It's the Democracy, Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath | October 3, 2026

On this week's show

– Mark Jacob, author of the Stop the Presses newsletter on Substack, former metro editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at the Sun-Times, co-author of several books on history and photography

– Nora Benavidez, senior counsel and general director of digital justice and civil rights at the media nonprofit Free Press

– Chicago Ald. Scott Waguespack (32nd Ward)

– Will Craft, U.S. data editor for the Guardian

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