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What If 17-Year-Old Boys Ran The State?

September 9, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Politics, Race/Identity

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

September 8, 2020 Health, Politics, Science and Technology

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

September 7, 2020 Education, Politics

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

September 2, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Politics

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

September 2, 2020 Culture, Current Events, History, Politics, Race/Identity

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?

August 31, 2020 Culture, Current Events, History, Politics

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?

August 27, 2020 Current Events, History, Politics, Race/Identity

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

August 27, 2020 Politics, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

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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America’s Do-Over: The Three Amendments That Define Reconstruction

August 25, 2020 History, Politics

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, joins us to talk about how the blueprint for our modern America was drawn during Reconstruction.

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So Who’s Russia Backing In November?

August 25, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Global Issues, History, Politics

Laura Rosenberger, the director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy, joins us to talk about foreign interference and the security of the 2020 presidential election.

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How We Can Protect Voter Rights In November

August 24, 2020 Culture, Current Events, History, Politics, Race/Identity

Gilda R. Daniels, former voting expert in the Justice Department of both the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, joins us to talk about protecting the voting rights of Americans.

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Why It’s So Hard To Draw The Line On Gerrymandering

August 12, 2020 Current Events, Politics

Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, joins us to talk about the many factors – some political, some not – that go into deciding how Americans cast their votes.

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