Heartland Politics with Robin Johnson

Jan 16 2025 20 ep. 29 mins 4
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Heartland Politics with Robin Johnson is a political podcast discussing current issues we face as a country featuring interviews with senators, congressmen, governors, and other political elite.

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Bottom-up, Flexible Approach Needed for Revitalizing Left Behind Areas

Jan 16 2025 29 mins  
Paul Collier, renowned development economist and author of Left Behind:A New Economics for Neglected Places

How Democrats Lost the Working Class

Jan 10 2025 29 mins  
Jonathan Weisman, an economics and labor policy reporter for the NewYork Times, discusses a recent article he wrote on how the slippage ofworking class support for Democrats predated Trump

America's Agricultural Crisis as Told Through the History of One Midwestern Farm

Jan 03 2025 29 mins  
Brian Reisinger talks about his book, Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer.

Ruth Harkin's New Book Opens Window to Husband's Political Life But Also Her Remarkable Career

Dec 27 2024 29 mins  
Ruth Harkin discusses her new book, When My Husband Ran for President and Other Short Stories

Were the Placid 1990s The Beginning of our Political and Cultural Discord?

Dec 20 2024 29 mins  
John Ganz discusses his book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

Back to the Future: How the Constitution Can Help Repair Our Partisan Divide

Dec 12 2024 29 mins  
Yuval Levin, director of social, cultural and constitutional studies atthe American Enterprise Institute and former domestic policy advisor toPresident George W. Bush, discusses his new book, American Covenant: Howthe Constitution Unified Our Nation--And Could Again.

New Bio Chronicles Rise of Glenn Poshard from Deep Poverty in southern Illinois to Congress and SIU President

Dec 05 2024 29 mins  
Glenn Poshard discusses his book, Son of Southern Illinois: GlennPoshard's Life in Politics and Education

Meet the Independent Candidate for US Senate in Nebraska Who Almost Pulled Off the Upset of the Year

Nov 29 2024 29 mins  
Dan Osborn, a local union president, mechanic, and Navy veteran, talks about the strike that launched his populist campaign against corporate greed and government corruption, his platform that straddled the two major parties, his appeal and working class and rural voters, and his new PAC designed to elect working class candidates.

New Book on Mayor Daley Offers Timely Lessons on Making Government Work

Nov 20 2024 29 mins  
Forrest Claypool, discusses his new book, The Daley Show: Inside theTransformative Reign of Chicago's Richard M. Daley

Partisan Divide Reflects Decades of Loss in Working Class USA

Nov 14 2024 29 mins  
Michael Kruse, senior staff writer at Politico, talks about a recent article he wrote focusing on how politics severed a relationship between two brothers