Democracy Works
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 peop
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Students learn, students vote
National Voter Registration Day is September 22. In a normal election year on a college campus, that would mean lots of canvassers with clipboards and...
A dark side to “laboratories of democracy”
The phrase “laboratories of democracy,” coined by former U.S. Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis, is typically used to describe experiments with...
A fall preview — with a new cohost!
We are excited to begin a new school year with a new cohost, Candis Watts Smith, who you may remember from an episode earlier this summer on her book...
YIMBYs and NIMBYs in a democracy
Whether you live in a big city, a suburb, or a small town, one issue tends to stand out from the rest in local government — housing. This week,...
After 100 years, there’s still no “woman voter”
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, this episode traces the history of women’s voting behavior and why women voters have...
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