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Disorder: Democracy lessons from Europe and beyond
We bring you a special crossover episode with Disorder, a show that explores the fundamental principles lurking behind today's most pressing global i…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
How AI is shaping the news
Episode 290
This episode is a collaboration with our colleagues at News Over Noise, the podcast from Penn State's News Literacy Initiative. We recorded this inte…
5 months ago
A Republic, if you can teach it
Episode 289
Civic education is full of nostalgia. Horace Mann, John Dewey, and the Cold War era often come up in conversations about the current state of affairs…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The new gerrymandering battles
Episode 288
The movement to end gerrymandering is something we've covered on the show several times over the years. Until recently, the conversation focused on i…
6 months ago
How misogyny fuels political violence
Episode 287
The last time Cynthia Miller-Idriss was on the show, we discussed how political extremism was making its way to the mainstream through a variety of c…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Standing up for higher education
Episode 286
Summer is typically a quiet time for higher education but this summer has been anything but quiet amid funding cuts, lawsuits, and questions about th…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Ben Rhodes on America's changing role in a changed world
Episode 285
For our final episode of the season, we present a conversation with Ben Rhodes recorded at in Washington, D.C. at the end of May. Democracy Works is …
9 months, 4 weeks ago
How mental health shapes democratic engagement [rebroadcast]
Episode 284
In a rebroadcast from 2023, we discuss how to meet the demands that democracy places on us without sacrificing our own personal mental health in the…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Inside the MAGA black hole
Episode 283
Jeff Sharlet has spent the past few years embedded in the deepest corners of the growing far-right movement in the United States. He's come to think …
11 months ago
How 2020 changed America
Episode 282
From fights over masks and vaccines to the loss of social connection, the year 2020 accelerated many of the trends that were already happening in Ame…
11 months, 2 weeks ago