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The Future in Context — 100 episodes
Running Cities Better
The Year in Review
Practical Cyber Advice for 2025
Sidewalks as Vital Step(s) in Public Transit
Fern Tiger on Creative Instigation
Toward Economic Mobility
Delivering School Choice
POY Leaning into Seattle's Future
POY: Centering Public Health
POY: A Mayor's Legacy: Economic Growth, Historical Reckoning
POY David Crowley: Could Have Been a Carpool
Setting the Table for a New Civics Conversation
The CIO Wrangler
Solutions, One Hack at a Time
All Hands: Global Cybersecurity Threats ARE Local
Meet California's Chief AI Gatekeeper
Less Big Three, More Gen Z
Public Transit's Fiscal Cliff
Is This The Eligibility and Redistribution Engine America Needs?
The Trouble With TikTok
Government websites are failing at the basics: How to fix them
Choosing to Lead
The Importance of State Government News Coverage
Reimagining the Future of Public-Sector IT
AI as a Stress Test for Government Data
Resisting the Campaign for Safer Streets
Is AI Ready to Replace Human Policy Advisers?
Check Your Mailbox!
Nudges in the Night
Dollars for Driving
Making AI Safe for Government
What Could Entrepreneurs and Government Do Together?
Medicate, Mitigate and Rejuvenate: An Agenda for States in 2024
For Those Following Along at Home
Gov Tech's Moment with Private Equity
The Year's Biggest Stories in GovTech
Countdown to '24: What to Expect from the Election
Tales from Hardware Park: High School students at the intersection of STEM and MedTech
X Marks a Tough Spot for State and Local Government
Making Good on the Mistakes of Digital Government
Getting Schooled by Generative AI
The Future of Civic Hacking in Context
Facing The Music
The Leaker Behind the Pentagon Papers
Watergate Redux: Will We Measure Up?
The Presidency: Who Would Want That Job?
Hoover Damned: A Better Manager than President
90 Seconds to Midnight: Biden. the G7 and Hiroshima
John Quincy Adams - Lifetime of Service and Thwarted Pursuit of Happiness
Supreme Court in Crisis
The Unlikely Diplomat: TR, Russia and the Dawn of the American Century
That Monroe Doctrine Guy
Redeeming Oppenheimer's Black Mark
Americans Detained Abroad
Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery
Covering Up Michelangelo's David
The Cold Fish Who Paved The Way For The Larger-than-Life TR
The End of History? Not So Fast!
Is Succession Back on the National Agenda?
Carter's Malaise: Failing to Sing the Song of America
A Man Called Jimmy: Reassessing the Carter Presidency
Confronting the Balloon Gap: Sputnik Redux?
The State of the Union is Loud and Unruly
Hail To The Chief
Prince Harry Could Have Learned From Princess Alice
Did Lady Liberty Lie?
Was The Chaos of 1801 the Best Congress Can Do?
Stuff in Storage (Ep. 69)
What Trump's Call to Terminate the Constitution Misses (Ep. 68)
Why Americans Leave Indictments of Ex-Presidents Alone (Ep. 67)
Contradictions of Pomp, Circumstance and Populism (Ep. 66)
Trust the Vote? (Ep. 65)
Charles III is Not a Sequel (Ep. 64)
In Institutions We Don't Trust (Ep. 63)
A Constitution for the Living (Ep. 62)
We are all Salman Rushdie now (Ep. 61)
Montana: The Beauty of Isolation (Ep. 60)
Where the Lewis and Clark Trail Begins (Ep. 59)
America's Immigration Catch 22 (Ep. 58)
Inglorious History: America and Indigenous Communities (Ep. 57)
Prime-time Politics: Goodnight and Good Luck (Ep. 56)
Do Guns Define America? (Ep. 55)
Why Does America Have Primaries? (Ep. 54)
Teddy Roosevelt and the Surprising NGA Origins Story (Ep. 53)
Why Americans Do Not Trust Public Institutions (Ep. 52)
Social Media and the Dangers of Settling for Truthiness (Ep. 51)
Watergate as Turning Point in the American Century (Ep. 50)
The Trouble With Sanctions (Ep. 49)
Why A SCOTUS Seat Matters (Ep. 48)
Making Huck Finn Safe for School Again (Ep. 47)
Supreme Court Nominations Sometimes Fail (Ep. 46)
The Trouble with Lifetime Tenure (Ep. 45)
Margin of Confirmation (Ep. 44)
Supreme Court Myths (Ep. 43)
Foreshadowing Disunion (Ep. 42)
Traveling Like Jefferson, 200 Years Later (Ep. 41)
Dammed Projects and the American West (Ep. 40)
No Patrick Henry, No United States (Ep. 39)
Early Republic Was Stress Tested for Times Like Ours (Ep. 38)
Living the American Miracle: VA AG Jason Miyares (Ep. 37)