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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How conspiracies are damaging democracy

Posted August 19, 2019 • 00:36:53

From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse. What was once confined to the pages...

Defending the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate

Posted August 12, 2019 • 00:32:49

We are back with new episodes this week, and we’re starting with an interview that we recorded in New York City earlier this summer. David McCraw...

Standing up for science and fighting the climate wars [rebroadcast]

Posted August 5, 2019 • 00:37:56

For the last of our summer rebroadcasts, we are revisiting the conversation with Penn State’s Michael Mann, a world-renowned climate scientist. We’ve...

The 2019 version of Democracy in America

Posted June 3, 2019 • 00:35:41

If Alexis de Tocqueville visited America today, what would he have to say about the condition of our democracy? We hear a lot in the news and on Twitter...

What neoliberalism left behind

Posted May 27, 2019 • 00:39:52

Much like our conversation with Patricia Roberts-Miller on demagoguery last week, neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something...