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Through the Fog with Elliot Kirschner, Emmy winning news producer, NYT bestselling author and documentary filmmaker | Talkin Politics & Religion
Episode 299
How do we harness the power of communication in bridging societal divides? We spoke with Elliot Kirschner, an Emmy award-winning journalist and docum…
2 years, 6 months ago
Lethal Weapons | Democracy in Danger
Episode 298
Last year, there were 645 mass shootings in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive. In the latest major tragedy, at the Kansas City…
2 years, 6 months ago
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, 6 months 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, 6 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months ago