Civics 101
By NHPR
Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Image by NHPR
Category: Government
Open in Apple Podcasts
Open RSS feed
Open Website
Rate for this podcast
Subscribers: 1931
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 278
ahhhh
Dec 30, 2019
makes me hopefull
A Podcast Republic user
Jul 12, 2018
Description
How do landmark Supreme Court decisions affect our lives? What does the 2nd Amendment really say? Why does the Senate have so much power? Civics 101 is the podcast about how our democracy works…or is supposed to work, anyway.
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
|
How do tariffs work?
|
Dec 17, 2024 |
|
What is authoritarianism?
|
Dec 10, 2024 |
|
What can (and can't) the Secretary of Health and Human Services do?
|
Dec 03, 2024 |
|
The Supreme Court's Criminal Trial
|
Nov 26, 2024 |
|
What is the Cabinet? And how can appointments work?
|
Nov 19, 2024 |
|
Trump's "Day One" Promises
|
Nov 12, 2024 |
|
How do presidential transitions happen?
|
Nov 08, 2024 |
|
What happens to ensure your vote for president is counted?
|
Nov 05, 2024 |
|
Life in the wake of January 6th
|
Oct 31, 2024 |
|
US vs: Healthcare
|
Oct 29, 2024 |
|
What Remains: Science, ethics, and the Smithsonian’s bone collection
|
Oct 22, 2024 |
|
Why does corruption matter?
|
Oct 15, 2024 |
|
How can the president stop a strike?
|
Oct 08, 2024 |
|
How YOU can help preserve our democracy (really)
|
Oct 01, 2024 |
|
What is "Originalism?"
|
Sep 24, 2024 |
|
The Mighty Mississippi
|
Sep 17, 2024 |
|
It's Been A Minute: Video Games vs. Journalism vs. Robert Frost
|
Sep 13, 2024 |
|
What Does the President DO?
|
Sep 10, 2024 |
|
Why is the voting age 18?
|
Sep 03, 2024 |
|
Middle Class, Totally Relatable & Elite! (The Campaign Jargon Trivia Episode)
|
Aug 27, 2024 |
|
So Long, Chevron
|
Aug 20, 2024 |
|
Go play a game.
|
Aug 13, 2024 |
|
What is a whistleblower?
|
Aug 06, 2024 |
|
How does the Order of Succession work?
|
Jul 30, 2024 |
|
How Are Cities Chosen For The Olympics?
|
Jul 26, 2024 |
|
Kamala Harris will be the nominee. What now?
|
Jul 24, 2024 |
|
Why was the documents case against Donald Trump dismissed?
|
Jul 17, 2024 |
|
Introducing “The Youth Development Center”
|
Jul 16, 2024 |
|
Where History and Love Collide: Doris Kearns Goodwin on the 60s and Today
|
Jul 16, 2024 |
|
Moyle v U.S.: Why did SCOTUS punt an abortion case?
|
Jul 09, 2024 |
|
The CPB and the Politics of Public Media
|
Jul 02, 2024 |
|
What does the Supreme Court's immunity decision mean?
|
Jul 01, 2024 |
|
What is the Smithsonian?
|
Jun 25, 2024 |
|
The Second Amendment - What does it mean?
|
Jun 18, 2024 |
|
What's up with those flags?
|
Jun 11, 2024 |
|
Strikes, Unions and Workers' Rights
|
Jun 04, 2024 |
|
Why do we have the National Zoo?
|
May 28, 2024 |
|
What's it like to report on Congress?
|
May 21, 2024 |
|
Why ballot design matters
|
May 14, 2024 |
|
What is Money?
|
May 07, 2024 |
|
A city government, a looming disaster, and a complicated choice
|
Apr 30, 2024 |
|
"I see a temple that we built."
|
Apr 26, 2024 |
|
Why are we printing so much paper money? (D.C. field trip dispatch)
|
Apr 26, 2024 |
|
The Constitution is not vegan! (D.C. field trip dispatch)
|
Apr 24, 2024 |
|
Why is Marbury v. Madison in Trump’s Supreme Court brief?
|
Apr 23, 2024 |
|
What do the RNC and DNC do?
|
Apr 16, 2024 |
|
How to file your taxes
|
Apr 09, 2024 |
|
Why do we pay income taxes, again?
|
Apr 09, 2024 |
|
Promises, Promises: What Biden and Trump are saying they'll do if elected
|
Apr 02, 2024 |
|
How did Lochner v. New York end up on the naughty list?
|
Mar 26, 2024 |
|
How Can The Government Ban TikTok?
|
Mar 18, 2024 |
|
Can the Supreme Court save us from ourselves?
|
Mar 12, 2024 |
|
Amending the Constitution
|
Mar 05, 2024 |
|
What's Going On With Civics Education?
|
Feb 27, 2024 |
|
Extra Credit: How to Argue Against Disinformation; Trump Trials Update
|
Feb 20, 2024 |
|
What Are Presidential Pardons?
|
Feb 13, 2024 |
|
How Should We Govern the Algorithm?
|
Feb 06, 2024 |
|
What is Federalist 10?
|
Jan 30, 2024 |
|
Election 2024: What Is Happening?
|
Jan 23, 2024 |
|
How much do government employees get paid?
|
Jan 16, 2024 |
|
Rumors and Lies, the American Version
|
Jan 09, 2024 |
|
Expulsion from Congress
|
Jan 02, 2024 |
|
Can we fix school lunch?
|
Dec 26, 2023 |
|
The Politics of School Lunch
|
Dec 19, 2023 |
|
Does Santa Break The Law?
|
Dec 12, 2023 |
|
What is a Federal Holiday?
|
Dec 05, 2023 |
|
Term Limits for Congress?
|
Nov 28, 2023 |
|
What is the Order of Succession?
|
Nov 21, 2023 |
|
SCOTUS Watchlist
|
Nov 14, 2023 |
|
What powers does the Speaker of the House have?
|
Nov 07, 2023 |
|
The After School Satan Club
|
Oct 31, 2023 |
|
Heather Cox Richardson on the State of America
|
Oct 24, 2023 |
|
The National Weather Service
|
Oct 17, 2023 |
|
Separation of Church and State
|
Oct 10, 2023 |
|
BONUS: American Girl Dolls and YOU
|
Oct 04, 2023 |
|
What Are Government Shutdowns?
|
Oct 03, 2023 |
|
A (Sorta) Civics Trivia Battle
|
Sep 26, 2023 |
|
Did American Girl Dolls Do Right By History? (Part 2)
|
Sep 19, 2023 |
|
Did American Girl Dolls Do Right By History? (Part 1)
|
Sep 19, 2023 |
|
Classified Documents
|
Sep 12, 2023 |
|
What is RICO?
|
Sep 05, 2023 |
|
The Republican and Democratic Parties
|
Aug 29, 2023 |
|
Civics Education 2: When the Curriculum is Against the Law
|
Aug 22, 2023 |
|
What Is (or Was) Affirmative Action?
|
Aug 15, 2023 |
|
When Espionage Means The Death Penalty
|
Aug 08, 2023 |
|
The Presidential Records Act
|
Aug 01, 2023 |
|
What Moore v Harper Means for Elections
|
Jul 25, 2023 |
|
Civics Education 1: What Do We Teach?
|
Jul 18, 2023 |
|
America's "War on Drugs"
|
Jul 11, 2023 |
|
What Is "The Shadow Docket?"
|
Jul 04, 2023 |
|
How Have Supreme Court Arguments Changed?
|
Jun 27, 2023 |
|
Socialism, Communism, Fascism
|
Jun 20, 2023 |
|
The 14th Amendment
|
Jun 12, 2023 |
|
Supreme Court Ethics
|
Jun 06, 2023 |
|
What's the Debt Ceiling and the National Debt?
|
May 30, 2023 |
|
The Fairness Doctrine
|
May 23, 2023 |
|
BONUS: Talking to Kids About the News
|
May 19, 2023 |
|
Reconstruction: The Laws of the Land
|
May 16, 2023 |
|
Reconstruction: The Big Lie
|
May 08, 2023 |
|
Reconstruction: Why We Didn't Learn About It
|
May 02, 2023 |
|
Defamation, Libel, and Dominion, Oh My!
|
Apr 23, 2023 |
|
US vs: Freedom
|
Apr 18, 2023 |
|
How Can The Government Ban An App?
|
Apr 11, 2023 |
|
How Do Indictments and Grand Juries Work?
|
Apr 02, 2023 |
|
Jury Duty: What To Expect When You Get That Summons
|
Mar 28, 2023 |
|
Who Writes Bills?
|
Mar 21, 2023 |
|
Paying Income Taxes
|
Mar 14, 2023 |
|
A Primary Battle
|
Mar 07, 2023 |
|
Who owns the sky?
|
Feb 28, 2023 |
|
The 2008 Financial Crisis Explained
|
Feb 21, 2023 |
|
Why Do We Have an Income Tax?
|
Feb 14, 2023 |
|
What's Up With The Space Force?
|
Feb 07, 2023 |
|
The Government and Housing: Policy
|
Jan 31, 2023 |
|
The Government and Housing: One City's Story
|
Jan 31, 2023 |
|
Federal Courts: Muhammad Ali and the Draft
|
Jan 24, 2023 |
|
The Last State To Hold Out Against Martin Luther King Jr. Day
|
Jan 16, 2023 |
|
The Life of a Political Operative
|
Jan 10, 2023 |
|
The Lavender Scare
|
Jan 03, 2023 |
|
How the Government Makes a Holiday
|
Dec 27, 2022 |
|
Is Santa a Criminal?
|
Dec 20, 2022 |
|
The President & The 25th Amendment
|
Dec 13, 2022 |
|
Who gets to run for president?
|
Dec 06, 2022 |
|
Propaganda
|
Nov 29, 2022 |
|
Post-Presidency Perks
|
Nov 22, 2022 |
|
The White House Press Corps & The Press Secretary
|
Nov 15, 2022 |
|
Are We A Democracy? Or Are We A Republic?
|
Nov 08, 2022 |
|
American Myths Part Two: Progress
|
Nov 01, 2022 |
|
American Myths Part One: Origins
|
Nov 01, 2022 |
|
Host v Host: A Trivia Battle of Wits
|
Oct 25, 2022 |
|
Civics 101 Presents: Future Hindsight on the Asian American Vote
|
Oct 18, 2022 |
|
Nina Totenberg Live On Stage
|
Oct 11, 2022 |
|
Taking the Fifth: When What You Say Could Be Used Against You
|
Oct 04, 2022 |
|
Oaths
|
Sep 27, 2022 |
|
Federal Courts: The Trial of the Chicago 7
|
Sep 20, 2022 |
|
How Powerful Is The President's Veto?
|
Sep 13, 2022 |
|
Disinformation and Misinformation
|
Sep 06, 2022 |
|
What's The Difference Between The House & The Senate?
|
Aug 30, 2022 |
|
Federal Courts: Espionage and the Rosenbergs
|
Aug 23, 2022 |
|
Everything You Need to Know About Midterms
|
Aug 16, 2022 |
|
Federal Courts: Our First Treason Trial
|
Aug 09, 2022 |
|
What is the National Debt?
|
Aug 02, 2022 |
|
How to Vote
|
Jul 26, 2022 |
|
Why You Should Vote (Even When They Don't Want You To)
|
Jul 26, 2022 |
|
The Declaration Does Not Apply
|
Jul 19, 2022 |
|
The 1965 Voting Rights Act
|
Jul 12, 2022 |
|
The 4th of July Myth (and Other Patriotic Trivia)
|
Jul 04, 2022 |
|
The National Park Service
|
Jun 28, 2022 |
|
M, F & X: Gender Markers & Government Documents
|
Jun 21, 2022 |
|
What Does The 2nd Amendment Say?
|
Jun 14, 2022 |
|
Precedent and the Leaked Draft SCOTUS Opinion
|
Jun 10, 2022 |
|
Precedent and the Supreme Court
|
Jun 07, 2022 |
|
Update: Happy the Elephant is Not a Person
|
Jun 03, 2022 |
|
Should Animals Have Human Rights?
|
Jun 02, 2022 |
|
Quick Update
|
May 31, 2022 |
|
District, Circuit, Supreme: How does the federal court system work?
|
May 24, 2022 |
|
Freedom of the Press, Part 2
|
May 17, 2022 |
|
Freedom of the Press, Part 1
|
May 17, 2022 |
|
The Shadow Docket
|
May 10, 2022 |
|
Roe v Wade: Facts of the Case
|
May 03, 2022 |
|
The First National Park
|
Apr 26, 2022 |
|
What is NATO?
|
Apr 19, 2022 |
|
Citizens United v FEC
|
Apr 12, 2022 |
|
US vs: Constitutions
|
Apr 05, 2022 |
|
Why Is The Senate Parliamentarian So Powerful?
|
Mar 29, 2022 |
|
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
|
Mar 22, 2022 |
|
Election Security
|
Mar 15, 2022 |
|
Why You Should Care About the Federal Reserve
|
Mar 08, 2022 |
|
When the Supreme Court Got It Wrong: Civil Rights and Dred Scott
|
Mar 01, 2022 |
|
How Realistic is National Treasure?
|
Feb 24, 2022 |
|
What are Committees?
|
Feb 22, 2022 |
|
Who Writes the President's Speeches?
|
Feb 15, 2022 |
|
How Does Security Clearance Work?
|
Feb 08, 2022 |
|
The President and the Price of Gas
|
Feb 01, 2022 |
|
The Politics Of The Olympics
|
Jan 26, 2022 |
|
The USDA
|
Jan 18, 2022 |
|
Congressional Investigations
|
Jan 11, 2022 |
|
Declaring War
|
Jan 04, 2022 |
|
A Civics Trivia Special!
|
Dec 28, 2021 |
|
The Lottery
|
Dec 21, 2021 |
|
Federal Holidays
|
Dec 14, 2021 |
|
Civics at the Movies: NASA and Hollywood
|
Dec 09, 2021 |
|
Emergency Powers of the President
|
Dec 07, 2021 |
|
US vs: Two Party System
|
Nov 30, 2021 |
|
Diplomacy
|
Nov 23, 2021 |
|
Gerrymandering
|
Nov 16, 2021 |
|
After 9/11: The Department of Homeland Security
|
Nov 02, 2021 |
|
Government Shutdown
|
Oct 19, 2021 |
|
State Attorneys General
|
Oct 05, 2021 |
|
After 9/11: The FBI
|
Sep 08, 2021 |
|
John Marshall and the Supreme Court
|
Aug 24, 2021 |
|
Civil Rights: Obergefell v Hodges
|
Aug 10, 2021 |
|
Civil Rights: Loving v Virginia
|
Jul 27, 2021 |
|
Civil Rights: Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
|
Jul 13, 2021 |
|
Japanese American Internment
|
Jun 29, 2021 |
|
Civil Rights: Korematsu v United States
|
Jun 15, 2021 |
|
Civil Rights: Plessy v Ferguson
|
Jun 01, 2021 |
|
Civil Rights: Dred Scott v Sandford
|
May 18, 2021 |
|
There Ought to Be a Law: Student Contest Finalists
|
May 04, 2021 |
|
The Chinese Exclusion Act
|
Apr 20, 2021 |
|
Right to Privacy: Roe v Wade
|
Apr 06, 2021 |
|
Right to Privacy: New Jersey v T.L.O.
|
Mar 23, 2021 |
|
Right to Privacy: Griswold v Connecticut
|
Mar 09, 2021 |
|
Right to Privacy: Mapp v Ohio
|
Feb 23, 2021 |
|
Electoral College Addendum
|
Feb 09, 2021 |
|
Insurrection, Protest, Terrorism, Sedition, Coup
|
Jan 22, 2021 |
|
Ask Civics 101: The 25th Amendment
|
Jan 08, 2021 |
|
The Election
|
Oct 27, 2020 |
|
Freedom of the Press: Part 2
|
Oct 20, 2020 |
|
Presidential Debates
|
Oct 06, 2020 |
|
Freedom of the Press: Part 1
|
Sep 22, 2020 |
|
Declaration Revisited: The Declaration of Sentiments
|
Sep 08, 2020 |
|
Birthright Citizenship: US v Wong Kim Ark
|
Aug 25, 2020 |
|
The Declaration Revisited: Native Americans
|
Aug 11, 2020 |
|
The Declaration Revisited: Black Americans
|
Jul 28, 2020 |
|
Civic Action: Voting, Part 2
|
Jul 14, 2020 |
|
Civic Action: Voting, Part 1
|
Jul 02, 2020 |
|
Posse Comitatus
|
Jun 16, 2020 |
|
Civic Action: Protest
|
Jun 09, 2020 |
|
The United States Postal Service
|
May 19, 2020 |
|
AP US Government Prepisode
|
May 08, 2020 |
|
Emergency Powers of the Governor
|
Apr 14, 2020 |
|
19th Amendment: Part 2
|
Apr 07, 2020 |
|
19th Amendment: Part 1
|
Mar 24, 2020 |
|
Money
|
Mar 10, 2020 |
|
Independents
|
Feb 26, 2020 |
|
The Republican Party
|
Jan 28, 2020 |
|
The Democratic Party
|
Jan 14, 2020 |
|
Third Parties
|
Dec 18, 2019 |
|
Becoming a U.S. Citizen
|
Dec 03, 2019 |
|
Census
|
Nov 19, 2019 |
|
Electoral College
|
Nov 05, 2019 |
|
Conventions
|
Oct 22, 2019 |
|
Impeachment
|
Oct 08, 2019 |
|
Primaries and Caucuses
|
Sep 24, 2019 |
|
How to Run for President
|
Sep 10, 2019 |
|
Starter Kit: How A Bill (really) Becomes a Law
|
Aug 06, 2019 |
|
Starter Kit: Federalism
|
Jul 30, 2019 |
|
Starter Kit: Judicial Branch
|
Jul 23, 2019 |
|
Starter Kit: Legislative Branch
|
Jul 16, 2019 |
|
Starter Kit: Executive Branch
|
Jul 09, 2019 |
|
Starter Kit: Checks and Balances
|
Jul 02, 2019 |
|
Life Stages: Death
|
May 14, 2019 |
|
Life Stages: Retirement
|
May 07, 2019 |
|
Life Stages: Marriage
|
Apr 30, 2019 |
|
Life Stages: Work
|
Apr 23, 2019 |
|
Life Stages: School
|
Apr 16, 2019 |
|
Life Stages: Birth
|
Apr 09, 2019 |
|
Founding Documents: Bill of Rights
|
Feb 26, 2019 |
|
Founding Documents: The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
|
Feb 19, 2019 |
|
Founding Documents: The Constitution
|
Feb 12, 2019 |
|
Founding Documents: Articles of Confederation
|
Feb 05, 2019 |
|
Founding Documents: Declaration of Independence
|
Jan 29, 2019 |
|
Founding Documents: Magna Carta
|
Jan 22, 2019 |
|
Midterm Edition: Why Vote?
|
Nov 06, 2018 |
|
Midterm Edition: Propositions
|
Oct 30, 2018 |
|
Midterm Edition: Campaigning
|
Oct 23, 2018 |
|
Midterm Edition: House v Senate
|
Oct 16, 2018 |
|
Midterm Edition: State and Local Elections
|
Oct 09, 2018 |
|
Midterm Edition: 5 Things to Know about the Midterms
|
Oct 02, 2018 |
|
The Death Penalty
|
Jul 31, 2018 |
|
The Equal Rights Amendment
|
Jul 24, 2018 |
|
The Affordable Care Act
|
Jul 17, 2018 |
|
Tariffs
|
Jul 10, 2018 |
|
Contest Winner: Unconventional
|
Jul 03, 2018 |
|
The Draft
|
Jun 26, 2018 |
|
The Federal Register
|
Jun 19, 2018 |
|
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
|
Jun 12, 2018 |
|
Police
|
Jun 05, 2018 |
|
Infrastructure – Water!
|
May 29, 2018 |
|
Freedom of Information Act
|
May 22, 2018 |
|
NASA
|
May 15, 2018 |
|
The White House Press Secretary
|
May 11, 2018 |
|
ICE
|
May 08, 2018 |
|
The National Guard
|
May 01, 2018 |
|
Presidential Transitions
|
Apr 24, 2018 |
|
IRL 2: The Flag and the Pledge
|
Mar 06, 2018 |
|
IRL 1: Free Speech in Schools
|
Nov 24, 2017 |
|
U.S. Territories
|
Jul 25, 2017 |