{"podcast":{"title":"Conversations with Coleman","slug":"conversations-with-coleman-6685318","podcast_index_feed_id":6685318,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/8YOtRPoZ","website_url":"https://www.thefp.com/podcasts","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/49edd922-2f60-11f0-ad0f-8faaf128c737/image/9213d86a9305bac1cf68e4b3607feacc.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"The Free Press","episode_count":246,"summary":"Conversations with Coleman is where deep thinkers and curious minds meet for sharp, surprising, and unfiltered chats. Hosted by Coleman Hughes, writer, thinker, and guy who asks the questions other people dodge - this podcast isn’t about debating. It’s about discovery. Politics, philosophy, race, culture, science: it’s all fair game. If you're done with hot takes and hungry for real-talk, come join the conversation.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T18:18:09.851336+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-coleman-6685318"},"episode":{"title":"What People Get Wrong About Birthright Citizenship","slug":"what-people-get-wrong-about-birthright-citizenship","published_at":"2026-04-06T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-coleman-6685318/what-people-get-wrong-about-birthright-citizenship","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-coleman-6685318","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/VOdNgcECFk0maZgOJbmx/traffic.megaphone.fm/CBS1900054050.mp3?updated=1775237470","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/VOdNgcECFk0maZgOJbmx/traffic.megaphone.fm/CBS1900054050.mp3?updated=1775237470","summary":"Linda Chavez has called herself the “Forrest Gump of Washington politics,” and it’'s hard to argue. She bumped into a Watergate burglar coming out of a bathroom in 1972, became the highest-ranking woman in the Reagan White House, nearly became Secretary of Labor under George W. Bush, and lost that nomination after it emerged she had sheltered an undocumented Guatemalan immigrant in her home. Today, she joins the show to respond to a recent episode with Lionel Shriver, pushing back on some of the assumptions driving the current immigration debate. She makes the case for robust legal immigration and serious border enforcement — and explains why the Trump administration is managing to get both wrong. She also discusses why assimilation is working better than the culture war suggests, why affirmative action hurts the students it claims to help, and why birthright citizenship is more legally settled than its critics want to admit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Linda Chavez has called herself the “Forrest Gump of Washington politics,” and it’'s hard to argue. She bumped into a Watergate burglar coming out of a ba…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4491,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/conversations-with-coleman-6685318/episodes/what-people-get-wrong-about-birthright-citizenship/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-coleman-6685318/what-people-get-wrong-about-birthright-citizenship.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}