Braxton Brewington is the Press Secretary of the Debt Collective. We discuss the origins of the Debt Collective in the Rolling Jubilee and its …
Rachel Bitecofer is a political scientist and election forecaster turned political strategist. Her most recent book is Hit ’Em Where it Hurts: How to …
Richard L. Hasen is Professor of Law and Political Science at UCLA and director of UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project. We discuss his most …
Phillip Atiba Solomon is the chair and Carl I. Hovland Professor of African American Studies, Professor of Psychology at Yale University, and …
Sam Wang is the Director of the Electoral Innovation Lab and a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University. We discuss how we can better understand the current state of district maps across the US, and how they …
Jess Piper is the Executive Director of Blue Missouri and the host of the Dirt Road Democrats podcast. We discuss the reality of living in rural Missouri, the state of education, and the dearth of Democratic candidates …
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Ken Harbaugh is the host of the Burn the Boats podcast, a former United States Navy pilot, and executive producer of Against All Enemies, a …
Cynthia Richie Terrell is the founder and executive director of RepresentWomen. We discuss institutional reforms that can reduce the barriers for women to run, win, and govern.
There are approximately 520,000 elected …
Anat Shenker-Osorio is the host of the Words to Win By podcast and the Principal of ASO Communications. We discuss the winning messages for 2024 and the importance for pro-democracy voters to turn out on Election Day.
Marietje Schaake is International Policy Director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center, International Policy Fellow at Stanford’s Institute for …
Ryan Busse is a Democratic candidate for governor of Montana and the author of Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry That Radicalized America. We …
Deb Otis is the Director of Research & Policy at FairVote, a nonpartisan organization that researches and advances voting reforms that make …
Lala Wu is the co-founder and executive director of Sister District, an organization that works to build enduring progressive power in state legislatures. We discuss how state races will continue to be important during …
Over the last several years our politics has been pushed from a place of collaboration to bold faced loyalty tests. In his latest book: Differ We …
Rich Harwood is the president and founder of The Harwood Institute, who just launched a campaign to reclaim the public square from the most divisive voices and build it into a place that can make hope real for all.
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Juliet Hooker is the author of Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss and the Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political …
Shaun Donovan is the CEO & President of Enterprise Community Partners. We discuss how the deeply entrenched housing crisis has become worse in …
Christopher Paul Harris is Assistant Professor of Global & International Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of To …
Just in time for Thanksgiving, Neal Rickner joins us to talk about the American Values Coalition, a growing community of Americans who are empowered to lead with truth, reject extremism and misinformation, and defend …
Thursday, November 16th, 2023
Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University and co-author of …
Thursday, November 9th, 2023
Bernard E. Harcourt is Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia …
Thursday, November 2nd, 2023
Hajar Yazdiha is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and …
Thursday, October 26th, 2023
Nick Suplina is Senior Vice President for Law & Policy at Everytown for Gun Safety. He was previously an advisor …
Thursday, October 19th, 2023
Sam Oliker-Friedland is the Executive Director of the Institute for Responsive Government and a former Department of Justice voting rights litigator at the Civil Rights Division. We …
Thursday, October 12th, 2023
Steven Levitsky is Professor of Government at Harvard University. Together with Daniel Ziblatt, he is co-author of How Democracies Die and has just published Tyranny of the Minority. They …
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
Jocelyn Simonson is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, a former public defender, and the author of Radical Acts …
Thursday, September 28th, 2023
Stephen Bright and James Kwak are co-authors of The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts. Stephen Bright has been an advocate …
Thursday, September 21st, 2023
Sara Schreiber is the Executive Director of America Votes, the coordination hub of progressive communities. We discuss expanding access to voting, modernizing elections, and getting out …
Thursday, September 14th, 2023
Yoni Landau is the CEO and founder of Movement Labs, the founder of Contest Every Race, and a former White House Office of Management and Budget and Robert Reich staffer. We explore just …
Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning professor of journalism at Columbia University and author of Into the Bright …
Thursday, August 31st, 2023
Kurt Andersen is a prolific writer and author of Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History. We discuss …
Thursday, August 24th, 2023
Anne Nelson is an author and lecturer in the fields of international affairs, media, and human rights. Her most recent book is Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the …
Thursday, August 17th, 2023
David Pepper is a lawyer, writer, political activist, and former elected official. He served as the Chairman of the …
Thursday, August 10th, 2023
Skye Perryman is the President and CEO of Democracy Forward, an organization that uses the law to build collective …
Thursday, August 3rd, 2023
Norman Chen is the CEO of the Asian American Foundation or TAAF. We discuss racism against Asians and the pursuit of belonging through philanthropy, civic engagement, and education.
Deep …
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran are co-authors of The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy. …
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
Jenice Fountain is the Executive Director of the Yellowhammer Fund, a reproductive justice organization in Birmingham …
Thursday, July 13th, 2023
Layla Law-Gisiko serves on Manhattan’s Community Board 5 at the very center of New York City. She currently chairs the …
Thursday, July 6th, 2023
We’re sharing an episode from fellow Democracy Group podcast, Democracy Decoded, a show that examines our government and …
Thursday, June 29th, 2023
Dr. Richard Haass is the President of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The Bill of Obligations: Ten …
Thursday, June 22nd, 2023
Anna Chu is the executive director of We The Action, an organization that connects volunteer lawyers with nonprofits that …
Thursday, June 15th, 2023
Frank Guridy is the Executive Director of the Eric H. Holder Initiative for Civil and Political Rights at Columbia …
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
David Priess is the Director of Intelligence at Bedrock Learning and has served at the CIA as an intelligence officer, a manager, and a daily intelligence briefer during the presidencies of …
Thursday, June 1st, 2023
Beto O’Rourke is a fourth-generation Texan, the former US Representative of Texas’s 16th Congressional district, the Democratic Party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2018, and the Democratic …
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Representative Anna Eskamani serves on behalf of Florida’s 42nd district of Orange County in the state House of Representatives. We discuss her victories at the ballot box and her work to …
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones are co-authors of How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms. Chris is an associate professor of applied mathematics at …
Thursday, May 11th, 2023
Judge Victoria Pratt was Chief Judge in Newark Municipal Court in New Jersey and the author of The Power of Dignity. She is currently the Executive Director of Odyssey Impact, an interfaith …
Thursday, May 4th, 2023
Craig Aaron is the Co-CEO of Free Press and Free Press Action. We discuss the civic information bill in New Jersey and the promise of centering civic information in the media.
A vibrant …
Thursday, April 27th, 2023
Jeff Sharlet is a journalist, best-selling author, and longtime observer and investigator of the Christian right. His latest book is The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. We discuss …
Thursday, April 20th, 2023
Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward are the co-authors of Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why our …
Thursday, April 13th, 2023
Anat Shenker-Osorio is a renowned communications researcher and campaign advisor, the host of Words to Win By, and the Principal of ASO Communications. We discuss how to empower voters, the …
Thursday, April 6th, 2023
We’re sharing an episode of Drilled, a true-crime podcast about climate change, hosted and reported by award-winning investigative journalist Amy Westervelt.
Four years ago, the Drilled …
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
Alana Sivin is the New York State Director of Criminal Justice Reform at FWD.us. We discuss the history of bail reform legislation, the subsequent roadblocks, and the truth behind the …
Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
Joanna Schwartz is a professor of law at UCLA, where she teaches civil procedure and courses on police accountability. …
Thursday, March 16th, 2023
Laphonza Butler is President of Emily’s List, an organization that aims to help elect pro-choice democratic women to office. We're inspired by the organization's motto to "reject apathy and …
Thursday, March 9th, 2023
Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider are co-authors of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public …
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
Daniel Squadron is the co-founder and Executive Director of The States Project and also a former New York State senator. We discuss what it takes to win legislative majorities in state houses …
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
Leah Goodridge has served on the New York City Planning Commission since 2021 and is the Managing Attorney for …
Thursday, February 16th, 2023
Gregg Colburn is the co-author of Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain US Patterns. He's …
Thursday, February 9th, 2023
Octavia Abell is the co-founder and CEO of Govern For America, which describes its mission as bridging the gap between governments and emerging leaders to build a pipeline of diverse and …
Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
Ruth Milkman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and History at the CUNY Graduate Center and at the CUNY School of …
Thursday, January 26th, 2023
Jared Yates Sexton is a self-described Hoosier, a Political Analyst, and host of the Muckrake Podcast. His latest book …
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
Victor Shi is a Gen Z activist, host of On the Move, co-host of iGen Politics, a junior at UCLA, and Strategy Director …
Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Danielle Moodie is a cultural connoisseur, a political junkie, and, in addition to Democracy-ish, also hosts the Woke …
Thursday, January 5th, 2023
Steve Phillips is the host of the Democracy in Color podcast and the author of How We Win the Civil War: Securing a …
Thursday, December 29th, 2022
We’re sharing a clip from an episode of Some of My Best Friends Are…
Thursday, December 22nd, 2022
Chris Kang is the Co-Founder and Chief Counsel of Demand Justice. He served in the White House for nearly seven years as Deputy Counsel to President Obama and Special Assistant to the …
Thursday, December 15th, 2022
Jackie Salit and Thom Reilly are co-directors of the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy at Arizona State University and co-authors of The Independent Voter. Independents …
Thursday, December 8th, 2022
Chris Melody Fields Figueredo is the Executive Director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, which seeks to strengthen democracy by building a national progressive strategy for ballot …
Thursday, December 1st, 2022
Cecile Richards is the co-chair of American Bridge, former president of Planned Parenthood, a co-founder of Supermajority, and author of the book Make Trouble. We make sense of the …
Thursday, November 23rd, 2022
Andrew Koppelman is the author of Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed. It’s a fascinating history of this idea and an excellent lens for …
Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Rebecca Cokley is a disability-rights advocate and the first U.S. Disability Rights Program Officer for the Ford Foundation. From 2009 to 2013, she served as an appointee in President …
Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Thaddeus Johnson is a former police officer, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice, and Assistant …
Thursday, November 3rd, 2022
Dr. Alison Gill is a veteran, former federal government executive, and Host of Mueller She Wrote and the Daily Beans Podcast. We discuss democracy, accountability and all the legal …
Thursday, October 27th, 2022
Amanda Brown Lierman is the Executive Director at Supermajority and Supermajority Education Fund, which builds women’s …
Thursday, October 20th, 2022
Orly Lobel is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Employment and Labor Law. …
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
We're sharing an episode of Civics 101 from New Hampshire Public Radio.
The House and the Senate have mostly the same powers: they both propose and vote on bills that may become law. So …
Thursday, October 13th, 2022
Ryan Busse is a former firearms executive, Senior Policy Advisor to Giffords, and author of Gunfight: My Battle …
Thursday, October 6th, 2022
Aidan Kohn-Murphy is the founder and Executive Director of the organization Gen Z for Change, a youth-led nonprofit working to educate and create change on issues that affect young people. …
Thursday, September 29th, 2022
Jonathan Friedman is the director of free expression and education programs at PEN America. He oversees research, advocacy, and education related to academic freedom, educational gag …
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale and the author of 5 books, including How …
Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Steve Pierson is the host of the How We Win podcast. He’s an activist, community organizer, and trainer, who started …
Thursday, September 8th, 2022
Ian Bremmer is a political scientist and he’s the founder and president of the research and consulting firm Eurasia …
Thursday, September 1st, 2022
Christopher Beem is Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, co-host of the Democracy Works podcast, and the author of The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to …
Thursday, August 25th, 2022
Rob Sand is Iowa’s State Auditor, which is the taxpayers’ watchdog in the state. He’s the first Democrat to beat an incumbent Republican in Iowa in 50 years. We discuss putting public …
Thursday, August 18th, 2022
Jennifer Taub is a lawyer, advocate, and author of Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White …
Thursday, August 11th, 2022
Zephyr Teachout is Senior Counsel for Economic Justice for the New York Attorney General and law professor at Fordham University. We revisit our conversation with her about her book, Break …
Thursday, August 4th, 2022
Elizabeth Yeampierre is an internationally recognized Puerto Rican attorney and environmental and climate justice leader of African and Indigenous ancestry, a national leader in the climate …
Thursday, July 28th, 2022
Amanda Renteria the CEO of Code for America, an organization of people-centered problem solvers working to improve …
Thursday, July 21st, 2022
Miles Rapoport and E.J. Dionne are the co-authors of 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting. In a time when the …
Thursday, July 14th, 2022
Matthew E. Kahn is Provost Professor at the University of Southern California and the author of six previous books about …
Thursday, July 7th, 2022
Rachel Vindman is the host of the Suburban Women Problem podcast and wife of retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. …
Thursday, June 30th, 2022
This week, Future Hindsight is sharing an episode of The Financial Confessions – a podcast by The Financial Diet. The Financial Diet is the largest personal finance platform for women on the …
Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
Katie Fahey is the Executive Director of The People, an organization working to find common ground and take action to create a more responsive government of, by, and for the people. In 2016, …
Thursday, June 16th, 2022
Sung Yeon Choimorrow is the executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, whose mission is to …
Jeff Clements serves as President of American Promise, an organization that is focused on repairing the constitutional foundation to renew freedom for all Americans, to support effective and …
Amy Westervelt is a climate journalist and the founder and executive producer of the Critical Frequency Podcast Network. She hosts the Drilled and Hot Take podcasts. We discuss the long …
Andrea Miller is the President of the National Institute for Reproductive Health. As we await the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which will likely overturn Roe v. …
John Opdycke is the President of Open Primaries, an organization building a coalition of diverse Americans to enact open primaries in all 50 states. We discuss why it is time to shake up the …
Marie Yovanovitch is the former Ambassador to Ukraine and best-selling author of her memoir, Lessons from the Edge. In a live event for Big Tent USA, we discuss the powers of diplomacy, the …
Nisha Anand is an Indian-American activist, leader for racial justice, and the CEO of DreamCorps. Her expansive organizing …
Ian Haney López is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in race and racism. His focus for the last decade has been …
David J. Toscano served 14 years (2006-20) in the Virginia House of Delegates representing the 57th District. He’s the …
Emily Cherniack is the founder of New Politics. She believes that politics has the power to change systems. Her …
We are running a short, four-minute survey during the month of April, and it’s all about you. We want to learn more about what you think of Future Hindsight, and if there is anything we can do to make it better. Your …
Carol Jenkins is the President and CEO of the ERA Coalition and the Fund for Women’s Equality, sister organizations …
In order to repair our current social contract, we must first repair our relationship to the Commons. Our economy currently prioritizes property protection, wealth protection, and disproportionate …
As members of a society, we must have an understanding of “we” for the social contract to function. When citizens are put in a position of protecting the state or the economy instead of …
Increasingly, the design of new technology determines the way our society functions and the way we live. Simple …
What do our tax dollars really go towards? The truth is, so much of it is invisible. Tax dollars go towards helping …
Creating racist policies and ideologies is short-sighted. In the long run, these practices affect everyone, including white …
The devaluation of Black lives and women's work is at the heart of the subminimum wage. Until the 1850s, restaurant workers were white men who were unionized and were tipped on top of a …
Our Responsibility to Defend the Truth
Science denialism has existed as long as science has existed. As a part of our social contract, we’re responsible for challenging the spread of misinformation and understanding, …
The pandemic has given us a glimpse into the ways our health is woven into the social contract. The high number of …
Economic and racial injustices are at the center of the climate crisis. White communities have largely avoided …
We lose talent in our society when we overlook those from poor backgrounds or minority families. For example, Lost Einsteins are children who harness above-average skills, but don’t have a …
The state of nature is a human condition that exists in any space that lacks a civil authority. With the social contract, we're prepared to make a deal with each other in order to live together as …
Our all-new season is all about something that we most often hear about in terms of its brokenness: the social contract. We will be asking big questions about how we live together, what we owe each other, what we can …
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As an Assemblymember, González-Rojas works to address a variety of intersectional issues facing her community, ranging from housing to healthcare. Her prior experience as a reproductive justice …
Young people wield a lot of power when they vote. A whopping 73% of youth who were registered to vote by NextGen turned out to vote. This type of turnout can change the outcome of an election. Because …
State legislatures pass the laws that affect our daily lives. When Democrats won the ‘trifecta’ in Virginia in 2019, …
Since its founding, Run for Something has helped elect 515 young, local officials across 46 states. A third of those elected officials are between 25 and 30, 10% are between the …
Eleanor’s Legacy specifically helps pro-choice Democratic candidates for several reasons. First, due to a long-standing Republican majority in the state legislature, New York State had not …
Normalizing Black women’s leadership means that it is as plausible to have a Black woman represent a majority-white district as it is to have a white man represent a majority-Black …
Women need to highlight their credentials early and often, particularly in economics. Voters do recognize that women understand …
The goal of promoting women to run for office is not simply to achieve parity in Congress or in State legislatures. …
Levine and the co-editors were outraged by what was happening in the trial and wanted to make sure the general public knew what was going on in that courtroom. They decided to buy the …
The Declaration of Independence clearly lists the promises Americans are entitled to: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If people want to use drugs to pursue that happiness, they have a right …
Punishment Bureaucracy
The Punishment Bureaucracy defines the array of institutions that powerful members of our society have constructed to enforce …
White collar crime, as originally defined by Edwin Sutherland in 1939, are offenses committed by someone of high social status and …
Pride and greed are vices of domination that are at the root of sexual harassment and assault. Narcissistic gender pride casts women …
Several kinds of non-traditional labor in the US leave Americans vulnerable to coercion at work. Prisoners work during their …
American poverty is a bit like a game of musical chairs. The US only has good opportunities for 8 out of 10 Americans, meaning 2 people always lose. Instead of adding new opportunities or chairs, we …
The ideal peacebuilding model is context-specific. It heavily relies on grassroots peacebuilding efforts by the local community …
America has clearly delineated public and private domains: the public domain is regulated, and the private domain is not. A …
Socrates used direct questioning to make ancient Athenians reflect critically on their views, which often made people look …
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The Erosion of AmericaSince …
Influential conservatives have capitalized on a wave of cultural nostalgia after the turbulent 1960s to turn our economy into a version …
We are launching an all-new authors’ season, focusing on books that get into the weeds of America’s most vexing problems. We’ll be talking about everything from criminal justice, philosophy, to economics, labor, and …
Solving community problems can begin with a simple, common goal of being a good neighbor. Deep human relationships with people …
The Supreme Court often operates like a conservative activist group to help the GOP. One of the most egregious ways they've tipped the scales is in campaign finance. Starting with their infamous …
Race-conscious parenting affirms that we should notice race, and to recognize racism and racial injustice. It rejects …
Health insurance is essential to accessing healthcare. The uninsured do not get routine preventive care and, therefore, experience lower health outcomes. We must have a system that includes everyone, …
Diverse leadership and promoting inclusive excellence benefits everyone. In fact, it’s critical to success in any organization. …
In a study to detect implicit bias, preschool teachers were instructed to watch a video of four young children …
Championing Indigenous students to be successful in school systems starts with school curriculums – telling the accurate …
The United States has a long history of using child separation to further racial nationalism. The two main groups …
US unions traditionally operate on a 'colorblind' approach to organizing, but focusing on class issues alone often fails to …
The US government codified overt segregation in housing policy at the beginning of the 20th century. The New Deal …
In the Senate, a bill passes if it receives more than half of the vote. To bring a vote to the floor, the Majority Leader asks Senate members if anyone has any objections before moving to a …
Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory is a theory of justice designed to respond to the endemic racism in America’s legal system. It places …
Before and during the Civil War, Southern Baptist leaders argued that slavery was just and the slaveholding South represented the …
Surveillance Capitalism is the dominant economic logic in our world today. It claims private human experience for the marketplace and turns it into a commodity. Vast amounts of personal data are …
Classroom innovation stems from teachers and students working together to pursue subjects that excite students to learn. Examples include allowing students to design robots and make …
Democracy and education are inextricably linked. A democracy can only work when voters have an open mind, the ability to …
Since 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, US warfare has focused on counterinsurgency. America now uses this …
The future of public safety is community police partnership. Stamper suggests a plebiscite in which neighborhoods elect …
Prop 22, the most expensive California ballot initiative in history, carves out app-based gig economy workers as a new employee class that lacks the benefits and protections that other workers in …
A monopoly is a company that has the power to set the terms of interactions, from the pricing of consumer goods to …
Keynes concerned himself with his day's most significant problems: WWI and WWII, the rise of fascism and revolution, and the Great …
This is a thought-provoking season of visionary and practical ideas to reimagine our future in a post pandemic and post trump world.
We cover everything from needing to be civically engaged all the time, which is to say …
Technology can make participating in democracy easier than ever before because it’s scalable and makes it …
October Surprise
The term ‘October Surprise’ refers to a type of dirty trick that comes so late in the election calendar that a candidate does not have the time or space to respond, and voters don’t have the time to …
Hitler is one of the early modern autocrats for whom legitimacy was crucial to his claim to power. He recognized the importance of including the people and representing himself as presenting the will of the …
Black Lives Matter is the epitome of ‘hashtag activism.’ #BLM is a native social media activist movement that started on the internet and builds support for itself there. #BLM combines traditional …
Our work lives are an important place to practice democracy. Union members learn negotiation and problem solving skills to …
Wondering what being a member of our Civics Club is like on Patreon? Well, here’s a free look at our bonus content from our talk this week with Adam Cohen! Each week we take time to ask our guests personal questions …
Although we are taught to believe the Supreme Court is a neutral institution whose primary concern is justice, it is actually …
Self-determination empowers those who are most affected to be in the driver’s seat of policy-making decisions. For example, if an …
Civic power puts communities most impacted by legislative decisions in the drivers’ seat of making public policy. Community members get …
State capture refers to the idea that a set of organizations, businesses, and movements can capture a political office …
In response to the elections of Obama and Trump, grassroots political movements sprung up on the right and the left. Members of …
Precincts are critical to building local and regional party power. Kromer started Davidson’s Democratic party precinct with only …
Political power starts with service to others. For instance, Russian immigrant and Boston resident Naakh Vysoky began …
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The concept of sexual citizenship asserts that people have the right to sexual self-determination, including young people. Recognizing young people’s sexual citizenship prepares them to both say no …
Surveillance Capitalism is the dominant economic logic in our world today. It claims private human experience for the marketplace and turns it into a commodity. Vast amounts of personal data are …
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The Alt-Right believes politics is downstream from culture. They operate in this meta-political sphere where changing …
Beginning with the America First Movement, conservative political activists also became conservative media figures. In …
Ethical communication involves respect and civil discourse. Taking time to listen to other sides and treating lawmakers with …
PolitiFact finds statements of “fact” by American politicians that can be verified and are highly visible, or pertinent, to a …
A functional conspiracy theory uses facts and rational arguments to prove that things are not as they seem. Conspiracism is a conspiracy …
Trammell created a viral disease model to mimic how fake news spreads. People must come in to contact with the fake information in order to be infected, just as with a virus. The more people are exposed, the …
George Lakoff invented a construct called the Truth Sandwich in order to effectively frame the truth and negate a lie. In it, true statements act as "bread," and the lie is the "filling." A truth sandwich …
Post-truth is the political subordination of reality. It is not a failing of knowledge, but one of politics. Authoritarians use post-truth …
COVID-19 has created an excuse for authoritarians around the world to consolidate power. Repressive regimes such as …
Recently, Mila sat down with other podcast hosts from our podcast network The Democracy Group, to discuss the impact COVID-19 is having on our …
Beginning in 1959, ExxonMobil became scientifically aware of the dangers of human-caused climate change. By the 1970s-80s, they had a detailed, precise understanding of climate change. Their …
Nuclear technology has a long history of secrecy, cover-up, and deceit from military officials and government leaders, starting …
After the Fukushima reactor accident, radiation leaked into the Pacific Ocean, sparking global worry. In the months after the accident, levels were high, but not high enough to cause marine …
Building nuclear power plants is extremely costly and time-consuming; projects are often plagued by cost overruns and construction delays. Between permitting, planning, and construction, it …
Stephen Pimpare is a nationally recognized expert on poverty and U.S. social policy. Hedebunks the idea that COVID is the great equalizer, and …
Nuclear energy offers large amounts of power, produces no carbon dioxide, uses a comparatively small amount of land, and runs around the clock. Although nuclear power produces hazardous waste, the amount of …
The crime of ecocide is the "extensive loss, damage, or destruction of ecosystems such that their inhabitants can no longer enjoy …
Dismantling the energy system is crucial to breaking the energy crisis. Implementing clean energy policies is the most …
Many low-income communities bear the brunt of industrial pollution or the harshest consequences of climate change. In order to …
The climate crisis is a global collective problem that requires a collective global solution. Robust and bipartisan public policy must be …
Corporations only care about their bottom-line, so boycotting stores you don’t believe in does make a difference. Taking …
We can create a sustainable food supply for future populations with technology and a change in diet. We cannot feed the world …
Through non-violent social movements, we can demand meaningful change in the political and economic calculus for …
The United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda for 2030 lists 17 goals designed to improve human well-being, while also managing the Earth’s resources for the future. We have …
Welfare ceased being guaranteed after reform in 1996. Although the safety net for the working class was strengthened through tax credits, the safety net for those who are jobless disappeared. In its …
Many Americans are unsure of how their government works. Civic education is the manual for democracy, which Civics 101 offers in …
Abt’s central thesis for solving violence in urban areas is fairly straightforward: focus on the violence—and not other …
Meritocracy gives the illusion that we are all equally competing at a level playing field. The reality is that the elite is able to purchase better education, which means they are more …
The need for positive, bipartisan discourse is acute. In today’s politically charged environment, it's important …
The First Amendment protects four types of freedom of expression: freedom of speech, belief, assembly, and the ability to petition the government for a redress of grievances. It states that “Congress …
Equality creates a framework for how we should treat others, and how we should expect to be treated by others. The institution of …
The Irish Citizens’ Assembly was formed in response to the severe social and economic crisis caused by the global financial meltdown …
Responsible Statecraft
Responsible statecraft should derive from serious consideration of the public interest, with robust public debate and a strong …
Since 1957, BGA investigations have uncovered corruption and unfair practices throughout Chicago and the state of …
Democracy Works remedies some of the most pervasive and mundane reasons we don’t vote. TurboVote is a tool that enables …
Most Americans take for granted that our elections will be free and fair. However, this would not be the case without the …
Many Americans are unsure of how their government works. Civic education is the manual for democracy, and Civics 101 offers …
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor founded iCivics in 2009 because she believed that the practice of democracy must be taught and learned anew by each generation. High-quality civic …
In our representative democracy, every citizen of the United States is ultimately a part of the government. One of our civic …
Creating a stronger community and society comes through a continuous commitment to civic engagement. Passion about certain …
One of the most important factors in a healthy democracy is the sense of agency. When citizens in a democracy feel they have some …
There are a multitude of ways to become an engaged citizen. Often people think of civic engagement as an overwhelming …
Since the 2016 election, it has become increasingly imperative that we participate in our democracy as citizens. There are many ways to be civically …
When American democracy was conceived, the US was comprised of 13 states on the Eastern Seaboard, with a population of just over 2.5 …
The Fourth amendment protects people from unlawful searches and seizures. For example, in the 1970s the Supreme Court ruled that a …
Tolerable climate and economic conditions
Lamontagne’s study defines tolerable economic conditions as follows: the present value of abatement costs …
There is a college completion crisis and access crisis in America: black adults are only two thirds as likely to hold college …
Good health is the product of access to quality medical care and sound public health policy. Effective policies that improve …
Cash bail was initially conceived as a way to incentivize the accused to come to court at their appointed court dates. As the criminal legal system expanded during the tough-on-crime years, cash …
The health needs of half of our population – women – include maternal and reproductive health. Equal rights mean that women …
It’s a disservice to our communities and our democracy when the voices of women are missing in government. Women have a right for government to reflect their needs. The actual, lived …
Government and businesses rely on census data to provide the necessary services that make healthy and vibrant communities possible. The data reveals how many grocery stores, pharmacies, …
People have very little political power beyond voting on election day. Current governing structures are incapable of changing …
Engaging in early and constructive dialogue between indigenous communities and corporations is crucial for success. …
Video documentation of injustice and systemic abuse can be a powerful tool for holding offenders accountable. The key is …
The purpose of civil discourse is to enhance understanding, not to change minds. It’s always helpful to have a diversity of …
Grassroots movements believe that change starts on the local level. Indivisible started with sharing a Google doc guide to empower everyday people to now having over 4,000 groups throughout the country. …
If a lawmaker has not yet made a firm decision on an issue, an in-person meeting has a ninety-four percent efficacy rate as an advocacy strategy. It’s important for constituents to connect a …
The Gathering excels at bringing coalitions together with a common agenda; rapid and urgent response to crisis situations in communities; organizing, like marching in protest to Washington, D.C., from …
The 1963 March on Washington was the first mass protest in America. Due to the anxiety around such a massive group …
Our new season examines the power of protest and other civic action. Guests include activists who protest and advocates who don’t, from Brad Fitch of the Congressional Management Foundation and Jackie Zammuto of WITNESS …
This is a bonus episode from the Democracy Works podcast, which examines what it means to live in a democracy. Host Jenna Spinelle interviews David Frum, the author of Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
We need representatives who truly represent the people by directly engaging with and listening to their …
Revisit some of the highlights of this season that gave us so much insight into poverty in America, added to our discourse, and helped us revise our thinking.
Welfare ceased being guaranteed after reform in 1996. Although the safety net for the working class was strengthened through tax credits, the safety net for those who are jobless disappeared. In its …
Hardship in America is common. In all of rich democracies, we have the highest rates of poverty among the elderly and also among children. In fact, the majority of Americans will be poor for a …
Because the foundation for all of life’s successes -- whether academic, social, or emotional -- is laid in the first five years of life, it is critically important to invest in early learning. …
Although it is no surprise that picking an insurance plan is complicated, it turns out it is nearly impossible. A study by George Loewenstein at Carnegie Mellon reveals …
The leading cause was cutbacks to federal funding for housing for poor people starting with the …
Max Kenner is the founder and executive director of the Bard Prison Initiative, a college that is spread across six interconnected prisons in New …
Stephen Bright served as the director of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, and is currently a lecturer at Yale Law School, as well as …
Ross Morales Rocketto is co-founder of Run For Something, an organization that supports diverse, young progressives running for state and local office. We discuss which candidates win, why building a bench of local and …
"Telling these types of stories, showing people that it's not just white dudes who are lawyers, who have a lot of money, that can do this type of …
Education should be a path for children to develop into self-directed, self-supporting, skill-equipped young adults. This may or may …
The impact of individual and group efforts can be decisive in local political races, such as in the elections for a judge, a district …
People broadly agree that voter turnout should be higher and that voting should be easier, for example by making Election Day a holiday. …
Voting is our civic duty and our opportunity to participate in our democracy. We can hold our leaders accountable and also …
Political Power
The proactive strategy of Latino Victory to build power through elections is a recipe for success. They focus on grooming and …
Phil Polakoff is a physician with a distinguished career in public health and clinical medicine, the CEO of A Healthier We, and a consulting …
Census data supports communities
Government and businesses rely on census data to provide the necessary services that make healthy and vibrant communities possible. The data reveals how many grocery stores, pharmacies, …
The power of love and relational organizing
When people realize that their vote matters personally to others, they are more likely to show up and exercise this right. Ineligible voters, such as teenagers or formerly …
Brian Miller is the Executive Director of Nonprofit VOTE, an organization that partners with other nonprofits to integrate voter engagement into their ongoing activities. We discuss the importance of promoting voter …
A sneak peek of the first episode of Season 4: Brian Miller makes a
case for registering and voting. National Voter Registration Day is on
September 25, 2018.
Pam Elam and Namita Luthra serve on the Board of Directors of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Fund. Their Monumental Women campaign will bring the first statue commemorating real women to New York City’s …
Michael Faye is the president and co-founder of GiveDirectly, an organization that sends cash directly to people living in extreme poverty. We …
Maria Yuan is the founder of Issue Voter, an organization whose mission is to make civic engagement accessible, efficient, and impactful. We talk …
Rachel Leyland and Kendra Abel are public school teachers in Oklahoma City who participated in the walkout in April of 2018. We discuss how the …
Scott Warren is the CEO and co-founder of Generation Citizen, an organization that works to ensure students in the United States receive an effective …
Brent Wilkes is the former CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and a lifelong advocate for Latino rights. We discuss what …
Mark Hetfield is the President and CEO of HIAS, the oldest refugee assistance organization in operation. We discuss our humanitarian obligations to …
Paul Lagunes is a Columbia University political scientist whose scholarship focuses on corruption in the Americas. His current book project is …
Raise consciousness:
Globalists have been willing to stand by while many people were left behind. Elites need to acknowledge their complicity in order to reverse the increasing division between us and them, as well as …
Shafi Goldwasser is an award-winning mathematician and computer scientist and the Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC …
Jennifer March is the Executive Director of the Citizen’s Committee for Children of New York. This non-profit and nonpartisan child advocacy …
Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke represents his hometown, El Paso, TX. Currently a Candidate for US Senate, he is running a people-powered campaign, visiting every single county in Texas and listening to the needs …
Ruth Milkman is a sociologist of labor and labor movements, and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and at the Joseph S. …
Robert Hammond is the executive director and co-founder of Friends of the High Line, which was the driving force behind turning an abandoned elevated railroad in New York City into a public park. We discuss the …
Nick Ehrmann is the founder and president of Blue Engine, which was borne from the discovery that the strongest predictor of college completion is …
Tyler Ruzich is a 17-year old Republican candidate for governor of Kansas, one of eight teens in the race this year. We discuss what it means to be a …
A sneak peek of our next episode: civic engagement requires no minimum age. Tyler Ruzich, 17-year old Kansan, shows us how.
In the 8th and last episode of Season 1, we discuss the elder boom, and the increasing importance of home care and domestic work in our society.
Award-winning activist Ai-Jen Poo, a leading advocate for domestic …
Andrea Miller is the president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health. We talk about the broad support among men for Roe vs. Wade, the Hyde Amendment, and the two most damaging misconceptions about abortions.
Andrea Miller is the president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health. We talk about the impact that reproductive legislation has in society and how it’s historically been affected by safety and public health …
Joe Hartigan has cracked the code on how to effect change. He is a retired NYC Fire Department lieutenant and community activist since 1995. His passion, dedication, and consistency over many years brought about ferry …
Roland Augustine is an art dealer, tireless activist, and active member at the Bard College Prison Initiative. We discuss the necessity of finding …
James R. Doty, MD, is a neurosurgeon and clinical professor at Stanford University. He shows us how to shape our own lives and of those around us by reframing, practicing compassion, and living with an open heart.
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Richard K. Betts, Ph.D, is the Director of the Saltzmann Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. We talk about how we can be …
Matt Kalmans is the CEO and co-founder of Applecart, a strategic political consultancy and lab. We discuss the power of voting, how social pressure …
Bernard Harcourt is an author, lawyer, and critical theorist. In our conversation, we discover that civic engagement is a learned skill, the power of …
A sneak peak of the first episode of Future Hindsight — Bernard Harcourt discusses why and how civic engagement matters.
The Future Hindsight podcast launched on January 20, 2018. Join us for our premier episode where we interview Bernard Harcourt to speak about civic …
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