Season 2018

1. Representing Us

2018-01-06 · 30m

Congressional Candidate, Millennial and geologist Jess Phoenix on representative democracy.

2. Misinformation Crisis

2018-01-13 · 30m

University of Amsterdam’s Claes de Vreese on global populism and the post-truth present.

3. Automating Inequality

2018-01-16 · 30m

Political scientist Virginia Eubanks on her new book, “Automating Inequality.”

4. Law, Order and Justice

2018-01-24 · 30m

Roosevelt Institute Fellow Dorian Warren discusses the politics of inequality today.

5. All the President’s Twitter Blocks

2018-02-03 · 30m

Knight First Amendment Institute’s Katie Fallow on free speech violations in government.

6. Fascism Strikes Back

2018-02-10 · 30m

Shane Burley discusses his new book “Fascism Today: What It Is and How We End It.”

7. Solutions Journalism and Solutions for Journalism

2018-02-17 · 30m

Solutions Journalism and NYTimes’ David Bornstein on the constructive force of journalism.

8. A Union of Concerned Technologists

2018-02-24 · 30m

Renee DiResta of Data for Democracy on how antisocial media-tech companies are a threat.

9. Combating Extremism Online

2018-03-03 · 30m

Counter Extremism Project’s Mark Wallace and Dartmouth’s Hany Farid on online extremism.

10. Securing American Democracy

2018-03-10 · 30m

Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger of the Alliance for Securing Democracy on Russia and US.

11. China’s Contentious Public Sphere

2018-03-17 · 30m

Harvard University sociologist Ya-Wen Lei on her new book “The Contentious Public Sphere.”

12. Democrats vs. Authoritarians

2018-04-07 · 30m

Yascha Mounk on “The People vs Democracy: Why Our Freedom is in Danger and How to Save It.”

13. Mother Internet

2018-04-10 · 30m

Claire Evans on her new book “Broad Band: The Untold Story of Women Who Made the Internet.”

14. Guardians of the Web

2018-04-21 · 30m

Microsoft Research Principal Researcher Tarleton Gillespie on "Custodians of the Internet."

15. The Post-Millennial Wave

2018-04-24 · 30m

NextGen America’s executive director Heather Hargreaves on the 2018 midterm elections.

16. A Pro and Antibiotic Future

2018-05-05 · 30m

“Good Germs, Bad Germs” author Jessica Snyder Sachs on the rise of drug resistance.

17. At War With Cambridge Analytica

2018-05-12 · 30m

David Carroll of Parsons School of Design on privacy, media, and suing Cambridge Analytica.

18. The Real Drug Crisis

2018-05-19 · 30m

Investigative reporter Katherine Eban on generic pharmaceutical manufacturing dangers.

19. Getting the Rust Belt Story Straight

2018-05-26 · 30m

Founder and director of Belt Publishing Anne Trubek on “Voices From the Rust Belt.”

20. Oversight, Partisanship, and 2018

2018-05-31 · 30m

John Lawrence, former Chief of Staff to Nancy Pelosi, on his book “The Class of ’74”.

21. Tech Troublemakers

2018-06-09 · 30m

Leslie Berlin of Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford, on “Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s.

22. The Lore of Life

2018-06-13 · 30m

Bar-Ilan University chair in Science, Technology, and Society Oren Harman talks about his new book “Evolutions: 15 Myths That Explain Our World.”

23. Confronting Algorithms of Bigotry

2018-06-23 · 30m

Investigative reporter Julia Angwin on exposing technologies that injure society.

24. Our Galaxy and Beyond

2018-06-27 · 30m

Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. David Grinspoon on their book on Pluto: “Chasing New Horizons.”

25. The Future Caucus

2018-07-03 · 30m

Steven Olikara, founder of the Millennial Action Project on activating the next generation.

26. Democracy in the Internet Age

2018-07-14 · 30m

Democracy Works’ Kathryn Peters on election security, voter registration and democracy.

27. Building Bridges

2018-07-17 · 30m

David Nevins of the Bridge Alliance, talks about reversing America's political disunity.

28. Sweet Little (and Big) Lies

2018-07-28 · 30m

Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star on fact-checking President Trump and covering activism.

29. The Right to Have Rights

2018-08-04 · 30m

Stephanie DeGooyer, Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on authoritarianisim.

30. Documenting a Fascist Ascent

2018-08-07 · 30m

Jack Smith IV, senior writer for Mic, on American nationalism and White Supremacy.

31. Quarantining Hate Speech

2018-08-14 · 30m

Joan Donovan of Data & Society on technologies that degrade democracy and civil society.

32. Guts, Heart and Minoritarian Rule

2018-08-25 · 30m

Al Cross, dir. Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, U Kentucky, on media.

33. The Creative Wealth of Nations

2018-08-27 · 30m

Patrick Kabanda talks about his new book “The Creative Wealth of Nations” and the arts.

34. Manchurian President and Alternative Realities

2018-09-05 · 30m

Tom Nichols, U.S. Naval War College professor, on his book “The Death of Expertise.”

35. Rage at the Ballot Box

2018-09-12 · 30m

Soraya Chemaly, Women's Media Center Speech Project, on her new book “Rage Becomes Her.”

36. News, Disinformation, and Free Expression

2018-09-21 · 30m

Richard Gingras, VP of News at Google, on journalism, citizenship, and disinformation.

37. United Against Citizens

2018-09-25 · 30m

Tiffany Muller of End Citizens United, on her mission to undo the Supreme Court decision.

38. Security, Nationalism, and the Four Freedoms

2018-10-01 · 30m

Jeffrey Prescott of National Security Action on an alternative to Trump's foreign policy.

39. Truth Decay in America

2018-10-09 · 30m

RAND CEO Michael D. Rich and political scientist Jennifer Kavanagh on “Truth Decay.

40. Immigration, Dignity, and U.S.-Mexico Relations

2018-10-16 · 30m

KPBS investigative reporter Jean Guerrero on her new book “Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir.

41. Truth and Lies of Education

2018-10-22 · 30m

Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan discusses his new book “How Schools Work.

42. The Microbes Among Us

2018-11-02 · 30m

North Carolina State scientist Rob Dunn discusses his new book “Never Home Alone.”

43. The Splintering of the American Mind

2018-11-10 · 30m

Philosopher William Egginton discusses his book "The Splintering of the American Mind."

44. Discovering Genes

2018-11-13 · 30m

Carl Zimmer discusses "She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity."

45. Disequilibrium on the Supreme Court

2018-11-19 · 30m

Knight First Amendment Institute inaugural scholar David Pozen discusses the future of American law.

46. The Creative Wealth of Nations

2018-12-02 · 30m

Patrick Kabanda, musician and consultant to the World Bank, talks about his new book “The Creative Wealth of Nations” and the importance of the arts in development.