Podcast Episodes

Standing up for science and fighting the climate wars [rebroadcast]

Episode 77

For the last of our summer rebroadcasts, we are revisiting the conversation with Penn State’s Michael Mann, a world-renowned climate scientist. We’ve…

6 years, 8 months ago

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Tracing the past, present, and future of protests

Episode 76

Since we started this show, we’ve had the opportunity to speak with several organizers, from Joyce Ladner in the Civil Rights movement to Srdja Popov…

6 years, 8 months ago

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A conversation about conversation [rebroadcast]

Episode 75

This week, we are revisiting another episode from the Democracy Works back catalog. This discussion is a nice companion to our episode with Timothy S…

6 years, 8 months ago

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Politics and Polls: Blue state federalism

Episode 74

Democracy Works summer break 2019 continues with an episode from Politics and Polls, a podcast produced by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and In…

6 years, 8 months ago

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The Pledge: Are you scared of the cafeteria lady?

Episode 73

Our summer break continues this week with an episode of The Pledge, a podcast about people who are taking an active role in improving democracy in th…

6 years, 8 months ago

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How Democracies Die author Daniel Ziblatt on the “grinding work” of democracy [rebroadcast]

Episode 72

Our summer break continues this week with a rebroadcast of one of our very first episodes, a conversation with How Democracies Die author Daniel Zibl…

6 years, 8 months ago

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A democracy summer reading list [rebroadcast]

Episode 71

Democracy Works is taking a few weeks off for the summer. While we do, we are going to share some older episodes you might have missed, along with a …

6 years, 9 months ago

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Answering your questions about democracy

Episode 70

Is the United States really a democracy? What will the EU look like in 50 years? What should 2020 candidates be doing to demonstrate civility? Those …

6 years, 9 months ago

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Congressional oversight and making America pragmatic again

Episode 69

We tend to think about congressional oversight in very academic terms — checks and balances, the Framers, etc. But what does it actually look like o…

6 years, 9 months ago

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Will AI destroy democracy?

Episode 68

Jay Yonamine

Some political scientists and democracy scholars think that it might. The thinking goes something like this: inequality will rise as job…

6 years, 9 months ago

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