Every week, election lawyer Marc Elias interviews lawmakers, policy leaders and changemakers about the problems facing our democracy and how we fix them.
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Fix Our Democracy Podcasts
From politics to the personal, we're about bridging rigid partisan divides and listening with respect to different points of view. Our podcast is hosted by longtime journalist Richard Davies. We challenge authors, experts and provocateurs in a search for positive, practical ideas. Guests include David Blankenhorn, Mónica Guzmán, Dr. Francis Collins, and other leaders and members of Braver Angels. “How Do We Fix It?" - a repair manual for the real world. Produced by DaviesContent. Hosted on A ...
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Exploring the biggest questions of our time with the help of the world's greatest thinkers. Host Manoush Zomorodi inspires us to learn more about the world, our communities, and most importantly, ourselves. Get more brainy miscellany with TED Radio Hour+. Your subscription supports the show and unlocks a sponsor-free feed. Learn more at plus.npr.org/ted
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Your Undivided Attention
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Join us every other Thursday to understand how new technologies are shaping the way we live, work, and think. Your Undivided Attention is produced by Senior Producer Julia Scott and Researcher/Producer is Joshua Lash. Sasha Fegan is our Executive Producer. We are a member of the TED Audio Collective.
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Politicians, pundits, and the media spend a lot of time talking about the problems our country faces but not enough time on how to solve them. Each week, John Avlon and his guests hash out sensible and attainable solutions for some of the most vexing issues confronting our democracy—solutions that will likely emerge from the political center.
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IDEAS is a place for people who like to think. If you value deep conversation and unexpected reveals, this show is for you. From the roots and rise of authoritarianism to near-death experiences to the history of toilets, no topic is off-limits. Hosted by Nahlah Ayed, we’re home to immersive documentaries and fascinating interviews with some of the most consequential thinkers of our time. With an award-winning team, our podcast has proud roots in its 60-year history with CBC Radio, exploring ...
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Let's Pod This talks with policymakers, advocates, elected officials, and regular folks from across Oklahoma to explain how our government works and provide context for the pressing issues facing our state. A project of Let's Fix This (letsfixthis.org).
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Get ready for your aha moment: Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti pierces your news bubble to expose the whole story. Getting answers to the questions that need to be asked, examining our history and the human condition. No topic is too complicated or off the table. It’s all On Point.
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Whatever your business conundrum, there’s a TED Talk for that—whether you want to learn how to land that promotion, set smart goals, undo injustice at work, or unlock the next big innovation. Every Monday, host Modupe Akinola of Columbia Business School presents the most powerful and surprising ideas that illuminate the business world. After the talk, you'll get a mini-lesson from Modupe on how to apply the ideas in your own life. Because business evolves every day, and our ideas about it sh ...
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The Democracy Works podcast seeks to answer that question by examining a different aspect of democratic life each week — from voting to criminal justice to the free press and everything in between. We interview experts who study democracy, as well as people who are out there doing the hard work of democracy day in and day out. The show’s name comes from Pennsylvania’s long tradition of iron and steel works — people coming together to build things greater than the sum of their parts. We belie ...
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Let’s face it: This is an unprecedented time for our democracy. Many of our government’s checks and balances are being challenged or outright ignored. We did not arrive here because of one person or one policy, but rather the erosion of numerous safeguards, which, over time, have allowed some persistent issues with our system of government to be exploited. Decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years have favored secretive political donations and restrictive voting laws, reshaping our ...
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We hear enough about our problems. Let’s solve them. Every Monday, journalist, analyst and entrepreneur Henry Blodget interviews leading thinkers across business, tech, politics and beyond about their big ideas for how to build a better future. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Village SquareCast is the podcast your mother warned you about. We talk politics, religion and race — across color, creed and ideology — and we do it like the partners in democracy that we really ought to be. At The Village Square, we've had hundreds of conversations with tens of thousands of people — and now we bring you our favorites of these conversations via podcast. We talk in bars, we talk in churches, we talk across a hundred continuous tables in the middle of a street downtown. And t ...
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Where Politically Homeless Independent Voters Get Their No Spin News. Amidst a fractured news landscape and a social media hurricane, Independent Times is the first podcast devoted solely to preparing independents to vote with confidence beyond party rhetoric. Following the news is critical, but synthesizing it for your vote is another task entirely. Our mission: Bridge this gap. We empower your vote by tackling the issues that independents care about most, delivering clear, unbiased insight ...
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Freedom Over Fascism is written by Dr. Stephanie Gerber Wilson. She talks about history and culture of the United States, the history we've forgotten or is being willfully erased, and the imagination it'll take to build the Free America of our dreams. The podcast was founded January 2023 and is now part of the Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. www.freedomoverfascism.us
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Nobody asks sharper or more impertinent questions than Andrew Keen. In KEEN ON, Andrew cross-examines the world’s smartest people on politics, economics, history, the environment, and tech. If you want to make sense of our complex world, check out the daily questions and the answers on KEEN ON. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best-known technology and politics broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he ...
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A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America. Want more Amicus? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes with exclusive legal analysis. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Amicus show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen.
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Vibes Only, Season 2: The news, the stakes, the fight for democracy — and yes, the vibes. Co-host Brian Derrick has earned a reputation for his ability to break down political news and define the stakes to his sizable and dedicated social media audience. Co-host Glennis Meagher is a digital media savant who has built platforms to encourage millennials and gen z to engage with politics, some for the first time. Even when the news of the week could easily kill the vibe, Brian and Glennis are l ...
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There’s a critical mass of evidence pointing to the ways in which our politics and political system are broken. So the real question is: What can we do about it? Democracy Fix is a podcast from Issue One, a crosspartisan organization working to fix our broken political system and build an inclusive democracy that works for everyone. Join us for thoughtful conversations with innovative leaders from across the political spectrum to get your fix of news, insightful analysis, and ideas that will ...
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Walking To Fix Our Democracy is a national effort to fix the structure and financing of our political system in order to provide proper representation for the common good of all Americans. It is coupled with a very long walk sparked by Rick Hubbard that began in Los Angeles on October 1st, 2022 and will link up with activists for events in communities and states en route, and finish with an event at the steps of our Capitol in Washington D.C. about 15 months later. Reasons to Fix Our Democra ...
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Catch up with any event you have missed. The public event podcast series from UCL Political Science brings together the impressive range of policy makers, leading thinkers, practitioners, and academics who speak at our events. Further information about upcoming events can be found via our website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/political-science/political-science
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Taking on injustices, 90 seconds at a time! The Civil Liberties Minute™ podcasts--with attorney Bill Newman, director of the ACLU's western Massachusetts office--highlight threats to our civil liberties and what you can do to protect our freedoms.
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For more than two decades the Hoover Institution has been producing Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, a series hosted by Hoover fellow Peter Robinson as an outlet for political leaders, scholars, journalists, and today’s big thinkers to share their views with the world.
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EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes authors, doctors, psychologists, historians, philosophers, economists, and more. Learn how the health care system really works, the serenity that comes from humility, the challenge of interpreting data, how potato chips are made, what it's like to run an upscale Manhattan restaurant, what caused th ...
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The podcast of the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy at University College London (UCL). Through this podcast we explore key themes of contemporary politics and spotlight some of the fantastic research that takes place within our department.
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Restore your faith in government with An Honorable Profession. Every Thursday, co-hosts Ryan Coonerty and Debbie Cox Bultan sit down with rising state and local Democrats, policy experts, and the nation's top political minds for empowering and candid conversations about life in public service and government. Together with their guests – which include members of the Biden Administration, state legislators nationwide, and mayors from America's top cities – Ryan and Debbie discuss the biggest i ...
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On Head in the Office, two big-time political gurus, Jeremy & Gage, dissect the weekly news and offer a leftist point of view on recent events. As society flirts with fascism, perpetuates massive inequality, and protects the most privileged, Head in the Office examines why our political systems seem to never function properly and are so terrible all the time through comedy and charming commentary. New episodes every Wednesday and Friday at noon. Patreon: www.patreon.com/headintheofficepod
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Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. Grab your front row seat to the best live forums and festivals with Natasha Mitchell.
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Beyond the politics, beyond our geography are the intangible connections that hold us together – The We Society. The We Society podcast is here to tell you about the thousands of ways the Social Sciences can help us understand and enhance this complicated and fascinating human network. What can we do to fix the NHS? How can we better manage climate change? How do we end the cost of living crisis? Brought to you by the Academy of Social Sciences in association with the Nuffield Foundation and ...
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The Morning Edition (formerly Please Explain) brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.
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The Sausage Makers is a podcast about government, policy, and the folks who run the country. Are they perfect? No. Is democracy irreparably broken? No. The Sausage Makers aims to peel back the curtain and really look at how the sausage gets made. Look through the legalese. Past the talking points. Beyond the Bulls**t. We hope to restore faith in our government by telling stories about how it works, why it fails, and what can be done to fix it. Because Democracy is too beautiful a thing to gi ...
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Heterodox Out Loud, hosted by HxA president, John Tomasi, is an ongoing podcast featuring conversations with people across the academy and beyond. Listen to insightful, thought-provoking episodes from the HxA community by adding our podcast to your lineup.
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Seasoned journalist and award-winning author Judah Freed offers news, views and interviews with global thinkers discussing ideas and issues in the book, Making Global Sense: Grounded hope for democracy and the earth inspired by Thomas Paine's Common Sense (GlobalSense.com). Podcast episodes explore and encourage a global sense of life in our world.
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Technology—even when "sufficiently advanced"—isn't magic. Algorithms aren't spells cast by programmers. When we imbue tech with mystical powers, we lose sight of the human factors, from economics to culture, and politics, that shape how it's actually designed and used. Does Not Compute is a podcast about technology, people, and power brought to you by the Center for Information, Technology, & Public Life (CITAP) at UNC-Chapel Hill. At CITAP, we study technology as it's tangled up in our live ...
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Educational podcast discussing resistance music and resistance lessons to support people around the world creating or running a resistance movement with focus on nonviolence. Nonviolent resistance has been the most successful form or resistance throughout history and this podcast uses discussion and music to explain in a fun way how to create a resistance movement no matter where you are in the world.
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In my book, Locally Grown: The Art of Sustainable Government, I talk about how our country's bottom up design of 20,000 zip codes, 50 states and 1 Federal government, brilliantly distributes power within that bottom-up infrastructure. Our Founders intended most governance to be done locally. And about the inherent dangers of too much centralized power. My book exposes the unsustainability of our government debt and the awful bargain we make when we exchange freedom for security. I introduce ...
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Scrood is a satirical, light and easy Political Humor & Comedy information and mini documentary podcast about gett'n SCROOD by the system--facts & laughs covering as much as we can for free. Before the election, Scrood produced satirical content aimed at exposing corruption in politics, the supreme court and BIG, multinational business. Youtube, X, Pinterest and some podcast platforms throttled our show, making it unavailable to many. After our Holiday break, we will return to our society an ...
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Abigail has a new documentary, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, in which she examines the inequality crisis through the lens of the company her grandfather helped found, The Walt Disney Company. In the film, she asks how it is possible that so many workers at Disneyland, aka “the happiest place on earth,” can’t afford life's basic necessities, even when they work full time. For the fourth season of All Ears, Abigail poses that question to people who are doing the most Disney thing o ...
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In this award-winning investigative podcast, host Maren Machles explores how accountability failures in Washington D.C. impact the lives of people all over the country, and she showcases the investigators, experts, and activists who work to keep our government working for the people. In the second season, Maren and POGO’s investigative reporters take a look at the Department of Homeland Security. They trace how an agency established to protect the nation from security threats has doubled dow ...
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Urbanism meets food, travel, business, tech and the environment in a podcast that takes a fresh look at the future of our cities - and the people redefining it: from influential chefs, musicians and activists, to architects, urban planners, politicians, environmentalists and entrepreneurs. We travel the globe to ask the big questions. How can we fix our food system? How can tourism be a force for good? How can we breathe life back into abandoned buildings? How can we prevent natural disaster ...
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🔥 Checks with His Name, Bills with Ours: Trump’s New “Healthcare Fix” and the Real Cost of Playing Doctor with Democracy
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 181 We deep dive into the facts and reality around Trump wanting to give the ACA subsidies directly to people and how it won't solve the problem Checks with His Name, Bills with Ours: Trump’s New “Healthcare Fix” and the Real Cost of Playing Doctor with Democracy…
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Not a war story. This is about what comes after for veterans
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Even when wars end, they go on — transforming the people who fought them, their families, and even society. A former war correspondent interviewed more than 200 veterans of all of Canada’s wars for an online oral history project by The Canadian War Museum. The focus is not so much on preserving memories of their combat experiences, but to reflect o…
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Housing has become so expensive in many places that people can't afford to live where they work. So, some local governments and businesses are helping with down payment costs to attract and keep employees. Is it working?By WBUR
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What is in the One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R. 1)? Part 1: “The Price of ‘Freedom’ — Who Really Wins Under H.R. 1?”
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 186 This is something the Trump regime does not want you to know about the Horrible Ugly Bill (H.R. 1)!! Starting with Part 1, we deep dive into explaining piece-by-piece the propaganda from the right that is spread or will be spread by the Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick about the Horrible Ugly …
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🗓️ Day 41: The Week Democracy Held Its Breath
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 185 We deep dive into Day 41, the day that 5 Moderate/Centrist Democratic Senators who just days before said they would continue to fight for the people joined 3 other Moderate/Centrist/Independent Senators to vote with Republicans to end the Government Shutdown and kick over 25 million people off the…
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Eight Centrist/Moderate Democratic Senators Who Had A Chance To Fight For You But May Have Chosen Their Donors Instead
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 184 We deep dive into correlations that may help explain why 8 Democrat Senators who only a few days before the vote on cloture said they would continue to fight but then capitulated while 3 of the 8 all along were always going to vote. In this analysis, we take a look at some of their top donors and …
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John Laws: The power of one Sydney shockjock
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Tributes have flown in – from the likes of actor Russell Crowe and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese – for John Laws, the polarising broadcaster who died over the weekend at 90. But, it has to be asked: why are we still talking about him, decades after his peak, when he played a key role in helping prime ministers either nab, or keep their hold on po…
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How Lawyers Created a Can't Do America: The Tragedy of Too Many Laws and Not Enough Innovation
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Lawyers usually like the law. The more the better. But in addition to his life as a top corporate lawyer, Philip K. Howard has made a second career out of criticizing the invasion of law into American society. In books like The Death of Common Sense, Life Without Lawyers and his latest, Saving Can-Do, Howard argues that a uncontrolled thicket of le…
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Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill)
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Why is it okay to take the little shampoo bottles in hotels home with you but not the towels? And what stops people from taking the towels? Listen as political scientist Anthony Gill discusses the enforcement of property rights with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. Backing up their observations with insights from Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, and our everyd…
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Disorder: Democracy lessons from Europe and beyond
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We bring you a special crossover episode with Disorder, a show that explores the fundamental principles lurking behind today's most pressing global issues. Jenna Spinelle talks with Disorder host Jason Pack, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and author of Libya and the Enduring Global Disorder. They discuss the state of dem…
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In the 1990s, Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler did something her colleagues at Harvard called “crazy:” she decided to work with a senator named Bernie Sanders on healthcare reform. Dr. Woolhandler had already founded an advocacy group called Physicians for a National Health Program, which declared the for-profit healthcare system broken and proposed one s…
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An intriguing story of art and espionage — how a classical scholar turned codebreaker during World War 2
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In the 1930s, New Zealand-born, Cambridge educated Arthur Dale Trendall carved a niche for himself as the world's foremost expert in the study of ancient South Italian vase painting. How then, did he end up leading a crack team of code-breakers working in Melbourne to decipher Japanese messages for the Allies during the Second World War? This lectu…
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Tech Solutions (#1): The affordable tech that will revolutionize farming (with Samir Ibrahim and Josephine Waweru)
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When entrepreneur Samir Ibrahim asked farmers in Kenya what problem they most needed solved, the answer was simple: reliable access to water to irrigate their farms year-round. Samir is the CEO of SunCulture, a company replacing diesel- and petrol-powered water pumps with more affordable solar-powered ones. He sits down with Sherrell Dorsey, host o…
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What Congress's Top Fighter Sees Coming in 2026 | Rep. Jasmine Crockett
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett joins Marc Elias to break down the GOP’s chaos in the House, the fight over redistricting in Texas, and what these battles reveal about the road to 2026. From Republican infighting to the next wave of voting rights fights, Crockett shares her unfiltered view of where American democracy is headed.Support independent jo…
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🕊️ Genocide in Plain Sight: Part 2 — The Mirror We Refuse to Face
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 183 We deep dive into Part 2 of the Genocide in Plain Sight series where we now tie in how the genocide against indigenous people has led to a mirror that we refuse to face but without facing that mirror, we are bound to continue with atrocities and future genocides. Genocide in Plain Sight: Part 2 — …
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🗓️ Day 40: The Shutdown That Ate the Future
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 182 We deep dive into Day 40 of the U.S. Government Shutdown 2025 and just when you think it could not get worse, it did. Thousands of flights grounded as we see the government destabilize under the Trump Epstein Shutdown. Day 40: The Shutdown That Ate the Future…
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REDs is the hot topic among athletes and amateurs, but is it real?
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Have you ever taken on a 10km run, or a half marathon - maybe pushed yourself just a little too much, without properly researching what you should be eating, to fuel your efforts? Many have. And it’s no wonder endurance activities are an increasingly popular coping mechanism for those of us struggling to deal with the mental load of everyday life. …
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Enstatification Over Enshittification: America as the New China
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My neologism-du-jour is “enstatification”. It’s what is happening in MAGA America with Trump’s Gaucho-style swaggering into the economy and his reversal to autarky and a back-to-the-future Monroe Doctrine. With the growth of a 19th-century style state power, America is trying to become the new China. Meanwhile, as Keith Teare notes in his latest Th…
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S2 Ep49: Ken Burns: The Revolutionaries Were Exactly Like Us
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Ken Burns joins John Avlon for a conversation that feels like a pep talk America desperately needs. From the messy, human story of the Revolution to the warning signs we’re ignoring today, Burns makes the case that our past isn’t a museum piece, it’s a manual for saving the country. Get 25% off your next mattress at https://GhostBed.com/FIXIT and u…
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Six Books, One Story: The Closing of the American Century
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One big story captures all six books selected by the Financial Times for their short list of best business books of 2025. As the FT’s Senior Business Writer, Andrew Hill, notes, it’s the story of the shift in global economic power from the United States to China. It’s game over. From Dan Wang’s Breakneck, which contrasts China’s “engineering state”…
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🕊️ Part 1 - Genocide in Plain Sight - The Erasure and Survival of Indigenous Peoples
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 180 We deep dive into a contentious and sensitive topic that JD Vance is falsely spreading at Turning Point USA events that is not true and he knows it! One of our subscribers, Vera Locke, brought this to our attention as we are attempting to report information about things that fall between the seams…
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Part 3 – Local Wins Lead to National Waves - Charlotte, North Carolina (District 6): A Suburban Flip That Proves Local Wins Lead to National Waves
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 179 We deep dive into another local win but this time in Charlotte, North Carolina, a flip that could lead to a national wave as long as the supporters work with the candidate and keep their foot on the gas while there is still momentum and they are riding high from the recent win. Otherwise, the mome…
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Day 39 of the U.S. Government Shutdown: The Silence Before the Storm
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 178 We deep dive into day 39 and also talk about what next parts of the government are likely to fail during the Trump Epstein Shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history. This shutdown is a perfect metaphor for Trump's entire life: nothing but grifting, bankrupting business ideas, and criminal activity…
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Local Wins, Big Ripples: 20 Progressive and Democratic Victories Across Louisiana, Alabama & Texas (2025)
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 177 Speaker Mike Johnson claimed that November 4th, 2025 was not a sign of a bad time for Republicans in the midterms because they were in blue states and not in Louisiana, Alabama, or Texas. We thought we would put his claim to the test and examine a sample of 20 progressive and democratic victories …
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The Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices have been treating the Trump administration with such extreme deference that we were honestly a little flummoxed listening to this week’s arguments over his “Liberation Day” tariffs. Shockingly, during Wednesday’s arguments in Learning Resources v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, it seemed like …
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Women Lie Too: A Smug San Francisco Intellectual Cross-Examines a Fearlessly Authentic Florida Psychologist
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We all have our roles. I’m the smug San Francisco intellectual and the Orlando-based Dr Chloe Carmichael is the fearlessly authentic psychologist. She’s also the author of Can I Say That?, a feisty defense of free speech in our time of cancellation and unfriending. Most of us are too scared to say what we think, Carmichael argues about this anxiety…
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Why insomnia is an American health crisis
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More than 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. don’t get enough sleep, and 12% suffer from chronic insomnia. What’s driving more Americans toward chronically poor sleep, and what can be done about it?By WBUR
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What it takes to become a ruthless tyrant
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Look back about 3,000 years and you will find the playbook on authoritarianism remains pretty much the same as it is today. Back in the 5th century BCE, when Herodotus travelled the ancient world gathering stories, he became an expert in would-be tyrants. His tome, The History, shared vivid descriptions of autocratic and tyrannical rulers. Herodotu…
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Beyond the New Deal: How the Left Must Reinvent Itself in a Populist Age
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A week is a long time in American politics. I did this interview with Alex Zakaras last week, before the midterms and Trump’s slide in the polls. But in spite of Mamdani’s victory earlier this week, the left still needs to figure out how to successfully reinvent itself in the MAGA age. That, at least, is the argument that Zakaras, a progressive pol…
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Zohran “Mamdillion Votes” Mamdani & the Blue Wave
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ONE MAMDILLION VOTES!! The HITO men breakdown the absolute blue wave that was Tuesday night's elections: from Zohran Mamdani to Abigail Spanberger, to JAY JONES SOMEHOW WINNING. No stone goes unturned, and no angle unlooked at in this scathing election analysis. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/headintheofficepod Substack: headintheoffice.substack.…
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Late‑Stage Capitalism Is Here — And America Must Reclaim Democracy Now!
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 176 We deep dive into the term late stage capitalism, why we are in the midst of it and what happens if we ignore it or respond based on historical data. Late‑Stage Capitalism Is Here — And America Must Reclaim Democracy Now!
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Musk's Private Robot Army: Why Elon Musk Wants a $1 Trillion Paycheck—and What It Means for the Future of Democracy
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 175 We deep dive into understanding how Elon Musk will be paid $1 Trillion dollars to build a private robot army and Congress is silent, but you shouldn't be and here is the education you need to understand why this is such a horrible idea. Musk's Private Robot Army: Why Elon Musk Wants a $1 Trillion …
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🗓️ Day 38 of the U.S. Government Shutdown: The Trillion-Dollar Tantrum and the Fourteen-Percent Freefall
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 174 We deep dive into how to continue that moment from progressive's sweeping November elections by building a local citizen's congress in your area. If that interests you, here is your blueprint. Day 38 of the U.S. Government Shutdown: The Trillion-Dollar Tantrum and the Fourteen-Percent Freefall…
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From City Council Upset to People’s Power: How to Build a Citizens’ Congress That Actually Works
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 173 We deep dive into how to continue that moment from progressive's sweeping November elections by building a local citizen's congress in your area. If that interests you, here is your blueprint. From City Council Upset to People’s Power: How to Build a Citizens’ Congress That Actually Works…
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Part 2 - Local Wins Lead to National Waves – Temecula, California: Reclaiming the School Board, One Vote at a Time
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People-powered, AI-Generated Season 10, Episode 172 We deep dive into local elections with big wins involving school boards, specifically in Temecula, California that happened earlier but is another example to show it happens across the country not just in blue states as Trump, Republicans and Republican strategists are trying to claim. Part 2 - Lo…
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On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on a proposed ballot initiative in Montana that could deny corporations the power to spend money on political campaigns.By WBUR
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Be The People. Healing America and Restoring Civic Muscle: Maury Giles
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Just over three months into his new role as leader of Braver Angels, we hear from CEO Maury Giles about his hopes, plans and goals for America's largest volunteer-led movement working to bridge partisan divides and disagree better for the common good. America has lost much of its civic muscle, and it's time to get it back, Maury tells our host, Ric…
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The words "content creator" may make you roll your eyes. But in part 1 of our series, Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler explains how the creator economy is changing work, art and what we value. TED Radio Hour+ subscribers now get access to bonus episodes, with more ideas from TED speakers and a behind the scenes look with our producers. A Plu…
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First historian Herodotus knew the power of story
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For someone who died more than 2,400 years ago, Herodotus's voice is still very much alive. "He knows the way [a good story] can elevate but also corrupt and destroy our thinking," says professor Lindsay Mahon Rathnam in this IDEAS episode. The ancient Greek writer observed different cultures first-hand, while capturing the stories they share in an…
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