Politics Pulse: Recent Episodes
Matt Robison
Fresh stories and perspectives from writers and political analysts working inside Washington and around the country.
Shira Schoenberg, a top Massachusetts reporter with CommonWealth magazine and a veteran of the Concord Monitor and the Boston Globe, gives listeners a lens into the biggest issues happening in the state and around the country.
Matt goes on the road this week to join Howard Monroe, a West Virginia Broadcast Hall of Fame radio host, to talk about the filibuster and how Joe Manchin will shape whatever the Senate does next. Plus, are dems in danger of a sudden rapid shift of Senate control?
Jeff Hauser, the Executive Director of the Revolving Door Project, is driving the conversation in Washington about who President Biden is choosing to monitor and regulate big tech companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook. He joins the show to explain why his group is taking on this issue, and what the Biden administration can and should do about it.
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The answer: companies you may not have ever heard of, but who do the behind-the-scenes work of getting medicines from the manufacturer to your doctor's office. Patrick Kelly of the Healthcare Distribution Alliance explains how it all works.
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A new political group has the answer: defeat them at the ballot box. The founder of the Sedition Caucus PAC explains why they formed and how they plan to defeat the members of Congress who helped incite the insurrection and voted to overturn the election.
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Energy expert and frequent cable news energy analyst Dan Dicker says that the whole approach that both the right and left have used on energy and climate is off-base. The secret to getting it right? It's a little counter-intuitive...but it may be the only way forward. Dan tells us all about in this fascinating discussion...
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Noted Democratic political analyst Joshua Holland shares insights on Trump for Speaker, Cuomo's behavior, and the mess in the Senate with filibustering overriding popular policies.
In this episode of the show Politics Pulse, Matt Robison sits down with Sarah Jones, the Editor-in-Chief of PoliticusUSA.com, to talk about how the new podcast Great Ideas came about, why they both feel it is so important to explore serious, positive ideas for change, how the show and website are planning to collaborate (the first article on PoliticusUSA is here), and why it's so important to hear constructive ideas from across the ideological spectrum -- even the ones you don't agree with.
Elle Meyers -- a Congressional Reporter for COURIER who covers national politics and lawmakers on Capitol Hill -- explains what she has found in her recent reporting on why the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is so significant, the challenges of school re-opening, and the fuzzy link between state shutdowns and job losses.
Veteran political analyst and host of the We've Got Issues podcast Joshua Holland makes the case for a big, bold bill on Covid and the economy
Veteran political analyst and host of the We've Got Issues podcast Joshua Holland discusses the politics of the filibuster, whether Democrats will finally do away with it, and Chuck Schumer's political standing
Sarah Ovaska, a veteran investigative journalist from North Carolina and associate editor and reporter at Cardinal & Pine gives the rundown on where we really stand on getting vaccines distributed.
Veteran journalist Jamie Steihm was there in the House Chamber when the attack took place on January 6.
She shares her first-hand account of what really happened.
Sarah Ovaska, Associate Editor of Cardinal and Pine, reports on voter access: how did it really go in razor-thin North Carolina which has been mired in voting and redistricting controversy.
Then Courier congressional reporter Elle Meyers explains what went down with Betsy DeVos and her call for the Department of Education to "resist" the Biden administration, and details how Ivanka Trump interfered with the CDC.