CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics

For people just trying to do their jobs on Jan. 6, 2021, there wasn’t a lot of time to think. But bearing witness then and reflecting on it now are as important as ever during a time when the republic...

6 Jan 202222min

There is a double standard when it comes to the treatment of children of color. They are punished in schools more frequently. They are arrested more frequently. Why is this happening and why are so ma...

5 Jan 202238min

Lana Swartz discusses cryptotwitter and her book “New Money: How Payments Became Social Media". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4 Jan 202227min

It’s that time of the year, when podcasts like Political Theater do their years in review. It’s a helpful frame. But 2021 in retrospect looks a lot like 2020, an extension of something that started, b...

22 Des 202138min

Executive recruiter David Richardson joins the podcast to talk about where the fintech jobs will be in 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21 Des 202124min

Democratic leaders hoped to pass a $2.2 trillion climate change and social safety package known as Build Back Better by Christmas. Instead, negotiations between President Joe Biden and West Virginia's...

17 Des 202120min

In this wide-ranging, year-end conversation, Mary C. Curtis speaks with New York Times columnist Charles Blow about what he considers the dramatic rollback of the nation's civil rights, inequity and w...

16 Des 202137min

It has been, to put it mildly, a momentous year. It started off the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and has been defined by the continuing pandemic. But it's also seen the first woman vice president and ...

15 Des 202125min