At The Table

Jared sits down with Steve Le [website: LeMobileFeast.com ] about his project: traveling to all fifty states making 259 dinners for people in their homes. The purpose? To rediscover a country he didn't think he recognized after 2015-2016. We talk a lot about the virtue of hospitality here on At The Table ; Steve has lived it and learned from it in a big way.  A full version of this episode an...

Jared returns from a trip to Yosemite refreshed to face the news and reminded of the human connection that makes all this bearable.  Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter: @JaredRizzi ]  Additional benefits for fans of At The Table are available through Patreon .

Gaza Sky Geeks, an organization founded in 2011 with Mercy Corps and Google.org as partners, aims to create opportunities in Gaza for young people. Dalia Shurrab is their social media coordinator and joins Jared in Washington DC to talk about their mission, and also funding challenges they've faced under the Trump Administration.  Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter: @JaredRizzi ] Guest: Dalia Shurrab...

Gun violence, mental health, intractable politics: when the solutions seem out of reach, sometimes our default is despair. We have to fight that impulse before we can suit up for the next, more important fight to come. I hope this conversation and community can be a shelter from the storm. Stop pacing outside; come in and join us. Live event at Local 16 restaurant and bar in Washington, DC. Segmen...

This is an episode about guns. But it's also about mental health, and how we choose to break things down and rebuild them after. This isn't going to solve the problems. But, I hope it helps to make us want to recommit to solving them.  Thanks, friends. Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter: @JaredRizzi ] Curious about the discussion of psychology? Read more here [more academic] and here [more general in...

After we finished with our excellent guest, Carolyn Fiddler of DailyKos, we went around the room and spoke to some in the crowd at Local 16. Unsurprisingly, the folks were smart and funny and willing to chime in on everything we had all just seen heard from the second night of the Detroit DNC Debates. Producer David Ross is fired for the fourth time. This bonus episode includes content normally sa...

After the first night of the DNC presidential primary debates in Detroit, it was clear that the framing of issues--both from the CNN moderators and the frontrunner, former Vice President Biden--would comport more with Republican talking points than with the preferences of the progressives in the Democratic party base. Jared is joined by Carolyn Fiddler of DailyKos to talk about the implications of...

Heading into the first night of the second round of DNC presidential primary debates, President Trump has put the question of who is a real American front and center. Jared is joined by two guests to talk about this in a policy context: immigration lawyer and law professor Anam Rahman, and Ballot.org executive director Chris Melody Fields. Live event at Local 16 restaurant and bar in Washington, D...

International affiliate reporter for the Associated Press Philip Crowther joins Jared from Detroit, where the next round of DNC Debates will take place this week.  We talk about what to expect on stage both Tuesday and Wednesday, and how candidates can beat expectations: possibly by embracing some of the Trump Administration's foreign policy principles.  This week At The Table will be li...

Prof. Karla McKanders of Vanderbilt Law joins Jared to talk about Trump Administration immigration policy and recent raids around the country, carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Host: Jared Rizzi Guest: Professor Karla McKanders, Clinical Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School where she directs the  I mmigration Practice Clinic and teaches Refugee Law and Policy and...

What is the role of spectacle in our democracy? What happens when we expect things to be entertaining above all else?  It can be great: like sharing a memory of the moon landing on the National Mall. Or, it can be terrible: like judging a public hearing by whether it is sexy enough.  We know which option Trump prefers. Host: Jared Rizzi

Our first panel show at Local 16 restaurant and bar in Washington DC. Jared joined by Indivisible Associate Political Director Lucy Solomon and Chief of Staff for Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Mike Reed.  Segment 1: Jared's opening thoughts on a this new family dinner tradition: politics discussions at Local 16 Segment 2: Lucy Solomon & Mike Reed on Trump tweets vs "The Squad" Segment 3: Luc...

Call it what it is. Host: Jared Rizzi

Thursday July 11, 2019: the Trump White House hosts a Social Media Summit as ICE prepares to round up immigrants around the country this weekend.  Who we bring "At The Table" and what we welcome them to say when they are with us reveals a great deal about who we are.  Host: Jared Rizzi

Former White House correspondent Jared Rizzi offers a tough-love card for America on the occasion of its 243rd birthday.  Happy Independence Day

As the post-debate dust settles, where do we stand? What have we learned?  Jared Rizzi asks Emily Holden, Guardian environment reporter, to explain how climate was covered or ignored in the first two DNC presidential debates.

DNC Debates, night two: Jared Rizzi with live post-debate reaction and audience participation. 

DNC Debates, night one: Jared Rizzi with live post-debate reaction and audience participation. 

Pamela Kirkland, CNN field producer, joins Jared At The Table to preview the first DNC debates of the 2020 presidential primary. 

Carolyn Fiddler, Daily Kos communications director, joins Jared At The Table to preview the first DNC debates of the 2020 presidential primary. 

Jared Rizzi, former White House correspondent, begins a new political podcast.  Join him: "At The Table."