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Election Reform in the Last Best Place? Voting Day 2024 in Kalispell, Montana
Our Top 10 Predictive Insights: Explaining the 2024 Election & Beyond
Transforming US Politics for $200 Million? Andrew Yang on Election Reform
Reform Milestones with FairVote’s Rob Richie: Ranked Choice Voting’s First Three Decades
Frontiers of Election Reform (Part 2): Will Alaskans Preserve Top Four Voting?
Frontiers of Election Reform: 5 Views on the Alaska Legislature (Part One)
When Legislatures Act Before Citizens Vote: Colorado's Top Four Election Reform
New Oregon Trail for Ranked Choice Voting? From Farmer’s Market to Legislature & Citizen Ballot
Three Election Reformers Approach the Finish Line: Will Nevada Adopt the Alaska Model?
How About Treating All Voters & Candidates the Same! Paul Johnson & Chuck Coughlin of Make Elections Fair AZ
Opening Primaries on the Great Plains: Are Stars Aligned for South Dakota Reform?
The Alaska Election Frontier: Our July 4th Trek Across Three Episodes
Making All Votes Count in DC: Proposer Lisa Rice & the Yes on 83 Team
Idaho's Open Primaries & Final Four Voting Initiative: Sometimes it Takes a Coalition!
Can Competition Foster Better Government? Reform Strategist Katherine Gehl on 2024 Ballots & Beyond
United States of Gerrymandering? Ripple Effects from State House to White House
Dissenting Voices on Today’s GOP: Interviews from The 2024 Principles First Summit
Former RNC Chair Michael Steele: An Alarmed Critique of a GOP Transformed
Asa Hutchinson on 2024 GOP Primaries: Hard to Get Any Other Message Out!
Grand Old Party or Brand New MAGA? Contrarian Conservative Charlie Sykes
A Primary Solution to Unite America? New Book From Election Reformer, Nick Troiano
Systems Level Failure? Veterans for All Voters Takes on Polarizing Elections
Breaking Bread, Sharing Salad & Final Four Voting: Alaska Representative Mary Peltola
Election Lessons Unheeded? A Cautionary View of the New U.S. House
Is the Fever Breaking? Two Centrist Senators on the 2022 Elections
Repodcast: Deflating Political Football with Tania Israel
As 2022 Election Results Roll In: Concern, Context, & Perspective
Test Driving Ranked Choice Voting: These Not So United States (AK Part 2 & NV)
No Such Thing as The Latino Vote? Hispanic American Swing Voters (Finale)
Will Latinization Bring Moderation? Hispanic American Swing Voters (Part 2)
Repodcast: Politically Persuadable But Focused on Jobs? Hispanic American Swing Voters (Part 1)
End of Bay State Bipartisanship?: These Not So United States (MA Part Two)
Deval Patrick Talks Governing: These Not So United States (MA Part One)
INTRODUCING My Body Odyssey, a Fluent Knowledge Podcast
Less Partisan Elections in Alaska 2022? These Not So United States (AK Part One)
Revisiting GOP Party Dynamics: The Decline of Moderates & Rise of Populism
Great American Independents (Part Two): Andrew Heaton on Liberty, Justice & Satire for All
Great American Independents (Part One): Amy Chua on Political Tribalism
Strength in Diversity, Weakness in One Party Rule? These Not So United States (CA Finale)
2022 California Primaries by Faction & Tortilla with Gustavo Arellano: These Not So United States (CA Part 2)
One Golden State, Two Democratic Parties: These Not So United States (CA Part 1)
Georgia On All Our Minds: These Not So United States
Politically Persuadable But Focused on Jobs? Hispanic American Swing Voters (Part 1)
Like Family, Like Nation: A Braver Angel Mediates Polarization at Home & Nationwide
Is Texas the Future of America? These Not So United States (TX Finale)
A New American Operating System? These Not So United States (TX Part 6)
Lone Star Launch Pad for Rear-Guard America? These Not So United States (TX Part 5)
Polarized Politics & Hispanic Identity: These Not So United States (TX Part 4)
Growth, Diversity & One Party Politics? These Not So United States (TX Part 3)
Strongest Identity of Them Y’all? These Not So United States (TX Part 2)
Messing with that Texas Identity? These Not So United States (TX Part 1)
Heard the One About a Centrist Congressman? Carlos Curbelo on Polarization in the House
Voice of Reason for Independent Minds: Talking Media & Polarization with CNN's Michael Smerconish
The United States of Narcissism? Speaking of Democracy’s Worst Enemies
Wait, I’m Not the Crazy One! Sarah Longwell, Conservative Watchdog of Republican Sanity
Speaking Truth in Polarized Times: Top Guest Insights from 2021
Celebration & Polarization, Holiday Survival Kit (Part 3): Identity with all the Trimmings
Celebration & Polarization, Holiday Survival Kit (Part 2): When Anti-Science Makes the Menu
Celebration & Polarization, Holiday Survival Kit (Part 1): Deflating Political Football
Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Part Four): Romance, Grandeur & Smugness on The West Wing
Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Part Three): Hail the Flip-Flopping Egomania of Veep
EAmazing Grace For Our Partisan Times: Sarah and Beth, Creators of Pantsuit Politics
Liberty & Justice For Some: Two Centuries of Independent Black Leaders & Political Movements
A Civic Way to Reverse Polarization? New Vitality in Education & Legislation
Woking up to Backlash: New York Times Contributing Writer Thomas Edsall on Reason & Responsibility in Polarized Politics
Passing of the Mic: New Co-Host Jillian Youngblood Gets a Bit of Purple Orientation
Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Part Two): Hail the Independent & Designated Survivor
Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Part One): Hail the Independent Commander in Chief
ENicest Troll in Town: On and Offline identity, Extremism, and Polarization
Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults, Part 2: Celebrity Makes the World Go Flat
Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults: Social Extremes in Our Hyperpartisan Age
Vaccines Prevent Viruses; What Combats COVID Vax Skepticism? An Interview with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of VCU’s Health & Media Lab
The Politics Industry at Work: And How Would You Like Your Gridlock?
The Senate Filibuster: Weapon of Obstruction or Shield Against Polarization?
What’s Behind Those Red and Blue Maps? The Social Geography of U.S. Polarization
When Martians Land, Pigs Fly, and Americans Reach Consensus: Civic Genius & Citizen Panel Forums
Portrait of the Arsonist As Young Congressman: Historian Julian Zelizer (Burning Down the House) on the inflammatory influence of Newt Gingrich
We're Polarized; Now What? The Hard Work of Depolarization: Season One Finale (Part Two of Two)
Polarization as Plague: Season One Finale (Part One)
2020 Polling in Hindsight: Someone Please Answer the Phone
Polarization at the Tipping Point: The Long Term and Wide-Angled Views
Repodcast of Declaration of Independents, Alaska Style: Ballot Measure Two Takes on Polarization
Civil Society and Campus Politics: Two Collegians Take on Polarization
Party Dynamics and the 2020 Election in Context: A Discussion with Historian Geoffrey Kabaservice (Niskanen Center)
Democracy & Elections Under Stress: A Discussion with Trevor Potter of the Campaign Legal Center
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part II): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame)
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part I): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Paul Muldoon (Princeton University)
Declaration of Independents, Alaska Style: Ballot Question Two Takes on Political Partisanship
Non-Partisan David vs. the D.C. Disenfranchisement Goliath: Independent Krucoff Promotes Douglass County MD as the Future of Washington DC
Science, Comedy & Partisanship
2020 Election Polling: The Science & Psychology of Polls in a Partisan Age
The Brain on Partisan Politics: Why Not So Great Minds Polarize Alike, with NYU Neural Scientist, Dr. Jay Van Bavel
Comedy & Partisanship: The Transcendent Laugh with Special Guest, Myq Kaplan
Congress and Partisanship: The Outlook from Dead Center with Former US Congressman, Jason Altmire
Social Media & Partisanship: Polarizing Algorithms and a Blind Date with Dividends, featuring Dr. Robert Elliott Smith
Broadcast Media and Partisanship: Side of Spin with Your Nightly News
Psychology and Partisanship: Heard from the Herd, featuring Dr. Abigail Marsh, Georgetown University
America’s Independent Voters and Voices: The Forty Million Missing
Front Lines of Partisanship with Dr. Charles Wheelan and Unite America