‘Speed Kills’ with Maggie Haberman and Addisu Demissie
Amanda brings Battleground fans a very special series finale, featuring guest co-host Addisu Demissie and a conversation with Maggie Haberma...
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Battleground with Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir
Battleground brings you inside the fight for political power.Hosts Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir aren't your typical pundits – in fact, they're not pundits at all. They're doing the work day...
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Digging in the Dirt with David Brock
“In conservative media, there’s an incentive to put out misinformation, and to essentially lie.” David Brock, founder of Media Matters — a r...
Secret Contracts and Slow-Moving Coups with Luppe B. Luppen
Amanda’s Twitter fav, Luppe B. Luppen — also known as @nycsouthpaw — joins "Battleground" to analyze some of the biggest stories in politics...
TX Republicans are Cavemen Living on Borrowed Time with Julián Castro
Julián Castro, former Mayor of San Antonio and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for the Obama administration, joins the show this...
To Reach Young Voters, Try Giving a Sh*t with Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez
More than half of Americans are under the age of 40, and according to Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, President and Executive Director of NextGen...
Follow the Money with Judd Legum of Popular Information
Judd Legum, author of the progressive newsletter, Popular Information, and former founder of ThinkProgress, can tell you with certainty that...
Hacking the Democratic Primaries with Maurice Mitchell
Third parties are famous for siphoning off votes from the major parties and ruining elections. While this phenomenon, known as the spoiler e...
QAnon: Coming to a School Board Near You with Mike Rothschild
America’s lack of media literacy and historical affinity for conspiracy theories have allowed QAnon to move from the dark corners of the web...
The Tyranny of Merit with Michael Sandel
The American dream disappeared generations ago, but we still operate under the myth that ascending the socio-economic ladder is simply a mat...
ICYMI
We're taking a break this week at Battleground, and will be back on September 9 with a new episode. Amanda's got some thoughts on how you ca...
‘You Can’t Out-Organize a Gerrymander’ with David Daley
In 2014, Republicans won around 4.3 million more votes in House contests than Democrats, which netted them 247 congressional seats. In 2020,...
Why the Market Can’t Solve Our Care Crisis with Ai-jen Poo
It doesn’t matter to Ai-jen Poo whether you call it ‘care infrastructure,’ or something else, as long as it gets funded properly. With Baby...
Voting is Not a Constitutional Right with Jessica Huseman
If Americans voted the way the Founders intended, most of us wouldn’t get to vote. Amanda talks to Jessica Huseman, the editorial director o...
Why You Shouldn’t Run Elections on Windows 7 with Tiana Epps-Johnson
Last year, roughly 8000 election departments across the country pulled off the near-impossible task of holding safe and secure elections in...
How to Undo GOP Control of the Courts with Brian Fallon
It’s no surprise that the Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority: progressive legal elites have been telling Democrats for decades th...
Why ‘No Climate, No Deal’ Makes Sense with Jamal Raad
ExxonMobil, and other major polluters like it, would love for you to feel like your personal choices are what will make or break this climat...
How to Spend Ad $$ with Danielle Butterfield of Priorities USA
Campaigns spent $8.5 BILLION on political advertising in the 2020 election cycle. That may seem astonishing, excessive, or even absurd, but...
Anti-CRT is the New Tea Party with Tyler Kingkade
Americans are being treated to a new and improved version of last decade’s infamous Tea Party movement. It’s another astroturfed moral panic...
Introducing: The Recount Daily Pod
Every morning on The Recount Daily Pod, host journalist Reena Ninan will break down the most important news of the day, both domestically an...
'Should the Dems Pick a Fight?' with Michelle Goldberg
Amanda and Faiz are joined by Michelle Goldberg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. The three of them rate the...