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Blue City Blues — 63 episodes
Michael Powell Pt. 2: "The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs"
Michael Powell on Mamdani, Anti-Zionism, and the New Socialism
Is the DSA a Threat to the Democratic Party (with Jake Altman)?
Jonathan Weber on the Good, the Bad and the Ugly about How Tech Remade San Francisco
Jamie Paul on the Memory-Holing of the Excesses of Woke
Maia Szalavitz Makes the Case for Harm Reduction Policies in Blue Cities
Mike Madrid on the Establishment vs. Populist Throwdown in the LA Mayor’s Race
Sherman Alexie: An Ode to the White Urban Working Class
Nancy Rommelmann on How Portland Traumatized Itself
The Death of the Gatekeeper: Adam Penenberg on Traditional Journalism's Identity Crisis
John Roderick on the Decline – and Comeback? – of Urban Cool
Preview: Why Is David Rieff a Cultural Pessimist about Blue America?
Democracy Dies in Ineffectiveness with Richard Pildes
In Praise of “Solid B" Cities with Halina Bennet
Three Blue City Mayors Innovating on Drug Policy with Keith Humphreys
Do Public Sector Unions Wield Too Much Power in Blue Cities?
Eboo Patel Says Blue America Needs to Rethink How We Do Diversity
A Dem Socialist Insurgency in Los Angeles?
John Judis Has Advice for Young Leftist Mayors in Blue Cities like New York and Seattle
Why Does William Deresiewicz Believe the Culture of Elite Universities Elected Trump?
Anne Applebaum (Live) on Resisting Authoritarianism Here and Abroad
Ruy Teixeira on the Democrats’ Cultural Cosmopolitanism Problem
Best of BCB: Why Is San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan Breaking So Many Eggs?
Best Of BCB: Freddie deBoer on Why Blue City Progressives Need to Get Real on Involuntary Commitment
Tricia Romano on the Village Voice, Alt Journalism, and the Rise of New York City’s Countercultures
Neil Gong on How Class Dynamics Shape Our Approach to the Mentally Ill on the Streets of Los Angeles
Best of BCB: Sherman Alexie Talks “Monsters,” “Colonizers” and the Urban Left's “Minor League Maoism”
Kelsey Piper on the Shameful Truth that Mississippi Beats Blue Cities on Educational Equity
Emily Hoeven on Whether San Francisco's Backlash Mayor Is Making Things Better
How a Broken Foster Care System Fuels Crime, Homelessness and the Addiction Crisis in Blue Cities
What Makes a Great City?
Danny Westneat on Why Seattle Can’t Seem to Solve Its Problems
Nick Gillespie on Whether Socialism Is the Future of Blue Cities
Can Blue Urban America Find Common Ground with Trump on Homelessness?
Blue City Crime: What Both Sides Get Wrong According to Criminologist David Kennedy
Hard Hats and Blue Cities: David Paul Kuhn on the Roots of the Working Class Revolt
Whitney Tilson on Why Kids in Blue City School Districts Are Being Left Behind
Has Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Cracked the Code on Progressive Governance in Blue Cities?
Did Blue City America Get Covid Wrong, Too?
Nicole Gelinas: Blue City Lessons from NYC’s 100 Years' War Between Cars and Transit
Dispatch from an Urban Drug Market
What’s the Matter with Chicago?
Trump Just Defunded Public Media. Did NPR Help Bring This Disaster on Itself?
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on What Urbanites Get Wrong about Rural America
Celinda Lake on What NYC’s Political Earthquake Means for the Politics of Blue Cities
Sherman Alexie: A Res Indian Take on Monsters, Colonizers and the Urban Left's “Minor League Maoism”
Katie Herzog on What the Decline and Fall of Twitter Means for Blue Cities
Is Abundance the Answer to What Ails Blue Cities?
Defund/Abolition Is Dead in Blue Cities. What now?
Why Does Progressive Megadonor Nick Hanauer Blame Blue Cities’ Woes on … Barack Obama?
Why is San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan Breaking So Many Eggs?
NYT’s Peter Goodman on Tariffs, Trade Wars and the New Crony Capitalism
Dan Savage: How Blue Cities Should Resist Trump 2.0
The Inside Story on How Tech Billionaires Sparked San Francisco’s Moderate Backlash
Mike Pesca: Is Blue City Media Up to the Challenge of Covering Trump 2.0?
Has the American Labor Movement Lost Touch with the Urban Working Class?
Keith Humphreys: Why Drug Reform Failed In West Coast Blue Cities
Why Does Rep. Adam Smith Believe Blue Cities Contributed to Trump’s Win?
Freddie deBoer: Blue Cities Progressives Need to Get Real on Involuntary Commitment
Why Didn't Blue Cities Going Woke Help the Marginalized?
Will Trump’s win make the rocky marriage between big tech and big blue cities even worse?
Was the "insufferable left" to blame for Trump's big gains in blue cities?
Dan Savage on Trumpism and the future of blue cities