Jun 28, 2019
Mo Elleithee, former Democratic National Campaign spokesman and current Director of the Institute of Politics and Public Service at Georgetown, joins me in the spin room in Miami to talk about the Democratic debate.
And Brittany Shepherd of Yahoo News sits in with me to talk about her observations of the debate and how...
Jun 27, 2019
The Supreme Court today issued a decision on partisan gerrymandering, the practice of politicians drawing maps that give themselves an advantage over other parties by manipulating an increasingly sophisticated understanding of who votes how and where you live to guarantee the most seats in Congress and...
Jun 24, 2019
“Transformation requires people changing. And I don't think most people change when they're defensive,” Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove told me.
Wilson-Hartgrove is a leader in progressive Christianity, but as a young man he was a conservative Republican in rural North Carolina. And he talks in this episode about how the...
Jun 11, 2019
Peter Wehner's new book "The Death of Politics" is a plea to everyday Americans not to give up on politics.
"So many things that we love and treasure and care for can be swept away if you get your politics wrong. On the flip side, if you get your politics right, it can allow for the conditions of human flourishing and...
Jun 7, 2019
A Supreme Court ruling is expected any day on one of the biggest drivers of our broken, polarized politics: gerrymandering.
Thomas Wolf is counsel with the Democracy program at the Brennan Center for Justice, out of New York University. Wolf talks us through the basics of gerrymandering and what the potential outcomes...