To understand a person, learn how they grew up.
Many words will be spoken about @LindseyGrahamSC.
But I found myself thinking about the guy I spoke with a decade ago on The Axe Files.
It explained so much to me about who he was and what he would become. https://t.co/7qKhlJ7MMN
Proud to receive a Webby Award today for The Axe Files podcast, and grateful to the 605 women and men from all corners of the globe who joined me and shared their stories.
Real, authentic conversation is how we break down barriers and find our common humanity.
"I wanted this podcast to be one small antidote to the coarse nature of today’s politics and social media culture that so often reduces people to negative caricatures and robs us of our common humanity."
The end of an era!
9 years, 605 episodes and 70 million+ downloads later, today is the final installment of The Axe Files. I'm so grateful to my guests AND listeners. But now it's time to work on the next chapters of MY own story! More 👇
Full pod w/@RahmEmanuel: https://t.co/yajKSX864c
I don't often say this but you really should listen to the #AxeFiles conversation I had this week. I sat down w/Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (@MGPforCongress), a WA Dem who won re-election in a district Trump's carried 3X. Great story & LOTS of wisdom!
https://t.co/XODgF6sXnh
This week, The Axe Files reached a milestone: 600 episodes! For the 600th, we turned the tables: @andersoncooper sat down with @davidaxelrod to talk about The Axe Files and some of the show's most memorable moments. https://t.co/QonV5mcHuq
To those who don't think the actions of dictators like Putin should be our concern, @ekaramurza, wife of jailed Russian dissident @vkaramurza, has a message: "Evil tends to spread. (Untended) we will wake up & see it knocking on our door."
#AxeFiles: https://t.co/HXky0sfP1D
Star politician-turned- seminarian, Cyrus Habib, is blind. But he is a person of remarkable vision & insights.
On #AxeFiles, he talks about how, by putting our views on the record, social media makes it that much harder for us to change our minds.
Pod👉https://t.co/hNVR75yalG
This week on the Axe Files, @davidaxelrod talks with @cyrushabib, a former lieutenant governor who left politics for the Jesuit order. His story is equal parts captivating and inspiring and well worth a listen. https://t.co/qsMJ59UJeB
"Nothing gets clicks like an expression of pure anger...Social media encourages us to be angry. It rewards us when we're angry. It incentivizes it...That has done enormous damage."
-@FrankBruni, author of the The Age of Grievance.
On #AxeFiles!
Pod: https://t.co/YxtBg1Lzd1
“Measuring misfortune is no strategy for living." On the latest Axe Files with @davidaxelrod, @FrankBruni talks about our current culture of seeking victimization and offense and his new book, "The Age of Grievance."
“I’m both exhausted and enraged at the same time.” On the latest Axe Files with @davidaxelrod, @SaraParetsky talks about her work on abortion rights and how society views women.
https://t.co/LZyfSy5hKr
On the latest Axe Files with @davidaxelrod, @timalberta talks about growing up in the evangelical church, watching it change over the years, and his new book, "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism." https://t.co/di2xOpiVqw
“You dismiss this at your own peril.” On the latest Axe Files with @davidaxelrod, @timalberta talks about the “intensified, emboldened fringe” consolidating power in the evangelical movement. https://t.co/di2xOpiVqw
On the latest Axe Files, @MalloryMcMorrow talks about the war in the Middle East, becoming a GOP target, Michigan politics, and why Democrats need to prioritize good candidates at every level of government. https://t.co/H2sP4qaYCT
On #AxeFiles, @BarackObama aide @ReggieLove33 honors his grandma, a civil rights activist who did not live to see her grandson in the WH.
"Her whole life, she was in a fight, building what we believed could be a better version of the place that we have."
https://t.co/PNDqu2K9hO
To commemorate the 15th anniversary of Obama’s election, @davidaxelrod gathered members of the 2008 campaign-@jonfavs, @AlyssaMastro44, @Robt_Gibbs, @ReggieLove33-to reflect on their history-making journey and its message of hope on the latest Axe Files. https://t.co/fO9VKzoDHR