It's the Democracy, Stupid | September 5, 2026

On this week's show

– Michael Mann, climatologist, geophysicist, and author of “Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World”

– Perla Trevizo, reporter with the ProPublica/Texas Tribune Investigative Initiative

– Gregory Royal Pratt, investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune; he is one of the Tribune reporters recently awarded, as Staff of the Chicago Tribune, the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting

– Dr. Debra Houry, senior fellow at Yale School of Public Health, adjunct professor at Emory University, former chief medical officer of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and principal at DH Leadership and Strategy Solutions, through which she is advising California on their PHNIX initiative

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