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Episode 60: When We Lose, We Win
Talking with historian Brenda Wineapple about civil rights, culture wars, the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial and her new book, "Keeping the Faith: God…
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Episode 10: Dirty Lies and Old Debates
Claire and Neil discuss Republican lying, from whether JD Vance normalizes MAGA to Special Prosecutor Jack Smith's new filing in the Trump insurrection…
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Vice Presidential Debates Are Made To Be Lost
In a bonus video episode, I explain why the odds are stacked against JD Vance--and it's not just because he's weird
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I Am Ignoring Amy Coney Barrett
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It's Not The Crime--It's The Cover-Up
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Is There Literally Something Rotten in Mar-A-Lago?
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You Can't Slut-Shame Lauren Boebert
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It's Never the Gun, Is It?
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Episode 55: The Ten-Dollar Founding Father
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Sex and the GOP
In this week's video chat, Claire Potter and historian Neil J. Young discuss the latest political news--and why so many sex scandals arise in the…
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What Should Libraries Do?
A Banned Books Week conversation with writer, translator, and librarian Frieda Afary about how to use our civic spaces to combat disinformation with…
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Assassi(nation)
In this week's video chat, Neil and I follow up on Monday's post about the second overt attempt on Donald Trump's life
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Episode 59: Before Kamala, There Was Shyamala
A conversation with Clara Bingham about American feminism and Bingham's new book, "The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973"
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America's Bloody Political Culture
Americans in both parties like to think that violence does not belong in our democracy. Unfortunately, it does
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When Politicians Make Nice
A conversation with sociologist Julia Sonnevend about her new book, “Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics”
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Why Is This Debate Different From All Other Debates?
In the weekly video chat, Claire and guest expert Leah Wright Rigueur analyze last night's encounter between an angry, old and confused Trump and Kamala…
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