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Civil Discourse — 344 episodes
SoS 2026: Geofencing, Monsanto, and Haircuts
SoS 2026: Wrap Up and Look Forward
SoS 2026: Ballots, Election Money, and Transgender Athletes
SoS 2026: Birthrights and Firing People
SoS 2026: Immigration, Refuge, and Corporate Liability
SoS 2026: Guns, Drugs, and Locations
SoS 2026: Attacks on SCOTUS
SoS 2026: Streisand Effect
SoS 2026: Batson Challenges
SoS 2026: Disposition of Justices' Papers
SoS 2026: Louisiana v Callais
In the News: Redistricting Followup
In the News: Mifepristone Stay
SCOTUS Hears Birthright Citizenship EO
Stories Behind the Names: Eliot Ness
Afroman Case AKA Cooley v Foreman
Stories Behind the Names: Elizabeth Dole
SCOTUS Eras: Roberts Court, part 2
Stories Behind the Names: Clarence Darrow part 2
SCOTUS Eras: The Roberts Court, part 1
Stories Behind the Names: Clarence Darrow part 1
SCOTUS Eras: The Rehnquist Court
Stories Behind the Names: William Marbury
SCOTUS Eras: The Burger Court
Stories Behind the Names: William Jennings Bryan
Virginia Gerrymandering
Stories Behind the Names: Roy Olmstead
Can He Do That? Declaring War
SCOTUS Eras: The Warren Court, part 2
Story Behind the Name: Carrie Nation
SCOTUS Eras: The Warren Court, part 1
Story Behind the Name: Learned Hand
SCOTUS Eras: The Vinson Court
Story Behind the Name: John Foster Dulles
In the News: SCOTUS Tariff Ruling
SCOTUS Eras: The Stone Court
Story Behind the Name: Ernesto Miranda
SCOTUS Eras: The Hughes Court
Story Behind the Name: Sam Ervin
SCOTUS Eras: The Taft Court
Story Behind the Name: Carrie Buck
SCOTUS Eras: The White Court
Government Holiday Celebrations
SCOTUS Eras: Fuller Court
SCOTUS and Trump Tariffs
SCOTUS and "Election Day"
SCOTUS Eras: Waite Court
In the News: Virginia 2025 Elections
SCOTUS Eras: Chase Court
SCOTUS Eras: Taney Court
Can He Do That? Demolish the East Wing
SCOTUS Eras Marshall Court part 2
Can He Do That? Remove O'Donnell's Citizenship
SCOTUS Eras Marshall Court part 1
SCOTUS Eras In the Beginning
Can He Do That? Firing an Independent Regulator
Can He Do That? Fire a Federal Reserve Governor
Can He Do That? Sinking Venezuelan Boats
Can He Do That? Renaming the Defense Department
Federalist 78
Federalist 68
Federalist 51
SoS 2025: Looking Forward
SoS 2025: The 2nd Set of Cases
SoS 2025: Wrapping It Up
SoS 2025: The 3rd Set of Cases
SoS 2025: The 1st Set of Cases
SoS 2025: JRob's Tough Year
In the News: Trump and the National Guard
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing
The Bureau of the Mint
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
The Children's Bureau
In the News: Trump Targets Universities
Western Area Power Administration
Transportation Security Administration
In the News: Trump's First Seven Weeks
Voice of America
ATF
Unoccupied Territories
US Virgin Islands
American Samoa
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
In the News: Trump's First Week
Guam
In the News: Presidential Inaugurations
Pardon Me!
In the News: The First Round of Trump Appointments
After Election 2024
Election Certification Process
Government Plagiarizers
Federalist 39
Notable Thefts of Government Documents
SCOTUS Under Siege
Secession, part 2: The U.S. Civil War
Secession, part 1: What is Political Secession?
AMBER and Other Alerts
SCOTUS Term Limit Debate
The Global Engagement Center
What is the Overton Window?
What is the Superfund?
In The News: Who the Heck is Tim Walz?
SoS 2024: Case review, part 3
SoS 2024: Case review, part 5
SoS 2024: Justice Oddities
SoS 2024: Case review, part 1
SoS 2024: Who Cares What the SCOTUS Ruled?
SoS 2024: Better at Other Stuff
SoS 2024: Case review, part 2
SoS 2024: Case review, part 4
SoS 2024: Wrap Up and What's Next
In the News: Biden Withdraws
In the News: Trump Florida Case Dismissed
In the News: JD Vance
In the News: Guilty on 34 Counts
In the News: Recognizing Palestine as a Nation
In the News: College Student Protests
In the News: TikTok Threatened in Federal Legislation
Blue Laws
Monroe Doctrine
Types of International Power
Authoritarians, Dictators, and Other Political Science Terms, part 2
Authoritarians, Dictators, and Other Political Science Terms, part 1
United Kingdom Parliament, part 2
United Kingdom Parliament, part 1
U.S. Declaration of Independence
In the News: SCOTUS, Trump, and the Colorado Ballot
In the News: SCOTUS Takes the Case: Donald Trump and Presidential Immunity
Common Sense
The Basis of American Law
Is Book Banning Constitutional?
Trump's Insurrection Cases: Like Burning Down a House in the Name of Fire Safety
In the News: Missing Secretary Austin
In the News: Santos Expulsion
Sandra Day OConnor
SCOTUS and the Code of Conduct
In the News: Montana Tik Tok Ruling
Asset Seizure, part 2
Asset Seizure, part 1
Politicians' Ages
Aging Population of the United States
Landlines and Demographics
Congress and the Mountain Valley Pipeline
Architect of the Capitol
National Film Registry
In the News: Government Shutdowns
Getting to Know You: Favorite Political Fiction Books
Getting to Know You: Favorite Political Scandals
Getting to Know You: Favorite Protest or Political Songs
Getting to Know You: Favorite Political Movies
Getting to Know You: Favorite West Wing Episodes
In the News: Debt Ceiling Revisited
SCOTUS 4 Statistics of the 22-23 Term
SCOTUS 5 Preview of the 23-24 Term
SCOTUS 2 Wrap Up of the 22-23 Term
SCOTUS 3 Wrap Up of the 22-23 Term
SCOTUS 1 Wrap Up of the 22-23 Term
Jack Daniels, Bad Spaniels, and the SCOTUS
Music Catalogs and Copyright Law
The Respect for Marriage Act
Federalist Paper 10
Freedom of Information Act Exemptions
SCOTUS Hears Social Media Cases
Local Zoning Ordinances
Background of the Federalist Papers
School Nutrition and Military Readiness
FDA, part 3: Controversies
FDA, part 2: Generics
In the News: Russia, START, and the War in Ukraine
FDA, part 1: Application Process
In the News: Slow SCOTUS
In the News: Objects in the Sky
Zip Codes
In the News: Presidential Records 2
Government Numbers
In the News: The Dobbs Leak Report
In the News: The Debt Ceiling
In The News: Presidential Records Act
The Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Veterans Affairs
In the News: Railroad Strike Averted
The Department of Education
In the News: Kyrsten Sinema
The Department of Energy
The Department of Transportation
In the News: Elections
The Department of Housing and Urban Development
In the News: SCOTUS and Affirmative Action
The Department of HEW/HHS
In the News: Ye and Hate Speech
The Department of Labor
The Department of Commerce
In the News: Rank Choice Voting
The Department of Agriculture
The Department of the Interior
The Postmaster General
The Department of Justice
The Department of War/Defense, part B
The Department of War/Defense, part A
The Department of the Treasury
The Department of State
Summer of SCOTUS 2 Wrap Up: The Big Cases
Summer of SCOTUS 2 Wrap Up: What's Next
Summer of SCOTUS 2 Wrap Up Overview
Summer of SCOTUS 2: The Myth of Merit, part 2
Summer of SCOTUS 2: The Myth of Merit, part 1
Summer of SCOTUS 2: Gravesites and Tombstones
Summer of SCOTUS 2: Tests, part 2
Summer of SCOTUS 2: Tests, part 1
Summer of SCOTUS 2: Religion
Summer of SCOTUS 2: Interpersonal Relationships
Tennessee Valley Authority
In the News - SCOTUS Leak
Works Progress Administration - Art
Works Progress Administration - Labor
Independent State Legislature Doctrine
In the News - Oil Reserves
Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon Accountability
Congressional Review Act
Presidential and Congressional Medals
HIPAA
That is Not in the U.S. Constitution
In the News - Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Dissed Amendments
Colorado River Compact
WOTUS - Waters of the United States
What is the Serial Set?
In the News - Russia and Ukraine, February 18, 2022
Robert J. (Bob) Dole Memorial
Vice Presidents, Part 2
In the News - SCOTUS and Vaccine Mandates
Vice Presidents, Part 1
Presidential Libraries Part 2: Boxes and Boxes
Presidential Libraries Part 1: Two Folders
D.C. Statehood
Adding a State to the United States
Fun with Patents and Trademarks
Do You Want to Know a Secret?
Controlled Substances Act
2020 U.S. Census Update
Rats' First Amendment Rights
Midterm Elections Preview
R Kelly and the RICO and Mann Acts
Who Responds to Elections Polling?
Government Public Relations
Shadow Docket Follow Up, Fall 2021
Shadow Docket
Preliminary 2020 Census Report
SCOTUS Wrap Up, Part 2
SCOTUS Wrap Up, Part 1
Smithsonian Institution, Part 2
Smithsonian Institution, Part 1
National Gallery of Art
National Zoo
National Parks, Part 2
National Parks, Part 1
The Moynihan Commission
Banking Commissions, Part 2
Banking Commissions, Part 1
The Kerner Commission, Part 2
The Kerner Commission, Part 1
Tower Commission
The Shafer Commission
The Brownlow Committee, Part 2
The Brownlow Committee, Part 1
The 9/11 Commission, Part 2
The 9/11 Commission, Part 1
Rogers Commission
Warren Commission
Vaccines Around the World
Texas v Pennsylvania in Depth
Exemplars of Public Service
Alexei Navalny
Characters in Public Service
Weird Investigations
Inaugurations Gone Wrong
NORAD Tracks Santa Claus
Qualified Immunity
Court Packing
Presidential Homes and Retreats
Presidential Transitions
Presidential Skill Set, Part 2
2020 Election Observations
Presidential Skill Set, Part 1
Presidential Personalities
Voting and Leadership
Referenda, Initiatives, and Recalls
Replacing Members of Congress
Trump's COVID Diagnosis
Election Certification
Wagging the Dog
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Passing
Mudslinging
Booking
Trademarks in the US
Copyright and the Courts
Summer of SCOTUS: Wrap Up
Summer of SCOTUS: DACA
Summer of SCOTUS: Taxes
Summer of SCOTUS: McGirt
Summer of SCOTUS: Faithless Electors
Summer of SCOTUS: Religious Employment
Summer of SCOTUS: Seila Law, June Medical, and Espinoza
Summer of SCOTUS: Pipelines, Sanctuary Cities, and Guns, oh My!
Summer of SCOTUS: Bostock
Summer of SCOTUS: Guns of New York
Summer of SCOTUS: Georgia Annotations
Summer of SCOTUS: Writ of Certiorari
Summer of SCOTUS: SCOTUS on Zoom
Summer of SCOTUS: Marbury Starts Us Off
President Adjourns Congress
Russian Politics
The Gold Standard
The Census
501 (c) 3 - Taxes for Non-Profits
Price to Be Paid
McGahn Subpeona
Creating a Federal Holiday
Impeachment
Space Force
Iowa Caucus
Electoral College
War Powers
The White House Christmas Tree
Turkey Pardons
Commerce Clause 3
Commerce Clause 2
Commerce Clause 1
Tell Me About the 25th Amendment
Rules for the Rulemakers: The Federal Register
Down With Broccoli! Executive Orders
History of the Post Office
Getting on a Postage Stamp
Federal Budgeting: Congress' Turn
Federal Budgeting: The President Starts
Eviction Part 1: the Short Take
Eviction Part 2: the Longer Take
Getting a Bill through Congress Part 2
Getting a Bill through Congress Part 1
15 Unicorns Part 3
15 Unicorns Part 2
Welcome to Civil Discourse
15 Unicorns Part 1