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Immigration, refugees, and the politics of displacement
Episode 57
Jan Egeland
From Brexit to Hungary to the U.S. border wall, many of today’s political conflicts center around immigration. Moving people from one pla…
7 years ago
A playbook for organizing in turbulent times
Episode 56
Srdja Popovic
20 years ago, Srdja Popovic was part of a revolution — literally. He was a founding member of the Otpor! movement that ousted Serbia Sl…
7 years ago
Jonathan Haidt on the psychology of democracy
Episode 55
We say on this show all the time that democracy is hard work. But what does that really mean? What it is about our dispositions that makes it so hard…
7 years ago
Future Hindsight: Ian Bremmer on the failure of globalism
Episode 54
We are closing out our series on democracy around the world with a bonus episode from Future Hindsight, a show that features deep conversations with …
7 years ago
Brexit and the UK’s identity crisis
Episode 53
Sona Golder
We’re just a few weeks away from the deadline for the UK to reach an agreement on its plan to leave the European Union. Nearly three year…
7 years ago
Brazil’s tenuous relationship with democracy
Episode 52
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
To say Brazil has had a complicated history with democracy is a understatement. The country has bounced in and out authoritarian r…
7 years, 1 month ago
Yellow vests and the “grand debate” in France
Episode 51
Cole Stangler
This episode is the second in our series looking at democracy around the world. France is the focus this week. Our guest is Cole Stangl…
7 years, 1 month ago
Viktor Orbán’s “velvet repression” in Hungary
Episode 50
This episode begins a four-part series examining the state of democracy around the world. First up is Hungary, a country that’s often referred to in…
7 years, 1 month ago
A brief history of “people power”
Episode 49
In his book Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea from Ancient Athens to Our World, James Miller encapsulates 2500 years of democrac…
7 years, 1 month ago
The power of local government
Episode 48
No matter where you live, chances are that your local government is filled with things like feasibility studies, property tax assessments, and endle…
7 years, 2 months ago