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The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections, Sasha Issenberg | The Great Battlefield
Episode 297
Sasha Issenberg returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his new book "The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Election…
2 years ago
Politics: Majority In The Middle. Shannon Watson | How Do We Fix It?
Episode 296
News coverage of Super Tuesday and other party primaries focused mainly on base voters— Democrats and Republicans. But most Americans are actually on…
2 years ago
Racism Renounced: A Black Man Talks With White Supremacists. Daryl Davis | Let's Find Common Ground
Episode 295
Acclaimed musician and recording artist Daryl Davis has interviewed hundreds of KKK members and other White supremacists and influenced many of them …
2 years, 1 month ago
Dr. Jonathan Haidt on After Babel: "The Fragmentation of Everything" | Village SquareCast
Episode 294
What if, at a pinnacle of our civilization’s technological achievement, everything just broke — the institutions we’ve come to rely upon in navigatin…
2 years, 1 month ago
A different take on social media and democracy | Democracy Works
Episode 293
We've talked about social media a lot on this show over the years — usually focusing on algorithms, echo chambers, polarization, and the other ways i…
2 years, 1 month ago
Is the House broken? | Politics in Question
Episode 292
In this week's episode of Politics In Question, Lee and James ask Representative Chip Roy, R-Texas, if the House of Representatives is broken. Roy is…
2 years, 1 month ago
Democracy's Good News: How Teachers Are Creating Future Citizens
Episode 291
Host Jenna Spinelle highlights the positive efforts of individuals and organizations working to build a healthier democracy in our short series, Demo…
2 years, 1 month ago
Patriotism vs. Extremism: Ken Harbaugh | Future Hindsight
Episode 290
Ken Harbaugh is the host of the Burn the Boats podcast, a former United States Navy pilot, and executive producer of Against All Enemies, a documenta…
2 years, 1 month ago
Living Memory | Democracy in Danger
Episode 289
Before the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists played a key role in fighting the Japanese during World War …
2 years, 1 month ago
How to combat political extremism | Democracy Works
Episode 288
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, one of America's leading experts on the far right, joins us this week to discuss what draws people to political extremism onli…
2 years, 1 month ago