Featuring: The Purple Principle
This week we bring you an episode from The Purple Principle podcast.The Purple Principle kicks off its extended Season Three series on state level polarization with a mini-series on the great state o...
18 Mars 202228min
Ukraine Series: Defending democracy at home and abroad | Democracy Works
Robert Kagan is a foreign policy expert who turned his focus to the United States last fall in a Washington Post column titled "Our Constitutional Crisis Is Already Here" that became one of the Post's...
16 Mars 202243min
Ukraine Series: Understanding Ukraine. Unity, Defiance, Resistance: Marci Shore | How Do We Fix It?
The war in Ukraine and the global response to Russia's invasion are dominating the news. But missing in much of the coverage is a sense of the country and its people. In this historic moment, we hear ...
14 Mars 202244min
Ukraine Series: War Come to Ukraine | Democracy in Danger
Jane Lytvynenko hasn’t slept much in two weeks. From her home in Toronto, she is watching Russian troops invade and bombard her native Ukraine, threatening loved ones and friends. And it’s rattling he...
9 Mars 202234min
Ukraine Series: Remembering Sandy Hook; Coping With Inflation; and War in Ukraine | Our Body Politic
This week on Our Body Politic, Farai talks with the parent of one of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre. It’s been ten years since the tragedy, and the healing continues for families of...
7 Mars 202251min
Freedom and Racism: Neil Roberts | Future Hindsight
Neil Roberts is Professor of Africana Studies and Faculty Affiliate in Political Science and Religion at Williams College. He’s working on a new book titled How To Live Free in an Age of Pessimism. We...
2 Mars 202235min
Living Up To the Ideals of Democracy Through Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation | Democracy Matters
"If we start creating compassionate ways of understanding and connecting with one another, then we will have the permanent motivation to live up to our espoused and aspirational ideals as a democracy,...
28 Feb 202232min
When a State Treats Drug Addiction Like a Health Issue, Not a Crime | 70 Million
Oregon became the first state to decriminalize drug possession. The goal is to reverse some of the negative impacts of the War on Drugs by approaching drug use from a health-centered basis. We visit a...
23 Feb 202237min
