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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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago
Michael Walzer on Liberal as an Adjective | Democracy Paradox
Episode 175
Michael Walzer is an emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He was also a longtime editor of Dissent. He is the author of many books…
3 years, 8 months ago
What does the House Speaker election say about the Republican Party? | Politics in Question
Episode 174
In this week’s episode of Politics In Question, Julia and Lee kick off a new year by considering what the House Speaker election says about the Repub…
3 years, 8 months ago
Local Common Ground: Dinner and a Fight. Simon Miontlake, Ted Wetzel, Tom Hach | Let's Find Common Ground
Episode 173
Want to know one of the most exciting and innovative ways to find common ground? Get people out of their political bunkers and move them beyond rigid…
3 years, 8 months ago
How to Spot – and Stop – the Makings of a Civil War | Our Body Politic
Episode 172
Two years after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Farai interviews Dr. Barbara F. Walter, Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations at the Univ…
3 years, 9 months ago
‘Our democracy is really at risk’ ft. Sandra Garza | Politics is Everything
Episode 171
For the second anniversary of the violent attacks on the U.S. Capitol, we spoke with Sandra Garza, a clinical social worker, veteran, and partner of …
3 years, 9 months ago
Winning the Civil War: Steve Phillips | Future Hindsight
Episode 170
Steve Phillips is the host of the Democracy in Color podcast and the author of How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending …
3 years, 9 months ago