Rebecca Winthrop, joins us to argue that, without teaching the fundamentals of how our government works, we’ll never convince people to get out the vote.
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Hating On Hillary: How That Became A Thing
Michael D’Antonio joins us to talk about his research into how one woman, identifiable by her first name only, became a symbolic cudgel for modern politics.
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How Trump And Biden Are Courting Your Vote
Washington Post’s national political reporter and Washington Week moderator Robert Costa joins us to talk about the Biden and Trump campaign strategies to woo voters ahead of Election Day.
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Is Kamala Harris Biden’s Bridge To The White House?
Niambi Carter, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Political Science at Howard University, joins us to reflect on the Democratic and Republican National Conventions – and talk about what Howard alum Kamala Harris brings to the Joe Biden ticket.
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Why Science Is So Easy To Dismiss
Adrian Bardon, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University, joins us to talk about how identity, political affiliation, culture and rationalization have led to science denial.
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The Future Of DACA
In this collaboration between Think and The Texas Newsroom, we’ll explore why Congress has been unwilling to create legislation that addresses DACA, share the stories of DACA recipients as they go about their lives unable to plan for their futures, and talk to Janet Napolitano, who initiated the program as President Obama’s Homeland Security secretary.
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The Politics Of White Anger
Davin Phoenix, associate professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, talks to us about who gets to be angry and whose anger actually affects change.
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Madame Speaker: The Political Life Of Nancy Pelosi
Molly Ball, Time magazine’s national political correspondent and a political analyst for CNN, joins us to talk about Pelosi’s journey to becoming arguably the most influential woman in American political history.
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The Link Between Policing And Segregation
Monica Bell of the Yale School of Law joins us to argue that “segregation rots community life at the root” and that police reform is empty until we examine how people live in proximity to one another.
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In the ‘America First’ Era, Can The U.S. Lead The World?
Former US Ambassador Nicholas Burns joins us to talk about strategies to align the world in the battle for collective public health.
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Why Do We Still Have The Electoral College?
Jesse Wegman, a member of the New York Times editorial board, joins us to talk about how the power behind millions of individual votes can disappear with the decision of a single elector.
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Why America Seems Like Such a Mess
George Friedman, geopolitical forecaster and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, joins us to give us a bird’s-eye view of global politics, why the current political vitriol has long-lasting effects, and his predictions for how diplomacy moves forward in a divisive age.
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