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The Future in Context — 100 episodes

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Running Cities Better

2

The Year in Review

3

Practical Cyber Advice for 2025

4

Sidewalks as Vital Step(s) in Public Transit

5

Fern Tiger on Creative Instigation

6

Toward Economic Mobility

7

Delivering School Choice

8

POY Leaning into Seattle's Future

9

POY: Centering Public Health

10

POY: A Mayor's Legacy: Economic Growth, Historical Reckoning

11

POY David Crowley: Could Have Been a Carpool

12

Setting the Table for a New Civics Conversation

13

The CIO Wrangler

14

Solutions, One Hack at a Time

15

All Hands: Global Cybersecurity Threats ARE Local

16

Meet California's Chief AI Gatekeeper

17

Less Big Three, More Gen Z

18

Public Transit's Fiscal Cliff

19

Is This The Eligibility and Redistribution Engine America Needs?

20

The Trouble With TikTok

21

Government websites are failing at the basics: How to fix them

22

Choosing to Lead

23

The Importance of State Government News Coverage

24

Reimagining the Future of Public-Sector IT

25

AI as a Stress Test for Government Data

26

Resisting the Campaign for Safer Streets

27

Is AI Ready to Replace Human Policy Advisers?

28

Check Your Mailbox!

29

Nudges in the Night

30

Dollars for Driving

31

Making AI Safe for Government

32

What Could Entrepreneurs and Government Do Together?

33

Medicate, Mitigate and Rejuvenate: An Agenda for States in 2024

34

For Those Following Along at Home

35

Gov Tech's Moment with Private Equity

36

The Year's Biggest Stories in GovTech

37

Countdown to '24: What to Expect from the Election

38

Tales from Hardware Park: High School students at the intersection of STEM and MedTech

39

X Marks a Tough Spot for State and Local Government

40

Making Good on the Mistakes of Digital Government

41

Getting Schooled by Generative AI

42

The Future of Civic Hacking in Context

43

Facing The Music

44

The Leaker Behind the Pentagon Papers

45

Watergate Redux: Will We Measure Up?

46

The Presidency: Who Would Want That Job?

47

Hoover Damned: A Better Manager than President

48

90 Seconds to Midnight: Biden. the G7 and Hiroshima

49

John Quincy Adams - Lifetime of Service and Thwarted Pursuit of Happiness

50

Supreme Court in Crisis

51

The Unlikely Diplomat: TR, Russia and the Dawn of the American Century

52

That Monroe Doctrine Guy

53

Redeeming Oppenheimer's Black Mark

54

Americans Detained Abroad

55

Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery

56

Covering Up Michelangelo's David

57

The Cold Fish Who Paved The Way For The Larger-than-Life TR

58

The End of History? Not So Fast!

59

Is Succession Back on the National Agenda?

60

Carter's Malaise: Failing to Sing the Song of America

61

A Man Called Jimmy: Reassessing the Carter Presidency

62

Confronting the Balloon Gap: Sputnik Redux?

63

The State of the Union is Loud and Unruly

64

Hail To The Chief

65

Prince Harry Could Have Learned From Princess Alice

66

Did Lady Liberty Lie?

67

Was The Chaos of 1801 the Best Congress Can Do?

68

Stuff in Storage (Ep. 69)

69

What Trump's Call to Terminate the Constitution Misses (Ep. 68)

70

Why Americans Leave Indictments of Ex-Presidents Alone (Ep. 67)

71

Contradictions of Pomp, Circumstance and Populism (Ep. 66)

72

Trust the Vote? (Ep. 65)

73

Charles III is Not a Sequel (Ep. 64)

74

In Institutions We Don't Trust (Ep. 63)

75

A Constitution for the Living (Ep. 62)

76

We are all Salman Rushdie now (Ep. 61)

77

Montana: The Beauty of Isolation (Ep. 60)

78

Where the Lewis and Clark Trail Begins (Ep. 59)

79

America's Immigration Catch 22 (Ep. 58)

80

Inglorious History: America and Indigenous Communities (Ep. 57)

81

Prime-time Politics: Goodnight and Good Luck (Ep. 56)

82

Do Guns Define America? (Ep. 55)

83

Why Does America Have Primaries? (Ep. 54)

84

Teddy Roosevelt and the Surprising NGA Origins Story (Ep. 53)

85

Why Americans Do Not Trust Public Institutions (Ep. 52)

86

Social Media and the Dangers of Settling for Truthiness (Ep. 51)

87

Watergate as Turning Point in the American Century (Ep. 50)

88

The Trouble With Sanctions (Ep. 49)

89

Why A SCOTUS Seat Matters (Ep. 48)

90

Making Huck Finn Safe for School Again (Ep. 47)

91

Supreme Court Nominations Sometimes Fail (Ep. 46)

92

The Trouble with Lifetime Tenure (Ep. 45)

93

Margin of Confirmation (Ep. 44)

94

Supreme Court Myths (Ep. 43)

95

Foreshadowing Disunion (Ep. 42)

96

Traveling Like Jefferson, 200 Years Later (Ep. 41)

97

Dammed Projects and the American West (Ep. 40)

98

No Patrick Henry, No United States (Ep. 39)

99

Early Republic Was Stress Tested for Times Like Ours (Ep. 38)

100

Living the American Miracle: VA AG Jason Miyares (Ep. 37)