Big Time Dicks

This week we speak with Erin Loos Cutraro, founder and CEO of She Should Run, an organization working to increase the number of women running for office in the United States.

CNN commentator Angela Rye on her new podcast, how she deals with Trump surrogates on TV, and the badassery of Congresswoman Maxine Waters.

On the most patriotic holiday week, we’re trying to figure out the difference between Steve Bannon and the Joker with guest co-host Ellie Shechet.

In our first ever live taping at the Bell House in Brooklyn, we speak with Amy, Aparna, and Erika about the first six months of Trump's presidency and what to do going forward.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott just signed a law that would allow religious foster care and adoption agencies to turn away prospective LGBTQ adoptive parents, and to discriminate against LGBTQ youth in their care. We speak with Currey Cook, Director of the Youth in Out-of-Home Care Project and Counsel in the National Headquarters of Lambda Legal about this and other similar laws cropping up around the country.

We speak with Whole Woman’s Health founder and CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller on the 1 year anniversary of Whole Woman’s Health vs. Hellerstedt about going to the Supreme Court and the state of abortion rights in the US.

We speak with Erika Christensen, of Jezebel’s “Interview with a Woman Who Recently Had an Abortion at 32 Weeks,” and NY State Sen. Liz Krueger about their efforts to change a law that forces women to carry nonviable pregnancies to term.

Joanna and guest co-host Ellie Shechet debate the future of the world after Trump pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement, and speak with Environmental Defense Fund’s International Counsel Annie Petsonk. Also: How Jared Kushner’s voice sounds.

We speak with Sen. Elizabeth Warren about her new book, “This Fight Is Our Fight” and about whether or not she’d support Trump’s impeachment. Also: Fox News, H.R. McMaster, and Who Did the Tweet.

We talk with Cynthia Terrell of Representation 2020 about our screwed up electoral process and how to achieve gender parity in government in our lifetimes.

Savile Row bespoke tailor Dominic Sebag Montifiore chats with us about what politicians are telling us with their fashion choices.

Big Time Dicks continues to examine the epidemic of sexual assault in the military, and speak with Rep. Jackie Speier about legislation she's pushing to combat it.

Iconic civil rights attorney Gloria Allred joins Joanna and Prachi to discuss the shocking Marines United nude photo scandal, in which male military members shared nonconsensual photos of current and former female colleagues online. The initial incident, tied with the persistent reports of sexual assault in the military, has shed new light on a larger culture of sexual harassment in the military that has gone unaddressed for years. They also speak with Miranda Petersen, executive director of military advocacy group Protect Our Defenders.

At the end of March, Trump signed an executive order essentially repealing Obama’s Clean Power Plan, and introduced an EPA budget that would decimate the bureau. We speak with the Environmental Defense Fund’s Lindi von Mutius and Jezebel’s Ellie Shechet to learn about what our world will look like under the control of climate change deniers.

We discuss the impact of the repeal of internet privacy and talk to Steven Renderos, organizing director at the Center for Media Justice, about how companies might use your personal data.

We examine the history of the death penalty and talk to Diann Rust-Tierney, executive director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, about Arkansas's unprecedented decision to execute 8 people in 10 days.

We speak with American University's Karen O'Connor about what could happen to women's rights if Neil Gorsuch gets on the Supreme Court and why nominated judges say so little during confirmation hearings. 

We take a look at how the GOP health care replacement bill stacks up against the Affordable Care Act. Healthcare policy expert and primary care physician Dr. Kavita Patel discusses the setbacks of the bill and the US healthcare system at-large.

In honor of International Women’s Day, Joanna and Prachi discuss the history of women striking, and speak with Ai-Jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. 

Joanna and Prachi discuss CPAC and the onslaught of anti-choice legislation introduced since 2010, including a new Texas bill which would allow doctors to withhold information from expectant parents. They also speak with Dr. Diane Horvath-Cosper of Physicans for Reproductive Health about what it's like to fight these laws on the ground.