Co-hosts Anne Kim and Garrett Epps speak with Tamar Jacoby, Director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s New Ukraine Project, on the future of Ukraine, the changing face of warfare, and Vladimir Putin’s potential ambitions in Europe.
Co-hosts Anne Kim and Garrett Epps speak with Tamar Jacoby, Director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s New Ukraine Project, on the future of Ukraine, the changing face of warfare, and Vladimir Putin’s potential ambitions in Europe.

Anne Kim is a Senior Editor at Washington Monthly and the author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor (New Press, 2024).
Anne is also a Senior Fellow at FutureEd and the author of Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection, winner of the 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. She writes about education, economics, domestic and social policy, and who has access to opportunity in America.
Anne has served as legislative director and deputy chief of staff to Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN). She's also worked in senior roles at multiple D.C. think tanks, including the Progressive Policy Institute and Third Way, where she was director of the Economic Program and founding director of the Social Policy and Politics Program.
Anne has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a law degree from Duke University.
Anne is on Bluesky @anne-s-kim.bsky.social.
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