2020 was a smooth Georgia election
Segment 2: Fire breath and snake oil
Segment 3: How Blue is Georgia?
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
Eric Segall is a professor at Georgia State College of Law. He hosts the Supreme Myths podcast. He has authored Originalism as Faith (2018) and Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is Not a Court and Its Justices are Not Judges (2012).
Segment 1: Election 2020 and the new Supreme Court “This is all a function of one opinion in Bush vs Gore”
Segment 2: Justice Barrett and abortion “Her mission is to overturn Roe vs Wade”
Segment 3: SCOTUS & ObamaCare “They’re not gonna overturn ObamaCare this term”
Segment 4: “the Trump administration is just, effectively, the Evangelical administration”
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
Meredith Shiner was a Capitol Hill reporter from 2009-2016. She lives in Chicago with her husband and son.
Meredith's latest at The New Republic
Segment 1: “the Myth of Susan Collins”
Segment 2: Kavanaugh & Barrett
Segment 3: Ranked Choice Voting
Segment 4: Senate Broken
Segment 5: “Irreparably broken”
Segment 6: Re: Senate Attn: Joe Biden
Segment 7: Blow up the Hooplah
Segment 8: Coda
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
Matthew Cortland is a disabled and chronically ill lawyer and policy analyst.
Segment 1: Where the hell have I been? // Professionally Sick
Segment 2: Judge Amy Coney Barrett & the Affordable Care Act
Segment 3: COVID & healthcare: “What kind of country do we want be?”
Segment 4: GOP: “We want you to live in poverty because it’s politically convenient for us”
Segment 5: “If Trump is elected, I cannot survive another four years”
Segment 6: Jock Chicken
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
North Carolina was one of six states last week to sue over US Postal Service changes believed to be intended to help President Trump's reelection chances. North Carolina's Attorney General Josh Stein joins Jared to talk about USPS, Republican challenges to the Affordable Care Act, public universities in his state going back for in-person education, and the RNC happening (partially) in Charlotte.
Segment 1: “That’s why I’ve gone to court. I don’t trust [Postmaster General DeJoy’s] words on a page”
Segment 2: “I choose not to read those tea leaves”
Segment 3: “The administration should have known that, the board of governors should have known that.”
Segment 4: “It breaks my heart the damage that the President is trying to do.”
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
Juliana Bssawmai serves as Safety and Security Coordinator for CARE International in Lebanon.
Support CARE's mission in Lebanon and around the world: CARE.org
Segment 1: “Triple crisis” in Lebanon
Segment 2: “Being Lebanese and trying to deal with this Lebanese crisis”
Segment 3: “Women and girls are likely to be amongst the most vulnerable”
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
Federal law enforcement began to leave Portland after a tumultuous July, marked by occasional protester violence and inflamed by unidentified officers. Oregon's Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum joins Jared for an in-depth conversation about protecting freedom of assembly, the political motivations behind the decisions by President Trump and US AG Barr, and how attorneys general around the country are finding best practices on thorny issues like immigration and voting this fall.
Segment 1: Feds out of Portland
Segment 2: Defund the Police / Justice Reinvestment
Segment 3: DACA & Vote At Home
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
Dr. Daniel Summers is a pediatrician in Massachusetts. His most recent piece on Arc Digital: A School is Not Home Depot. He also writes for Slate.
Segment 1: Absolute vs. adjusted risk
Segment 2: Inconceivable
Segment 3: Surgeon General on masks; pushing buttons
Segment 4: COVID-19 & school this fall: “I think it’s gonna be a disaster”
Segment 5: Humility & empathy
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
Rebecca Cokley is the director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress. She joins Jared to talk about her recent argument against ableist language when criticizing President Trump, the impact the Trump administration has had for the disability community, and her work with the Biden campaign on disability policy.
Segment 1: More than ramps and water glasses
Segment 2: Old white men doing push-ups
Segment 3: “The disability community knew this was coming with Trump”
Segment 4: Biden: “Joe’s part of our community”
Segment 5: COVID: “This will be the largest boom in the disability population since AIDS/HIV"
Segment 6: Vote By Mail & why Britney Spears can’t vote
Segment 7: Key policy areas for the disability community
Segment 8: One of the greatest gifts in this dumpster fire
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
Cecilia Muñoz is the vice president, public interest technology and new initiatives at New America. She served in the Obama White House as Director of the Domestic Policy Council. She is the author of More Than Ready: Be Strong and Be You... And Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise. [Indiebound] [Bookshop.org]
Segment 1: On DACA: “I couldn’t stop sobbing”
Segment 2: “What’s your strategy for self-doubt?”
Segment 3: A racist in the Oval Office
Segment 4: “Is this the moment where I have to say the thing?”
Segment 5: “My daughters understand their power better than I did”
Segment 6: An omission from the book
Segment 7: “Who’s sitting at the table, & who’s sitting at the back of the room?”
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
Juan Escalante, Digital Campaigns Manager for FWD.us, joins Jared to talk about this moment in an immigration fight that has dominated half his life, and what's next now that the Supreme Court has ruled - for now - against the Trump Administration on DACA.
Segment 1: DACA Yoda
Segment 2: Trump needs to “Take the L” on DACA
Segment 3: A fifteen-year fight
Segment 4: The casual, callous evil of Trump
Segment 5: Make Joe Biden uncomfortable
Segment 6: New Horizons
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
Sebastián Molano is the leader and founder of Defying Gender Roles and a Senior Adviser on Gender for Oxfam America.
Segment 1: Father's Day & Juneteenth
Segment 2: The opposite of violence is care
Segment 3: Raising a feminist son
Segment 4: "Sit in that uncomfortableness"
Segment 5: A Better Answer
Defying Gender Roles on Facebook
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
Christina Wolbrecht, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and author, most recently, of A Century of Votes for Women with Kevin Corder, talks with Jared about the political mobilization of women over the last hundred years, and how women may use their political power over the next few months of the US general election.
Segment 1: Edwardians playing golf
Segment 2: Masc vs Mask - gender (& race) and political power
Segment 3: Having it all: women in politics
Segment 4: Women leaders: how do they compare?
Segment 5: "You oughta be talking to the waitresses" - voter demobilization in COVID-19
Segment 6: A perfect storm for voter suppression
Segment 7: Women, Labor, and political power
Segment 8: "Women have been the backbone for political movements" in US history
Segment 9: Emergency tikka masala
Christina Wolbrecht on Twitter
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]
Kevin Kruse, professor of history at Princeton University, joins Jared to talk about telling nuanced stories, why he engages on Twitter, whether AG Bill Barr can be sure of his legacy, and the next big political issue: labor rights after COVID-19.
Segment 1: In a crisis, people "aren't gonna buy that gauzy, simplistic story"
Segment 2: Twitter "cross-pollinates pretty well"
Segment 3: Will this WH write its own history? "Just gonna be one voice... drowned out by facts"
Segment 4: "Essential workers" and a revival of Labor rights
Full episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and other benefits are available to supporters of At The Table on Patreon.
Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter]