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Interviews

Searching for Truth in Crisis: A Conversation with Vice’s Isobel Yeung

Hadley CopelandDecember 1, 2020March 18, 2021

“I think there will always be a need for finding out the truth, and now more so than ever.”

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Mr. Scaramucci Goes to Washington: An Interview with President Trump’s Former Communications Director

Timothy HanNovember 10, 2020November 13, 2020

“I got an 11-day PhD in Washington scumbaggery. I have a better idea of how these people operate now, and what they’re really all about, and how they really don’t give a shit about the American people.”

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Strength of a City: A Conversation with Mayor John Tory

Paul RotmanNovember 7, 2020November 7, 2020

“Run 100 miles an hour the other way from the kind of bitterness, polarization and division that we see happening in many places of the world”

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Back on Track: A Conversation with Gina Ortiz Jones

Andrew BellahSeptember 4, 2020September 4, 2020

I’ve seen what happens when good people don’t stand up in the face of tyranny. I had to ask myself, am I going to be part of the problem, or part of the solution?

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Art and Civic Duty: A Conversation with José Darío Gutierrez

Pablo Trujillo ÁlvarezAugust 23, 2020November 28, 2024

The great challenge is to fully recognize the value of the other. If I don’t recognize the value of the other, I will never be part of the solution, I will always be part of the problem.

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Creating a New Southern Strategy—A Conversation with Charles Booker

Zahra YaraliAugust 18, 2020August 18, 2020

I just believe we have to invest in people directly—tangibly—so that they, we, the people, can have the tools to do what we do. We are the creators, we are the dreamers, we are the innovators, we do the work.

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Community First: A Conversation with Candace Valenzuela

Andrew BellahMay 24, 2020May 24, 2020

Running for Congress is not something for the faint of heart, I always thought that I’d never have the ego to run for Congress. But then I realized, while I don’t have that kind of self-interest, I do have the urgency of the families in my district, and that’s why I’m doing this.

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Responsibility, Democracy, Identity: A Conversation with Stacey Abrams

Maayan SchoenApril 21, 2020April 21, 2020

My fundamental belief is that people don’t care about your party. They care about their lives. That means finding ways to work together where we can, opposing bad ideas where you should, and offering alternative ideas wherever possible.

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