The Presidency as a Consumer Experience (Part 2) | The 21st Century
This episode of Whistlestop travels to October 19, 2016 as Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, the defeated GOP aspirant for the presidency, is asking his party not to play by the modern rules of ...
28 Aug 20194min
The Presidency as a Consumer Experience (Part 1) | The 21st Century
This episode of Whistlestop travels to October 12, 2012 when Democratic candidate Barack Obama was declared the loser at the first Presidential debate against Mitt Romney and Twitter won.Whistlestop i...
6 Juni 201927min
Introducing Charged: A True Punishment Story
For two and a half years, Emily Bazelon has been following people through a special court in New York designed to be a speedy machine for the harsh punishment of illegal gun possession. Along the way,...
18 Apr 201927min
The Making of the American Presidency (Part 4) | The Presidency
This episode of Whistlestop travels to December 23, 1783 when the commander in chief of the Continental Army sat before the president of the Confederation Congress and prepared to step away from the j...
27 Mars 20192min
The Making of the American Presidency (Part 3) | The Presidency
This episode of Whistlestop travels to March 4, 2019 when Senator Rand Paul quoted from Montesquieu on Twitter: “When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or in the same ...
13 Mars 20193min
The Making of the American Presidency (Part 2) | The Presidency
This episode of Whistlestop travels to June 1st, 1787 when America’s founders faced a challenge: the nation couldn’t depend on the good will of the states to keep itself unified but there wasn’t a man...
27 Feb 20192min
The Making of the American Presidency (Part 1) | The Presidency
This episode of Whistlestop travels to the spring of 1787 when fifty-five men of property and elite status argued in Philadelphia at the Constitutional Convention for what President John Adams called ...
14 Feb 201924min
