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Politics

The many flaws in Russia’s plans for Ukraine

March 8, 2023 Current Events, Global Issues, Politics

Dara Massicot, senior policy researcher at the Rand Corporation, joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the errors Russia has made thus far, and how Ukraine has defied the odds with the help of its international allies.

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Why military service members can’t sue their employer

March 7, 2023 Mental Health, Politics

Military servicemembers don’t have the legal recourse for cases of malpractice, negligence and even sexual assault. Vanity Fair editor Maximillian Potter joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the Feres Doctrine.

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Is classical liberalism dead?

February 28, 2023 Current Events, Global Issues, Politics

Francis Fukuyama joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the pushback against classical thoughts about individual rights, rule of law and equality, and what he sees as the decaying of American institutions.

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What authoritarian leaders have in common

February 23, 2023 Global Issues, History, Politics

Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins guest host John McCaa to discuss how world leaders from Benito Mussolini to Vladimir Putin have gained followers and manipulated the media.

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Why freedom of speech is not absolute

February 22, 2023 Politics

English professor Dennis Baron joins us to talk about times when employers, schools and, yes, the government have the authority to curtail what you say.

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The unfinished work of Reconstruction

February 22, 2023 History, Politics

Peniel Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Political Values and Ethics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He joins us to assess the current push for racial equality – from the election of Barack Obama to Black Lives Matter.

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Presidents come and go, but Putin remains

February 20, 2023 Global Issues, History, Politics

Frontline filmmaker Michael Kirk joins us to discuss Putin’s relationship to not only President Biden, but to Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

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If you needed asylum, who would believe you?

February 16, 2023 Global Issues, Health, Mental Health, Politics

Dina Nayeri talks about how trust is codified in boardrooms, hospitals, the asylum process and elsewhere – and the relationship between trust and privilege.

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What Ukraine needs from the U.S.

February 16, 2023 Global Issues, Politics

David J. Kramer, executive director of the Bush Institute, discusses policy recommendations the Institute has for the Biden administration and Congress that focus on bringing the war in Ukraine to an end.

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The early history of hip-hop

February 14, 2023 Culture, History, Politics

Hasan Jeffries, associate professor of history at The Ohio State University, talks about hip-hop’s birth in the Bronx and its dual identities of both protest music and party music.

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Texas has a surplus, how will lawmakers spend it?

February 9, 2023 Politics

Justin Miller from the Texas Observer discusses the battles brewing in the new legislative session, including promises to cut property taxes, whether education will see new funding, and how the electric grid might be addressed.

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The U.S. wasn’t founded on free markets

January 31, 2023 Economics, History, Politics

Harvard professor and author Naomi Oreskes joins us to talk about the public relations campaigns designed to crush regulations and unions.

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