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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 171 days 7 hours 36 minutes
Americans Mistrust Government. Is That a Bad Thing?
Ethan Zuckerman, a professor of public policy, information and communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and director of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure, and the author of Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provi
Post-Inauguration National Politics: Biden's First Day
Marc Fisher, senior editor at The Washington Post, talks about President Biden's calls for unity, and the many executive actions he took on his first day in office, including rolling back some of Trump's immigration restrictions, and building a pandemic
Inaugural Rhetoric
Jennifer Mercieca, historian of American political rhetoric and associate professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University, joins to discuss inaugural addresses of the past and previews the address of President-elect Joe Biden.
Inauguration Day Insight and Analysis
As we await the swearing in of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Christina Greer, political science professor at Fordham University, host of the podcast FAQNYC, politics editor at The Grio and author of Black Ethnics (Oxford Universit
Cities' Immigration Agenda for Biden
Bitta Mostofi, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, talks about the call from a coalition of municipal leaders for a new approach toward America's immigrants, including a path to citizenship and more attention to immigrants in address
Meet the Mayoral Candidate: Zach Iscol
Zach Iscol, military veteran, founder of the non-profits Headstrong and Hirepurpose, now running for the Democratic nomination as NYC mayor, talks about his mayoral campaign.
Cases Climb as Vaccine Plans Stumble
Jessica Malaty Rivera, infectious disease epidemiologist and science communication lead at The COVID Tracking Project, talks about the latest COVID-19 news around the country, from a sluggish vaccine rollout to the continuing rise of cases around the U.S
Reflecting on Trump's Four Years on His Last Day in Office
On Donald Trump's last full day in office, Susan Glasser, staff writer for The New Yorker, CNN global affairs analyst and co-author, with Peter Baker, of The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III (Doubleday, 2020), reflects on
Trump's Eleventh-Hour Pardon Plans
President Trump is expected to issue dozens of pardons today. Jami Floyd, WNYC's senior editor for race and justice and legal editor, talks about how this works and who might be getting one (including former New York political power player Sheldon Silver
Taking Up the Mantle of Dr. King's Leadership
Rev. Dr. William Barber, president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, NC, architect of the Moral Monday Movement and the author of We Are Called to Be