Lilliana Mason of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University joins us this week to discuss her work on the radicalization of American politics and why political scientists have been slow to catch onto it.

Rep. Ro Khanna draws from Frederick Douglass and John Rawls to create a vision for democratic patriotism, and has ideas for how technology can help make that vision a reality.

Michael Berkman leads this week's interview on the evolution of Russia and Ukraine in the post-Soviet era to understand the origins of the current conflict between the countries.

Foreign policy expert and Washington Post columnist Robert Kagan joins us this week to discuss crises in democracy in the United States and Ukraine.

This week, we dive headfirst into free speech, cancel culture, academic freedom, and what role universities play in democracy.

Thomas Main argues that illiberalism is the basic repudiation of liberal democracy, the very foundation on which the United States rests. He joins us this week to discuss how we got here and what we can do about it.

This week, we explore how America's market-driven media have undermined democracy — and how more robust public media in the U.S. might help right the ship.

As many liberals were saying "thank God for federalism" in the Trump era, Jake Grumbach saw some different — and disturbing — patterns emerging. He joins us this week to discuss the findings in his forthcoming book, Laboratories Against Democracy.

Michael Rebell joins us this week to discuss how the courts can and should address the civic empowerment gap in the United States and create better civics education for everyone.

Around the world, religion is being used to fuel "us vs. them" narratives and undermine the foundations of democracy. This week, we dive into what this means and how people of faith can chart a different path forward.