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Mike Madrid on the Establishment vs. Populist Throwdown in the LA Mayor’s Race
Jun 9, 2026
58m 00s
Sherman Alexie: An Ode to the White Urban Working Class
Jun 4, 2026
1h 20m 15s
Nancy Rommelmann on How Portland Traumatized Itself
May 25, 2026
58m 49s
The Death of the Gatekeeper: Adam Penenberg on Traditional Journalism's Identity Crisis
May 14, 2026
1h 05m 20s
John Roderick on the Decline – and Comeback? – of Urban Cool
May 7, 2026
54m 25s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/9/26 | Mike Madrid on the Establishment vs. Populist Throwdown in the LA Mayor’s Race✨ | Los Angeles mayoral primarypolitical dynamics+3 | Mike Madrid | Los Angeles | — | Los Angelesmayoral race+6 | — | 58m 00s | |
| 6/4/26 | Sherman Alexie: An Ode to the White Urban Working Class✨ | white working classurban America+4 | — | — | — | white working classurban culture+5 | — | 1h 20m 15s | |
| 5/25/26 | Nancy Rommelmann on How Portland Traumatized Itself✨ | Portlandurban transformation+4 | Nancy Rommelmann | New York Times | PortlandOregon | PortlandNancy Rommelmann+5 | — | 58m 49s | |
| 5/14/26 | The Death of the Gatekeeper: Adam Penenberg on Traditional Journalism's Identity Crisis✨ | traditional journalismmedia trust+3 | Adam Penenberg | New York UniversityThe New York Times | — | journalismmedia+5 | — | 1h 05m 20s | |
| 5/7/26 | John Roderick on the Decline – and Comeback? – of Urban Cool✨ | urban culturegentrification+3 | John Roderick | The Long WintersOmnibus+1 | — | urban coolgentrification+3 | — | 54m 25s | |
| 4/28/26 | Preview: Why Is David Rieff a Cultural Pessimist about Blue America?✨ | cultural pessimismBlue America+3 | David Rieff | The Triumph of the TherapeuticDesire | — | David Rieffcultural pessimist+3 | — | 8m 00s | |
| 4/16/26 | Democracy Dies in Ineffectiveness with Richard Pildes✨ | governanceliberal democracy+3 | Richard Pildes | NYUGuggenheim+1 | — | effective governanceliberal democracy+3 | — | 57m 08s | |
| 4/8/26 | In Praise of “Solid B" Cities with Halina Bennet✨ | urban powerhousesrural heartland+3 | Halina Bennet | — | New YorkSan Francisco+5 | solid B citiesurban vs rural+3 | — | 47m 24s | |
| 3/31/26 | Three Blue City Mayors Innovating on Drug Policy with Keith Humphreys✨ | drug policyaddiction+3 | Keith Humphreys | StanfordObama White House+2 | — | drug policyaddiction+3 | — | 46m 52s | |
| 3/24/26 | Do Public Sector Unions Wield Too Much Power in Blue Cities?✨ | public sector unionspolitical influence+3 | Nicholas BagleyRobert Gordon | Biden White House | — | public sector unionspolitics+3 | — | 55m 51s | |
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| 3/20/26 | Eboo Patel Says Blue America Needs to Rethink How We Do Diversity✨ | diversitypluralism+4 | Eboo Patel | Interfaith America | AmericaChicago | Eboo Pateldiversity+6 | — | 56m 34s | |
| 3/14/26 | A Dem Socialist Insurgency in Los Angeles?✨ | socialismpolitics+4 | — | Venceremos BrigadeCongressional Black Caucus | Los Angeles | Karen BassLos Angeles mayor+5 | — | 47m 33s | |
| 3/7/26 | John Judis Has Advice for Young Leftist Mayors in Blue Cities like New York and Seattle✨ | leftist politicsmayoral advice+3 | John B. Judis | Students for a Democratic SocietyNew American Movement+2 | New YorkSeattle | John B. Judisleftist mayors+3 | — | 52m 53s | |
| 2/25/26 |  Why Does William Deresiewicz Believe the Culture of Elite Universities Elected Trump?✨ | elite universitiesTrump election+3 | William Deresiewicz | YaleAmerican Scholar+1 | — | William Deresiewiczelite universities+3 | — | 57m 16s | |
| 2/12/26 | Anne Applebaum (Live) on Resisting Authoritarianism Here and Abroad✨ | authoritarianismpolitics+4 | Anne Applebaum | The Atlantic | US | authoritarianismAnne Applebaum+5 | — | 59m 46s | |
| 2/6/26 | Ruy Teixeira on the Democrats’ Cultural Cosmopolitanism Problem✨ | Democratic Partypolitical analysis+3 | Ruy Teixeira | Bush presidencyThe Emerging Democratic Majority | — | DemocratsRuy Teixeira+3 | — | 46m 39s | |
| 1/30/26 | Best of BCB: Why Is San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan Breaking So Many Eggs? | We spoke with San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan last April about his groundbreaking approach to municipal governance and the new directions he wants to take the Democratic Party. Now, he's running for governor of California, which makes this a good time to give this interview a second spin. A Harvard grad who made his bones in the disruption-centered world of Silicon Valley tech startups, Mahan tells us he's put his focus on prioritizing results over ideology since becoming mayor of one of California... | 46m 31s | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | Best Of BCB: Freddie deBoer on Why Blue City Progressives Need to Get Real on Involuntary Commitment | While David is away, we are reposting some early days Blue City Blues episodes that many of our more recent listeners may have missed. We thought this one, with author and cultural critic Freddie DeBoer, was a great conversation on a topic that remains timely. We'll be back with fresh episodes shortly: Freddie DeBoer knows a thing or two about mental illness. He’s been admitted into psychiatric hospitals five times; he was involuntarily committed in 2002. He has, as they say, lived experience... | 58m 51s | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | Tricia Romano on the Village Voice, Alt Journalism, and the Rise of New York City’s Countercultures | In 1955, three men in the bohemian enclave of Greenwich Village got together to form what they thought would be a local community newspaper. But the Village Voice would soon morph into the voice of New York City’s political outsiders and cultural dissidents, as it became the progenitor of a new kind of journalistic outlet – the alternative newsweekly – and a new genre of engaged, inside out journalism that rejected the antiseptic detachment of traditional post-war newspapers. The model pionee... | 1h 01m 24s | ||||||
| 1/5/26 | Neil Gong on How Class Dynamics Shape Our Approach to the Mentally Ill on the Streets of Los Angeles | The pervasiveness of untreated mental illness on the streets of blue cities – about 20 percent of the homeless population in the United States is severely mentally ill – is a glaring feature of the urban landscape. So we invited sociologist Neil Gong, the author of an eye-opening book, Sons, Daughters and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles, to join us on this latest BCB episode to talk about his observations of how class dynamics drive radically different soci... | 59m 43s | ||||||
| 12/30/25 | Best of BCB: Sherman Alexie Talks “Monsters,” “Colonizers” and the Urban Left's “Minor League Maoism” | We invited writer Sherman Alexie on to weigh in on recent cultural trends in blue cities. Alexie has long been recognized as one of the country’s most talented, interesting – and funny – literary figures. The author of two dozen books, including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, along with many short stories, essays and poems, Sherman has spent his life, and much of his writing, negotiating the ... | 54m 42s | ||||||
| 12/18/25 | Kelsey Piper on the Shameful Truth that Mississippi Beats Blue Cities on Educational Equity | This week we take a close look at the damning decline in the quality of public education in progressive cities where, as Sandeep puts it, the "glaring contradiction" between a fixation on equity and shockingly inequitable results "drives me bat shit crazy." Our guest, Kelsey Piper, formerly at Vox and now a staff writer with The Argument, doesn't pull any punches either, arguing that "illiteracy is a policy choice.” In a series of cogently argued recent pieces (links below), Piper has p... | 58m 03s | ||||||
| 12/14/25 | Emily Hoeven on Whether San Francisco's Backlash Mayor Is Making Things Better | In November 2024, fed up San Francisco voters elected an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune the city's 46th mayor. Daniel Lurie, a moderate Democrat and a newcomer to City Hall politics who largely self-funded his own outsider campaign, ran on the promise of fundamental change, reversing course away from the permissive - and often performative - radical chic progressivism of the peak woke era. For a city reeling from spiking crime and street disorder, he won by offering a return to what he call... | 46m 53s | ||||||
| 12/6/25 | How a Broken Foster Care System Fuels Crime, Homelessness and the Addiction Crisis in Blue Cities | Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care was a National Book Award finalist. Drawing on the life stories of several foster children, author Claudia Rowe, a long-time journalist and now an editorial writer at the Seattle Times, exposes the chilling truth: the nation's foster care system is a "major gear" driving mass homelessness and the incarceration crisis in American cities. She shares shocking statistics—including studies that found up to 59 percent of youth who gr... | 1h 12m 12s | ||||||
| 11/26/25 | What Makes a Great City? | This Thanksgiving week, Blue City Blues sits down with former traffic engineer and urban planner Ray Delahanty, better known as “CityNerd” on YouTube. We get into the essential question: “what makes a great city?” Ray also shares his insights on the concept of "affordable urbanism" and gives us his honest assessment of one of modern transportation's most divisive projects, the "Vegas Loop." Our editor is Quinn Waller. About Blue City Blues: Twenty years ago, Dan Savage encouraged ... | 30m 30s | ||||||
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