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Town Hall Seattle Civics Series, 100 episodes.

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426. Francine Berman with Sabina Nawaz: Better Tech: Putting People First in Cyberspace

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425. Sonali Kolhatkar with Josefina Mora-Cheung: Breaking ICE – The Frontline of Community Resistance

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424. Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor with Mayor Katie Wilson: End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World

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423. Gerard Ryle with Jas Randhawa: How the Panama Papers Changed the World

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422. Leah C. Stokes with David Roberts: The Carbon Wave: Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet

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421. Rashad Robinson with Angela Rye: From Presence to Power

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420. Ben Wikler with Governor Jay Inslee: This Is The Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy

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419. Cole LeFavour: A Memoir of Land, Love, and Queer Resistance in Red America

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418. Barbara McQuade with Debora Juarez: Preserving Our Democracy

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417. Peter Beinart with Smadar Ben-Natan: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

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416. Kimberlé Crenshaw with Angela Rye: Backtalker: An American Memoir

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415. Celebrating Bike Everywhere Month 2026: 2nd Annual Bike Month Bash

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414. Red May 2026: ICE-Age Policing presented by Town Hall Seattle and Red May

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413. Khiara M. Bridges with Dr. Karen A. Scott: Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans

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412. Speaking of Seattle: Immigrant Rights Are Human Rights: Hosted by Marcus Harrison Green with Angelina Godoy, Roxana Norouzi, Erika Evans, and Alexis Mercedes Rinck

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411. Cindy Cohn: Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age

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409. How to be a Strategic Political Donor: With former US Ambassador Suzi LeVine and Joe Nguyễn

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410. Matthew Sutton with Bill Radke: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity

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408. Emily Galvin Almanza with Michele Storms: The Price of Mercy

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407. Blue City Blues with Anne Applebaum: Resisting Authoritarianism Here and Abroad

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406. Brian Soucek: The Opinionated University

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405. Speaking of Seattle: Who Tells Seattle's Story? Local Media in a Broken News Economy: Hosted by Erica C. Barnett with Florangela Davila, Hannah Murphy Winter, and Naomi Ishisaka

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404. Evelyn Iritani with Frank Abe: Safe Passage: The Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea

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403. We Hold These Truths: A Live Broadcast of the 1941 Bill of Rights Radio Special

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402. Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Jen Barnes: Man Up: The New Misogyny

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401. Black Thoughts: An Evening With Martellus Bennett, Michael Bennett, and Jesse Hagopian

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400. Clyde W. Ford: Who's Left Out of Black History

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399. Indigenous Peoples' Day: Turning Adversaries into Tribal Allies to Save Salmon

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398. Speaking of Seattle: After the Ballot

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397. Advancing Climate Resilience with Connected Communities

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396. In the Spirit of Right and Respectful Relations: Conversations about Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being in Nature

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395. Nilanjana Dasgupta with Paula Boggs: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Impact

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394. Shannon Watts with Brooke Baldwin: Fired Up

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393. Megan Greenwell with Jay Willis: Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

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392. Anna Malaika Tubbs with Florangela Davila: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us

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391. Building a Bikeable Seattle: A Bike Everywhere Day Bash!

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390. Alec Karakatsanis with Erin Papworth: Copaganda—How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

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389. Shamichael Hallman: Meet Me at the Library — A Place to Foster Social Connection and Promote Democracy

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388. Derek Thompson with Clayton Aldern: Abundance

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387. Queering Talks: Out in Front—Radical Leadership in Queer Liberation

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386. Elie Mystal with Jay Willis - How Overturning Laws Could Help America

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385. Lessons from Ending Apartheid: How to Resolve Deep Conflict

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384. Yoni Appelbaum: Priced out of the American Dream

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383. Ron Wyden with Liz Berry: It Takes Chutzpah

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382. Chris Hayes with Luke Burbank: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

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381. Queering Talks: In Between

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380. Jesse Hagopian with Dr. Ayva Thomas and Wayne Au: Teach Truth — Unbanning Books in Public Schools

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379. Juan Williams with Enrique Cerna: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement

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378. Mariana Chilton with Agueda Pacheco Flores: Rethinking What We Know About Hunger in America

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377. Casey Michel with Katy Pearce: A Danger to Democracy

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376. Paul Pierson with Megan Ming Francis: Partisan Nation

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375. Nate Silver with Clayton Aldern: On the Edge

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374. David Orr: Reforming Democracy for a Warming World — Pathways to Thriving in a Post-Fossil Fuel Era

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373. Robert Merry: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War

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372. Sasha Abramsky: The Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America

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371. Aziz Rana with Michael Hardt and Jaleh Mansoor: The Constitutional Bind

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370. Nora Kenworthy with Marcus Harrison Green: The True Costs of Crowdfunding

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369. Natalie Foster with Angela Garbes: Freedom Within the Free Market

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368. Anna Zivarts with Barb Chamberlain and Tanisha Sepúlveda: Driving Change — Navigating Mobility for All

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367. Loretta Napoleoni with Ross Reynolds: The Rise of the New Robber Barons

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366. Michael Sheldrick with Paulin Basinga: From Ideas to Impact — Harnessing Pop Culture for Social Justice

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365. Annalee Newitz with Lindy West: Stories are Weapons

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364. Stephen Robert Miller with Marcus Harrison Green: Climate Chronicles — The Delusion of Controlling Nature

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363. Jonathan Metzl with Florangela Davila: Reframing the Conversation on Gun Control

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362. Renee DiResta: How Public Opinion Forms in a Digital Age

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361. Rachel Bitecofer: Counterpunch — Winning Democracy's Fight

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360. Juliet Hooker with Megan Ming Francis: The Politics of Loss

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359. Maxwell Stearns with Mark Smith: Transforming America's Democracy

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358. Sasha Issenberg with Austin Jenkins: The Lie Detectives

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357. Susannah Fox with Sally James: Rebel Health

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356. Dr. Rajiv Shah with Eric Liu: Charting a Course for Change

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355. Barbara McQuade with Jenny Durkan: In Search of Truth

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354. Michael J. Gerhardt: The Law of Presidential Impeachment

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353. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández: Redefining the Borders — How to Shape Inclusive and Just Immigration Practices

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352. Boldt at 50

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351. Ijeoma Oluo with Michele Storms: Be a Revolution

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350. Tamara Payne with Glenn Hare: The Life and Legacy of Malcolm X

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349. Tim Schwab with Ashley Fent: The Problem with Philanthropy

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348. Ganesh Sitaraman with Paul Constant: Why is Flying so Miserable?

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347. Betty Houchin Winfield: Pioneering Women in Academia

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346. Shaun Scott with Jesse Hagopian: A Look at Urban History through Seattle Sports

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345. Schuyler Bailar: He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

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344. Fei-Fei Li with Todd Bishop: Using AI to Empower Humans

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343. Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio with Oriona Spaulding: Investing in Inclusion

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342. Washington's Leadership in the Global Climate Movement: Setting Examples for Progressive Climate Policies

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341. Amanda Montei and Kristi Coulter with Gemma Hartley: Ambition, Women, and Work

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340. Heather Cox Richardson with Marcus Harrison Green: Notes on the State of America

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339. Michael Harriot with Marcus Harrison Green: America Unredacted

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338. Rebecca Clarren with Rena Priest: The Cost of Free Land

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337. Martin Baron with Frank Blethen A Marriage of Press and Politics

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336. Franklin Foer with Katy Sewall: Reflecting on the First Two Years of the Biden Presidency

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335. Ken Grossinger with Dr. Carmen Rojas: Beyond Aesthetic: Art as a Catalyst for Change

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334. Michael Waldman with Prof. Liz Porter: Courting Controversy

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333. Sonali Kolhatkar with Sunnivie Brydum: Media in Color

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332. Naomi Klein with Mike Davis: A Trip into the Mirror World

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331. Jocelyn Simonson with Emily Thuma: The Power of the People

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330. James Brosnahan: A Lawyer's Career Through Groundbreaking Cases

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329. Jennifer Pahlka with Tarah Wheeler: Outdated Policymaking in the Digital Age

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328. Chris Guillebeau: Finding New Pathways to Prosperity

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327. Barry Long and David Tatro with Rebecca Crichton: Disability and Aging: New Perspectives