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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What student debt says about democratic institutions

Posted April 25, 202200:42:04

Americans owe more than $1.5 trillion in student debt and some members of the Millennial and Gen Z wonder whether they’ll ever pay off their loans....

Jon Meacham on creating a more perfect union

Posted April 11, 202200:37:25

Jon Meacham is one of America’s leading thinkers on how the country’s political history can inform the present. He recently visited Penn State to...

The roots of radical partisanship

Posted April 4, 202200:46:17

Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed...

Ro Khanna on dignity and democracy

Posted March 21, 202200:41:17

The concept of dignity comes up a lot when we think about the condition of American democracy. Francis Fukuyama wrote about the demand for dignity and...

Defending democracy at home and abroad

Posted March 7, 202200:42:28

Robert Kagan is a foreign policy expert who turned his focus to the United States last fall in a Washington Post column titled “Our Constitutional...