Talking Politics Podcast
GBHTalking Politics Podcast
Talking Politics, GBH’s new politics podcast, is the spiritual heir to The Scrum and the audio version of a program that’s viewable Fridays at 7 on GBH Channel 2 and online at youtube.com/gbhnews. It’s hosted by Adam Reilly and features the other members of GBH News’ political team — Saraya Wintersmith, Mike Deehan, and Peter Kadzis — and an ever-expanding array of guests. If you’d like to suggest a topic, or to tell us what’s working and what isn’t, please drop us a line! You can email us at talkingpolitics@wgbh.org or find us at gbhnews.org/talkingpolitics.
2021 GBH Educational Foundation
Talking Politics, GBH’s new politics podcast, is the spiritual heir to The Scrum and the audio version of a program that’s viewable Fridays at 7 on GBH Channel 2 and online at youtube.com/gbhnews. It’s hosted by Adam Reilly and features the other members of GBH News’ political team — Saraya Wintersmith, Mike Deehan, and Peter Kadzis — and an ever-expanding array of guests. If you’d like to suggest a topic, or to tell us what’s working and what isn’t, please drop us a line! You can email us at talkingpolitics@wgbh.org or find us at gbhnews.org/talkingpolitics.
2021 GBH Educational Foundation
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Plus, budget season begins in earnest at the State House and City Hall.
Plus, a long-running push to let unauthorized immigrants nears fruition.
Plus, what Beacon Hill could be doing — but isn't — to tackle Massachusetts' affordable-housing crisis.
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A trio of timely topics for your consideration.
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Two are all in, but one's playing it coy.
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One Week Down, Four Years To Go: Mass. Politics In Trump's America
Trump And The Press: Reality Bites Trump, Trump Bites Back
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Andrew Bacevich: Deconstructing Trump's Military 'Bromance'
Breaking Down Baker's Budget Cuts
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Adam Reilly was joined by Andy Metzger from the State House News Service, Mike Deehan from WGBH, and Lauren Dezenski from Politico speculated on possible Democratic candidates for governor in 2018 and if Newton Mayor Setti Warren will run.
Adam Reilly and Peter Kadzis joined a panel of guests including former national poet laureate Robert Pinsky and the editor of The Editorial Heidi Legg for a conversation at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge about what happens now after Trump's election.
Will Brass Knuckles Ever Return To Beacon Hill?
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A Debate On Ballot 4 At The Boston Public Library
A Debate On Charter Schools Live From The BPL
The Great Debate: a conflicted conservative agonizes over Trump
Adam and Peter talk to Occupy Alums State Rep. elect for Sommerville and Cambridge Mike Connolly and Cambridge City Councilor Nadeem Mazen about the influence of Occupy's ideals on local politics.
Adam and Peter are joined by Dan Kennedy to discuss his article, "Five Reasons Why The Media Is Piling On Clinton And Giving Trump A Pass," and if the media is to blame for Trump's meteoric rise.
Democratic strategist John Walsh and UMass Boston political science chair Erin O'Brien join Adam and Peter to talk about if a strong Democratic candidate could push Charlie Baker out of office.
Adam Reilly interviews Nadia Alawa from NuDay Syria about Syrian refugees, Trump's plans for extreme vetting, and how she thinks the President should intervene. Then Adam is joined by Peter Kadzis and David Bernstein for a Scrum roundtable.
Sean Wilentz, a professor of American history at Princeton, talks to Peter Kadzis about the legacy of three Boston politicians who made it to the Oval Office: John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, and John F. Kennedy.
Adam Reilly hosted a live Scrum on the state of the MBTA and the green line extension at the Brass Union in Somerville
Adam Reilly, Peter Kadzis, and The Boston Globe's Joan Vennochi discuss the growing problems at the Boston Latin School and how Mayor Walsh has been handling the situation.
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Princeton historian Sean Wilentz and writer of "The Politicians & The Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics," discusses the inevitability and history of party politics.
The Vice President of IBEW local 2222 Kevin Holland and CWA Local 1400 executive board member and Vice President for Southeastern Mass. Greg Irving joined Adam to talk about the Verizon strike.
Marty Walsh and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week and a Half
The Highly Debatable Issue Of Legalized Marijuana
There's a big Massachusetts Senate election coming up in less than a week, #mapoli fans. The Scrum asked all seven candidates to come in for a sort of political speed-dating session.
Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson joined reporter Adam Reilly and WGBHNews.org Senior Editor Peter Kadzis to discuss proposed cuts to the school budget, the extension of the BRA’s redevelopment powers, and whether or not he’d ever consider challenging Mayor Marty Walsh for his seat.
Peter Kadzis and Adam Reilly of WGBH News took in this year's breakfast at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center--then sized up the proceedings as they were winding down, along with Lauren Dezenski of Politico Massachusetts and Gintautaus Dumcius of MassLive.com and the Springfield Republican.
Donald Trump: The Next Berlusconi?
The Brothers Bernstein—Scrum co-founder David and his brother, Bloomberg View pundit and political scientist Jonathan—joined WGBH News regulars Adam Reilly and Peter Kadzis to consider the state of the 2016 Election.
McKay Coppins, senior political writer at Buzzfeed News, weighs in on the Republican race for the presidential nomination (and explains what it's like to get in a flame war with Donald Trump.)
He wears a boot on his head, once dumped glitter on an opponent during a debate, and wants to fund time travel research so he can go back and kill Baby Hitler. His name is Vermin Supreme, and he wants your vote in 2016.
Our crack roundtable (or scrumtable, if you will) tackles some of the biggest headlines in #mapoli and beyond.
INSTASCRUM: Sizing up this year's #MartyParty
Reporter Adam Reilly and WGBHNews.org Senior Editor Peter Kadzis sat down with Michelle Wu, the first Asian-American Boston City Council President.
It's not easy being green—just as Governor Charlie Baker. This week, The Scrum takes a look at his renewable energy plans.
Our usual order of business around here at The Scrum is to ask #mapoli a lot of questions. But this week, we kept is simple: what's on your holiday wish list this year?
The move by the Tufts Medical School faculty—full-time, tenured doctors and researchers, not part-time adjuncts—to unionize and affiliate with the S.E.I.U. could open a new chapter in the history of organized labor. And it's happening in our own backyard.
Here we are again: wrestling with the aftermath of a mass shooting in the United States. Adam Reilly, Peter Kadzis, and David Bernstein look at how policymakers struggle to respond, time and time again.
The Scrum sits down with Juliette Kayyem, host of the Security Mom podcast, and veteran foreign correspondent Charlie Sennott, head of The GroundTruth Project, to go beyond the headlines of the Paris attacks. Plus, Peter Kadzis and Adam Reilly analyze Governor Charlie Baker's stance on Syrian refugees.
Reporter Adam Reilly sits down with Mark Perrone, the CEO of Grand Prix of Boston, about bringing a largescale sporting event to Boston in the wake of Boston 2024’s failed Olympic bid.
The world of Massachusetts politics can be a little Boston-centric. Adam Reilly and Peter Kadzis sat down with Senate President Stan Rosenberb—who represents a few of the state's western districts—to talk about what folks around here get wrong about the Wild West.
The Scrum goes on a road trip to visit Joe McQuaid, the legendary editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader—a newspaper that has a particularly strong influence over the presidential primary season.
To many, Evan Falchuk was the posterchild of the anti-Olympics movement in Massachusetts. Now that the bid is dead, what's next for Falchuk and his political party, the United Independent Party?
Has the gun control debate in Washington turned Congressman Seth Moulton from idealist to cynic? David Bernstein, Peter Kadzis, and Adam Reilly of WGBH News caught up and took stock of the Bay State's movers and shakers in D.C.
Is Marty Walsh Already Boston's Mayor For Life?
Boston's preliminary city council elections were pretty quiet...except in District 4. Callie Crossley, host of Under the Radar, and Valerie Linson, executive producer of Basic Black and Open Studio, explain political newcomer Andrea Joy Campbell's surprise defeat of incumbent Charles Yancey.
Trump’s still in full swing, Clinton’s under fire, and Biden might jump in. Let Peter Kadzis be your guide through the presidential race’s summer of disruption. Featuring pollster David Paleologos of Suffolk University, Joan Vennochi of The Boston Globe, and Politico’s Ben Schreckinger.
Reporter Adam Reilly sat down with Pete Stidman, the outgoing leader of the Boston Cyclists Union, to talk about the politics of getting around on two wheels in the city.
Peter Kadzis and Adam Reilly sit down over doughnuts to debrief last night's GOP debate. Which candidate should get to graduate from the children's table? Which one revealed himself to have the intellectual heft of an empty pair of underpants?
#NachoScrum: The Olympics Postmortem
The Scrum sits down with Massachusetts AFL-CIO president Steve Tolman to talk about the Pacheco Law and the MBTA, the Olympics, and how to meet the love of your life on the commuter rail.
This week, The Scrum has Olympics fatigue. So host Peter Kadzis turns his eye to the national scene, and asks David Bernstein and WGBH contributor Mara Dolan: how on Earth are Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump doing so well in the polls in New Hampshire right now?
The Scrum gets booted from the Boston Public Library when Adam Reilly, Peter Kadzis, and The Boston Globe's Joan Vennochi try to discuss the dysfunction plaguing the institution in the Central Branch's courtyard.
The Scrum marvels at the remarkable civility in the State House over the proposed MBTA fiscal control board, and chats with Congressman Seth Moulton about his first few months on the job.
PEOPLE v. TSARNAEV: The Exit Interview
(Still) Ready for Warren?
Covering The Tsarnaev Trial
Are the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries too rural, too white, too unrepresentative? The Scrum's Peter Kadzis checked in with two reporters with boots on the ground in the primary states- Des Moines Register politics reporter Jennifer Jacobs and the Boston Globe's James Pindell.
Bostonians In Exile
"Sing And Shut Up"
How do you fight a fight that seems... unwinnable? The Scrum headed to City Hall this week to talk with two fighting the Boston 2024 power: Chris Dempsey and Kelley Gossett of No Boston Olympics.
Charlie Baker's Brain: A User's Guide
The Politics of Snowstorms
Media, politics & the ties that bind Bill and Linda Dorcena Forry. Each week on The Scrum we talk about media and politics, and this week we're talking with a Boston couple who have their feet in both worlds.
On the day Deval Patrick takes the "lone walk" out of the State House, The Scrum podcast gives Patrick his final report card and reflects on new Governor Charlie Baker's taste in music.
We turned The Scrum over to the musically-inclined reporter/producer/composer Edgar B Herwick III this week for a Scrum remix we call 'Scrum-Pa-Pum-Pum'. Happy holidays!
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For a while it seemed like Democratic political strategist Doug Rubin had the political Midas touch. The Scrum spoke with the Mass. Democrats' go-to guy about reversals of political fortune.
Boston Globe reporters Jim O'Sullivan and Frank Phillips on how gatekeepers decide who and what to keep behind the gates, how they manage spin from the campaigns, and what the media hit and missed during the hotly contested 2014 campaigns.
Former Mass. Senator Mo Cowan dishes on Mitch McConnell's M.O., what Charlie Baker learned from Deval Patrick, and why he's not ruling out a return to public life.
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"I Get No Respect"
Jane Swift on Romney, the Tea Party & the 3 H's
Former Mass. gubernatorial candidate Shannon O'Brien dishes to the Scrum about just how taxing running for governor is; what Baker has that Romney lacked; and what Coakley has to do (and shouldn't do) to become the first female governor of Massachusetts.
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The Scrum goes to the Democrats' post-primary "unity breakfast". Our first impromptu political guest Juliette Kayyem stops by and drops some "goddamn" knowledge.
The Scrum gazed into the crystal ball this week with blogger Rob Eno, publisher of Red Mass Group.
Barney Frank Joins The Scrum Podcast
Is banning the video of James Foley's execution on Twitter a mistake? Has President Obama's response to unrest in Ferguson been effective?
The Scrum raps with Democratic attorney general Warren Tolman about his bid to become the state's top law-enforcement officer.
Field Trip: Market Basket
Why did Boston Mayor Marty Walsh go on a live radio show and defend former probation department chief John O’Brien? Plus Ted Landsmark and the BRA, and let the gubernatorial mudslinging begin: Steve Grossman's growing super PAC presence.
Healey discussed a host of topics, from how she'd target State House corruption if elected to whether current AG Martha Coakley is being aggressive enough in negotiations with Partners Healthcare. Also, casinos, gun control, and Market Basket.
Massachusetts GOP chair Kirsten Hughes on why she thinks the Probation dept. trial will help Republicans--and why the furor over the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision won't hurt GOP frontrunner Charlie Baker.
The O'Brien probation trial finally gets interesting, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh cuts a casino deal, and the Supreme Rally for Women's Equality. In this episode: David Bernstein, Peter Kadzis, Adam Reilly, Joanna Weiss.
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Casino Ballot Question Insta-Scrum
The Mass. 'Demvention'
Introducing The Scrum Podcast
Are Massachusetts politics as great as we like to think?
May 8, 202227min 30sec
The idea that Massachusetts politics are exceptional dates back at least to John Winthrop's description of the young Massachusetts Bay colony as a "city on a hill." But while things are certainly different here, that doesn't necessarily mean they're better. Erin O'Brian and Jerold Duquette, the editors of "The Politics of Massachusetts Exceptionalism: Reputation Meets Reality," join Adam Reilly to deconstruct our lofty sense of self. Also, Democratic AG candidate Quentin Palfrey discusses his campaign and push to keep outside money out of that race. We'd like your feedback! Email us at talkingpolitics@wgbh.org--and while you're at it, subscribe to the GBH Politics newsletter at gbhnews.org/politicsnewsletter.