Good Trouble

Good Trouble

Conversations with organizers, movement-builders, and engineers and imaginers of change.

Episodes

July 21, 2025 38 mins

Joan Williams on the Left and the working class.

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The country can't, says economist Mark Blyth. And the Democrats can't.  

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June 25, 2025 37 mins

Heather McGhee on the challenge of building a multi-racial democracy when powerful interests are determined to prevent it.

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June 17, 2025 27 mins

Democrats, that is. Brian Beutler looks under the hood of their rhetoric machine, and imagines a better model. 

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June 10, 2025 20 mins

Something too many Democrats, progressives and Resistors have in common: we talk fancy. Harold Meyerson has some language tips for us.

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May 29, 2025 34 mins

Part two of a conversation with Arlie Russell Hochschild about the “deep story” that animates a large segment of the Trump base.

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May 19, 2025 21 mins

Jonathan Rauch makes the case for corruption as the central theme of the Trump resistance.

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May 9, 2025 37 mins

The courts and the polls have said no to racial preferences. Richard Kahlenberg sees this as good news for Democrats, progressives and the cause of racial justice.

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May 3, 2025 29 mins

Arlie Russell Hochschild has spent a stretch of her recent life in the reddest parts of two of America's reddest states. She helps us understand how people come to vote for Donald Trump without necessarily admiring him. And how we can begin to reach them with a better message.

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April 25, 2025 26 mins

Robert Kuttner explores the economics and politics of Trump's attempt to drag us into a trade war.

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April 18, 2025 27 mins

They’ve had a large hand in causing some of America's worst problems. And the world's worst problems, too. Chuck Collins connects some of those dots.

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April 9, 2025 25 mins

George Lakey has been getting arrested for six decades. He's got tales to tell. And tips to offer.

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April 3, 2025 46 mins

Kim Lane Scheppele dissects the plan that Victor Orban passed on to Donald Trump.

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March 26, 2025 28 mins

Mike Tidwell, founder of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, built an army of climate activists by enlisting his neighbors in a novel project: saving oak trees from invasive vines.

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March 19, 2025 20 mins

Under a newly-enacted New York State law, the fossil fuel industry will have to put billions of dollars a year into a fund to help the state's residents, communities and businesses deal with climate change. Michael Richardson retraces the journey to passage of this landmark legislation.

 

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March 11, 2025 21 mins

Dana Fisher looks inside the climate movement’s emergency toolbox.

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March 5, 2025 32 mins

 We hang out with Ivan Marovic, who knows a thing or two about toppling dictators.

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