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We Are Changemakers: Sharon McMahon
Sep 4, 2025
We Are Changemakers: Sharon McMahon
Sep 4, 2025

We discuss the importance of shifting our mindset to one that is infused with hope. Positive change comes when we choose hope. Though nobody can fix it all, we can all do something and make an impact. Sharon reminds us that if something is worth doing for everyone, it’s worth doing for one person.

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Sep 4, 2025
Myth Making in America: Hajar Yazdiha
Aug 28, 2025
Myth Making in America: Hajar Yazdiha
Aug 28, 2025

We discuss the role of collective memory in the myth-making of American exceptionalism.

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Aug 28, 2025
Our Government Unraveled: Nancy Rosenblum
Aug 21, 2025
Our Government Unraveled: Nancy Rosenblum
Aug 21, 2025

We discuss how ungoverning is the equivalent of a bull in a china shop. We have already seen the destruction of many institutions and many functions of the administrative state, but we don't yet know how much there is still to come.

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Aug 21, 2025
Vigilantes Among Us: David Noll
Aug 14, 2025
Vigilantes Among Us: David Noll
Aug 14, 2025

We discuss the long history of vigilante democracy in the US and its return in our current politics. The playing field is currently tilted in favor of these vigilante policies, but blue states can level the playing field by playing constitutional hardball. David reminds us that the American people have beat back movements to use vigilante power to enforce a reactionary agenda time and again.

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Aug 14, 2025
Build Functional Immigration: Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Aug 7, 2025
Build Functional Immigration: Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Aug 7, 2025

We discuss how out of date immigration laws are and why the only cure is comprehensive immigration reform from Congress. In the face of rising arrests and deportations by ICE, this is the perfect episode to remind us that we still need immigration reform.

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Aug 7, 2025
Radical Justice is the Way: Jocelyn Simonson
Jul 31, 2025
Radical Justice is the Way: Jocelyn Simonson
Jul 31, 2025

We discuss how certain radical acts of justice by everyday people challenge the legitimacy of the criminal system and form the underpinning of a new collective legal thought, demosprudence. Collective understanding of justice and safety is changing away from the concept that justice equals cages.

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Jul 31, 2025
Deliberating for Democracy: James Fishkin
Jul 24, 2025
Deliberating for Democracy: James Fishkin
Jul 24, 2025

We discuss deliberative polling as a way to assess the will of the people and then to make it consequential. This is what democracy is all about.

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Jul 24, 2025
Resist Copaganda!: Alec Karakatsanis
Jul 17, 2025
Resist Copaganda!: Alec Karakatsanis
Jul 17, 2025

We discuss the main goals of copaganda: narrowing our conception of safety and threat, constantly warning us that those harms are increasing, and telling us that the solution to our fears is more investment in the punishment bureaucracy.

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Jul 17, 2025
Multisolving Our Democracy: Elizabeth Sawin
Jul 10, 2025
Multisolving Our Democracy: Elizabeth Sawin
Jul 10, 2025

We discuss how multisolving is a way to address the multiple issues that are currently facing our democracy at the same time, ranging from pollution and sustainable energy to civil rights and collective governance.

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Jul 10, 2025
Our Kidnapped Constitution: Madiba Dennie
Jul 3, 2025
Our Kidnapped Constitution: Madiba Dennie
Jul 3, 2025

We discuss Inclusive Constitutionalism, a fresh way to interpret the Constitution that makes inclusive democracy real. By contrast, originalism interprets the meaning of the Constitution as fixed in time in the 1800s and ignores the constitutional amendments during reconstruction that were designed to foster a multiracial democracy.

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Jul 3, 2025
It’s Time to Change the Constitution: Erwin Chemerinsky
Jun 26, 2025
It’s Time to Change the Constitution: Erwin Chemerinsky
Jun 26, 2025

We discuss why the Constitution—the document we've been taught to revere as the very foundation of American democracy—might actually be responsible for the current crisis in government. It might be leading us away from a more perfect union and toward destruction or even secession.

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Jun 26, 2025
The Lawless Court: Leah Litman
Jun 19, 2025
The Lawless Court: Leah Litman
Jun 19, 2025

We discuss how the Supreme Court’s lawlessness is fueled by the conservative grievance mindset where Republicans believe they are victims of laws they don’t agree with. The Supreme Court has played an important role in enabling the current administration’s actions.

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Jun 19, 2025
Democracy for the Unhoused: Maria Foscarinis
Jun 12, 2025
Democracy for the Unhoused: Maria Foscarinis
Jun 12, 2025

We discuss why housing insecurity undermines our democracy with Maria Foscarinis, founder of the National Homelessness Law Center. We cover the evolution from Reagan, when homelessness was blamed on the individual, to the increasing recognition that housing is a human right.

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Jun 12, 2025
The Art of Calling In: Loretta Ross
Jun 5, 2025
The Art of Calling In: Loretta Ross
Jun 5, 2025

We discuss "calling in" as a practice rooted in a human rights framework that can transform how we engage across our divide and potentially be the bridge that helps our democracy survive with Loretta Ross.

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Jun 5, 2025
Democracy On The Job: Jaz Brisack
May 29, 2025
Democracy On The Job: Jaz Brisack
May 29, 2025

We discuss what it takes to build worker power from scratch and how these efforts can reshape not only our workplaces, but democracy itself with Jaz Brisack.

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May 29, 2025
Reclaim Democracy’s Power: Stacey Abrams
May 22, 2025
Reclaim Democracy’s Power: Stacey Abrams
May 22, 2025

We discuss reclaiming the narrative of democracy with Stacey Abrams. Democracy is a tool to deliver on our values in the realm of justice, dignity, fairness, and freedom.

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May 22, 2025
Body, Law, and Liberty: Karen Thompson
May 15, 2025
Body, Law, and Liberty: Karen Thompson
May 15, 2025

We discuss the growing phenomenon of pregnancy criminalization, examine the path forward in a post-Dobbs world, and consider what a just jurisprudence of pregnancy might look like.

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May 15, 2025
Classrooms of Democracy: Elaine Weiss
May 8, 2025
Classrooms of Democracy: Elaine Weiss
May 8, 2025

We discuss the history of citizenship schools, their profound importance in the Civil Rights Movement, and the critical lessons they offer for our present moment with Elaine Weiss.

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May 8, 2025
100 Days of Chaos: Skye Perryman
May 1, 2025
100 Days of Chaos: Skye Perryman
May 1, 2025

We assess the first 100 days of the Trump administration and what we can expect going forward with Skye Perryman of Democracy Forward.

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May 1, 2025
AI's Civic Potential: Natalie Monbiot
Apr 24, 2025
AI's Civic Potential: Natalie Monbiot
Apr 24, 2025

We discuss what’s happening in the AI space to augment human life in this moment, and what the potential intersections are with democracy.

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Apr 24, 2025
The Democracy We Never Had: Aziz Rana
Apr 17, 2025
The Democracy We Never Had: Aziz Rana
Apr 17, 2025

We discuss rethinking the Constitution as a way to reimagine democracy. In addition, we examine the role of constitutionalism in exporting the principles of democracy as the underpinning of American imperialism.

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Apr 17, 2025
Youth Power vs. The Climate Crisis: Aru Shiney-Ajay
Apr 10, 2025
Youth Power vs. The Climate Crisis: Aru Shiney-Ajay
Apr 10, 2025

We discuss the Green New Deal and how youth movements like the Sunrise Movement are the secret sauce in getting the federal government to drive the effort to stop the climate crisis.

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Apr 10, 2025
Land, Power, and Democracy: Michael Albertus
Apr 3, 2025
Land, Power, and Democracy: Michael Albertus
Apr 3, 2025

We discuss the great reshuffle of land in the last few centuries and the intersection of land, power, and democracy with Michael Albertus.

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Apr 3, 2025
The Architects of Division: Katherine Stewart
Mar 27, 2025
The Architects of Division: Katherine Stewart
Mar 27, 2025

We discuss mobile voting as the definitive way to make elections more accessible for everyone — especially for Americans with disabilities and overseas citizens — and therefore finally increase turnout in significant numbers.

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Mar 27, 2025
Voting Booth in Your Pocket: Bradley Tusk
Mar 20, 2025
Voting Booth in Your Pocket: Bradley Tusk
Mar 20, 2025

We discuss mobile voting as the definitive way to make elections more accessible for everyone — especially for Americans with disabilities and overseas citizens — and therefore finally increase turnout in significant numbers.

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Mar 20, 2025
But Is It Constitutional?: Julie Suk
Mar 13, 2025
But Is It Constitutional?: Julie Suk
Mar 13, 2025

We discuss whether executive orders can change the Constitution, the ongoing transformation of executive power, and the true intersection of the Constitution and democracy.

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Mar 13, 2025
Be a Joiner: Pete Davis
Mar 6, 2025
Be a Joiner: Pete Davis
Mar 6, 2025

We discuss why joining a club or an association is the glue that binds civic society to democracy. They are the classrooms for our citizenship!

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Mar 6, 2025
Democrats, Hit the Reset Button!: Faiz Shakir
Feb 27, 2025
Democrats, Hit the Reset Button!: Faiz Shakir
Feb 27, 2025

We discuss a vision for the Democratic Party that goes back to its roots and represents working people and champions issues such as healthcare, student debt, and wages through a class lens with Faiz Shakir.

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Feb 27, 2025
Marxism for Americans: Andrew Hartman
Feb 20, 2025
Marxism for Americans: Andrew Hartman
Feb 20, 2025

We discuss the influence of Karl Marx in American politics and the continued relevance of Marxism today.

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Feb 20, 2025
Truth or Disinformation?: Barbara McQuade
Feb 13, 2025
Truth or Disinformation?: Barbara McQuade
Feb 13, 2025

We discuss that Americans should prize truth over tribe with Barbara McQuade. A lot of disinformation is hiding behind the First Amendment – using the right to free speech to tell lies. The muddy media and information ecosystem is turning us against our neighbors.

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Feb 13, 2025

 

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