Mon 12/22
William Muck fills in for Joan and his guests are
– Michael Scherer, staff writer at The Atlantic; his latest piece is “Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?”
– Abdullah Al-Bahrani, associate professor of Accounting and Economics at Northern Kentucky University
– Phil Barker, professor of political science and director of the honors program at Keene State College, and co-host of The Politics Lab podcast

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On today's show:

– Chris Fitzsimon, host of the Stories from the States podcast
– “Out Chicago” host Scott Duff and film critic Rebecca Ford

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On today's show:

– Eric Zorn, writer-publisher of The Picayune Sentinel
– Our Pet of the Month segment with Craig Botagowski of Mark Drugs and Darlene Duggan, head of Anticruelty
– Heartland Signal’s Rich Eberwein with three stories you might have missed from our digital newsroom

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On today's show:

– Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL)
– George D. Strickland, recently retired Lake County associate judge for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Lake County
– Dr. Stockton Mayer, infectious disease physician at UI Health
– Spencer Critchley, author of Patriots of Two Nations and host of the Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good podcast

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Tue 12/16
– Jeet Heer, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, “The Time of Monsters”
– Nick Blumberg, correspondent at WTTW News
– Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
– Casey Toner, Illinois Answers reporter at the Better Government Association
– Oren Jacobson, executive director and co-founder of Men4Choice.org, which “exists to activate, educate, and mobilize male allies into the fight” for reproductive freedom “as active partners and allies.”

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Mon 12/15
– Chris Bury, senior journalist-in-residence, DePaul University
– James Stroud, a statistician at FEMA currently on administrative leave; he has gone public with his opposition to the Trump administration’s wide-ranging effort to obstruct FEMA’s work and recently signed the FEMA Katrina Declaration
– Lindsay Nichols, policy director at Giffords Law Center

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On today's show:
– Chris Fitzsimon, host of the Stories from the States podcast
– Adam Abrams, spokesperson for Keep Americans Covered, former communications aide to President Barack Obama and a White House spokesman during the passage of the Affordable Care Act
– David Orr, former Cook County clerk and Chicago alderman and founder of Good Government Illinois

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On today's show:
– Bruce Rheins, former CBS Los Angeles deputy bureau chief
– Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL)
– Abby Vesoulis, national politics reporter at Mother Jones
– Heartland Signal’s Rich Eberwein with three stories you might have missed from our digital newsroom
– Joe Fontana, founder of Fry the Coop

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