Democracy Works
By Penn State McCourtney Institute for Democracy
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Reviews: 4
Episodes: 298
matt
Oct 4, 2022
was cool in the beginning, cool authors and scholars. now just trump derangement syndrome rants
Srini
Apr 27, 2022
Although leaning a bit towards the left ( seems like these days voting rights is a left belief), this podcast does a good job of fostering a great discussion and democratic ideas
sheep
Feb 4, 2020
listen to primaries parties and the public and you can hear the complete contempt these elitists have for your input in any democratic process. the peasants are to be witnesses to politics never participants.
H.
Nov 26, 2019
very informative by people who understand the value of Rule of Law
Description
The Democracy Works podcast seeks to answer that question by examining a different aspect of democratic life each week — from voting to criminal justice to the free press and everything in between. We interview experts who study democracy, as well as people who are out there doing the hard work of democracy day in and day out.
The show’s name comes from Pennsylvania’s long tradition of iron and steel works — people coming together to build things greater than the sum of their parts. We believe that democracy is the same way. Each of us has a role to play in building and sustaining a healthy democracy and our show is all about helping people understand what that means.
Democracy Works is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what’s broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.
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Bad Watchdog: The Red Herring
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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How strong is support for democracy?
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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How the Supreme Court could shape the 2024 election
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Eddie Glaude Jr. on the peril of outsourcing democracy
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Liberalism is a lifestyle
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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The immigration stories that aren't told
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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How the National Popular Vote could change presidential elections
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Making Peace Visible: In search of good conflict
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Season finale: Protests, debates, and the "meh" election
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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How elected strongmen weaken democracy
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May 20, 2024 |
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30 years of democracy in South Africa
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May 06, 2024 |
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David Hogg on leaders we deserve
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Democracy is the sum of us
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Cassidy Hutchinson on what comes after January 6
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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How discontent destabilizes demoracy
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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A different take on social media and democracy
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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How to combat political extremism
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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A different kind of political divide
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Tim Alberta on evangelicals and Republicans
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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How election officials are preparing for the year ahead
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Finding hope in 2024
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Year in review: Media, mental health, and threats to democracy
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Making Peace Visible: The state of democracy in India
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Does mandatory civic education increase voter turnout?
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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A deep look at political loss
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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When populism and democracy collide
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Understanding union voters
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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A conflict at the heart of our political disagreements
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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What can we learn from early democracies?
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Building better bureaucracy
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Tim Miller on why Republicans stuck with Trump
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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"Democracy '24" on the debate stage
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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When the People Decide: Libraries as civic spaces
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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A deep dive on parties and political reform
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Democracy Paradox: The democratic crisis you haven't heard about
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Village SquareCast: Can curiosity save us?
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Democracy-ish: Can America's democracy be saved?
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Democracy needs serious people
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May 29, 2023 |
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Gen Z's fight for democracy
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May 15, 2023 |
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Think Inclusive: Facing the Anti-CRT Movement
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May 08, 2023 |
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Is America in a third reconstruction?
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May 01, 2023 |
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Between democracy and autocracy
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Living in a fragmented democracy
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Feet in 2 Worlds: Immigrants in a Divided Country
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Harnessing the power of juries
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Civic learning amid the culture wars
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Finding the "we" in civic engagement
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Why politics makes us depressed — and what we can do about it
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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What will it take to make democracy more representative?
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Separating news from noise
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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What we learned from our guests in 2022
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Where do the parties go from here?
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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The real free speech problem on campus
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Jamelle Bouie makes the case for majoritarianism
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Our conversation with Josh Shapiro [rebroadcast]
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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States united for democracy
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Celebrating democracy's small victories
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Climate change is everyone's fight
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Francis Fukuyama on the promise and peril of liberalism
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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The backbone of democracy is now the face of fraud
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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How Democrats can harness grassroots energy
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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When should the states decide?
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Chris Beem on the seven democratic virtues
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Rural broadband and the politics of "good enough"
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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A deep dive into the administrative state
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Reflecting on the January 6 hearings and what's happened since
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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A new approach to breaking our media silos
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Laboratories against democracy [rebroadcast]
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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How positive and negative freedoms shape democracy
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Introducing: When the People Decide
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Democracy's summer blockbusters
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Can American democracy have nice things?
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May 30, 2022 |
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Baby Boomers and American gerontocracy
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May 23, 2022 |
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No Jargon: How white Millennials think about race
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May 16, 2022 |
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Book bans are never just about books
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May 09, 2022 |
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Debating the future of debates
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May 02, 2022 |
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What student debt says about democratic institutions
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Combating disinformation at home and abroad
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Jon Meacham on creating a more perfect union
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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The roots of radical partisanship
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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How democracies can win the war on reality [rebroadcast]
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Ro Khanna on dignity and democracy
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Russia and Ukraine: How we got here
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Defending democracy at home and abroad
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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What academic freedom really means in a democracy
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Tracing the rise of illiberalism
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Moving beyond news deserts and misinformation
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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How national parties are breaking state politics
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Can the courts save civics education?
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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When religion and democracy collide
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Sore losers are bad for democracy
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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On democracy's doomsayers
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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What does it take to sustain democracy?
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Fannie Lou Hamer's fight continues today
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Andrew Yang and Charlie Dent on the future of America's political parties
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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The soul of democracy
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Jonathan Haidt on democracy's moral foundations [rebroadcast]
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Why social media is so polarizing — and what we can do about it
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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What makes a campaign deplorable?
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Fighting for democracy in the GOP
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Tom Nichols on democracy's worst enemy
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Independent commissions alone can't create fair maps
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Voter suppression doesn't repeat, but it rhymes
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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A love letter to democratic institutions
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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How Amazon is disrupting democracy
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Abortion is not always a clash of absolutes
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Millennials' slow climb to political power
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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A summer of the individual vs. the common good
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Extreme maps, extreme politics [reboradcast]
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Jan-Werner Müller on democracy's rules
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Does Congress promote partisan gridlock? [rebroadcast]
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Pete Davis is dedicated to the hard work of democracy
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Masha Gessen on the Moscow duel
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Walter Shaub on transparency, ethics, and democracy
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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A different take on local news and democracy
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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How to end democracy's doom loop [rebroadcast]
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Democracy as a way of life
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Your guide to ranked-choice voting [rebroadcast]
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Is it possible to overdo democracy? [rebroadcast]
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Looking back to move forward
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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The people vs. the bureaucrats in Flint
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May 31, 2021 |
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There is no "I" in democracy
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May 24, 2021 |
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How democracies can win the war on reality
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May 17, 2021 |
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Conspiracism finds a home on the intellectual right
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May 10, 2021 |
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The Federalist Society's ideas have consequences for democracy
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May 03, 2021 |
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Colored Conventions show us where democracy really happens
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Can pranksters save democracy?
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Public schools, not government schools
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Reforming criminal justice from the inside out
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Laboratories of restricting democracy
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Danielle Allen on achieving democracy's ideals
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Reimagining citizenship in a consumer world
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Understanding — and addressing — domestic terrorism
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Anne Applebaum on why democracy is not inevitable
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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The long road to a multiracial democracy
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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A path forward for social media and democracy
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Will Alexei Navalny make Russia more democratic?
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Direct democracy's dark side
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Check out our partners in The Democracy Group
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Extreme maps, extreme politics
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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American democracy's violent disruption
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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What neoliberalism left behind [rebroadcast]
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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How conspiracies are damaging democracy [rebroadcast]
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Did democracy work in 2020?
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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The people want pot
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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What really motivates Trump supporters
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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The myth of the "Latino vote"
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Can corporations be democratic citizens?
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Is common ground hiding in plain sight?
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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When four threats to democracy collide
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Wynton Marsalis on democracy as jazz and The Ever Fonky Lowdown
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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News deserts are democracy deserts, too
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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The Supreme Court's politics and power
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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The perfect storm for election disaster
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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The 2020 election from WPSU's Take Note
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Hong Kong's fight is everyone's fight
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Sheriffs 101
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Students learn, students vote
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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A dark side to "laboratories of democracy"
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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A fall preview — with a new cohost!
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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YIMBYs and NIMBYs in a democracy
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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After 100 years, there's still no "woman voter"
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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She Votes! — Susan B. Anthony and "voting while female"
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Reason in politics and hope for democracy
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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The people who choose the President
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Broken Ground: Robert Bullard on environmental justice
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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The world's most punitive democracy [revisited]
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Suspect citizens in a democracy [revisited]
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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The second annual Democracy Works listener mailbag
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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How to end democracy’s doom loop
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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The clumsy journey to antiracism
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Civil rights, civil unrest
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Aaron Maybin on doing the hard work of democracy [rebroadcast]
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Free speech from the Founding Fathers to Twitter
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Bonus: Mayors and bipartisanship during COVID-19
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May 29, 2020 |
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The people vs. the experts — and those caught in the middle
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May 25, 2020 |
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China’s role in the COVID-19 infodemic
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May 18, 2020 |
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A roadmap to a more equitable democracy
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May 11, 2020 |
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Trust, facts, and democracy in a polarized world
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May 04, 2020 |
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Bonus: Civic engagement, social distancing, and democracy reform
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May 01, 2020 |
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Give me liberty or give me COVID-19?
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Bonus: COVID-19 and Democracy with The Democracy Group
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Federalism in uncertain times
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Will COVID-19 create a one-issue campaign?
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Public health depends on the Census
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Free and fair elections during a pandemic
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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COVID-19 exposes democracy’s tensions
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Populism is not a monolith
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Swamp Stories: Cashing In
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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The promise and peril of early voting
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Breaking down Black politics
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Does Congress promote partisan gridlock?
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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How states are working to keep your vote safe
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Primaries, parties, and the public
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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The connective tissue of democracy
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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How the Tea Party and the Resistance are upending politics
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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A 2020 preview
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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Grassroots organizing to “reboot” democracy [rebroadcast]
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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E.J. Dionne on making America empathetic again [rebroadcast]
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Dec 30, 2019 |
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Is it possible to overdo democracy?
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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Chris Beem on democratic humility and virtues
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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Next-generation democracy
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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The democracy rebellion happening in states across the U.S.
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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A roundtable on impeachment, institutions, and legitimacy
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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Your guide to ranked-choice voting
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Latino immigrants and the changing makeup of American democracy
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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Inside the world’s largest democracy
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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Changing the climate conversation
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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From political crisis to profound change
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Andrew Sullivan on democracy’s double-edged sword
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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The case for open primaries
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Understanding impeachment — from the Federalist Papers to the whistleblower
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Street-level bureaucrats at the border
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Out of Order: A conversation with Mitch Landrieu and Margaret Carlson
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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China’s threat to democracies around the world
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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One state’s fight for fair maps
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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How music transcends political polarization
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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Doing the hard work of democracy in Baltimore
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Sep 01, 2019 |
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How conspiracies are damaging democracy
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Sep 01, 2019 |
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Defending the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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Standing up for science and fighting the climate wars [rebroadcast]
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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Tracing the past, present, and future of protests
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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A conversation about conversation [rebroadcast]
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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Politics and Polls: Blue state federalism
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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The Pledge: Are you scared of the cafeteria lady?
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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How Democracies Die author Daniel Ziblatt on the “grinding work” of democracy [rebroadcast]
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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A democracy summer reading list [rebroadcast]
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Answering your questions about democracy
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Congressional oversight and making America pragmatic again
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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Will AI destroy democracy?
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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The 2019 version of Democracy in America
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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What neoliberalism left behind
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May 27, 2019 |
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Demagogues are more common than you think
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May 20, 2019 |
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What does the Mueller report mean for democracy?
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May 13, 2019 |
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School segregation then and now
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May 06, 2019 |
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What Serial taught Sarah Koenig about criminal justice — recorded live at Penn State
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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Is it time to revive civility?
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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E.J. Dionne on empathy and democracy
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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No Jargon: Who controls the states?
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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The ongoing struggle for civil rights
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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Immigration, refugees, and the politics of displacement
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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A playbook for organizing in turbulent times
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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Jonathan Haidt on the psychology of democracy
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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Future Hindsight: Ian Bremmer on the failure of globalism
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Brexit and the UK’s identity crisis
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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Brazil’s tenuous relationship with democracy
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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Yellow vests and the “grand debate” in France
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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Viktor Orbán’s “velvet repression” in Hungary
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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A brief history of “people power”
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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The power of local government
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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Using the tools of democracy to address economic inequality
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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What is democracy? A conversation with Astra Taylor
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Jan 21, 2019 |
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Trump on Earth: The Red State Paradox
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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It’s good to be counted [rebroadcast]
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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When states sue the federal government [rebroadcast]
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Dec 31, 2018 |
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Citizenship, patriotism, and democracy in the classroom [rebroadcast]
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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2018: The year in democracy
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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The complicated relationship between campaign finance and democracy
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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Capturing the nation’s mood
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Are land-grant universities still “democracy’s colleges?”
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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Norman Eisen’s love letter to democracy
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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Winning the “democracy lottery”
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Nov 19, 2018 |
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From soldier-statesman to the warrior ethos: Gen. Wesley Clark on the military and democracy
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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Protecting democracy from foreign interference — recorded live at the National Press Club
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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Will Millennials disrupt democracy?
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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David Frum on developing the habits of democracy
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Oct 22, 2018 |
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When states sue the federal government
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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How “if it bleeds, it leads” impacts democracy
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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A story about democracy, told through 20 million traffic stops
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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Breaking the silence in Syria
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Sep 24, 2018 |
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Citizenship, patriotism, and democracy in the classroom
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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Behind the scenes of the “Year of the Woman”
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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The democrats in public sector unions [Labor Day rebroadcast]
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Sep 03, 2018 |
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Middle America, Part 2: Grassroots organizing and rebooting democracy
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Aug 27, 2018 |
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Middle America, Part 1: Populism and the Trump Voter
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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Facebook is not a democracy
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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How will we remember Charlottesville?
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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A democracy reading list
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Jul 09, 2018 |
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Bonus: A dose of optimism about the future of democracy
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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The constitutional crisis episode
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Jul 02, 2018 |
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Unpacking political polarization
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Jun 25, 2018 |
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What should voting look like in the 21st century?
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Jun 18, 2018 |
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When the “business of business” bleeds into politics
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Jun 11, 2018 |
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Michael Mann’s journey through the climate wars
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Can young people revive civic engagement?
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May 29, 2018 |
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Bonus: Democracy In Action #1
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May 24, 2018 |
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A conversation about conversation
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May 21, 2018 |
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Ten thousand democracies
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May 11, 2018 |
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It’s good to be counted
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May 08, 2018 |
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Satire is good for more than just a few laughs
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May 01, 2018 |
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Tommie Smith: From sharecropper to Olympic protester
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Apr 24, 2018 |
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Generation Z and the future of democracy
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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How Democracies Die author Daniel Ziblatt on the ‘grinding work’ of democracy
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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What can Pennsylvania voters do about gerrymandering?
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Fake news, clickbait, and the future of local journalism
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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Checking the President’s power
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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Is Colin Kaepernick a good democrat?
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Mar 14, 2018 |
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What is Democracy Works?
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Mar 12, 2018 |