The Great Battlefield

Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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Aug 9, 2023 • 1h 16min

Building a Multiracial Party with Maurice Mitchell of the Working Families Party

Maurice Mitchell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his history, his philosophy on leadership and how the Working Families Party fits in the progressive ecosystem.
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Aug 7, 2023 • 44min

Protecting Voting Rights with Rose Clouston of DEMpower Labs

Rose Clouston joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics and how DEMpower labs is working to protect voting rights.
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Aug 4, 2023 • 59min

Deepak Bhargava of CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

Deepak Bhargava joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and organizing, from running Center for Community Change to CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and an important article he's writing on how Democrats should govern once they regain power.
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Aug 2, 2023 • 40min

Promoting progressive change and defeating Trump with Occupy Democrats' Omar Rivero

Occupy Democrats' Omar Rivero joins Nathaniel to talk about founding Occupy Democrats, the biggest grassroots political organization/information website in the country. and their mission to promote progressivism.
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Jul 31, 2023 • 48min

Relational Organizing for Progressives with Mike Pfohl of Organizing Empowerment Project

Mike Pfohl returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he's been up to at the Organizing Empowerment Project, a nonprofit that helps organizations with relational organizing by providing free software, training and funding.
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Jul 28, 2023 • 47min

Hobbyism in American Politics with Eitan Hersh of Tufts University

Eitan Hersh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to discuss his new book "Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change", which aims to change the behavior of people who consume politics but don't work to build power.
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Jul 26, 2023 • 40min

Covering Billionaires and Politics with Teddy Schleifer of Puck

Teddy Schleifer returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the new media enterprise that he's part of called Puck, which aims to cover the intersection of money and power in Washington, Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
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Jul 24, 2023 • 1h 1min

Progressive Comedian Graham Elwood of Manifest It

Graham Elwood joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in comedy, his podcast The Political Vigilante and his stand up special "Manifest It".
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Jul 21, 2023 • 1h 5min

Anthony Leiserowitz of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his research in to public opinion on climate change and his radio show which produces 90 second episodes about global warming.
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Jul 19, 2023 • 52min

How the Republican party makes use of political technology with Echelon Insights' Patrick Ruffini

This episode of The Great Battlefield podcast features a conversation with Republican political consultant Patrick Ruffini, recorded in front of his class of students at Johns Hopkins University. Patrick discusses his longtime career in political technology, working at the RNC, founding his firm -- Echelon Insights, and why he elected not to vote for Donald Trump.

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