How We Can Fix America’s Corruption Problem (with Celinda Lake and Daniel Weiner)
Americans are unhappy with their government. They’ve connected the dots: Corruption and self-dealing at the highest levels have led to voters feeling left out, left behind, and disconnected from gover...
21 Jan 43min
An Emergency in Venezuela
Over the weekend, the Trump administration launched a military operation in Venezuela to capture President Nicolas Maduro. Such an aggressive use of war powers without congressional consent is alarmin...
6 Jan 27min
2025: Year in Review
This year we saw extraordinary threats to American democracy: an executive power grab, attacks on the freedom to vote, and more. Yet we also saw a growing response, from court rulings to citizen alarm...
23 Dec 20251h 5min
Bush v. Gore and the State of U.S. Elections
For a generation, presidential races were blowouts. Every winner between 1980 and 1996 won by at least 37 Electoral College votes. These landslides relegated conspiracy theories about contested electi...
16 Dec 20251h 13min
How Congress Must Respond to Trump's Boat Strikes (with Katherine Yon Ebright)
Over the past several months, the Trump administration has undertaken a congressionally unauthorized military campaign against supposed “narco-terrorists” in international waters. One of the administr...
5 Dec 202537min
Does the Constitution Still Work?
U.S. politics today can be defined by extreme dysfunction and polarization. But the founders accounted for a fractured society, and designed our government specifically to handle moments like these. L...
2 Dec 202551min
Troops in American Cities
Our military is trained to defeat enemies, not to police American citizens. President Trump’s troop deployments in Los Angeles, DC, Chicago, Portland, Memphis, and potentially other cities pose real t...
17 Nov 20251h
Keeping a Democracy (with Joyce Vance)
From everyday instances of corruption to an administration intent on undermining the Constitution, it can feel as though American democracy is in decline. Yet amid the attacks on the rule of law and s...
7 Nov 202536min
