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For Americans today, it's a treasure. Scripture. The thing that made us. It wasn't always that way, though. This is the story of the Declara...

What is the process when a person wishes to represent themselves in court? How common is it? Is it true that a person who represents themsel...

You've been hearing about it in the news, but what exactly is the Strait of Hormuz? And as for those blockades...how do they work? DONATE TO...

We haven't always had a federal income tax, and in the beginning, it only applied to the very richest Americans. So how did we end up with t...

Sometimes, news happens in the real world, and suddenly a political or civics topic becomes very top of mind for members of the public. And...

Today we bring you a story from our sister podcast Outside/In, produced and reported by Marina Henke. DONATE TO THE PODCAST! In 2009, the st...

In this country, the states run elections. Congress is empowered to step in; the president is not. So what does it mean for the president to...

Four years ago we made an episode about how the president has very limited powers when it comes to lowering the price of gas. Turns out, we...

Today we take a field trip to Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Nick explains why he's like this via an obsession with 1...

Why do religious leaders step out from behind the pulpit and take to the streets? What does it mean to practice what you preach? As faith gr...

As hosts of a civics podcast, we are not allowed to advocate for policy. But you can. Here are three things you can do to get your elected o...

We've used the word "detention" many times when we've talked about immigration laws and ICE. But what does that word actually mean? A listen...

About a week ago, host Hannah McCarthy stumbled on an article by an historian named Dr. Aaron Fountain Jr. What she read kind of blew her mi...

The rules about who could and could not come and live in the United States have changed many times over the last 250 years, but exactly when...

We examine what the current presidential administration tells us about Immigration and Customs Enforcement and what the numbers, courts and...

Introducing “Safe to Drink:” A New Hampshire town finds out its water has been contaminated by a chemical. The most basic question — whether...

In 1985, high school teacher Christa McAuliffe was selected to become the first private citizen to travel to space. After the Challenger exp...

After its inception in 1823, the Monroe Doctrine was largely ignored. But after a while, different administrations saw the value in maintain...

On this episode, we’re talking about the history and evolution of United States’ refugee and asylum policy. We have been a country of exclus...

Sometimes, we just have to make a "101" episode of Civics 101. That is the case this week, in the wake of the arrest of Venezuela's sitting...
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