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#21: Meet the Candidates! (Part 1)

#21: Meet the Candidates! (Part 1)

FromCurrent Affairs


#21: Meet the Candidates! (Part 1)

FromCurrent Affairs

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Length:
119 minutes
Released:
Mar 16, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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.
Released:
Mar 16, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.