Current Affairs #21: Meet the Candidates! (Part 1)
Mar 16, 2019
01:59:01
The entire Current Affairs team comes together to brief listeners on as many of the Democratic presidential candidates as they can in two hours (spoiler alert: we only could get through half!)
The Panel:
- Briahna Joy Gray, contributing editor
- Vanessa A. Bee, social media editor
- Brianna Rennix, senior editor
- Sparky Abraham, finance editor
- Oren Nimni, legal editor
- Nick Slater, newsletter editor
- Lyta Gold, amusements eidtor
- Nathan J. Robinson, editor-in-chief
- Pete Davis, host
Candidates discussed:
- Joe Biden (read about his feud with Elizabeth Warren over banks here)
- Marianne Williamson (read about the debate over 2020 and reparations here)
- Amy Klobuchar (read Elizabeth Bruenig on feminism and her workplace abuse here)
- Bernie Sanders (listen to his folk album here; watch his Debs documentary here)
- Julian Castro (read about the HUD Mortgage Sale scandal here)
- Elizabeth Warren (read about her groundbreaking Two-Income Trap book here)
- Andrew Yang (read about the "Yang Gang"'s meme problem here)
- Tulsi Gabbard (read about the mystery of Gabbard's values here)
- Howard Schultz (read a profile of his feuds with the city of Seattle here)
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Many thanks to Dan Thorn, at Pink Noise Studios, for editing this episode.