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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She Votes! — Susan B. Anthony and “voting while female”

Posted August 10, 2020 • 00:32:58

This week, we’re excited to bring you an episode from She Votes!, a new podcast from the Wonder Media Network about the fight for women’s suffrage...

Reason in politics and hope for democracy

Posted August 3, 2020 • 00:30:19

John Gastil and Katherine Knobloch, authors of “Hope for Democracy: How Citizens Can Bring Reason Back Into Politics: join Democracy Works host Jenna...

The people who choose the President

Posted July 27, 2020 • 00:42:06

At the end of its 2020 term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling on what might seem like an obscure question in Constitutional law, but could have...

Broken Ground: Robert Bullard on environmental justice

Posted July 20, 2020 • 00:22:45

This week, we’re bringing you an episode from another podcast we think you might enjoy, Broken Ground from the Southern Environmental Law Center....

The world’s most punitive democracy [revisited]

Posted July 13, 2020 • 00:38:46

We’re digging into the archives this week for another episode on race and criminal justice. Peter K. Enns, associate professor in the Department of...