Politics in Question
Julia Azari, Lee Drutman, and James Wallner
A podcast about how our political institutions are failing us and ideas for fixing them. Join hosts Lee Drutman and James Wallner as they imagine and argue over what American politics could look like if citizens questioned everything. Politics In Question is a joint venture of New America and the Foundation for American Innovation.
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Jul 22, 2020 • 1h 19min
How do Republicans win elections?
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Jul 16, 2020 • 50min
What will a Biden presidency look like?
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Jul 9, 2020 • 54min
How will public opinion on democracy impact the 2020 presidential election?
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Jul 1, 2020 • 58min
How did the Great Migration help shape today's politics?
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Jun 24, 2020 • 53min
What will it take to achieve racial justice in American politics?
Megan Ming Francis, “The white press has a history of endangering black lives going back a century,” Washington Post (June 15, 2020).Dorothy Roberts, “Abolishing Policing Also Means Abolishing Family Regulation,” The Chronicle of Social Change (June 16, 2020).Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter From Birmingham Jail (April 16, 1963).Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 1962).Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “The End of Black Politics: Black leaders regularly fail to rise to the challenges that confront young people,” New York Times (June 13, 2020).
Jun 17, 2020 • 1h 8min
What are the politics of protest?
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Jun 16, 2020 • 1h 8min
What values are essential in a successful democracy?
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Jun 10, 2020 • 58min
How do democratic self-governments respond to extremism?
May 27, 2020 • 1h 7min
What role do norms and values play in democratic self-government?
May 20, 2020 • 1h 6min
