All Episodes

This is Democracy – Episode 327: Local Journalism

This is Democracy – Episode 326: Ukraine Update

This is Democracy – Episode 325: Monuments and History

This is Democracy – Episode 324: Universities Today

This is Democracy – Episode 323: “Christian Nation”?

This is Democracy – Episode 322 – Israel: Past and Present

This is Democracy – Episode 321: Hungarian Elections

This is Democracy – Episode 320: Is the U.S. Constitution Broken?

This is Democracy- Episode 319: U.S. Decision Making on Iran

This is Democracy – Episode 318: War In Iran

This is Democracy – Episode 317: Vigilantism and Violence in American Society

This is Democracy – Episode 316: Minneapolis

This is Democracy – Episode 315: Venezuela Intervention

This is Democracy – Episode 314: Reflections on 2025, Lessons for 2026

This is Democracy – Episode 313: Civics and History Education

This is Democracy – Episode 312: Ukraine Negotiations

This is Democracy – Episode 311: US-Latin American Relations

This is Democracy – Episode 310: Have we Outgrown the Constitution?

This is Democracy – Episode 309: Government Shutdowns

This is Democracy – Episode 308: Greenland and the Arctic

This is Democracy – Episode 307: Deliberative Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 306: Federal Science Funding

This is Democracy – Episode 305: New School Year

This is Democracy – Episode 304: Russia-Ukraine War Update

This is Democracy — Episode 303: U.S. Military

This is Democracy — Episode 302: Freedom Season 1963

This is Democracy — Episode 301: War in Iran

This is Democracy — 300th Episode!

This is Democracy – Episode 299: Southern Politics: Past and Present

This is Democracy – Episode 298: Iran-Contra and its Legacies

This is Democracy – Episode 297: Free Speech and Repression in Turkey

This is Democracy – Episode 296: Israel-Palestine

This is Democracy – Episode 295: Broadcasting Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 294: The Courts and the President

This is Democracy – Episode 293: Ending Wars

This is Democracy – Episode 292: Free Speech

This is Democracy – Episode 291: Palestinian History and Identity

This is Democracy – Episode 290: News Media

This is Democracy – Episode 289: Trump’s Immigration Executive Orders

This is Democracy – Episode 288: City Leadership

This is Democracy – Episode 287: Year-in-Review

This is Democracy – Episode 286: Syria

This is Democracy – Episode 285: Tariffs, Trade, and Supply Chains

This is Democracy – Episode 284: Ukraine War

This is Democracy – Episode 283: Barbara Jordan

This is Democracy – Episode 282: Elections 2024

This is Democracy – Episode 281: Lebanon Wars

This is Democracy – Episode 280: Banking and Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 279: Hubert Humphrey & Civil Rights

This is Democracy – Episode 278: Presidential Debates

This is Democracy – Episode 277: How Congress Works

This is Democracy – Episode 276: New School Year

This is Democracy – Episode 275: Ukraine War

This is Democracy – Episode 274: Political Conventions

This is Democracy – Episode 273: Venezuela Elections

This is Democracy – Episode 272: Supreme Court Reforms

This is Democracy – Episode 271: Reforming Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 270: Political Violence

This Is Democracy – Episode 269: British Elections

This is Democracy – Episode 268: Supreme Court

This is Democracy – Episode 267: Mexican Elections

This is Democracy – Episode 266: European Democracies

This is Democracy – Episode 265: D-Day and Its Legacies

This is Democracy – Episode 264: Free Trade and Peace

This is Democracy – Episode 263: China’s Domestic and Foreign Policy

This is Democracy – Episode 262: Campus Protests

This is Democracy – Episode 261: Political Disillusionment

This is Democracy – Episode 260: Indian Elections

This is Democracy – Episode 259: Media and Politics

This is Democracy – Episode 258: Ukraine War

This is Democracy – Episode 257: Disinformation

This is Democracy – Episode 256: Humanitarian Intervention

This is Democracy – Episode 255: Collective Trauma

This is Democracy – Episode 254: Evangelicals Today

This is Democracy – Episode 253: Bush v Gore: The Legacy

This is Democracy – Episode 252: Ukraine War

This is Democracy – Episode 251: Middle East in the 1970s and Today

This is Democracy – Episode 250: College Campuses

This is Democracy – Episode 249: Race & Opportunity in America

This is Democracy – Episode 248: Israel and Hamas

This is Democracy – Episode 247: Strikes by Autoworkers

This is Democracy – Episode 246: Impeachment in Texas

This is Democracy – Episode 245: Wildfires

This Is Democracy Episode 244: Auschwitz-Birkenau

This Is Democracy Episode 243: Ukraine War

This Is Democracy Episode 242: Reforming Political Parties

This is Democracy: Episode 241 – Paxton’s Impeachment

This is Democracy: Episode 240 – Evangelical Religion

This is Democracy: Episode 239 – Supreme Court

This is Democracy: Episode 238 – City Leadership

This is Democracy – Episode 237: Media and Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 236: Birchers and Right-Wing Extremism

This is Democracy – Episode 235: Young Voters

This is Democracy – Episode 234: Israel’s Democracy in Crisis

This is Democracy – Episode 233: Presidential Law-Breaking

This is Democracy – Episode 232: FDA and Public Health

This is Democracy – Episode 231: Iraq War: Lessons and Legacies

This is Democracy – Episode 230: Art of Strategy

This is Democracy – Episode 229: Jimmy Carter

This is Democracy – Episode 228: Turkey Earthquake

This is Democracy – Episode 227: Intelligence

This is Democracy – Episode 226: Ukraine

This is Democracy – Episode 225: Brazil

This is Democracy – Episode 224: FBI and J. Edgar Hoover

This is Democracy – Episode 223: Infrastructure and Indigenous Communities

This is Democracy – Episode 222: Civics Post-Pandemic

This is Democracy – Episode 221: Bridge-Building in American Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 220: German Right-Wing Extremism

This is Democracy – Episode 219: Chinese Protests

This is Democracy – Episode 218: Midterm Elections

This is Democracy – Episode 217: Anti-Semitism

This is Democracy – Episode 216: Iran Protests

This is Democracy – Episode 215: Ukraine War

This is Democracy – Episode 214: Civil War by Other Means, Part II

This is Democracy – Episode 213: Civil War By Other Means

This is Democracy – Episode 212: International Sanctions and Banking

This is Democracy – Episode 211: Realism and Foreign Policy

This is Democracy – Episode 210: Can History Bring Us Together?

This is Democracy – Episode 209: Abortion and Women’s Health

This is Democracy – Episode 208: The Third Reconstruction

This is Democracy – Episode 207: Gorbachev

This is Democracy – Episode 206: Leadership

This is Democracy – Episode 205: Attorneys General

This is Democracy – Episode 204: China

This is Democracy – Episode 203: Policing and Race in America

This is Democracy – Episode 202: Inflation

This is Democracy – Episode 201: Marie Yovanovitch and U.S. Relations with Ukraine

This is Democracy – Episode 200 Special

This is Democracy – Episode 199: Death Row, Wrongful Convictions, and the Courts

This is Democracy – Episode 198: Hungary and the Future of European Security

This is Democracy – Episode 197: Real Reform

This is Democracy – Episode 196: Buffalo Shooting

This is Democracy – Episode 195: War in Ukraine

This is Democracy – Episode 194: Abortion and the Supreme Court

This is Democracy – Episode 193: Transgender Rights and Inclusion

This is Democracy – Episode 192: Syria and Ukraine

This is Democracy – Episode 191: War Crimes

This is Democracy – Episode 190: Secrecy, Deception, and Presidential Leadership

This is Democracy – Episode 189: Reforming American Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 188: Ukraine

This is Democracy – Episode 187: Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

This is Democracy – Episode 186: NATO

This is Democracy – Episode 185: Ukraine Invasion by Russia

This is Democracy – Episode 184: Artificial Intelligence and Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 183: Latin American Democracy Activism

This is Democracy – Episode 182: Teaching During COVID

This is Democracy – Episode 181: Sexual Assault

This is Democracy – Episode 180: Biden’s First Year

This is Democracy – Episode 179: Ukraine Crisis

This is Democracy – Episode 178: Give Young People the Vote

This is Democracy Episode 177 – 2021 Finale

This is Democracy – Episode 176: German Democracy and Lessons for the US

This is Democracy – Episode 175: Russia, Ukraine, and the United States

This is Democracy – Episode 174: Immigration Policy Inside the United States

This is Democracy – Episode 173: COP26 and Environmental Political Economy

This is Democracy – Episode 172: Anti-Semitism

This is Democracy – Episode 171: Work and Labor in America Today

This is Democracy – Episode 170: Biology of Democracy

This is Democracy: Episode 169 – Vietnam War Legacies

This is Democracy: Episode 168 – Abortion Restrictions in Texas

This is Democracy: Episode 167 – Climate Change and the Pandemic

This is Democracy: Episode 166 – NATO Alliance

This is Democracy: Episode 165 – German Elections

This is Democracy: Episode 164 – Better Thinking for Democracy

This is Democracy: Episode 163 – Shadow Docket and Abortion

This is Democracy: Episode 162 – Refugees in Afghanistan and Across the Globe

This is Democracy: Episode 161 – Census

This is Democracy – Episode 160: Mental Health and COVID

This is Democracy – Episode 159: Renting Crisis in American Cities

This is Democracy – Episode 158: Pandemic Persistence

This is Democracy – Episode 157: Cuba and Democracy in the Caribbean

This is Democracy – Episode 156: The Olympics

This is Democracy – Episode 155: Voter Intimidation

This is Democracy – Episode 154: Ukraine

This is Democracy – Episode 153: Democracy Activism

This is Democracy – Episode 152: European Union

This is Democracy – Episode 151: Voting and State Governments

This is Democracy – Episode 150: Graduating in 2021

This is Democracy – Episode 149: Breaking Barriers in American Society

This is Democracy – Episode 148: Cybersecurity

This is Democracy – Episode 147: American Borderlands

This is Democracy – Episode 146: U.S.-China Relations

This is Democracy – Episode 145: New Deal: History and Legacies for Today

This is Democracy – Episode 144: Afghanistan War

This is Democracy – Episode 143: Black Resistance to Slavery in Early America and its Legacies

This is Democracy – Episode 142: Infrastructure and Public Works

This is Democracy – Episode 141: “The Eyes of Texas”

This is Democracy – Episode 140: Asian American History and Exclusion

This is Democracy – Episode 139: Economic Stimulus

This is Democracy – Episode 138: The Filibuster

This is Democracy – Episode 137: Energy Catastrophe in Texas

This is Democracy – Episode 136: Liberal Education

This is Democracy – Episode 135: Big Data and Policing

This is Democracy – Episode 134: Scientific Literacy and Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 133: Russian Democracy Protests and US Policy

This is Democracy – Episode 132: Presidential Inaugurations

This is Democracy – Episode 131: Insurrection: White Supremacist Riots from Charlottesville (2017) to the Capitol (2021)

This is Democracy – Episode 130: We Survived 2020!

This is Democracy – Episode 129: Vaccinations

This is Democracy – Episode 128: The Republican Party

This is Democracy – Episode 127: Hopes for Democracy in Atlanta

This is Democracy – Episode 126: Participatory Democracy from the Sixties to Today

This is Democracy – Episode 125: Right-Wing Militias

This is Democracy – Episode 124: Deportations

This is Democracy – Episode 123: New Voters

This is Democracy – Episode 122: Media Coverage of Elections

This is Democracy – Episode 121: Historical Memory and National Trauma

This is Democracy – Episode 120: Dissent and National Security

This is Democracy – Episode 119: Counterterrorism and Torture

This is Democracy – Episode 118: Corporations and Social Justice

This is Democracy – Episode 117: Supreme Court Confirmations: How Have They Changed?

This is Democracy – Episode 116: Protests in Belarus

This is Democracy – Episode 115: Young JFK: Lessons for Democracy Today

This is Democracy – Episode 114: The Right-Wing Media and the Future of American Journalism

This is Democracy – Episode 113: Race in the American Midwest and Kenosha

This is Democracy – Episode 112: From Churchill and Roosevelt to Trump and Brexit: What Have We Learned?

This is Democracy – Episode 111: 19th Amendment and Women’s Rights: 100th Anniversary

This is Democracy – Episode 110: The Atomic Bombings of Japan and Current Legacies

This is Democracy – Episode 109: Prison Reform Revisited: COVID, Black Lives Matter, and New Opportunities for Reform

This is Democracy – Episode 108: Federalism and Law

This is Democracy – Episode 107: Partisanship and Congress

This is Democracy – Episode 106: Beyond the Wall: Cross-Border Cultures

This is Democracy – Episode 105: Sunbelt Politics

This is Democracy – Episode 104: Carbon Dividends: Solving our Climate Crisis

This is Democracy – Episode 103: Confronting the Legacies of the Lost Cause

This is Democracy – Episode 102: Reckoning with Racism in Our Institutions

This is Democracy – Episode 101: The US Military and American Society

This is Democracy – Episode 100: Lessons for the Current American Tragedy

This is Democracy – Episode 99: The Post Office and American Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 98: Democratizing Cities in Crisis

This is Democracy – Episode 97: North Korea and the United States

This is Democracy – Episode 96: Race and Coronavirus

This is Democracy – Episode 95: 75th Anniversary of the End of WWII: Lessons and Legacies

This is Democracy – Episode 94: U.S.-China Relations

This is Democracy – Episode 93: Are Americans Coming Together?

This is Democracy – Episode 92: The End of October: Understanding the Pandemic Through Literature

This is Democracy – Episode 91: Mental Health in a Pandemic

This is Democracy – Episode 90: Globalization: Will it Survive the Coronavirus?

This is Democracy – Episode 89: Law Enforcement in a Pandemic

This is Democracy – Episode 88: Education During the Coronavirus Crisis

This is Democracy – Episode 87: Coronavirus is Not a War: Problems of Militarism and Public Health

This is Democracy – Episode 86: Crowdsourcing for Good

This is Democracy – Episode 85: The Coronavirus Crash and the World Economy

This is Democracy – Episode 84: Humor in Trying Times

This is Democracy – Episode 83: Economic Effects of the Coronavirus

This is Democracy – Episode 82: Life in a Time of Coronavirus

This is Democracy – Episode 81: Presidential Primaries: How Have They Evolved Over Time? How Can We Improve Them?

This is Democracy – Episode 80: Energy Transitions

This is Democracy – Episode 79: The U.S. Census and Its Importance for American Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 78: The Role of Intelligence Agencies in American Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 77: Viruses, Diseases, and Public Health Responses

This is Democracy – Episode 76: Impeachment

This is Democracy – Episode 75: Uses of Terror by Latin American Dictators

This is Democracy – Episode 74: The Evolution of the American Working Class

This is Democracy – Episode 73: Congress and War Powers

This is Democracy – Episode 72: A Democracy Mosaic (Pt. 2)

This is Democracy – Episode 71: A Democracy Mosaic (Pt. 1)

This is Democracy – Episode 70: Brexit: What is the Future of Democracy in Great Britain?

This is Democracy – Episode 69: Inequality in Higher Education

This is Democracy – Episode 68: The First Presidential Impeachment: Lessons and Legacies

This is Democracy – Episode 67: Campaign Finance: How Does it Work? How Can We Make it More Open and Democratic?

This is Democracy – Episode 66: Ethics in Business and Technology

This is Democracy – Episode 65: Naturalized Citizenship: How Does it Work? What Does it Mean for American Democracy?

This is Democracy – Episode 64: The Fall of the Berlin Wall: Legacies and Lessons After 30 years

This is Democracy – Episode 63: Turkey: History and Relations with the United States

This is Democracy – Episode 62: Puerto Rico: Statehood Debate

This is Democracy – Episode 61: International Environmental Activism

This is Democracy – Episode 60: Whistleblowing: What is it? Why is it So Important for Our Democracy?

This is Democracy – Episode 59: Human Rights and Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

This is Democracy – Episode 58: Hispanic Exclusion in American Universities and Society

This is Democracy – Episode 57: Presidential Debates: Do They Matter?

This is Democracy – Episode 56: September 11, 2001 – 18th Anniversary: Lessons and Legacies

This is Democracy – Episode 55: Unions and Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 54: Environmental Activism Among Young People

This is Democracy – Episode 53: Back to School

This is Democracy – Episode 52: Hong Kong’s Democracy Movement

This is Democracy – Episode 51: Gun Violence in America

This is Democracy – Episode 50: British-American Relations: Past and Future

This is Democracy – Episode 49: Guernica and the Bombing of Civilians

This is Democracy – Episode 48: Spanish Civil War: History and Legacies

This is Democracy – Episode 47: Government and Creativity in the Renaissance

This is Democracy – Episode 46: Ancient Government and its Legacies

This is Democracy – Episode 45: Iran: the Evolution of its Foreign Policy and the Implications for the United States

This is Democracy – Episode 44: Citizens with Disabilities: Education and Access to Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 43: College Admissions and Diversity

This is Democracy – Episode 42: The Free Enterprise System and American Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 41: Latin America: Democratic Challenges and Opportunities

This is Democracy – Episode 40: Religion and Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 39: Contemporary Segregation and Exclusion in American Society

This is Democracy – Episode 38: World War II

This is Democracy – Episode 37: Millennials

This is Democracy – Episode 36: Anti-Semitism

This is Democracy – Episode 35: Democracy in India

This is Democracy – Episode 34: Human Rights: Past and Future

This is Democracy – Episode 33: Democracy in Ukraine and Other Former Soviet Countries

This is Democracy – Episode 32: White Supremacy

This is Democracy – Episode 30: US Foreign Policy

This is Democracy – Episode 29: North Korea: How Do We Understand This Society and its Leadership?

This is Democracy – Episode 28: Social Media

This is Democracy – Episode 27: Sexual Assault

This is Democracy – Episode 26: The American Dream

This is Democracy – Episode 25: Wrongful Convictions

This is Democracy – Episode 24: Media Portrayals of the Government Shutdown and Border Wall Debates

This is Democracy – Episode 23: Young Voters

This is Democracy – Episode 22: Prison Reform

This is Democracy – Episode 21: Political Prospects for 2019

This is Democracy – Episode 20: The Mosaic of Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 19: Homelessness

This is Democracy – Episode 18: Health Care Policy and American Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 17: The Environment and Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 16: Democracy in the Middle East?

This is Democracy – Episode 15: The 100th Anniversary of the First World War

This is Democracy – Episode 14: What did the 2018 elections mean?

This is Democracy – Episode 13: New and Future Voters: Why Does This Election Matter So Much?

This is Democracy – Episode 12: Congress and Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 11: The Media and Politics

This is Democracy – Episode 10: The Supreme Court and Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 9: Religion and Democracy: How Are We Making Our Democracy More Open and Inclusive for Different Faiths?

This is Democracy – Episode 8: The Military and Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 7: Gender and Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 6: Race and Democracy in America Today

This is Democracy – Episode 5: Sports and Democracy: How Can Sports Encourage Democracy?

This is Democracy – Episode 4: Young Citizens Promoting Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 3: Educating Citizenship

This is Democracy – Episode 2: Coming of Age in the Shadow of Trump

This is Democracy – Episode 1: We Are All Characters in This Living Book of Democracy

This is Democracy – Episode 0: Teaser