Hey, Journalists. Does the Public Trust You? Joy Mayer | How Do We Fix It?
Only four in 10 Americans say they have a lot of trust in the news media. That's a big problem for our democracy. While journalists are supposed to tell the truth and get the story right, just 35 perc...
15 Sep 202126min
How the Media Economy Drives Political News | Science of Politics
Local news is losing out to online, nationalized, and more polarized outlets. How do the economics of news production and the contributors who write it affect the political content that Americans see?...
13 Sep 202145min
Kathryn Stoner on Russia’s Economy, Politics, and Foreign Policy | Democracy Paradox
Biden's current policy is, you know, we want Putin to calm down, be stable for awhile and turn our focus to restraining China. I don't think that's going to happen. That's not in his interest to do th...
8 Sep 202138min
American Foreign Policy: Challenges, Threats, Opportunities. Ned Temko and Scott Peterson | Let's Find Common Ground
The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan; a more aggressive China and Russia; a newly-elected hardline President in Iran: All are all major challenges facing President Joe Biden and his Administrati...
6 Sep 202130min
Emotional Politics, with Omar Kholeif and Jonathan Sklar | On Opinion
“The world that we live in today is fuelled by heightened emotion…”Over the course of two seasons of On Opinion, we’ve looked at opinions through the lens of philosophy, psychology, social science, an...
1 Sep 202143min
How much conflict is too much conflict in politics? | Politics in Question
In this episode of Politics In Question, Amanda Ripley joins Julia, Lee, and James to discuss political conflict. Ripley is an investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author. Her most ...
30 Aug 202141min
9/11 at 20 Lieutenant Colonel Dan Curran | Democracy Matters
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United states and explored the consequences of the U.S. response, the James Madison Center for Civic Engagement a...
25 Aug 202147min
The Gerrymandering Deadline with Michael Li | Another Way
In this episode, Adam Eichen speaks to Michael Li, senior counsel for the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program. The two discuss gerrymandering, what the For The People Act would do to stop it, and the m...
23 Aug 202144min
