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Blue City Blues is a podcast that's about what's broken, what's working and what comes next in America's blue cities. Hosts David Hyde and Sandeep Kaushik bring on a smart guest each episode to dig into urban politics, governance and culture. Clear-eyed conversation for people who care about blue cities and are skeptical of easy orthodoxies. Blue cities, we argue, represent an urban archipelago, which is shaping America's future. Subscribe to Blue City Blues now on Apple, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Signup to Generate a PitchBlue City Blues is a podcast that's about what's broken, what's working and what comes next in America's blue cities. Hosts David Hyde and Sandeep Kaushik bring on a smart guest each episode to dig into urban politics, governance and culture. Clear-eyed conversation for people who care about blue cities and are skeptical of easy orthodoxies.
Blue City Blues is hosted by David Hyde, Sandeep Kaushik. The show has published 71 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Peter Moskos: Progressives Are Wrong about the Crime-Fighting Benefits of Good Policing" (27 October 2026, 66 minutes), "Emma Pettit on the Homelessness Wars, Then and Now" (19 October 2026, 79 minutes), and "Benjamin Ryan on Cosmopolitan Elites’ Truth Problem" (12 October 2026, 81 minutes).
Blue City Blues publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 62 minutes across 71 episodes.
Booking probability for Blue City Blues is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Blue City Blues requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Blue City Blues's contact route on record: verified email.
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David Hyde, Sandeep Kaushik hosts Blue City Blues, a news podcast with 71 episodes published.
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Episode #33
Peter Moskos spent the better part of two years as a cop patrolling the mean streets of East Baltimore on the midnight to 8 am night shift, before he left policing to complete a Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard University...
Episode #32
In recent decades, visible unsheltered homelessness, and the street disorder that comes with it, have become both the background noise of life in urban America and perhaps the most frustratingly persistent and seemingly...
Episode #31
Benjamin Ryan is a prominent independent journalist who has written for major national publications like the New York Times , NBC News , The Atlantic , The Washington Post , and The Free Press , and who writes regularly...
Episode #30
[This episode is a live taping of a panel discussion at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle on September 29, done in conjunction with the GeekWire podcast ]. For this BCB episode David and Sandeep moderate an all-star...
Episode #29
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ recent NYT Magazine essay – " In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? " – in which she offers her mea culpa for enrolling her daughter in poorly performing, mostly minority public...
Episode #28
If you are in Seattle join us for a live joint taping of the Blue City Blues & GeekWire Podcasts: Two Cities, One Industry: Big Tech, Power and Politics in Seattle and San Francisco, Sept 29, 2026 Elizabeth Glazer is a...
Episode #27
Democratic political consultant Joe Trippi came to national prominence in 2003, as the mastermind behind then-Vermont Governor Howard Dean’s internet-fueled insurgent bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination...
Episode #25
For nearly two decades, Chris Cillizza was a star political commentator for legacy media. In 2005 Chris founded The Fix , the seminal, must read Washington Post political blog, before moving on to CNN in 2017, where he...
Episode #24
Atlantic staff writer Michael Powell, our guest on the last BCB episode where we discussed NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the rise of anti-Zionism on the left, rejoins us for a second conversation about his searing new...
Episode #23
In 2020, at the height of peak woke, then- New York Times sports columnist Michael Powell decided to make a career zag, abandoning sports to begin covering what he calls the “third rail beat” of the rising tide of...
Episode #22
All of a sudden, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) seem to be a potent force within American politics, winning high profile mayoral and congressional races in blue cities across the country. In so doing they...
Episode #21
In 1990, at the dawn of the internet age, reporter Jonathan Weber was tapped as the LA Times’ first Silicon Valley correspondent. Taking up a perch in San Francisco, where he went on to become one of the city’s leading...
Episode #20
Jamie Paul, a former managing editor of Queer Majority and a contributing editor at Bi.org , is the founding editor of the American Dreaming on Substack, where (among his other writings) he has set out to provide a...
Episode #19
Maia Szalavitz, a prominent neuroscience journalist and progressive drug reform champion who has written for the New York Times , Washington Post , Huffington Post , Salon and other publications, is the author, among...
Episode #18
<p>What just happened in the Los Angeles mayoral primary, and why didn't former reality tv star and social media darling Spencer Pratt live up to the incessant, breathless hype (so sorry for your loss, X)? Now that it’s...
Episode #17
<p>These days we associate the white working class with rural and small town red America, whereas big blue cities are perceived largely as the playgrounds of the educated and affluent. But it wasn’t all that long ago...
Episode #16
<p>In recent decades, no major American city can match the sharp ups and downs of Portland, Oregon. From a poor but pretty backwater burg of white gearheads and provincials in the 1980s, Portland underwent an...
Episode #15
<p>For decades, a handful of legacy media outlets decided what counted as news, how to frame it, and who got to report it. Now trust has collapsed, The New York Times is selling cooking apps to stay alive, and there is...
Episode #14
<p>What's the fundamental difference between an authentically cool city and a contrived, gentrified one? What makes a great music and arts scene, and can deliberate government action actually make a city cool? That’s...
Episode #13
<p>This is a free preview of our latest Patreon-only episode of Blue City Blues, with writer David Rieff, a war correspondent, an essayist, and a leading cultural critic. David, the son of sociologist Philip Rieff...
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Author and Criminal Justice Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Veteran Democratic strategist, The Lincoln Project
political commentator and journalist, author of the “So What” Substack
head of cricket at Rugby School, Gordon Feinblatt, LLC
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