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The Hopeful Majority with Manu Meel — 140 episodes

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We Created a Political Conference with Half Conservative Half Liberal Attendees!

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Answering My Toughest Questions Yet! (Featuring PF. Jung)

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Facilitating Conflict with Healing!

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Race Relations and Pluralism in America | Feat John Wood, Jr.

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J.J. McCullough on Curiosity VS. Cultural literacy!

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Preventing a Priesthood of Prejudice! Passing Constructive Dialogue Curriculum at Universities!

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Why are Decent People STRUGGLING to Serve in Public Office?

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Am I GUILTY of Bothsidesism?

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You Didn't Know! This Conservative State Has a Progressive History!

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The First Manned Moon Mission in 50 Years Just launched! Did you Even Know About the Artemis II?

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#125 "I Want to Tell You About a Student Movement!" Manu Meel's Speech at Bridge the Northeast.

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#124 Maybe You're not Disagreeing in the Optimal Way? Feat Dr. Julia Minson.

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#123 Chris Singleton is Preaching Love Not Hate After Losing Family to a Racially Motivated Shooting

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#122 Conversation is Now the COUNTERCULTURE! Manu's Speech at Davidson College.

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#121 The ESCILATING Crisis of Credibility! Feat Quick Thoughts

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#120 Social media is BREAD AND CIRCUS! How to disrupt outrage with nuance! Feat Keirstin Westfallen

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#119 Politically Motivated or Financially Motivated? The truth about the NFL and Bad Bunny

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#118 What is the MOST important question in American politics today? With PF Jung.

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#117 What Lies Behind and Beyond MAGA, with Stephen Hawkins.

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#116 Politicians are behaving like outrage influencers, and ALL of us are enabling it!

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#115 How Misunderstandings and Outrage Peddling Contributed to the Renee Good Shooting!

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#114 Leaders of Pluralism!

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#113 How OUTRAGE peddlers' exploit our politically polarized society!

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#112 EVERYONE is missing THIS about the Epstein files!

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Political Conversations Over Turkey

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Manu's Speech to attendees of a discussion on artificial intelligence, held at Cornell University!

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#111 How Music can Build Bridges, Shaka Mitchell Shares Music's power to Humanize!

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#110 Five hundred subscriber QNA with the CEO of Bridge USA Manu Meel!

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Chris Cuomo and Manu Sound off on Division and Outrage!

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#109 Awaken the 200 million!

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#108 The Man Who Coined the Phrase Social Media! Douglas Rushkoff talks AI and digital nativism.

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#107 YouTube Post YouTubers! Art Chad talks viral outrage vs nuanced authentic styles of content.

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Manu Gets Uncomfy with Julie Rose! The Power of Listening in the Face of Political Violence!

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"We Have an Unprecedented Opportunity!" Manu's speech at the National Conference on Citizenship 2025

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#106 We Need to Talk About Charlie Kirk's Assassination

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#105 Utilizing AI to Combat Political Polarization! Deb Roy talks social media, Cortico, Algorithems

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#104 Can the Consumer End Money in Politics? Brian Potts talks, Goods Unite Us, transparency.

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#103 Building Bridges at a Half Liberal Half Conservative University!

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#102 Political Trends No One Else Is Picking Up On!

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#101 I've Never Thought of It That Way! (Redux) Feat Monica Guzman

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#100 Student QnA Special!

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Is Radical Centrism the Answer?

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#98 How to be an Individual of Good Character. Feat General Stanley McChrystal

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#97 What's The Issue with The Big Beautiful Bill?

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#96 Are You Ideologically Captured?

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#95 The Forgotten Importance of Local Politics! Feat Anthony Amos.

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#94 ICE Protests, The Missing Story!

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#93 The Tide is Turning on College Campuses!

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#92 The Real Story Behind Biden's Coverup!

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#91 Is the Media Telling the Truth About Polarization Redux Feat Batya Ungar Sargon

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#90 The Capture of Mainstream News (Redux) Feat Isaac Saul

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#89 Bridge Building is a 21st Century Skill!

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#88 Fixing Congress (Redux) Feat Congressman Kilmer

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#87 Dealing with Conflict in Divided Times (Redux) Feat Irshad Manji

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#86 Killing the Klan with Kindness! Feat Dr. Daryl Davis

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#85 Free Speech for me, not for thee

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SPECIAL Pod | Obama asked me about differences in bridge building!

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#84 The Age of Building

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#83 Something Important Is Unfolding in America That Hasn’t Happened in a While!

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#82 Bridging Wyoming, Feat Ven Meester

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#81 Manu's response to the kumbaya critique is interesting, here's why!

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#80 The New Counterculture!

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#79 HUGE Opportunity From Trump

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#78 Discussing Israel, Palestine at Columbia

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#77 How to RESIST the Outrage Industrial Complex

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#76 The Most Important Word You Haven't Heard Before

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#75 Spec Ops General on Leadership Ft. General Stanley McChrystal

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#74 Fixing Congress ft. Congressman Kilmer

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#73 3 Tips to Talk Politics at Thanksgiving

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#72 The REAL Tragedy of the Trump Harris Election

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#71 2024 Election: There is a New Divide ft. Tim Urban

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#70 2024 Election: Blowing the Whistle on Facebook

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#69 Talking Israel-Palestine on College Campuses

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#68 Exposing the VP Debate

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#67 Avoiding The Social Media Trap With AI ft. Deb Roy

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#66 Reacting to The Trump/Harris Debate Part 2

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#65 Exposing The Trump/Harris Debate Part 1

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#64 Democracy Can’t Survive Without You- Here’s Why ft. Sam Daley-Harris

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#63 Can People Change? ft. Michael Ashford

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#62 DNC Special: 3 Ways Politicians Divide Us

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#61 The Secret to Bridging Divides

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#60 Rewind- Fixing Congress ft. Congressman Kilmer

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#59 The Craziest 30 Days in Politics

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#58 Is the Media Telling the Truth? ft. Batya Ungar-Sargon

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#57 Trump Assassination Attempt: We Must Unite Our Country

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#56 A Blue Collar Worker and a Scientist Walk Into a Bar… ft. Wilk Wilkinson

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#55 Trump Biden Debate: Exposing the Truth

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#54 Curiosity is the Real Resistance ft. Monica Guzman

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#53 The Real Divide in America…And It’s Not Democrat vs Republican

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#52 How to Fix the Media: Strategies for Unbiased News and Better Journalism

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Trump Verdict: Emergency Podcast

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#51 How the Media Drives Outrage

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#50 Trump vs Biden: How Did We Get Here?

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#49 Fixing Congress ft. Congressman Kilmer

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#48 This Will Change How You Read the News ft. John Gable

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#47 The Story You’re Missing About Student Protests

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#46 Dealing With Conflict in Divided Times ft. Irshad Manji

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Are We Really That Divided?

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#44 How to Change the System ft. Joshua Graham Lynn

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#43 Kate Middleton, Andrew Huberman, and the Baltimore Bridge collapse

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#42 Can Gen-Z Save America? ft. Isabel Brown

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#41 The Next Internet Revolution ft. Frank McCourt, Jr.

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#40 2024 Election Special: What’s the Case for President Biden ft. Victor Shi

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#39 The Power of Local Politics ft. Deke Copenhaver

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#38 How to be Independent Minded ft. Coach Ferber

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#37 This Will Change How You Read the News ft. John Gable

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#36 Crisis on the Border, Tucker Interviews Putin, and the Super Bowl

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#35 Culture Always Wins ft. Steven Olikara

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#34 Joe Kennedy: Getting Our Country Back on Track

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#33 The Divided States of America? Ft. Peter Coleman

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#32 MLK Day Special ft. Jonathan Eig

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#31 5 Lessons for Surviving 2024

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#30 2024 resolution: Talk to People You Disagree With ft. Kelly Corrigan

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#29 The Outrage Industrial Complex ft. Rob Feld

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#28 We Need America to Work ft. Layla Zaidane

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#27 How Religious is Gen-Z? ft. Noelle Fitchett

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#26 The Story the Media Isn't Telling You ft. Ben Rekhi

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#25 Lessons From Advising Four U.S. Presidents

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#24 We Have a Loneliness Crisis ft. Seth Kaplan

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#23 The Truth About Civility

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#21 Reflecting on the Last 20 Weeks

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#20 Overcoming a Life of Hardship ft. Bill Courtney

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#19 Here’s What Democracy is Missing ft. Eboo Patel

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#18 A Gen-Z Democrat’s perspective ft. Victor Shi

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#16 What America Can Learn From Venezuela ft. Daniel Di Martino

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#15 Inside The Conservative Climate Movement ft. Danielle Butcher

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#14 Unmasking Politics: The FOMO Epidemic" ft. Patrick McGinnis

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What We Should be Teaching In Our Classrooms ft. Will Reusch

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Andrew Yang Takes on the System

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The Power of Local Politics ft. Deke Copenhaver

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MLK on America Today ft. Jonathan Eig

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What's Wrong with Activism Today Ft. Eboo Patel

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Is America Really That Divided? Ft. Tom Fishman

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Challenging Our Identity Politics ft. Amir Odom

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Gen-Z's Thoughts on America

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Gen-Z on July 4th ft. Sophie Beren

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America: The Most Ambitious Experiment ft. Isabel Brown

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America: The Good and the Bad ft. Jeremi Suri

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Curiosity, Polarization, and Finding Hidden Ground ft. Monica Guzman

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Race, Identity and Democracy ft. John Wood Jr.