The January Insurrection According to Rep. Pramila Jayapal, What Families Need to Know about Covid in Kids, and Our Roundtable Debates AOC’s Met Gala Moment | Our Body Politic
Farai Chideya talks with Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington about her decision to have an abortion years ago, and her experience of the January 6th insurrection. Our Body Politic’s new econo...
27 Sep 202151min
Afghanistan, Part I: Red Pill | Democracy in Danger
The forever war claimed 243,000 lives and cost $2.3 billion over two decades, before coming to a chaotic end with the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan last month. But what about the costs yo...
22 Sep 202139min
Where Juvenile Detention Looks More Like Teens Hanging Out | 70 Million
There’s a place in rural St. Johns, Arizona, where teens who have encounters with officers of the law can play pool, make music, and get mentored instead of going to jail. It’s called The Loft, and it...
20 Sep 202129min
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
