The State of Polarization: 2022. Christa Case Bryant and Story Hinckley | Let's Find Common Ground
One year after the January 6th assault on the U.S. Capitol, we take a close look at America's political divide with two journalists who covered the calamitous events on that day and the responses to t...
21 Jan 202229min
Saving Democracy | Democracy Matters
In this episode, we talk with Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, JMU Health Sciences '05, about his experiences fighting for democracy on January 6, 2021. "These people were minutes, seconds, feet awa...
19 Jan 202236min
Insurrection Reflection | Democracy in Danger
Jamelle Bouie and Nicole Hemmer return to the show this week for a special conversation looking back on the siege of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — and looking forward at the prospects for democra...
17 Jan 202232min
Dialogue, Polarization, & the Future of the American Experiment | TDG Event Series
For nearly 250 years, America has served as a test case for a social experiment that few could have ever conceived of — a constitutional federal republic. However, when one considers our history of ma...
14 Jan 20221h
Trading the Public's Trust | Swamp Stories
In 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, otherwise known as the STOCK Act. The intent was to ban insider trading from members of Congress — a su...
12 Jan 202213min
Robert Lieberman, Kenneth Roberts, and David Bateman on Democratic Resilience and Political Polarization in the United States | Democracy Paradox
Robert C. Lieberman is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Kenneth M. Roberts is the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government and Binenkorb Director o...
10 Jan 202257min
Best of 2021: Anne Applebaum on why democracy is not inevitable | Democracy Works
We continue our Best of 2021 episodes with an episode from the Democracy Works podcast, hosted by Jenna Spinelle, Christopher Beem, Michael Berkman. Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic, ...
29 Dec 202144min
Best of 2021: Public-Private Paradox: Colin Jerolmack | Future Hindsight
We continue our Best of 2021 episodes with an episode from the the Future Hindsight podcast, hosted by Mila Atmos.Colin Jerolmack is an environmental sociologist and author of Up to Heaven and Down t...
27 Dec 202134min
