The Great Battlefield

Heather Booth joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share stories and insights from her six decade career in political activism. She compares the Trump era to the fights for civil rights in the 1960's, and discusses her work with The Midwest Academy -- a school she founded to train progressive organizers.

Caroline Fredrickson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as Chief of Staff for Senator Maria Cantwell, serving as President for the American Constitution Society and currently teaching at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Ann Morning, Professor of Sociology at NYU joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career studying race and her two books on the subject "The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference" and "An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States"

Mark Sullivan joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding and building the Voter Activation Network (the VAN side of NGP VAN) and what he's been up to since stepping back from the company.

Lou Levine joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how he was NGP's first hire and helped the company grow from two people in Nathaniel's attic to what it is now, over 350 employees. Lou also talks about how they're helping Democrats win by providing them with web-based software tools.

Matthew Dallek, Professor at George Washington University joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his book "Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right".

Stuart Stevens joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about running a Republican media consultancy and leading strategy for Mitt Romney and why he's left his party and written an upcoming book "IT WAS ALL A LIE: How The Republican Party Became Donald Trump".

Sarah Longwell of Defending Democracy Together joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how she's working to recruit a serious primary challenger on the republican side.

Emily Kaufman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in political communications and her role as Executive Director at the Groundwork Project where they work to support progressives in red states.

Bob Perkowitz joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career running large businesses and founding ecoAmerica where they're working to grow support for climate solutions.