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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The real free speech problem on campus

Posted December 5, 2022 • 00:46:20

Across op-ed pages and Substack newsletters college campuses have become fiercely ideological spaces where students unthinkingly endorse a liberal orthodoxy...

Jamelle Bouie makes the case for majoritarianism

Posted November 21, 2022 • 00:44:09

Jamelle Bouie’s writing spans everything from 19th century American history to 1990s movies, but he’s spent a lot of time recently thinking about...

Celebrating democracy’s small victories

Posted October 31, 2022 • 00:44:08

Amid election deniers and political polarization, it’s easy to overlook the times when democracy is actually working. We do that this week in a hopeful...

The backbone of democracy is now the face of fraud

Posted October 10, 2022 • 00:40:13

This episode is part of the series 2022 Midterms: What’s at Stake? series from The Democracy...

A deep dive into the administrative state

Posted September 5, 2022 • 00:42:56

The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act shines a light on the administrative state. How will the billions of dollars for Medicaid, green energy,...