Podcast Episodes

The Reconstruction Amendments with Kash Doll

Season 3 Episode 5

Amendments 13, 14, and 15 are collectively known as the Reconstruction Amendments: they were passed as instructions to rebuild the country after the Civil War. They addressed slavery, citizenship, eq…

Published on 7 years ago

The 19th Amendment with Dolly Parton

Season 3 Episode 4

Episode Four begins as all episodes should: with Dolly Parton. Parton wrote a song for us (!) about the 19th Amendment and women (finally) getting the right to vote.Also in this episode: Our siblings…

Published on 7 years, 1 month ago

The Eccentric Amendments with The Kominas

Season 3 Episode 3

The first eight amendments to the U.S. Constitution are literal, straightforward, and direct. But when we get to Amendments Nine, 10, and 11, things get hazy. These are some of the least literal amen…

Published on 7 years, 1 month ago

The Criminal Justice Amendments with Adia Victoria

Season 3 Episode 2

The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments enshrine some of our most important civil liberties. They tell us about the rights we have when the government knocks on our door, including pr…

Published on 7 years, 1 month ago

The Gun Show Reprise

Season 3

Last year in the wake of the attack in Las Vegas, reporter Sean Rameswaram took a deep dive into America's twisty, thorny, seemingly irreconcilable relationship with guns. It's a story about the Seco…

Published on 7 years, 1 month ago

The First Amendments with They Might Be Giants

Season 3 Episode 1

Let's get started. If we're talking about the Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, it only feels right to start at the beginning. The First and Second Amendments are arguably the most ferociously con…

Published on 7 years, 2 months ago

We've Got a Surprise For You

Season 1

This fall, More Perfect is doing something brand new: We’re making an album!

It’s called 27: The Most Perfect Album. We’ve partnered with some of the best musicians in the world— artists like Doll…

Published on 7 years, 2 months ago

American Pendulum Reprise

Season 3

What happens when the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, seems to get it wrong? Korematsu v. United States upheld President Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of American citizens during Worl…

Published on 7 years, 4 months ago

One Nation, Under Money

Season 2 Episode 13

An unassuming string of 16 words tucked into the Constitution grants Congress extensive power to make laws that impact the entire nation. The Commerce Clause has allowed Congress to intervene in all …

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

Justice, Interrupted

Season 2 Episode 12

The rules of oral argument at the Supreme Court are strict: when a justice speaks, the advocate has to shut up.  But a law student noticed that the rules were getting broken again and again — by men.…

Published on 7 years, 10 months ago