Podcasts For The First 100 Days

Podcasts to add to your rotation for the first few months in Trump Land, and some of my favorite episodes of each!

Codeswitch

Episodes: “You’re a Grand Old Flag” “Black and Blue” “What’s So Funny About the Indian Accent” “The Codeswitch Guide to Handeling Casual Racism” “Who is a Good Immigrant, Anyway?” “Hold Up, Time for an Explanatory Comma” “Obama’s Legacy”

Politically Reactive

Episodes: “Roxane Gay on Anger After the Election,” “SE Cupp on Being an Anti-Trump Conservative,” “Rachel Maddow on Donald Trump, Dick Cheney, and River Monsters” “Jasiri X: Hip Hop and the Movement,” “Lindy West on Seeing Women as Real People,” “dream hampton on Black Liberation in the Hour of Chaos”

See Something Say Something

Episodes: All of em.

Another Round

Episodes: #24 Ida Bae Wells, #28 Madam Secretary, Whats’s Good? (Hillary Clinton) #29 What’s on Your Reparations Tab? (Ta-Nehisi Coates), #37 The Room Where It Happens (Valerie Jarrett), #55 #1000BlackGirlBooks (Marley Dias), #74 Have You Looked At You Today?, #75 Citizen’s Arrest #76 Vinegar & Honey, (Ambassador Susan Rice)

Political Gabfest

Episodes: “Year of Great Books” “Even Longer National Nightmare” “Should You Work for President Trump?” “Safe and Special Place” “How Bad Could 2017 Be Anyway?” “I Think We’re Gonna Be Okay”

A Show About Race

Episodes: “Fight For Your Voting Rights” “The Klans Invite to your Scandal Watch Party” “Trying to Make Sense” “The End of Identity Politics” “Thanks Obama” “Your 2017 Survival Guide” “Will You Be My Black Friend?” “Better Off”

Reveal

Episodes: “From the Detention to Detainment in Virginia” “DIY Guns?” “Assault on Justice” “Eyes on Cops” “Rape on the Night Shift” “After Orlando” “Wh’s Getting Rich Off Your Student Debt” “No Choice: Failing America’s Veterans” “Voting Rights and Wrongs” “The Secret Trump Voter”

Amicus

Episodes: “Corruption in the White House” “Let’s Salsa with Sotomayor” “Mental Illness and the Death Penalty” “Rapper’s Intent” “Notorious RBG” “And Now A Word From the White House” “Trump’s Constitution”

Still Processing

Episodes: “A Journey through the Blacksonian” “The Nudity Clause” “ Obama’s Last Cultural Statement” “The Lives They Lived” “The Kanye-Thon” “Batman vs. Joker” “Show Me the Read Receipts”

United States of Anxiety

Episodes: #3 “This Land is My Land, That Land is Your Land,” #5 “White Like Me,” #7 “This Is Your Brain on Politics” #8 “Where are we Now” CalliN Specials (all of them are great)

Popaganda

Episodes: “Bad Words” “Be An Expert” “Backtalk: Planned Parenthood” “Sex, Condoms and Abortion in Pop Culture” “Bathroom Panic” “Backtalk: bell hooks on Lemonade” “Designing for Democracy” “Invisible Prisons” “Breaking the Binary” “Navigating the Workplace Patriarchy” “Raising Feminist Kids” “10 Ways to Resist Donald Trump” “Women and Pain” “Laughing at Tyrants” “Fembots’

Placemakers

Episodes: “Self-Gentrifying the Bronx,” “The Recidivism Effect,” “Live Free or Die,” “When Good Placemakers Go Bad”

TED Radio Hour

Episodes: “The Money Paradox,” “Believers and Doubters,” “What we Fear,” “Why We Collaborate,” “Disruptive Leadership,” “The Next Greatest Generation?”

On Being with Krista Tippett

Episodes: “John Lewis — The Art and Discipline of Nonviolence” “Brene Brown: The Courage to be Vulnerable”

The Ezra Klein Show

Episodes: “How Lobbying Works, with super-lobbyist Tony Podesta,” “Cory Booker on the Spiritual Dimension of Politics,” “Ben Thompson on How to Make it In Media” “Jessica Valenti on Honesty, Internet Trolls, and Modern Feminism” “Malcolm Gladwell on the Danger of Joining Consensus Opinions” “Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committee has become the Democratic Presidential Committee and that needs to end” “Deborah Tannen on Gendered Speech”