It's the Democracy, Stupid | Aug. 1, 2026

On this week's show

– Tamar Jacoby, director of the New Ukraine Project at the Progressive Policy Institute and contributor to Washington Monthly; her most recent article is “Could the Tide Be Turning Ukraine?”

– Elizabeth Jacobs, professor emerita of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a founding member of the public health advocacy group Defend Public Health

– Brian Schaneberg, executive director of the Institute for Food Safety and Health at Illinois Tech

– Ami Fields-Meyer, senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation, former senior policy adviser at the White House, and co-author (with Julia Angwin) of “On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear” (2026)

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