Jeffrey Engle, Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the history of third-party candidates and how they’ve impacted – or not – presidential elections.
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Think America’s too divided? Blame the Founding Fathers
H.W. Brands, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the early days of the Republic, when Federalists and Anti-Federalists battled it out and planted the seeds of our current state of division.
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Democrats’ new strategy for 2022
Staff writer Nicholas Lemann discusses the blind spots the Democratic party has – like focusing too heavily on college-educated voters – and which policies the Republicans might be messaging in a clearer fashion.
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From the party of Reagan to the party of Trump
Political historian Nicole Hemmer discusses the turn of the Republican party to the far right, the voices guiding it today, and what the platform now represents
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There Is No Road to the White House Without Black Women
Andra Gillespie, Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University, joins us to talk about this key voting bloc—and why Black women voters are sometimes called the backbone of the Democratic party.
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Your Political Party Is Outdated (And So Is The Other One)
Frank DiStefano joins us to talk about the defunct parties that once ruled American politics and how our climate of animosity is a landscape for a political reset.
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My Party, My Identity
University of Maryland political scientist Lilliana Mason joins us to talk about why extreme partisanship is bad for democracy.
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Bridging The Partisan Divide
This hour, we’ll talk about finding common ground on issues that are splitting the nation apart with Mark Gerzon, author of “The Reunited States of America: How We Can Bridge the Partisan Divide”.
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