Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a fellow at SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She joins us to talk about spending time with Mike Lindell to talk through his claims.
Read moreFor Democracy To Work, We Have To Participate
James Fishkin is a political scientist and director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford, and he joins us to explain the process of deliberative democracy – and demonstrate successes it’s already produced around the world.
Read moreA Plan For Piecing America Back Together
George Packer, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to discuss what he sees as four separate narratives dividing the country, and what each story says about the health of our nation as a whole.
Read moreThe Problem With Creating Our Own Truth
University of Connecticut philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch joins us to talk about how people come to believe what they think they know, and why shared foundations of knowledge are crucial to the health of a democracy.
Read moreA Case For Rebuilding The Voting Rights Act
Vann R. Newkirk II, senior editor at The Atlantic and the host of the podcast Floodlines, joins us to talk about how the bill was originally perceived and passed, and what might happen if it again lands at the Supreme Court’s door.
Read moreHow Public Education Props Up Our Democracy
University of South Carolina School of Law professor Derek W. Black joins us to talk about why a public education system built to serve all students is fundamental to creating an equitable society.
Read moreAmerican Populism, Post Trump
MIT professor Daron Acemoglu joins us to make the case that the American political landscape is deeply fractured, and that the nation’s unequal social classes add fuel to that fire.
Read moreA Practical Guide To Fixing Our Democracy
David Litt, a speechwriter for President Obama, joins us to talk about how we became so disenfranchised and polarized – and about how we can address these issues.
Read moreWho Decides What’s Really a National Emergency?
Robert L. Tsai, professor of law at American University, joins us to talk about his research into how exaggerated situations and distorted facts whittle away at democracy.
Read moreHow Obama Led To Trump
Michael Kirk joins us to talk about the factors that got us to this point in American politics and what the future could hold for our democracy.
Read moreWe All Want To Be Equal (And Above Everyone Else)
Francis Fukuyama, senior fellow at Stanford University and Mosbacher Director at The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, joins us to talk about how culture impacts a democracy.
Read moreIs the U.S. Really a Democracy?
Astra Taylor joins us to talk about why creating a true democracy is so hard – and the steps we might take to get closer to that goal of treating everyone the same.
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