The Great Battlefield

Shannon Bow O'Brien joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in academia and her book "Donald Trump and the Kayfabe Presidency: Professional Wrestling Rhetoric in the White House" which examines Trump's ties to professional wrestling and how he uses its theatrical tactics.

John Koza joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a computer scientist, being a professor at Stanford and founding National Popular Vote, where he's working to reform the electoral college so the candidate with the most popular votes in all 50 states will be guaranteed the Presidency.

Mary Mancini joins The Great Battlefield Podcast to talk about her career from starting a record store to hosting a progressive radio show to being Chair of The Tennessee Democratic Party.

Ian Simmons joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and how The Blue Haven Initiative is investing to bring about social and environmental change.

John Anzalone returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to look back at the 2020 Presidential Election, advising on The Biden Campaign, what went right for Biden and what went wrong for Trump.

Gary Sheng joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career change from being an engineer at Google to building Civics Unplugged which aims to discover and empower Gen Z leaders to work on our democracy.

Amy Siskind joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career from Wall Street Executive turned activist, co-founding The New Agenda, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting sexism and her work chronicling Trump's bad behavior in "The List."

Shireen Mitchell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in tech and politics from founding Digital Sisters, a nonprofit focusing on women of color in tech, to starting Stop Online Violence Against Women and working to stop digital voter suppression.

Benjamin Kleinerman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about what he does as Professor of Political Science at Baylor and why he created The Constitutionalist as a place to discuss constitutional democracy.

Sandy Ungar joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his noteworthy career as prominent journalist, Goucher College president, host of NPR's "All Things Considered," head of Voice of America, and what he's currently doing at The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University.

Ysiad Ferreiras joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an entrepreneur in the political tech space and how Bigtent is using new social platforms to engage GenZ.

Joe Slade White returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about being Joe Biden's Media Consultant for over 25 years, how he thinks the Biden Campaign did and why he is a fan of the Bidens.

Lisa Greer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, becoming a philanthropist and her book "Philanthropy Revolution: How to Inspire Donors, Build Relationships and Make a Difference".

Jeremy Smith returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how Civitech did registering voters running up to the 2020 Election.

Arnie Graf joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as an organizer and shares one of the stories from his recent book "Lessons Learned: Stories from a Lifetime of Organizing".