Mychal Denzel Smith is a fellow at Type Media Center, and he joins us to talk about his thoughts on how he wrestles to understand the current moment studied against the long lens of American history.
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The Evolution Of What It Means To Be ‘Latino’
Laura E. Gómez, co-founder and faculty director of the Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA, joins us to talk about the dynamic Latino experience and the growing influence Latinos have on American life and politics.
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The Invention Of Money
Jacob Goldstein, co-host of NPR’s “Planet Money,” joins us to talk about how our world goes ‘round in large part because we’ve all swallowed hard and agreed to not ask too much about the real value of currency.
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How Slave Patrols Became Police Departments
Josie Duffy Rice is president of The Appeal, a news publication that covers the criminal justice system. She joins us to talk about why the idea of policing as we know it must be upended because it views “Black safety” as fundamentally separate from “white safety.”
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What If 17-Year-Old Boys Ran The State?
Filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine join us to talk about a national program for high school students to learn the nuts and bolts of U.S. government by creating it themselves, which they capture in their documentary.
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A Former CDC Director On The U.S. COVID Response
Tom Frieden, who directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009-2017, joins us to talk about the current response to COVID-19 and what America needs to do to prepare for future global outbreaks.
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Schools Can Create Better Citizens By Returning To Civics
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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Was It A Mistake To Unite The States?
Richard Kreitner, contributing writer to The Nation, joins us to look at past and present attempts to dissolve the United States.
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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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How COVID Is Threatening Navajo Culture
Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi is a writing instructor at the University of New Mexico and a member of the Navajo Nation, and she joins us to talk about the fallout of stay-at-home orders on remote areas of Navajo lands.
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