What Keeps You Up at Night?
What Keeps You Up at Night?

What Keeps You Up at Night?

Editorial board member Lynn Schmidt will host conversations about the big issues and worries facing America — the things keeping her guests up at night. Schmidt wants to begin conversations about how we can begin solving those issues. Guests will include experts and politicians from across the country, political spectrum and generations, including presidential candidates, authors, former Congress members and more. Schmidt is a member of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board.

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We are going to be okayPutting people first when it comes to voting

Putting people first when it comes to voting

Greg Kramer, Vice President of Government Relations at Easterseals Midwest, sits down with Lynn Schmidt to help spread awareness about the challenges people with disabilities face in voting and the need for policy change.

Falling off the fiscal cliff

Falling off the fiscal cliff

Lynn Schmidt talks with G. William Hoagland from the Bipartisan Policy Center who explains why the federal deficit is out of control and no one, including the two presidential nominees, wants to address it. 

Peace, grief, consolation, and the anniversary of October 7

Peace, grief, consolation, and the anniversary of October 7

Michael Oberlander sits down with Lynn Schmidt and discusses the year since Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel, grief and the promise of consolation, and the hope for peace. 

Lucas Kunce on caring for Missourians and reinvesting in our communitiesDefending American democracy with National Security Leaders for AmericaRidding the oceans of plasticThe threats of extremism and radicalism on our national security

The threats of extremism and radicalism on our national security

 National security expert Elizabeth Neumann talks with Lynn Schmidt about the drivers of political violence and extremism and how a return to social norms might be the way to heal the nation.

Climate change and the threat of a second Trump presidency

Climate change and the threat of a second Trump presidency

Former Congresswoman Claudine Schneider (R-RI) discusses the intersection of climate change and the United State's economic prospects and why she is supporting Kamala Harris.

 

Facing the challenges of the loss of local media, part 2
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