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Crooked Minis

Summary: Crooked Minis takes a step back from the chaotic breaking news to offer a new series every month that explores an issue or event that reflects cultural, political, or societal changes in America and need more than a 10-minute conversation and a split-second news cycle to unpack.

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Podcasts:

 What Would Happen If We #AbolishICE? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2828

Julissa Arce is joined by UCLA Law professor Hiroshi Motomura to discuss the origins of ICE, the role it plays in government and whether the movement to abolish ICE is possible. You can read more of Motomura's work in Americans in Waiting and Immigration Outside the Law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 What if your local post office doubled as your bank? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2425

Crooked Contributor Symone Sanders talks to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand about how postal banks can protect people from predatory lenders, what the Supreme Court Justice decision will mean for maternal health and what the immigration detention centers at the border are like.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 Are unions still relevant? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2189

A conversation between host of Majority 54 Jason Kander and Richard Trumka, the president of AFL-CIO, about the importance of unions and how collective action has increased over the past couple years to help working people.​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 What does it mean to call America home? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2460

Julissa Arce is joined by poet and activist Yosimar Reyes to discuss what it means to be undocumented and American on the 4th of July. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 Why should we care about non-unanimous jury verdicts? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1746

Pod Save the People host DeRay Mckesson talks to Oregon Representative Jennifer Williamson about non-unanimous jury verdicts and what’s flawed in our judicial system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 Can a photo make us care about climate change? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3317

Crooked Contributor Julissa Arce talks to National Geographic photographer Cristina Mittermeier about the role of art in conservation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 Wanna listen to part of Dan's new book? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2859

Pod Save America co-host Dan Pfeiffer reads an excerpt of his new book "Yes, We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump" out on June 19th and chats with Jon Lovett about the writing process and his favorite moments in the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 Can Donald Trump be impeached? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2955

Crooked.com Editor in Chief Brian Beutler talks to Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe, co-author of To End a Presidency about constitutional law, the history of impeachment, and whether Republicans have made themselves immune from it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 Will psychology save us? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3088

Jon Lovett talks to Adam Grant, a behavioral psychologist and host of the podcast WorkLife from TED, about how psychology can help us fight groupthink, reach voters, and get politicians to actually agree on policy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 What happens after the protest? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3039

Crooked Contributor Julissa Arce talks to founder of IssueVoter Maria Yuan and co-creator of the Occupy Wall Street protests Micah White about what constituents can do after protests to make lasting change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 What do millennials think about politics? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2028

Crooked Contributor Symone Sanders talks to Harvard’s Director of Polling John Della Volpe and Student Chair Teddy Landis about what the polls tell us about voter participation, gun reform, #metoo, immigration and other key issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 Can RBG do more pushups than you? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2044

Crooked Contributor Erin Ryan talks to Betsy West and Julie Cohen, co-directors of RBG, a new documentary that profiles the life of the great Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 How do you do a late night show in the Trump-era? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1928

Host of Pod Save The People DeRay Mckesson talks to Robin Thede, host of The Rundown on BET, about how late-night has changed since Trump became president.​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 Why are Republicans beating Democrats at the Internet? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1574

Crooked Contributor Symone Sanders talks to Guy Cecil, chairman of Priorities USA, about how Democratic super pacs are investing in digital ads and pulling out of TV, as well as what this means for the midterms in advance of 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

 Can we have medicare for all? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2218

Pod Save America co-host Jon Favreau talks to Andy Slavitt, the board chairman of the United States of Care, and Adam Gaffney, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and secretary of the advocacy organization Physicians for a National Health Program about what it will take to get medicare for all and what factors need to be considered to get to single payer.​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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