The Purple Principle

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Nonpartisan podcast for independent-minded Americans exploring the perils of partisanship in U.S. politics, society and daily life. Join & Support us with an Apple Podcast Subscription for bonus content.

Episode Date
Election Reform in the Last Best Place? Voting Day 2024 in Kalispell, Montana
Dec 19, 2024
Our Top 10 Predictive Insights: Explaining the 2024 Election & Beyond
Nov 20, 2024
Transforming US Politics for $200 Million? Andrew Yang on Election Reform
Oct 31, 2024
Reform Milestones with FairVote’s Rob Richie: Ranked Choice Voting’s First Three Decades
Oct 23, 2024
Frontiers of Election Reform (Part 2): Will Alaskans Preserve Top Four Voting?
Oct 09, 2024
Frontiers of Election Reform: 5 Views on the Alaska Legislature (Part One)
Sep 25, 2024
When Legislatures Act Before Citizens Vote: Colorado's Top Four Election Reform
Sep 11, 2024
New Oregon Trail for Ranked Choice Voting? From Farmer’s Market to Legislature & Citizen Ballot
Aug 28, 2024
Three Election Reformers Approach the Finish Line: Will Nevada Adopt the Alaska Model?
Aug 14, 2024
How About Treating All Voters & Candidates the Same! Paul Johnson & Chuck Coughlin of Make Elections Fair AZ
Jul 31, 2024
Opening Primaries on the Great Plains: Are Stars Aligned for South Dakota Reform?
Jul 17, 2024
The Alaska Election Frontier: Our July 4th Trek Across Three Episodes
Jul 03, 2024
Making All Votes Count in DC: Proposer Lisa Rice & the Yes on 83 Team
Jun 26, 2024
Idaho's Open Primaries & Final Four Voting Initiative: Sometimes it Takes a Coalition!
Jun 12, 2024
Can Competition Foster Better Government? Reform Strategist Katherine Gehl on 2024 Ballots & Beyond
May 29, 2024
United States of Gerrymandering? Ripple Effects from State House to White House
May 15, 2024
Dissenting Voices on Today’s GOP: Interviews from The 2024 Principles First Summit
May 01, 2024
Former RNC Chair Michael Steele: An Alarmed Critique of a GOP Transformed
Apr 17, 2024
Asa Hutchinson on 2024 GOP Primaries: Hard to Get Any Other Message Out!
Apr 03, 2024
Grand Old Party or Brand New MAGA? Contrarian Conservative Charlie Sykes
Mar 20, 2024
A Primary Solution to Unite America? New Book From Election Reformer, Nick Troiano
Feb 27, 2024
Systems Level Failure? Veterans for All Voters Takes on Polarizing Elections
Feb 14, 2024
Breaking Bread, Sharing Salad & Final Four Voting: Alaska Representative Mary Peltola
Jan 17, 2024
Election Lessons Unheeded? A Cautionary View of the New U.S. House
Dec 19, 2022
Is the Fever Breaking? Two Centrist Senators on the 2022 Elections
Dec 07, 2022
Repodcast: Deflating Political Football with Tania Israel
Nov 23, 2022
As 2022 Election Results Roll In: Concern, Context, & Perspective
Nov 10, 2022
Test Driving Ranked Choice Voting: These Not So United States (AK Part 2 & NV)
Oct 27, 2022
No Such Thing as The Latino Vote? Hispanic American Swing Voters (Finale)
Oct 12, 2022
Will Latinization Bring Moderation? Hispanic American Swing Voters (Part 2)
Oct 05, 2022
Repodcast: Politically Persuadable But Focused on Jobs? Hispanic American Swing Voters (Part 1)
Sep 30, 2022
End of Bay State Bipartisanship?: These Not So United States (MA Part Two)
Sep 28, 2022
Deval Patrick Talks Governing: These Not So United States (MA Part One)
Sep 14, 2022
INTRODUCING My Body Odyssey, a Fluent Knowledge Podcast
Aug 30, 2022
Less Partisan Elections in Alaska 2022? These Not So United States (AK Part One)
Aug 16, 2022
Revisiting GOP Party Dynamics: The Decline of Moderates & Rise of Populism
Aug 02, 2022
Great American Independents (Part Two): Andrew Heaton on Liberty, Justice & Satire for All
Jul 19, 2022
Great American Independents (Part One): Amy Chua on Political Tribalism
Jul 04, 2022
Strength in Diversity, Weakness in One Party Rule? These Not So United States (CA Finale)
Jun 28, 2022
2022 California Primaries by Faction & Tortilla with Gustavo Arellano: These Not So United States (CA Part 2)
Jun 21, 2022
One Golden State, Two Democratic Parties: These Not So United States (CA Part 1)
Jun 07, 2022
Georgia On All Our Minds: These Not So United States
May 24, 2022
Politically Persuadable But Focused on Jobs? Hispanic American Swing Voters (Part 1)
May 10, 2022
Like Family, Like Nation: A Braver Angel Mediates Polarization at Home & Nationwide
Apr 26, 2022
Is Texas the Future of America? These Not So United States (TX Finale)
Apr 12, 2022
A New American Operating System? These Not So United States (TX Part 6)
Apr 01, 2022
Lone Star Launch Pad for Rear-Guard America? These Not So United States (TX Part 5)
Mar 29, 2022
Polarized Politics & Hispanic Identity: These Not So United States (TX Part 4)
Mar 22, 2022
Growth, Diversity & One Party Politics? These Not So United States (TX Part 3)
Mar 15, 2022
Strongest Identity of Them Y’all? These Not So United States (TX Part 2)
Mar 08, 2022
Messing with that Texas Identity? These Not So United States (TX Part 1)
Mar 01, 2022
Heard the One About a Centrist Congressman? Carlos Curbelo on Polarization in the House
Feb 22, 2022
Voice of Reason for Independent Minds: Talking Media & Polarization with CNN's Michael Smerconish
Feb 08, 2022
The United States of Narcissism? Speaking of Democracy’s Worst Enemies
Jan 25, 2022
Wait, I’m Not the Crazy One! Sarah Longwell, Conservative Watchdog of Republican Sanity
Jan 11, 2022
Speaking Truth in Polarized Times: Top Guest Insights from 2021
Dec 28, 2021
Celebration & Polarization, Holiday Survival Kit (Part 3): Identity with all the Trimmings
Dec 14, 2021
Celebration & Polarization, Holiday Survival Kit (Part 2): When Anti-Science Makes the Menu
Nov 30, 2021
Celebration & Polarization, Holiday Survival Kit (Part 1): Deflating Political Football
Nov 16, 2021
Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Part Four): Romance, Grandeur & Smugness on The West Wing
Nov 02, 2021
Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Part Three): Hail the Flip-Flopping Egomania of Veep
Oct 19, 2021
Amazing Grace For Our Partisan Times: Sarah and Beth, Creators of Pantsuit Politics
Oct 05, 2021
Liberty & Justice For Some: Two Centuries of Independent Black Leaders & Political Movements
Sep 21, 2021
A Civic Way to Reverse Polarization? New Vitality in Education & Legislation
Sep 07, 2021
Woking up to Backlash: New York Times Contributing Writer Thomas Edsall on Reason & Responsibility in Polarized Politics
Aug 24, 2021
Passing of the Mic: New Co-Host Jillian Youngblood Gets a Bit of Purple Orientation
Aug 24, 2021
Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Part Two): Hail the Independent & Designated Survivor
Aug 10, 2021
Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Part One): Hail the Independent Commander in Chief
Jul 27, 2021
Nicest Troll in Town: On and Offline identity, Extremism, and Polarization
Jul 13, 2021
Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
Jun 29, 2021
Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults, Part 2: Celebrity Makes the World Go Flat
Jun 15, 2021
Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults: Social Extremes in Our Hyperpartisan Age
Jun 01, 2021
Vaccines Prevent Viruses; What Combats COVID Vax Skepticism? An Interview with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of VCU’s Health & Media Lab
May 18, 2021
The Politics Industry at Work: And How Would You Like Your Gridlock?
May 05, 2021
The Senate Filibuster: Weapon of Obstruction or Shield Against Polarization?
Apr 20, 2021
What’s Behind Those Red and Blue Maps? The Social Geography of U.S. Polarization
Apr 06, 2021
When Martians Land, Pigs Fly, and Americans Reach Consensus: Civic Genius & Citizen Panel Forums
Mar 23, 2021
Portrait of the Arsonist As Young Congressman: Historian Julian Zelizer (Burning Down the House) on the inflammatory influence of Newt Gingrich
Mar 18, 2021
We're Polarized; Now What? The Hard Work of Depolarization: Season One Finale (Part Two of Two)
Feb 23, 2021
Polarization as Plague: Season One Finale (Part One)
Feb 09, 2021
2020 Polling in Hindsight: Someone Please Answer the Phone
Jan 27, 2021
Polarization at the Tipping Point: The Long Term and Wide-Angled Views
Jan 12, 2021
Repodcast of Declaration of Independents, Alaska Style: Ballot Measure Two Takes on Polarization
Dec 31, 2020
Civil Society and Campus Politics: Two Collegians Take on Polarization
Dec 22, 2020
Party Dynamics and the 2020 Election in Context: A Discussion with Historian Geoffrey Kabaservice (Niskanen Center)
Dec 16, 2020
Democracy & Elections Under Stress: A Discussion with Trevor Potter of the Campaign Legal Center
Dec 09, 2020
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part II): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame)
Nov 19, 2020
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part I): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Paul Muldoon (Princeton University)
Nov 12, 2020
Declaration of Independents, Alaska Style: Ballot Question Two Takes on Political Partisanship
Oct 27, 2020
Non-Partisan David vs. the D.C. Disenfranchisement Goliath: Independent Krucoff Promotes Douglass County MD as the Future of Washington DC
Oct 20, 2020
Science, Comedy & Partisanship
Oct 13, 2020
2020 Election Polling: The Science & Psychology of Polls in a Partisan Age
Sep 29, 2020
The Brain on Partisan Politics: Why Not So Great Minds Polarize Alike, with NYU Neural Scientist, Dr. Jay Van Bavel
Sep 17, 2020
Comedy & Partisanship: The Transcendent Laugh with Special Guest, Myq Kaplan
Sep 03, 2020
Congress and Partisanship: The Outlook from Dead Center with Former US Congressman, Jason Altmire
Aug 20, 2020
Social Media & Partisanship: Polarizing Algorithms and a Blind Date with Dividends, featuring Dr. Robert Elliott Smith
Aug 06, 2020
Broadcast Media and Partisanship: Side of Spin with Your Nightly News
Jul 31, 2020
Psychology and Partisanship: Heard from the Herd, featuring Dr. Abigail Marsh, Georgetown University
Jul 23, 2020
America’s Independent Voters and Voices: The Forty Million Missing
Jul 09, 2020
Front Lines of Partisanship with Dr. Charles Wheelan and Unite America
Jun 19, 2020
Partisanship from All Angles: Priming with Purple
Jun 19, 2020