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From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse. What was once confined to the pages…
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The First Amendment and a strong Fourth Estate are essential to a healthy democracy. David McCraw, deputy general counsel of the New York Times, spends…
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This episode is not about climate change. Well, not directly, anyway. Instead, we talk with Nobel Prize winner and Penn State Distinguished Professor of…
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On Democracy Works, we've had the opportunity to speak with several organizers, from Joyce Ladner in the Civil Rights movement to Srdja Popovic in Serbia…
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This episode seeks to answer one simple, but very important, question: Why is it so hard for people to talk to each other? There are a lot of easy answers…
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The Democracy Works summer break continues this week with a rebroadcast of one of our very first episodes, a conversation with How Democracies Die author…
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Is the United States really a democracy? What will the EU look like in 50 years? What should 2020 candidates be doing to demonstrate civility? Those are…
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We tend to think about congressional oversight in very academic terms — checks and balances, the Framers, etc. But what does it actually look like on the…
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Some political scientists and democracy scholars think that it might. The thinking goes something like this: inequality will rise as jobs continue to be…
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If Alexis de Tocqueville visited America today, what would he have to say about the condition of our democracy?We hear a lot in the news and on Twitter…