Sophia Freuden sat down with Chloe Freuden, a registered nurse in the State of Washington, to discuss recent policy recommendations issued by the CDC regarding masks. They also chatted about medical misinformation, legal action being taken agai

COVID-101: An Intro to Light Beer and Epidemiology

Apr 7th, 2020 48m 17s

In this week's episode, Pinot & Policy winos Drake MacFarlane and Hannah Cowden receive a lesson in epidemiology, virology, and the efficacy of boxed wine mimosas from special guest Michael Luzadder -- a real life STEM major. Truly, high school

Democracy Despite COVID-19

Mar 17th, 2020 52m 12s

The Pinot & Policy crew invites special guest Phoebe Gresser, a political liaison with the Outlaw Dirty Money initiative in Arizona, to discuss the impact of social distancing on campaigns and ballot initiatives across America. Oh, and we get w

From Pangolins to Pandemics: the Coronavirus

Mar 12th, 2020 51m 22s

Drake MacFarlane, Hannah Cowden, and Sophia Freuden teamed up to talk about the pending apocalypse, otherwise known as coronavirus. No stone was left unturned, including risks of the pandemic, its economic and political impact, and what it mean

Bloomberg's Memocracy

Feb 28th, 2020 41m 43s

Drake MacFarlane, Hannah Luzadder, and Sophia Freuden hop on this episode to talk Bloomberg's meme campaign to win the Democratic nominations, corporate capture of natural artistic communities, influencer culture, and everything else on the int

Google is bad, mmkay?

Sep 20th, 2019 52m 48s

Drake MacFarlane and Sophia Freuden sit down to discuss our cyber overlords, Facebook and Google, as well as some antitrust investigations that have been launched against them in recent weeks. They go over the legal history of major antitrust l

Live Green or Die Hard: The Climate Crisis Episode

Sep 2nd, 2019 46m 37s

Hannah Cowden, Drake MacFarlane and Sophia Freuden sit down over some Radlers and gin to discuss climate change--or as it is increasingly known, the climate crisis. This particularly spicy discussion includes 16-year-old climate activist Greta

Protest Power: 11 Weeks into Hong Kong's Disruption

Aug 19th, 2019 49m 40s

Hong Kong is seeing mass protests reaching as large as 1.7 million people marching in a single day. This protest movement is 11 weeks old and four weeks away from the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party taking control of mainland Ch

Own Goal: the Bungled Golunov Arrest and Journalism in 2019

Jun 18th, 2019 47m 24s

Arbitror’s Editor-in-Chief Sophia Freuden sat down with TJ Sjostrom and Maria Gershuni to discuss Ivan Golunov’s arrest in Moscow earlier this month, potential causes for and consequences of the botched arrest, and the state of journalism world

Body Politic: Beauty in World Politics

Jun 3rd, 2019 36m 26s

Sophia Freuden, Drake MacFarlane, Hannah Luzadder, and Morgan MacFarlane sit down to discuss who is hot or not in global politics. The discussion includes the intersection of race, age, and gender in beauty standards and how perceived beauty ca

Gaza: Unlivable by 2020

May 20th, 2019 46m 41s

A recent breakout of violence in Gaza is neither the first nor last of its kind. Arbitror's Editor in Chief sits down with Ellen Schwartz, a contributor at Arbitror and an intern at the Arava Institute, a think tank based in southern Israel, to

On Trolls, Fake Santas, and Impeachments: The Mueller Report

Apr 24th, 2019 33m 32s

What's 448 pages long, only partially legible, and one of the most ridiculous things you've ever read? Arbitror's Pinot & Policy team sits down over drinks to discuss the long-awaited Mueller report. This episode's team included Editor-in-Chief

The Meh-ller Report

Apr 18th, 2019 47m 34s

The Arbitror podcast crew get together for our revamped podcast series, Pinot & Policy, in which we slurp down brews while hashing out the latest news in the policy world. This week's topic: the long awaited report from Special Counsel Robert M

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