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Politics in Question

Julia Azari, Lee Drutman, and James Wallner

A podcast about how our political institutions are failing us and ideas for fixing them. Join hosts Lee Drutman and James Wallner as they imagine and argue over what American politics could look like if citizens questioned everything. Politics In Question is a joint venture of New America and the Foundation for American Innovation.

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00:58:28

How did the Great Migration help shape today's politics?

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2020/07/01

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00:52:47

What will it take to achieve racial justice in...

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2020/06/24

Megan Ming Francis, “The white press has a history of endangering black lives going back a century,” Washington Post (June 15, 2020).Dorothy Roberts, “Abolishing Policing Also Means Abolishing Family Regulation,” The Chronicle of Social Change (June 16, 2020).Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter From Birmingham Jail (April 16, 1963).Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 1962).Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “The End of Black

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01:07:47

What are the politics of protest?

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2020/06/17

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01:07:31

What values are essential in a successful democracy?

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2020/06/16

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00:57:34

How do democratic self-governments respond to extremism?

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2020/06/10

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What role do norms and values play in democratic...

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2020/05/27

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01:06:01

How does populism threaten democracy around the world?

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2020/05/20

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00:59:59

Does incivility weaken or strengthen democracy?

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2020/05/13

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01:10:22

Will Americans hold the government accountable for...

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2020/05/07

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00:53:12

Did the media create political polarization?

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2020/04/29

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00:55:36

The Never Trump Movement: Emergent Faction or...

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2020/04/23

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00:48:43

How will COVID-19 impact the November elections?

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2020/04/15

Julia references an Electoral Studies article by R. Michael Alvarez, Thad E. Hall, and Betsy Sinclair (“Whose absentee votes are returned and counted: The variety and use of absentee ballots in California”) when discussing the disproportionate way Americans’ votes are counted.Lee references the work of MIT’s Charles Stewart on public opinion in elections and Rick Hansen’s book, Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy, when discussing the extent to which both

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00:52:25

Do ideas or interests drive our politics?

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2020/04/08

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00:36:34

Filibuster or Filibusted?

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2020/03/25

Julia argues that we need to pay greater attention to the informal norms surrounding the filibuster and cites a 2012 article she authored with Jennifer K. Smith (“Unwritten Rules: Informal Institutions in Established Democracies”). She also references a 2016 book by Matt Grossman and Dave Hopkins, Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats.James references work by Gregory J. Wawro and Eric Schickler (Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate) to

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00:52:47

What are the politics of the coronavirus pandemic?

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2020/03/19

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00:44:04

Is there a better way to pick presidential nominees?

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2020/03/11

James references Martin Van Buren’s 1827 letter to Thomas Ritchie in which he outlines his plans for the creation of a new Democratic Party. Julia mentions her recent Mischiefs of Faction piece reacting to Super Tuesday. Lee reminds listeners that the two-party system exacerbates the problems in how we pick presidential nominees and references his new book, Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America.

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00:34:32

Should the House have more members?

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2020/03/04

Lee reminds Julia and James that the original First Amendment to the Constitution proposed by James Madison in 1789 concerned apportionment and traces the present issue to the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. He also mentions the cube root law to highlight the extent to which the United States is a global outlier when it comes to the size of Congress’s lower chamber.James cites Federalist 58 when suggesting that increasing the size of the House is unlikely to empower its rank-and-file members

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00:40:56

What is unprecedented about our politics?

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2020/02/26

This week, Lee and James ask special guest Matt Glassman what is unprecedented about our politics. Matt is a senior fellow at the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University and a co-host of the podcast, Congress, Two Beers In. Is American politics in an unprecedented era? Is the decline in civility overstated? Has politics always been rough and tumble? These are some of the question we discuss on this week’s episode.

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00:51:25

Do we have too much judicial review?

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2020/02/19

This week, Julia, Lee, and James court a debate over the role of our third branch, the federal judiciary. Has the long arm of the law reached too far beyond its robes? Are unelected judges legislating from the bench? Are we looking to the courts too much to break our deadlocked politics? What if anything should we do about it?

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00:44:35

Did the impeachment process work?

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2020/02/12

This week, Julia, Lee, and James consider impeachment in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s acquittal in the Senate. They debate what worked and what didn’t work. And they ask how the impeachment process can be improved.

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