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Ukraine and the Wider Conflict. Values at Stake: Jacob Mchangama | How Do We Fix It?
Episode 185
By any measure this has been a momentous week for global politics. President Biden’s surprise trip to Kyiv, his “freedom” speech in Warsaw, the visit…
3 years, 3 months ago
Hate, Undone. With Daryl Davis | Village SquareCast
Episode 184
"WHEN TWO ENEMIES ARE TALKING, THEY'RE NOT FIGHTING."
When Daryl Davis was ten, he didn’t understand hate yet. But then he was the only black scout in…
3 years, 3 months ago
Try Before You Buy! Primaries, Primaries and More Primaries ft. Kyle Kondik | Politics is Everything
Episode 183
Why has it been over a decade since an incumbent senator was successfully primaried in a regularly-scheduled election? Which Senators might be vulner…
3 years, 3 months ago
Create Responsive Government: Octavia Abell | Future Hindsight
Episode 182
Octavia Abell is the co-founder and CEO of Govern For America, which describes its mission as bridging the gap between governments and emerging leade…
3 years, 4 months ago
Disunion Runs Deep | Democracy in Danger
Episode 181
America’s Constitution was meant to unify the new nation and help avert a civil war over the thorniest of divisions: slavery. Oops! In retrospect, th…
3 years, 4 months ago
How do extraordinary ordinary people change the world? | Politics in Question
Episode 180
In this week’s episode of Politics In Question, Rachel Lears joins Julia and James to discuss how filmmaking can help us understand how people make p…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Growing Crisis of U.S. Gun Violence | Our Body Politic
Episode 179
Farai interviews senior news writer and founding staffer at The Trace, Jennifer Mascia on the recent shootings in California, and what's going wrong …
3 years, 4 months ago
Why We Misunderstand Independent Voters | Let's Find Common Ground
Episode 178
Independent voters make up more than 40 percent of the voting public. But you wouldn’t know that from media coverage, which focuses almost exclusivel…
3 years, 4 months ago
What’s the Public’s Role in Upholding a Broken Criminal Justice System? | 70 Million
Episode 177
Currently, over 7 million people are under some form of carceral supervision in the United States–from custody to bail to probation. For our final ep…
3 years, 4 months ago
Separating news from noise | Democracy Works
Episode 176
How much news is too much? Or not enough? News Over Noise, the new podcast from Penn State's News Literacy Initiative explores that question and offe…
3 years, 4 months ago