The Great Battlefield

Nathaniel G. Pearlman
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May 31, 2023 • 60min

Holding Power Accountable with Ryan Grim of The Intercept

Ryan Grim joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in journalism, from covering Congress at Politico and The Huffington Post and now The Intercept. Ryan also discusses his book "We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to AOC, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement".
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May 29, 2023 • 1h 9min

Building a Career as a Political Operative with Geri Prado

Geri Prado joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in politics working for ActBlue, EMILY's List, Hillary Clinton, the DSCC and AFL-CIO.
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May 26, 2023 • 54min

Transforming Georgia with Nse Ufot of The New Georgia Project

Nse Ufot joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how The New Georgia Project is registering and engaging voters across Georgia.
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May 24, 2023 • 51min

Six Decades of Political Activism with the Midwest Academy's Heather Booth

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.
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May 22, 2023 • 1h

The Importance of the Courts in America with Caroline Fredrickson

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.
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May 15, 2023 • 1h 9min

The Intersection of Race and Politics with Ann Morning of NYU | Episode 910

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"
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May 12, 2023 • 1h 1min

Leaving a Legacy in Progressive Political Technology with Mark Sullivan of NGP VAN

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.
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May 10, 2023 • 55min

NGP VANs First Hire Louis Levine

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.
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May 8, 2023 • 58min

Matthew Dallek Author of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

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".
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May 5, 2023 • 1h 3min

Leaving The Republican Party with Stuart Stevens

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".

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