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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RSS FeedLynn Schmidt hosts a solo episode to discuss the stress that a majority of Americans are feeling in the run up to the election and shares ways in which the electorate can make it through
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.
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.
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.
Marine veteran and Democratic U.S. senatorial candidate Lucas Kunce joins Lynn Schmidt to share why he's running for the U.S. Senate, the opioid crisis, and how he would like to reinvest in Missouri communities.
Link: https://lucaskunce.com/
National security expert Major General Randy Manner shares with Lynn Schmidt the work that he and others are doing to counter growing threats to our democratic institutions, norms, and processes.
Link: https://www.nsl4a.org/
The Chief Development Officer of The Ocean Clean Up, Julian Searle, joins Lynn Schmidt to share the amazing work that The Ocean Clean Up is doing to rid the world's oceans and rivers of plastic and the challenges to funding this work.
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.
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.
Editor in Chief of The Texas Tribune, Sewell Chan, sits down with Lynn Schmidt on facing the implications of the loss of local media and moving forward in part 2 of this 2 part episode hosted my Lynn Schmidt.