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The Briefing with Michael Waldman

Brennan Center for Justice

Every week, Brennan Center president Michael Waldman interviews the leaders, thinkers, and activists who are changing American democracy.

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00:40:54

How the Tumultuous ’70s Shaped Our Political Conflicts

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2020/03/25

The upheavals of the 1970s — the Watergate cover-up, defeat in Vietnam, racial conflict, and economic convulsions — formed the contours of today’s polarization, argue Princeton historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer. They joined Soledad O’Brien to discuss their new book, Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974. Brennan Center Live is a podcast created from Brennan Center events, featuring fascinating conversations with well-known thinkers on issues like democracy, justice,

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00:40:55

Preet Bharara on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2020/03/18

Reflecting on a distinguished prosecutorial career, former U.S. attorney Preet Bharara discusses the need for lawyers to take into account flaws in the legal system and in human nature in his new book, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law. He is joined by political commentator Margaret Hoover. Brennan Center Live is a podcast created from Brennan Center events, featuring fascinating conversations with well-known thinkers on issues like democracy, justice,

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00:40:07

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Race, the Law, and Politics

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2020/03/11

Journalism and cultural production are crucial to making law and policy, Ta-Nehisi Coates argues, because they expand peoples’ empathy and imagination. In a wide-ranging conversation, the celebrated journalist discusses criminal justice reform, the 2020 election, the #MeToo movement, and more with NYU law professor Melissa Murray.

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00:30:02

Lessons From Watergate

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2018/11/29

Watergate revealed a trail of crimes and coverups that brought down a president and changed the course of American history. With Robert Mueller's findings likely to be unveiled soon, what can we learn from Watergate about Trump-era abuses of power? John Dean, who was President Nixon's White House counsel, and Elizabeth Holtzman, who as a member of the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Nixon, discuss. Brennan Center Live is a weekly series of podcasts created from Brennan Center events,

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00:38:04

Van Jones, Darren Walker: How To End Mass Incarceration

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2018/11/20

America has five percent of the world’s population, but nearly a quarter of its prisoners. Now, a dynamic movement for change is sweeping the country. CNN host Van Jones and Ford Foundation president Darren Walker on how to keep the momentum going. Brennan Center Live is a weekly series of podcasts created from Brennan Center events, featuring fascinating conversations with well-known thinkers on issues like democracy, justice, race, and the Constitution.

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00:58:03

Carol Anderson: One Person, No Vote

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2018/11/03

New York Times best-selling author Carol Anderson speaks with Cornell Brooks about her new book on racist voter suppression and the fight against it. Anderson focuses in particular on the drive to weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act, and argues that voter suppression ultimately aims to make its targets lose faith in democracy itself. Ensuring that doesn’t happen could hardly be a more urgent task. Brennan Center Live is a weekly series of podcasts created from Brennan Center events, featuring

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00:58:17

Voter Suppression 2018

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2018/10/30

As crucial elections approach, voters from Georgia to North Dakota to Texas are at risk of disenfranchisement, and the result could be further skewed by extreme gerrymandering. Meanwhile, automatic voter registration could expand access to the polls in several states. How will the battle over voting shape the midterms, and what can we do to make sure every eligible American has a chance to cast a ballot? Hear from several of America’s top voting rights lawyers — Dego Adegbile, Julie Ebenstein,

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00:35:17

Danielle Allen: Cuz – A Memoir of Mass Incarceration

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2018/10/24

How did we lose an entire generation to the American prison system following the War on Drugs? InCuz, The Life and Times of Michael A., the Harvard professor and political theorist Danielle Allen explores the issue through the experience of her cousin, who served 11 years in prison for an attempted carjacking committed when he was 15, then lost his life to violence three years after being released. Allen is joined in conversation by the Brennan Center’s Nicole Austin-Hillery. Brennan Center Live

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00:34:26

Trumpocracy: A Conversation With David Frum

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2018/10/16

Donald Trump poses a grave, long-term threat to our democratic institutions, Atlantic senior editor and former White House speechwriter David Frum has been warning. But, in this wide-ranging conversation with NYU Law School president Trevor Morrison, Frum argues we need to focus not just on Trump’s own behavior, but on “the system of power that enables him.” And Frum explores the ways in which America’s potential retreat from democracy under Trump mirrors developments around the world. Brennan

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Van Jones in Conversation with Darren Walker

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2018/05/14

Mass incarceration is among the nation’s greatest moral and racial injustices. We have five percent of the world’s population, but nearly a quarter of its prisoners. In recent years, a dynamic movement for change has swept across the country. How will it survive the current political climate? CNN host Van Jones, the author of the new book Beyond the Messy Truth, will discuss his drive to cut prison populations in half – and the challenge of fighting for change in a polarized America. He will be in

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01:05:39

The 2020 Census: What's at Stake

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2018/05/14

Every ten years, the federal government conducts the census of all people in the United States. The stakes are extraordinarily high, particularly in light of the push to include questions about citizenship. The tally determines everything from the allocation of congressional seats and the shape of legislative districts, to the flow of vast amounts of government funds. Political pressure is especially high this time, as demographic change transforms the country.In all, it's a potential crisis looming

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00:22:04

Democracy's Problems and Prospects: A Book Talk with...

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2015/03/31

America’s democracy is floundering, Congress is hopelessly gridlocked, and millions remain without gainful employment. Despite all this, longtime political strategist and polling expert Douglas E. Schoen remains optimistic.Democracy’s Problems And Prospectsrepresents the best of Dr. Schoen’sdistinguished career, which he has dedicated to ensuring that democratic societies reflect the consent and the will of their electorates, and that America defends its interests as well as its

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00:23:05

What Went Wrong with the FISA Court?

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2015/03/31

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court is no longer serving its constitutional function of providing a check on the executive branch’s ability to obtain Americans’ private communications. Dramatic shifts in technology and law have changed the role of the FISA Court since its creation in 1978 — from reviewing government applications to collect communications in specific cases, to issuing blanket approvals of sweeping data collection programs affecting millions of

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00:53:03

The Black Vote & U.S. Democracy

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2015/03/31

Darryl Pinckney’s new book,Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy, is ameditation on the intersection between civil rights and the history of black participation in U.S. electoral politics. Fifty years after the first passage of the Voting Rights Act, Pinckney investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement to Barack Obama’s two presidential campaigns. Mr. Pinckney is joined by Wade Henderson, President and CEO of The

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00:21:13

What Caused the Crime Decline?

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2015/03/16

What Caused the Crime Decline?This podcastexamines the Brennan Center's new report that explores one of the nation’s least understood recent phenomena – the dramatic decline in crime nationwide over the past two decades – and analyzes various theories for why it occurred, by reviewing more than 40 years of data from all 50 states and the 50 largest cities. It concludes that over-harsh criminal justice policies, particularly increased incarceration, which rose even more dramatically

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54:55

Scott Horton Book Talk: Lords of Secrecy

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2015/02/18

In the last decade, national security issues have increasingly faded from the political agenda, due in part to the growth of government secrecy. In his new book, Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Warfare, journalist and lawyer Scott Horton explains how secrecy has fundamentally changed the way America functions. Never before have the American people had so little information concerning the wars waged in their name, nor has Congress exercised so little oversight over

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00:39:25

Kenneth P. Vogel and Walter Shapiro on 'Big Money' Book

The Briefing with Michael Waldman ·

2014/06/18

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