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Hosted by St. Louis Post-Dispatch · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 47 episodes
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Editorial board member Lynn Schmidt will host conversations about the big issues and worries facing America — the things keeping her guests up at night. Schmidt wants to begin conversations about how we can begin solving those issues. Guests will include experts and politicians from across the country, political spectrum and generations, including presidential candidates, authors, former Congress members and more. Schmidt is a member of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch hosts What Keeps You Up at Night?, a news show with 47 episodes published.
Karen Kirk of Lydia's House and Lorie Westhoff with Nestle Purina talks with Lynn Schmidt about their partnership in developing and maintaining pet-friendly domestic violence shelters. https://lydiashouse.org/ https://ww
Retired Marine Corps pilot Garret Biss inspires Lynn Schmidt with his personal story as a veteran and how we all need to "Be the connection." https://unspokentrauma.vet/ https://thewarriorreset.com/ https://988lifeline.o
Lynn Schmidt hosts a solo episode to discuss the stress that a majority of Americans are feeling in the run up to the election and shares ways in which the electorate can make it through https://carnegieendowment.org/pos
Greg Kramer, Vice President of Government Relations at Easterseals Midwest, sits down with Lynn Schmidt to help spread awareness about the challenges people with disabilities face in voting and the need for policy change
Lynn Schmidt talks with G. William Hoagland from the Bipartisan Policy Center who explains why the federal deficit is out of control and no one, including the two presidential nominees, wants to address it.
Michael Oberlander sits down with Lynn Schmidt and discusses the year since Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel, grief and the promise of consolation, and the hope for peace.
Marine veteran and Democratic U.S. senatorial candidate Lucas Kunce joins Lynn Schmidt to share why he's running for the U.S. Senate, the opioid crisis, and how he would like to reinvest in Missouri communities. Link: ht
National security expert Major General Randy Manner shares with Lynn Schmidt the work that he and others are doing to counter growing threats to our democratic institutions, norms, and processes. Link: https://www.nsl4a.
The Chief Development Officer of The Ocean Clean Up, Julian Searle, joins Lynn Schmidt to share the amazing work that The Ocean Clean Up is doing to rid the world's oceans and rivers of plastic and the challenges to fund
National security expert Elizabeth Neumann talks with Lynn Schmidt about the drivers of political violence and extremism and how a return to social norms might be the way to heal the nation.
Former Congresswoman Claudine Schneider (R-RI) discusses the intersection of climate change and the United State's economic prospects and why she is supporting Kamala Harris.
Editor in Chief of The Texas Tribune, Sewell Chan, sits down with Lynn Schmidt on facing the implications of the loss of local media and moving forward in part 2 of this 2 part episode hosted my Lynn Schmidt. Listen to P
Erica Beshears Perel, Director of the University of North Carolina's Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media joins Lynn Schmidt to discuss the what the loss of local media means to American society and so
Lynn Schmidt hosts a solo podcast and share why Project 2025 and the current state of America's politics keeps her up at night. She dives into details about Project 2025, what a possible second Trump administration might
Author and co-founder of NewsGuard Steven Brill sits down with Lynn Schmidt and shares how we got to a place where there is little shared truths and offers some practical solutions for what we can do about it.
Ken Block, data analyst and author of the new book "Disproven", talks with Lynn Schmidt about his unbiased search for voter fraud in the 2020 election, the data that shows Donald Trump lost, and how to push back on elect
Former FBI Director James Comey talks with Lynn Schmidt about his newest crime novel "Westport", the real threat that Donald Trump poses to our democracy and the rule of law, and why he is optimistic about our future.
Nick Troiano, executive director of Unite America talks with Lynn Schmidt about political polarization and extremism and how modernizing partisan primaries might be the primary solution https://www.uniteamerica.org/
Best-selling children's book author Christen Jeschke discusses why the cicada broods shouldn't keep you up at night and shares the inspiration behind her book "Cicadas Don't Bug Me" Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/
Best-selling children's book author Christen Jeschke discusses why the cicada broods shouldn't keep you up at night and shares the inspiration behind her book "Cicadas Don't Bug Me" Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/
Garret Biss
Veteran, TEDX Speaker, Award-winning Author, Coach, Respected Thought-Leader in the Addiction Recovery Industry · Marine Corps
1 appearance on this show
Elizabeth Neumann
former assistant secretary for counterterrorism at the US Department of Homeland Security
1 appearance on this show
Steven Brill
author of The Death of Truth · NewsGuard
1 appearance on this show
James Comey
former FBI Director
1 appearance on this show
Karen Kirk
Lydia's House
1 appearance on this show
Lorie Westhoff
Nestlé Purina
1 appearance on this show
G. William Hoagland
Bipartisan Policy Center
1 appearance on this show
Julian Searle
The Ocean Clean Up
1 appearance on this show
Sewell Chan
The Texas Tribune
1 appearance on this show
Erica Beshears Perel
University of North Carolina
1 appearance on this show
Nick Troiano
Unite America
1 appearance on this show
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