Best Keith Humphrey Podcasts (2025)

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Addiction in America (with Dr. Keith Humphreys) 1:10:29

16d ago1:10:29

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I struggled with my own drinking habit for years, and I’m the kind of guy that has to be told to put the goddamn phone down — sometimes by the phone itself. So I think about addiction a great deal, and I find that everyone around me talks about their own habits in terms of addiction. And I decided to bring in an expert on addiction to define what i…

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Why Tech Hates Us Journalists (with Paris Martineau) 59:00

1d ago59:00

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It used to be that being a tech journalist was about boosterism and gadgetry. Now it’s like reporting inside the Pentagon, if the Pentagon were staffed by incredibly motivated and secretive experts who are regularly reassured they’re doing holy work, threatened with exile if they ever speak to a reporter, and paid more than any journalist can imagi…

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How to Kill Corruption with Technology (with President of Estonia Toomas Ilves) 1:07:04

7d ago1:07:04

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Under its fourth president, Toomas Ilves, Estonia went from a struggling newly liberated democracy to one of the most technologically sophisticated nations in the world. In this hourlong conversation, Ilves describes what Estonia can teach us about how to fight corruption through technology, truly root out waste and fraud, and empower everyday citi…

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Bonus Reading: A.I. Wants to Steal Your Ideas. The White House Seems to Be Fine With That. 9:28

9d ago9:28

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Read the complete piece at your leisure, and circle back to my conversation with Lawrence Lessig, in which he describes how his early, revolutionary ideas about the need to lighten up on copyright law in this country have been totally upended about A.I. Also, for context on the Google Books history and how it led us to this unfortunate moment, have…

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Albuquerque Has a Crime Problem. Is the National Guard the Answer? 1:12:01

12d ago1:12:01

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Join the hosts, chiefs, with You And The Law Podcast on Wednesday at 6PM CST as they discuss the Use of the Military in Civil Law Enforcement. Recently, the police chief requested that the New Mexico Governor deploy some members of the Albuquerque National Guard to assist the police department. They are needed to help the strained police force conf…

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Why Does Progressive Megadonor Nick Hanauer Blame Blue Cities’ Woes on … Barack Obama? 45:45

12d ago45:45

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Seattle venture capitalist and Democratic megadonor Nick Hanauer doesn’t fit neatly into pre-fab boxes. He’s a wildly successful tech investor who denounces tech moguls as “narcissistic sociopaths.” He’s a billionaire “class-traitor” (his term) who’s been sounding the alarm about what he sees as the dangerous obliviousness of the ultrarich to the r…

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The Best You Can Hope For in a Democracy (with John Patty and Elizabeth Penn) 1:05:50

23d ago1:05:50

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When I was writing The Loop: How A.I. is Creating a World without Choices and How to Fight Back, I asked everyone around me what I should be reading. My thesis was that we needed to immediately begin resisting the companies trying to sell us A.I., because they were likely to amplify the worst parts of being human, rather than the best parts. (And t…

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Women In Blue With Author Irene Reyes-Smith 1:23:21

26d ago1:23:21

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Join the hosts, chiefs, with You And The Law Podcast on Thursday with their guest Irene Reyes-Smith. A motivational speaker, community activist, entrepreneur, former DC Metropolitan Police Officer, and the author of The Badge, Women In Blue, and Surviving The Badge. Irene showed love and compassion for her community and worked tirelessly in various…

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Why is San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan Breaking So Many Eggs? 44:14

29d ago44:14

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In a quest to reinvent municipal governance, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is breaking ranks and breaking a few eggs. A Harvard grad who made his bones in the disruption-centered world of Silicon Valley tech startups, he tells us he's put his focus on prioritizing results over ideology since becoming mayor of one of California’s biggest blue cites in 2…

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Bonus Reading: The Creator Economy is a Trap 9:07

1M ago9:07

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The future of public discourse can't just be folksy, underpaid marketing, right? Right? Jake recounts a very bad night at a creator event, and describes the global pull away from thoughtful people investigating the truth online and toward everyone being paid peanuts to tell each other what to buy. This is a special reading from The Rip Current. To …

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The Trauma After-School Shootings 1:08:40

1M ago1:08:40

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If your teen is a victim of a school shooting, attends a school where one happened, or learns about one from the news or social media, this traumatic event could seriously affect their mental health. They may experience anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder. As a parent, it’s critical that you know how to best support them. After t…

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NYT’s Peter Goodman on Tariffs, Trade Wars and the New Crony Capitalism 45:22

1M ago45:22

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This week, we take a close look at Trump's tariff-happy trade war and its impact on blue cities with New York Times global economics correspondent Peter Goodman, the author of Davos Man and How the World Ran Out of Everything. We explore the political tightrope blue city and Democratic Party leaders are walking on trade policy. Are they anti-tariff…

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Renee DiResta on Our Invisible Rulers and Building a Credibility Counterculture 1:04:37

1M ago1:04:37

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Before she was an associate professor at Georgetown and a cofounder of Stanford’s Internet Observatory, which measured the disinformation campaigns at work in multiple presidential elections, Renee DiResta was a new mom at home getting bombarded with anti-vaccine ads on Facebook. “Why are they hitting me with this stuff?” she wondered, and her effo…

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Rev. Markel Hutchins & Community Engagement and Policing In American 1:08:19

1M ago1:08:19

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Rev. Markel Hutchins is the President & Chief Executive Officer. he is the visionary behind MovementForward, Incorporated and the One Congregation One Precinct (OneCOP) initiative. Rev. Hutchins has earned a national reputation advocating fairness and equality. He has held senior leadership positions in numerous organizations and is among the natio…

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Dan Savage: How Blue Cities Should Resist Trump 2.0 52:58

1M ago52:58

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Donald Trump is in full retribution mode and the anxiety – and anger – in blue cities is spiking. Sex advice columnist and friend o’ the podcast Dan Savage joins us to talk about how blue cities should (and should not) resist an aggressively authoritarian administration that sees them as the enemy. We go deep on the April 5th protests, dissecting e…

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Law Professor Lawrence Lessig on Corruption, AI, and the Need to Rethink Everything 1:10:43

1M ago1:10:43

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The pioneer of open-source software and enemy of copyright tyranny has rethought his positions in the age of AI, but his fight against political corruption is more desperate than ever. When I was at a particularly despairing place about how quickly the world seemed to be doing exactly what I tried to warn against in my book The Loop: How AI is Crea…

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The Inside Story on How Tech Billionaires Sparked San Francisco’s Moderate Backlash 36:45

2M ago36:45

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In recent years San Francisco, widely regarded as America’s most progressive city, has experienced a far-reaching anti-progressive backlash. In 2022, voters recalled three progressive school board members and progressive DA Chesa Boudin. Then moderates took control of the city’s Board of Supervisors. Last year they won a majority on the city’s Demo…

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Journalist Kat Tenbarge on Misinformation, Media, and How Influencers Work You 1:06:09

2M ago1:06:09

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Online culture was for years treated as a kid's beat, but Kat Tenbarge of Spitfire News has shown that the tactics and propaganda that are prototyped in the influencer world are now being used to manipulate us all. The public duels between celebrities like Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni aren’t just gossip fuel. They’re a vast business, one that’s …

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Women History Month Women In Leadership Roles 1:13:04

2M ago1:13:04

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Join the host Chiefs this Thursday at 6pm CST. Streaming live on Facebook Live and YouTube. For another episode with this week’s guest, Alicia Andrews, who serves as the chairwoman of the Oklahoma Democratic. Before that, she served for two years as the party secretary. She is the first African American to hold the position of party chairwoman. Ali…

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Psychologist Jennifer Freyd on the Language of Betrayal 59:05

2M ago59:05

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How do public figures slip out of trouble? Using a time-honored tactic: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. The scientist who discovered DARVO has a lot to teach us about the war on truth. We’re in an upside-down moment, in which there seems to be no cost for lying and no respect for honesty. How did we get here? Jennifer Freyd can explain. …

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Black Women In Leadership Roles 1:18:51

2M ago1:18:51

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March is Women's History Month. This month, the host's chiefs Virgil Green and Keith Humphrey are recognizing Black Women who have made history and are serving in leadership roles. Join the host Chiefs this Thursday at 6 pm CST. Streaming live on Facebook Live and YouTube. For another episode With their powerhouse guest of Black women who are makin…

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Mike Pesca: Is Blue City Media Up to the Challenge of Covering Trump 2.0? 59:21

2M ago59:21

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Former National Public Radio and Slate journalist Mike Pesca, host of the longest-running (and highly entertaining!) daily news podcast, "The Gist," joins us to talk about the tough challenges blue city media is facing during the terrifying roller coaster ride that is Trump’s second term. Especially at a time when public trust in the media is at a …

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Historian Andrew Ward (My Dad) on Slavery and DEI 1:06:44

2M ago1:06:44

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Why are we in such a rush to forget the very thing that made our country what it is? And how do we teach that history to kids while preserving their pride in being American? I asked my Dad. The historian and author Andrew Ward grew up on the South Side of Chicago and then in India before becoming a historian of colonialism and slavery. Years later …

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Has the American Labor Movement Lost Touch with the Urban Working Class? 50:28

2M ago50:28

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In this episode, we dive deep into some of the big questions every left-of-center political observer has been asking: what the hell went so wrong in the last election? Why did so many urban working class voters in blue cities swing hard towards Trump? And is there any reason to think that the Trumpist right is making a credible and serious economic…

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Catherine Bracy on Venture Capital and How It's Eating the Economy 58:33

2M ago58:33

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This is the first episode of The Rip Current podcast. Each week I’m going to be interviewing experts in everything from venture capital to the economic impact of slavery to how bullies get the best of us. My first guest is Catherine Bracy, executive director of TechEquity, a nonprofit that examines the ways technology affects equity in areas like l…

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Women's History Month 1:11:51

3M ago1:11:51

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Join the host Chiefs this Thursday at 6pm CST. With their guest, She is known as one of the Wonder Twinzz in Macon, Georgia. Deputy Chief Latricia Gittens is with the Bibb County School District serving in the Campus Police Department. This month on You And The Law Podcast we will celebrate and recognize the courage, dedication, and leadership of w…

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Keith Humphreys: Why Drug Reform Failed In West Coast Blue Cities 45:00

3M ago45:00

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The wave of bold new decriminalization-centered approaches to drug policy reform that swept West Coast cities from San Francisco to Vancouver, B.C. starting around 2020 has failed, according to one the nation’s leading drug policy experts, former Obama White House drug policy advisor and Stanford psychiatry professor Keith Humphreys. On this week’s…

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Black History Month :Black Women Who Change History 1:08:58

3M ago1:08:58

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Join the host Chiefs this Thursday at 6pm CST. For another Black History Moment With this week's guest the Honorable Mayor Roslyn Harmon, who in 2024 made history by becoming the first Black women to run for Mayor and to go on to win. Becoming the first Black women in the history of the City of Golden Valley, Minnesota to become Mayor. “The most di…

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Why Does Rep. Adam Smith Believe Blue Cities Contributed to Trump’s Win? 54:40

3M ago54:40

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Democrat Adam Smith has spent the last several years engaged in a (perhaps quixotic?) crusade to save the Democratic Party from itself. The veteran congressman, who represents parts of Seattle and its South King County suburbs in Washington's 9th Congressional District, recently played the starring role in a New Yorker article titled "The Not-Quite…

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Can The Culture Of Policing Change 1:24:31

3M ago1:24:31

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oin the host Chiefs this Thursday at 6 pm CST. With their guest Retired Lt. Jeff Wenninger with LAPD and Founder & CEO of Law Enforcement Consultants, LLC. Jeff is a nationally recognized law enforcement expert with 33 years of experience, most notably as a lieutenant with the LAPD. He will join us as we talk about can the culture of policing can c…

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Freddie deBoer: Blue Cities Progressives Need to Get Real on Involuntary Commitment 55:01

3M ago55:01

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Freddie DeBoer knows a thing or two about mental illness. He’s been admitted into psychiatric hospitals five times; he was involuntarily committed in 2002. He has, as they say, lived experience. Freddie is also one of our most original and independent commentators on American cultural trends. A self-described Marxist and a cogent critic of recent i…

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Why Didn't Blue Cities Going Woke Help the Marginalized? 46:30

3M ago46:30

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Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi is having a well-deserved moment. His highly praised new book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite (Princeton University Press), released last October, has caused quite the stir, becoming the cutting edge of a burgeoning elite cultural reassessment of the decade plus-long “Great Awokening” …

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Presidential Pardons Sending The Wrong Message 1:01:32

4M ago1:01:32

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Join the host Chiefs on Thursday at 6PM CST. Streaming live on Facebook live and YouTube as they discuss, the recent pardons of those who stormed the Capitol Building on January 6th who attacked law enforcement officers. The largest police union in the US, which endorsed Donald Trump during his campaign, said Trump’s decision to pardon more than 1,…

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A Lack Of Dignity And Respect 1:11:37

4M ago1:11:37

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What happened to Robert L. Brooks, inside a New York Prison hospital, was worse than the 2020 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. That was caught on bodycam by the prison guards As many as 14 guards have been suspended or terminated recently 4 more N.Y. prison employees have been suspended following an inmate’s death Multiple corrections officers…

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What We Know After The New Orleans Attack 1:09:47

4M ago1:09:47

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Join the Co-host Chiefs and their guest Chief James Smith this Thursday at 6PM CST, streaming live on Facebook Live and YouTube. They will have part two of their discussion on what we know after the New Orleans attack that took the lives of 14 people and injured another 30 on New Year's morning. Law enforcement has learned several new clues about t…

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Ben Wildavsky on the German Model of Dual-Studies 50:23

4M ago50:23

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Ben Wildavsky is a veteran higher education strategist and writer, and host of the Higher Ed Spotlight podcast. He brings decades of experience in journalism and education policy, including leadership roles at Strada Education Network, the College Board, and US News & World Report. He is the author of The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Cr…

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What Is Domestic Terrorism? 1:07:47

5M ago1:07:47

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Join the Co-host Chiefs this Thursday at 6PM CST, streaming live on Facebook Live and YouTube. They discuss the tragic events that unfolded in the early morning hours of New Year's morning in New Orleans. With authorities officially investigating the deadly Bourbon Street attack as "an act of terrorism," many people may be wondering exactly what fe…

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Robert Lerman on the Role of Apprenticeships in the American Economy 45:57

5M ago45:57

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Robert Lerman is a research fellow at the Urban Institute and the co-founder of Apprenticeships for America, where he is dedicated to expanding opportunities for lifelong learning and ensuring that apprenticeships are a cornerstone of America’s educational landscape. Through his prolific research and advocacy, we examine the role of apprenticeships…

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Why Is the Appearance Of Black Female Officers Questioned 1:10:07

5M ago1:10:07

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Black women in the police force have faced discrimination over their hair, including being forced to choose between their employment and their racial identity. Recently an 18-year veteran of the Miami Police Department was harassed and demoted over her hair. Is there a double standard between Black and White female officers and hairstyles?…

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Policing Without Federal Oversight 1:14:41

5M ago1:14:41

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For several decades the DOJ has been Investigating Local Police Departments across the United States. for violations of civil rights violations and or use of force incidents. Those federal investigations and possible court orders to follow could take years to complete. Local police departments under federal oversight have complained about the immen…

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Stuart Andreason on Skills-Based Hiring 53:26

6M ago53:26

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Stuart Andreason is the Executive Director of Programs at the Burning Glass Institute where he leads efforts in research and engagement on workforce innovation, higher education, and economic mobility. Through his personal experience and his work in skills-based hiring, we look at vocation in career, skills signals, and role of technology in the hi…

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Show Topic: At Risk Youth The Game of Chess 1:07:36

6M ago1:07:36

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Is there a problem with at-risk youth and juvenile crimes across the United States Yes, there is a problem with juvenile crime in cities like Oklahoma City, Memphis, and Minneapolis, and the state of Minnesota is struggling to address it. Younger and younger offenders are committing more violent crimes, including shootings, carjackings, and armed r…

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Will Trump’s win make the rocky marriage between big tech and big blue cities even worse? 55:09

6M ago55:09

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America’s bluest big cities are in a tense, co-dependent relationship with the tech giants that power their economies and anchor their prosperity. It didn’t start out that way. When tech giants first decided, about 20 years ago, to decamp from their cloistered suburban enclaves to embed themselves in the vibrant hearts of big blue cities, a torrid …

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Why Are more police officers facing prosecution? 1:07:12

6M ago1:07:12

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With more police officers being convicted of murder charges since the death of George Floyd. Recently a former Texas police officer was convicted in the killing of a 15-year-old black who was inside a vehicle when he fired shoots into the car. a jury found a former Louisville police officer guilty in the death of Breonna Taylor. Join the Co-host Ch…

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Was the "insufferable left" to blame for Trump's big gains in blue cities? 53:10

7M ago53:10

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In decisively winning the presidency, some of Donald Trump’s biggest gains came in the places you’d least expect them: big blue cities and urban suburbs. A lot of Trump’s victory is due to voter dissatisfaction with mass migration and the price of eggs. But Dan Savage suggests urban progressives also need to look in the mirror: did an “insufferable…

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Are Police Psychological Exams Important? 1:11:54

7M ago1:11:54

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In recent years, the public has questioned police leaders for bestowing badges and guns on officers who are psychologically ill-suited to their jobs at a time when trust in police is already at historic low. Most police departments use psychological testing to help select candidates. The psychological exam is a key step in the hiring process and is…

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Dan Savage on Trumpism and the future of blue cities 44:20

7M ago44:20

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Twenty years ago, in the wake of a searing presidential defeat, Dan Savage encouraged progressives to move to blue cities and to fortify them into an “Urban Archipelago” of culturally separatist bastions that rejected the reactionary politics of the larger red American landscape. And he got his wish. Over the last two decades, rural places got redd…

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Kerry McKittrick on Education, Career Navigation, and Workforce Development 47:15

7M ago47:15

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Kerry McKittrick, in her work as co-director of The Project on Workforce at Harvard, looks into different aspects of the relationship between workforce development and careers. In this episode of Hardly Working, we dive into three different reports that McKittrick has authored recently. Mentioned in the episode: The College-to-Jobs Initiative: Expl…

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First Responders Peer Support 1:09:54

7M ago1:09:54

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Join the Co-host Chiefs this Thursday at 6PM CST. We'll be streaming live on Facebook and YouTube with this week’s guests, Keith and Tracy Duroy, as we discuss the Value of Peer Support for First Responders. Keith is a retired Oklahoma City Police Department Master Sergeant, AKA ( SWEET DADDY D), and Tracy retired from a lengthy career in the publi…

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Show Topic: National Faith & Blue 1:05:29

7M ago1:05:29

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October 11-14, 2024, was National Faith & Blue Weekend which facilitates safer and stronger communities by engaging law enforcement officers and local residents through the connections of faith-based organizations. Faith & Blue is based on the premise that strong communities are built through mutual respect and understanding. Law enforcement and fa…

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