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On The Eve Of The Election, Can Polls Be Trusted?

November 2, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Politics, Science and Technology

W. Joseph Campbell joins us to talk about how polling works and why data sometimes fail to predict the future.

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There Is No Road to the White House Without Black Women

October 30, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Politics, Race/Identity

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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Nobody’s Trying to Abolish the Suburbs

October 29, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Politics

Kriston Capps, Staff writer at Bloomberg CityLab, joins us to talk about Trump’s take on federal fair housing—his thoughts on who’s allowed to live where— and why he hopes some voters hear his call.

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A Short History of Voting in America

October 28, 2020 Culture, Current Events, History, Politics

Journalist Erin Geiger Smith joins us to talk about the past, present, and future of voting and provides simple ways to encourage people to exercise their right.

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It’s No Longer Just a Man’s World

October 27, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Politics, Race/Identity

Jennifer Palmieri is president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund and former White House Communications Director for President Barack Obama. She joins us to talk about stories of achieving equity in the workplace.

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How Trump and Biden Became Trump and Biden

October 27, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Politics

Frontline filmmaker Michael Kirk joins us to talk about two investigative biographies of Donald Trump and Joe Biden focused on how each faced and overcame challenges in their own lives.

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Even Lincoln Battled Fake News

October 23, 2020 History, Politics

Elizabeth Mitchell joins us to discuss an incendiary, false story published in two newspapers during the Civil War and how it became a battle of the press vs. the president.

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The Violent Path To Emancipation

October 20, 2020 History, Politics

H. W. Brands, Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about a man who called for change via murder and another who looked to Washington for solutions.

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James Baker: American Power Broker

October 19, 2020 Economics, History, Politics

Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, joins us to talk about Baker’s close and competitive friendship with George H.W. Bush – and about his diplomatic work that reshaped the world in the last quarter of the 20th Century.

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Does Voting Really Have To Be This Hard?

October 16, 2020 Culture, Current Events, History, Politics

This hour, we’ll talk about mail-in ballots and the actual risk of voter fraud. We’ll hear from a former state redistricting chairman about how dividing up voting districts is much more complicated than you might think. And we’ll talk about ongoing efforts to fight voter suppression.

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A Former FBI Deputy Director On The Russian Threat

October 15, 2020 Current Events, Global Issues, History, Politics

Peter Strzok served as deputy director of the counterintelligence division and received the bureau’s highest investigative honor, the Director’s Award for Excellence. He joins us to talk about his career tracking Russian interference – and about his very public firing after President Trump took office.

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The Deterioration Of US-China Relations

October 12, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Global Issues, History, Politics

Mary Gallagher, director of the International Institute at the University of Michigan, joins us to discuss the current state of U.S.-China relations and what it would take for the relationship to improve.

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