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Blue City Blues
Blue City Blues is a podcast that's about what's broken, what's working and what comes next in America's blue cities. Hosts David Hyde and Sandeep Kaushik bring on a smart guest each episode to dig into urban politics, governance and culture. Clear-eyed conversation for people who care about blue cities and are skeptical of easy orthodoxies. Blue cities, we argue, represent an urban archipelago, which is shaping America's future. Subscribe to Blue City Blues now on Apple, Spotify, YouTube or…
Episodes
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Why is San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan Breaking So Many Eggs?
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…
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NYT’s Peter Goodman on Tariffs, Trade Wars and the New Crony Capitalism
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…
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Dan Savage: How Blue Cities Should Resist Trump 2.0
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…
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The Inside Story on How Tech Billionaires Sparked San Francisco’s Moderate Backlash
In recent years San Francisco, widely regarded as America’s most progressive city, has experienced a far-reaching anti-progressive backlash. In 2022, voters…
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Mike Pesca: Is Blue City Media Up to the Challenge of Covering Trump 2.0?
Former National Public Radio and Slate journalist Mike Pesca, host of the longest-running (and highly entertaining!) daily news podcast, "The Gist," joins us…
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Has the American Labor Movement Lost Touch with the Urban Working Class?
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…
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Keith Humphreys: Why Drug Reform Failed In West Coast Blue Cities
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…
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Why Does Rep. Adam Smith Believe Blue Cities Contributed to Trump’s Win?
Democrat Adam Smith has spent the last several years engaged in a (perhaps quixotic?) crusade to save the Democratic Party from itself. The veteran…
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Freddie deBoer: Blue Cities Progressives Need to Get Real on Involuntary Commitment
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…
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Why Didn't Blue Cities Going Woke Help the Marginalized?
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…
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Will Trump’s win make the rocky marriage between big tech and big blue cities even worse?
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…
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Was the "insufferable left" to blame for Trump's big gains in blue cities?
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…
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Dan Savage on Trumpism and the future of blue cities
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…