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Summary: The Open Mind is a thoughtful excursion into the world of ideas across media, politics, technology, the arts and all realms of civic life.
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Podcasts:
Microsoft's Civic Engagement director Sid Espinosa discusses how civic tech, corporations, and governments need to fix systemic inequities.
Together for Safer Roads CEO David Braunstein discusses the high stakes for infrastructure reform.
Foreign Policy editor James Palmer discusses China's global position and the Biden administration's foreign policy beyond the first one hundred days.
Algorithmic Justice League founder Joy Buolamwini discusses legislation to ban and redress the harm from weaponized data systems.
Washington Monthly and RealClearPolitics contributor Bill Scher discusses Joe Manchin's impact on lawmaking in the Biden era.
End Citizens United executive director Tiffany Muller discusses the path forward for voting rights and electoral reform.
University of Chicago Department of Surgery chairman Dr. Jeffrey Matthews discusses how the pandemic has – and has not – transformed the U.S. medical practice and how to tackle vaccine resistance.
Duke University Polarization Lab director Chris Bail discusses his new book "Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make our Platforms Less Polarizing."
UC Berkeley Law’s Bertrall Ross discusses how to reform the inequities of an unrepresentative U.S. government.
SeaBear Smokehouse CEO Mike Mondello discusses the impact of the pandemic on American seafood and stewardship of the oceans.
4 Rivers Smokehouse founder John Rivers discusses his brisket pilgrimage and feeding hungry Floridians during the pandemic.
Annenberg School for Communication scholar Jessa Lingel discusses her new book "The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom."
American jazz musician Madeleine Peyroux discusses what the pandemic has taught America and the plight of the artist.
MeidasTouch cofounder Ben Meiselas discusses how to fight (dishonest) fire with (honest) fire.
Center for Transnational Law director Jorge Contesse discusses the pandemic’s global human rights fallout and the future of democracy in Chile.
