Talking Politics Podcast

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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.


Episode Date
Shannon Liss-Riordan makes her case for AG
May 23, 2022
The feds have lost confidence in the T. Who's responsible, and what happens next?
May 16, 2022
Are Massachusetts politics as great as we like to think?
May 08, 2022
Will Massachusetts legalize sports betting?
May 02, 2022
Can Elizabeth Warren save the Democrats from electoral disaster?
Apr 25, 2022
Remote access transformed politics during the pandemic. Will it last?
Apr 17, 2022
Massachusetts roads are getting more dangerous. Are automated traffic cameras the answer?
Apr 11, 2022
The North End dining debate and the future of protest in Boston
Apr 03, 2022
Chris Doughty and Kate Campanale Make Their Case for the Corner Office
Mar 08, 2022
Wu Hits the Hundred-Day Mark
Feb 28, 2022
When Baker Leaves, Can Bakerism Abide?
Feb 20, 2022
Wash, Rinse, Repeat: Another leadership change at the Boston Public Schools
Feb 15, 2022
In Massachusetts politics in 2022, who counts as a "progressive"?
Feb 05, 2022
Is Michelle Wu winning the vax-mandate fight?
Feb 03, 2022
Why won't the Massachusetts Legislature act on voting rights?
Jan 25, 2022
Will Wu's Mass And Cass Plan Work?
Jan 17, 2022
The politics of COVID in Massachusetts
Jan 08, 2022
How 2021 is ending--and what to watch in 2022
Dec 21, 2021
Who's Afraid Of Rachael Rollins?
Dec 11, 2021
After Baker Bails, What's Next?
Dec 04, 2021
Boston's Race Into History: The Elected School Committee Rides Again (Probably)
Nov 17, 2021
Boston's Race Into History: Closing The Wealth Gap(s)
Oct 25, 2021
Boston's Race Into History: Police Reform
Oct 21, 2021
Boston's Race Into History: Improving Public Education
Oct 12, 2021
Boston's Race Into History: Mass and Cass
Oct 04, 2021
Boston's Race Into History: The Housing Crisis
Sep 29, 2021
Boston's Race Into History: Preliminary Preview with the GBH News Politics Team
Sep 14, 2021
Boston’s Mayoral Race: The Undecideds May Call The Shots
Sep 03, 2021
Historic Mayoral Election Reflects Boston's Changing Political DNA
Aug 27, 2021
Dems In Disarray: How The Party's Stumble To Victory In 2020 Explains Their Predicament Now
Jun 30, 2021
"A Peaceful Coup": How A New Budget Process Could Transform Boston Politics
Jun 08, 2021
The Rehabilitation Of Dianne Wilkerson
May 28, 2021
As Others Dems Dither, Downing Makes His Gubernatorial Case
May 21, 2021
What Does Justice For Mikayla Miller Look Like?
May 13, 2021
"Black women candidates are not interchangeable": Andrea Campbell In The Eye Of The Storm
May 05, 2021
Jon Santiago On The State Of The Mayor's Race, Marty Walsh's Legacy, And Kim Janey's Tenure
Apr 30, 2021
Ron Mariano: Different From The Old Boss?
Apr 05, 2021
"Never imagined that I'd see a Black mayor": Yawu Miller on Kim Janey's ascension — and what comes next
Mar 29, 2021
Whatever Happened To Dennis White? Plus, Previewing The Somerville Mayor's Race
Mar 12, 2021
The Revere-Winthrop Primary And What It Means For The Boston Mayor's Race
Mar 05, 2021
Annissa Essaibi George: The Scrum Interview
Feb 26, 2021
If Denver Can Elect Black Mayors, Why Can't Boston?
Feb 19, 2021
What Baker's Vaccine Woes Tell Us About The Governor
Feb 12, 2021
American Democracy: Buy Or Sell?
Jan 22, 2021
Andrea Campbell: The Scrum Interview
Jan 14, 2021
What Makes Michelle Wu Run?
Dec 17, 2020
The Case For A Massachusetts COVID Clampdown — Now, Not Later
Dec 08, 2020
Joe Biden's Boston Roots
Nov 16, 2020
Election 2020: The Night(s) Before And The Morning After
Oct 31, 2020
The Electoral College: What Is It Good For?
Oct 22, 2020
Kevin O'Connor's Pitch To Non-Republicans
Oct 14, 2020
Lessons From Lincoln For The Age Of Trump — Plus, What The Mass. Senate Debate Says About The Mass. GOP
Oct 07, 2020
Storm Clouds: Aleksandar Hemon On Yugoslavia Then And The US Now
Sep 29, 2020
Wu For 2021: A GBH-MassINC Poll Sets The Stage For The Mayoral Race
Sep 21, 2020
#MAPrimary 2020: The Exit Interview
Sep 04, 2020
Dr. Robbie Goldstein Makes His Case For MA8, Plus - Kadzis On The Surreal, Socially Distant DNC
Aug 21, 2020
Things Are Getting Competitive In Western Massachusetts -- Plus, Kadzis On The State Legislature's Looming Extension
Jul 31, 2020
Why The 2020 Presidential Polls Aren't Like Their Ugly 2016 Cousins — Plus, Walsh Vs. Wu, Round 1
Jul 17, 2020
The Scrum Sizes Up The 2020 New England Muzzles
Jul 02, 2020
“Systemic Cures For Systemic Problems”: Ricardo Arroyo's M.O. For Fighting Racism In Boston
Jun 23, 2020
Can Marty Walsh's Boston Lead The Fight Against Racism?
Jun 12, 2020
As Protests Spread, Pondering The Politics Of Policing
Jun 05, 2020
Jim Aloisi Talks Transit And Heirloom Italian Cuisine
May 26, 2020
Did The South Win The Civil War? Plus, Sizing Up Charlie Baker's Reopening Plan
May 19, 2020
Brouhaha In Bristol County — Plus, #MAPoli Gets A Coronavirus Scorecard
May 08, 2020
Why Well-Educated White People Are Getting Politics Wrong
Apr 24, 2020
COVID Campaigning, Signature Stubbornness, Eviction Obstruction
Apr 17, 2020
COVID-19 And The Way We Live Now
Apr 10, 2020
Urban Renewal In Boston And Beyond: Maybe Not So Bad?
Mar 31, 2020
The First Scrum Of The Rest Of Our Lives
Mar 20, 2020
What Does Warren Do Now?
Mar 09, 2020
Can Warren Come Back On Super Tuesday?
Feb 27, 2020
The Massachusetts Case For Sanders
Feb 20, 2020
What Happened In New Hampshire
Feb 15, 2020
In First 2020 Test, Iowa Flunks Out. Will Progressives Ace #FITN?
Feb 06, 2020
Heather Cox Richardson's Impeachment Marathon
Jan 29, 2020
Rantgate Reconsidered — Plus, The #FITN Ghosts Of Governors Past
Jan 23, 2020
The Sanders-Warren Peace Pact Crumbles — Plus, Pushback For Marty Walsh's BPS Plan
Jan 16, 2020
Every #FITN Democrat Wants The Union Leader's Endorsement. So Who'll Get It?
Jan 10, 2020
A Veteran Sizes Up The Afghanistan Papers — Plus, Where Impeachment Goes Next
Dec 20, 2019
Can Elizabeth Warren Bounce Back?
Dec 08, 2019
Spilka Speaks! Plus, Kadzis On Impeachment
Nov 26, 2019
Has Charlie Baker Launched His Own Political Party? Plus, Deep Thoughts On Deval 2020
Nov 19, 2019
About Last Night: What The 2019 Boston Elections Actually Mean
Nov 06, 2019
What's At Stake In The Allston-Brighton Boston City Council Race?
Oct 24, 2019
"The Urgency Has Just Grown So Much": Michelle Wu Talks Development And Representation
Oct 16, 2019
Marty Walsh: "I Still Have A Lot Of Governing Left In Me"
Oct 09, 2019
Three Quick #Mapoli Hits: Warren Takes Iowa, The ZBA Scandal Spreads, Hands-Free Holdup On The Hill
Oct 03, 2019
How The Jasiel Correia Scandal Feels In Fall River
Sep 26, 2019
What The ZBA Scandal Says About Boston Development
Sep 16, 2019
In The 2020 Democratic Senate Race, They're Not JK
Sep 06, 2019
Beyond 'Zombie Reaganism': Conservatives Seek Focus Amidst Trump's Chaos
Aug 26, 2019
Baker: No To A T Ride, Yes To Nantucket. Plus, Walsh's Woes
Aug 15, 2019
The Dems Take Detroit — But Were They Really In The Midwest?
Aug 02, 2019
Marty Walsh And The Boston Calling Extortion Trial
Jul 25, 2019
The Squad Versus Pelosi Versus Trump
Jul 18, 2019
Just In Time For The Fourth, It's The 2019 Muzzles
Jul 03, 2019
INSTASCRUM: Unpacking The Democratic Debates
Jun 28, 2019
Two From Kadzis: Baker And Walsh's T Tiff / Warren Gets The Kiddie Table
Jun 20, 2019
The #Mapoli Push To Expand Abortion Rights
Jun 12, 2019
Did Barack Obama's Earliest Policy Decisions Give Us Donald Trump?
Jun 05, 2019
McGovern Responds To Muller: "We Have To Do What's Right"
May 29, 2019
Casino Kabuki; Rivera Versus Moulton
May 23, 2019
Is The Mass. GOP Charlie Baker's Party — Or Donald Trump's?
May 16, 2019
The Politics Of Mayor Pete's Sexuality
May 07, 2019
Boston Politics: Pitching Wu, Council Upheaval, And A BPS Reckoning
Apr 30, 2019
Power Of The Purse: Budget Czar Aaron Michlewitz Tells All
Apr 17, 2019
DA Rachael Rollins Versus Governor Charlie Baker: Why It Matters
Apr 09, 2019
With Friends Like These: Biden And The DCCC Force A Democratic Reckoning
Apr 03, 2019
Why Won't Massachusetts Elect More Women? And Is Muellergate The Dems' Benghazi?
Mar 26, 2019
Mind Melding With Moulton, And A St. Paddy's Breakfast Wrap
Mar 19, 2019
Can Elizabeth Warren Take Down Big Tech?
Mar 12, 2019
Warren, Moulton, Klobuchar: Buy Or Sell?
Feb 15, 2019
Don't Confuse Legislating With Democracy
Jan 04, 2019
What Ails Walsh And Warren? The Globe's Joan Vennochi Breaks It Down
Dec 12, 2018
Beacon Hill Blitz
Nov 15, 2018
Election Day And Beyond: 8 Perspectives On The Big Vote
Nov 02, 2018
Warren Gets Candid / Tedeschi Makes His Pitch
Oct 05, 2018
Three Paths For Gonzalez
Sep 20, 2018
New Kids On The Block: Nika Elugardo and Jon Santiago On Their Wins And What Comes Next
Sep 12, 2018
Pre-Primary Palaver
Aug 30, 2018
Who's Got The Edge In The Capuano-Pressley Contest?
Aug 09, 2018
Republican Beth Lindstrom On Donald Trump And The Race Against Elizabeth Warren
Jul 26, 2018
The Muzzle Awards, Or, The Year In Free-Speech Failures
Jul 03, 2018
SJC Dynamites #mapoli, Plus Dorchester's House from Hell
Jun 19, 2018
In Worcester, Mass. Dems Rebuke Bill Galvin and Wax Ambivalent on Charlie Baker
Jun 03, 2018
Housing: Boston City Hall Versus the Market
May 17, 2018
GOP Rumbles In Worcester
Apr 29, 2018
The Scrum Takes the State House
Apr 12, 2018
Dan Kennedy on the Future of Newspapers
Mar 28, 2018
Patrick 2020: Time to Take It Seriously
Mar 15, 2018
How Setti Warren Would Run Massachusetts
Feb 28, 2018
Jay Gonzalez Wants To Be Mass. Governor
Jan 31, 2018
Thus Spake Charlie Baker (Or, What Do The 3 Democratic Amigos Do Now?)
Jan 25, 2018
Linda Dorcena Forry Talks TPS and Trump
Nov 30, 2017
Making Sense of Boston's Predictable, Surprising 2017 Elections
Nov 20, 2017
Tito Jackson's Closing Argument
Nov 01, 2017
5 Burning Questions For Tito Jackson And Marty Walsh
Oct 18, 2017
Postgame On The Mayoral Pregame
Oct 04, 2017
And The Nominee For Mass. US Attorney Is....
Sep 23, 2017
The 2017 Muzzle Awards
Jul 05, 2017
Should Mass Democrats Be Focusing On Party Purity?
Jun 22, 2017
Boston's Lesser Known Mayoral Candidates
Jun 08, 2017
The Scrum Gets Caught Up In Southie
May 18, 2017
A Massachusetts Political Report Card
May 11, 2017
Shadowgate: The Fate Of The Winthrop Square Tower
May 01, 2017
A Podcast Crossover Of Epic Proportions: The Lincoln Review Joins The Scrum
Apr 13, 2017
Tito Jackson Speaks: What he regrets and what he doesn't
Apr 06, 2017
Brianna Wu Wants To Tax Your Robots (And Do Some Other Things Too)
Apr 03, 2017
Cleaning The Plate On The St. Patrick's Day Breakfast
Mar 20, 2017
Can Anyone Beat Charlie Baker After Mass. Was Ranked Best State In The Nation?
Mar 09, 2017
One Week Down, Four Years To Go: Mass. Politics In Trump's America
Feb 01, 2017
Trump And The Press: Reality Bites Trump, Trump Bites Back
Jan 24, 2017
The State Of The State Of The City
Jan 19, 2017
Andrew Bacevich: Deconstructing Trump's Military 'Bromance'
Dec 21, 2016
Breaking Down Baker's Budget Cuts
Dec 15, 2016
Illuminating The Boston Police Department's Push To Monitor Social Media
Dec 08, 2016
Will Setti Warren Run For Governor? Speculations On The 2018 Gubernatorial Race
Dec 01, 2016
What now? A Live Conversation On Life After The Election
Nov 17, 2016
Will Brass Knuckles Ever Return To Beacon Hill?
Nov 01, 2016
The Battle For Suffolk County Register of Deeds
Oct 21, 2016
A Debate On Ballot 4 At The Boston Public Library
Oct 16, 2016
A Debate On Charter Schools Live From The BPL
Oct 08, 2016
The Great Debate: a conflicted conservative agonizes over Trump
Sep 29, 2016
Occupy Mass Dems
Sep 22, 2016
Is The Media Driving Donald Trump's Surge?
Sep 17, 2016
Searching For A Democratic Candidate For Governor
Sep 08, 2016
Trump's Crisis With Syria
Aug 24, 2016
Mini Scrum: Sean Wilentz On Bostonians In The Oval Office
Aug 07, 2016
The status of the GLX live in Somerville
Jul 17, 2016
A Deeper Look At Boston Latin And Mayor Walsh
Jun 30, 2016
How The Nominees Responded To Orlando
Jun 15, 2016
The Party Never Stops: Sean Wilentz on 'The Politicians & The Egalitarians'
Jun 02, 2016
Union Leaders Breakdown The Verizon Strike
May 20, 2016
Marty Walsh and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week and a Half
May 04, 2016
The Highly Debatable Issue Of Legalized Marijuana
Apr 21, 2016
Speed Dating The #MAPoli Way
Apr 07, 2016
City Councilor Tito Jackson: BPS, BRA, And The Mayoralty
Mar 28, 2016
Dispatches From The St. Patrick's Day Breakfast
Mar 21, 2016
Donald Trump: The Next Berlusconi?
Mar 09, 2016
The Brothers Bernstein Look Ahead to South Carolina and Nevada
Feb 19, 2016
The New Hampshire Chainsaw Massacre: Trump, Republicans, and the Presidential Primary
Feb 06, 2016
A Vermin Supreme
Feb 01, 2016
Young Voters and the Presidential Election, GE, and Ben Downing
Jan 27, 2016
INSTASCRUM: Sizing up this year's #MartyParty
Jan 19, 2016
All Aboard The Wu Train
Jan 18, 2016
Charlie Baker's Mean Green Energy Machine
Jan 01, 2016
The #MAPoli Holiday Wish List
Dec 23, 2015
College, Inc.: The Scrum Goes Back To School
Dec 15, 2015
Another Day, Another Mass Shooting In America?
Dec 04, 2015
Beyond Paris
Nov 20, 2015
Grand Prix of Boston CEO Mark Perrone On Boston's "Olympic Hangover"
Nov 12, 2015
Stan Rosenberg Goes West
Nov 03, 2015
On The Road Again
Oct 28, 2015
What's Next For Evan Falchuk?
Oct 16, 2015
Seth Moulton: Idealist Turned Cynic?
Oct 08, 2015
Is Marty Walsh Already Boston's Mayor For Life?
Oct 01, 2015
An Upset In District 4
Sep 10, 2015
The Summer of Disruption
Aug 28, 2015
The Scrum Goes For A Ride
Aug 11, 2015
Scrumming The GOP Debate
Aug 07, 2015
#NachoScrum: The Olympics Postmortem
Aug 04, 2015
The Scrum Goes Into Labor
Jul 16, 2015
Welcome To The Olympics-Free Zone
Jul 02, 2015
Scrum, Interrupted
Jun 18, 2015
#Mapoli Plays Nice, For Once
Jun 03, 2015
PEOPLE v. TSARNAEV: The Exit Interview
May 21, 2015
(Still) Ready for Warren?
Apr 22, 2015
Covering The Tsarnaev Trial
Apr 10, 2015
The Dulcet Tones Of Ted Cruz
Apr 01, 2015
Bostonians In Exile
Mar 25, 2015
"Sing And Shut Up"
Mar 23, 2015
The Boston Nolympics
Mar 11, 2015
Charlie Baker's Brain: A User's Guide
Mar 04, 2015
The Politics of Snowstorms
Feb 04, 2015
Mrs. & Mr. 'New Boston'
Jan 14, 2015
Dasvidaniya, Deval
Jan 07, 2015
This Is The Remix
Dec 23, 2014
Every Party Has A Pooper
Dec 17, 2014
A Mayor In Full
Dec 10, 2014
A Winning Strategist On Losing
Dec 03, 2014
Know Thy Gatekeepers
Nov 19, 2014
Prince And Politics With Mo
Nov 12, 2014
Good Luck, Charlie
Nov 05, 2014
Who Approved This Message?
Oct 29, 2014
"I Get No Respect"
Oct 22, 2014
Jane Swift on Romney, the Tea Party & the 3 H's
Oct 15, 2014
How To Become Governor, From Someone Who Didn't
Oct 08, 2014
Scrum For A New America
Oct 01, 2014
From Faneuil Hall, Sweetheart
Sep 24, 2014
Ms. PAC-man: Stephanie Schriock from EMILY's List
Sep 17, 2014
Inside the Mass. Democrats' 'Unity Breakfast'
Sep 10, 2014
The Crystal Ball
Sep 03, 2014
Barney Frank Joins The Scrum Podcast
Aug 27, 2014
Foley, Ferguson, And The Media
Aug 20, 2014
Attorney General Candidate Warren Tolman
Aug 13, 2014
Field Trip: Market Basket
Aug 06, 2014
Mudslinging And Mass. Politics
Jul 30, 2014
Mass. Attorney General Candidate Maura Healey
Jul 23, 2014
Party Line: Mass GOP's Kirsten Hughes
Jul 16, 2014
A Patronage Denial & A Casino Deal
Jul 09, 2014
The Muzzle Awards
Jul 02, 2014
Casino Ballot Question Insta-Scrum
Jun 24, 2014
The Mass. 'Demvention'
Jun 17, 2014
Introducing The Scrum Podcast
Jun 11, 2014