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Building and sustaining a democracy is hard work. It’s not glamorous and often goes unnoticed in the daily news cycle. On Democracy Works, we talk to people who are out there making it happe...
Last week, we heard from Aaron Maybin about the ways visual art relates to his conception and practice of democracy. This week, we are going...
You might remember Aaron Maybin from his time on the football field at Penn State or in the NFL. These days, he’s doing something much...
From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse. What was once confined...
We are back with new episodes this week, and we’re starting with an interview that we recorded in New York City earlier this summer. D...
For the last of our summer rebroadcasts, we are revisiting the conversation with Penn State’s Michael Mann, a world-renowned climate s...
Since we started this show, we’ve had the opportunity to speak with several organizers, from Joyce Ladner in the Civil Rights movement...
This week, we are revisiting another episode from the Democracy Works back catalog. This discussion is a nice companion to our episode with...
Democracy Works summer break 2019 continues with an episode from Politics and Polls, a podcast produced by the Woodrow Wilson School of Publ...
Our summer break continues this week with an episode of The Pledge, a podcast about people who are taking an active role in improving democr...
Daniel Ziblatt Our summer break continues this week with a rebroadcast of one of our very first episodes, a conversation with How Democracie...
Democracy Works is taking a few weeks off for the summer. While we do, we are going to share some older episodes you might have missed, alon...
Is the United States really a democracy? What will the EU look like in 50 years? What should 2020 candidates be doing to demonstrate civilit...
Charlie Dent We tend to think about congressional oversight in very academic terms — checks and balances, the Framers, etc. But what does it...
Jay Yonamine Some political scientists and democracy scholars think that it might. The thinking goes something like this: inequality will ri...
Lindsay Lloyd. Photo by Grant Miller If Alexis de Tocqueville visited America today, what would he have to say about the condition of our de...
Wendy Brown Much like our conversation with Patricia Roberts-Miller on demagoguery last week, neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that...
Patricia Roberts-Miller When you think of the word “demagogue,” what comes to mind? Probably someone like Hitler or another bomb...
Laura Rosenberger By now, you’ve no doubt head all about the report issued by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the drama in Washingt...
Crystal Sanders It’s been 65 years since the Brown v. Board of Education changed public schooling throughout a large portion of the Un...
Sarah Koenig spent a year inside Cleveland’s criminal justice system for season three of the Serial podcast. Along the way, she met so...
We are excited to announce our first ever Democracy Works listener mailbag episode! We’ve covered a lot of ground on the show over the...
Timothy Shaffer There are a lot of calls these days to “revive civility” in politics. While there are plenty of examples of unci...
E.J. Dionne E.J. Dionne has the unique perspective of studying the horse race and the big picture of American politics. He writes a twice-we...
We are excited to bring you an episode from No Jargon, a podcast from the Scholars Strategy Network. Much like Democracy Works, No Jargon ai...
Joyce Ladner Joyce Ladner was at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1950s and 60s as a member of the Student N...
Jan Egeland From Brexit to Hungary to the U.S. border wall, many of today’s political conflicts center around immigration. Moving peop...
Srdja Popovic 20 years ago, Srdja Popovic was part of a revolution — literally. He was a founding member of the Otpor! movement that ousted...
Jonathan Haidt We say on this show all the time that democracy is hard work. But what does that really mean? What it is about our dispositio...
We are closing out our series on democracy around the world with a bonus episode from Future Hindsight, a show that features deep conversati...
Sona Golder We’re just a few weeks away from the deadline for the UK to reach an agreement on its plan to leave the European Union. Ne...
Gianpaolo Baiocchi To say Brazil has had a complicated history with democracy is a understatement. The country has bounced in and out author...
Cole Stangler This episode is the second in our series looking at democracy around the world. France is the focus this week. Our guest is Co...
John Shattuck This episode begins a four-part series examining the state of democracy around the world. First up is Hungary, a country that&...
James Miller In his book Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea from Ancient Athens to Our World, James Miller encapsulates 2...
Peter Buckland No matter where you live, chances are that your local government is filled with things like feasibility studies, property tax...
Chris Witko Democracy and inequality have been at odds for as long as democracy as has existed. As the gap between rich and poor widens, so...
Astra Taylor We begin our third season with a fundamental question: What is democracy? Astra Taylor grapples with this question in a documen...
We’ll be back with new episodes starting next week. This week’s episode comes to you from our friends at Trump on Earth , a podc...
For this week’s rebroadcast, we revisit an episode on the U.S. Census that originally aired in May 2018. New episodes return January 2...
Our holiday break continues this week as we bring you an episode with with Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro that originally aired...
While we take a holiday break, we are going back into the archives to rebroadcast a few of our favorite episodes from earlier this year. Thi...
Michael Berkman From gerrymandering to record voter turnout, it’s been a busy year for democracy. This doesn’t mean that everyth...
Caroline Hunter In the United States, voting is a very private act. You step into the booth alone and, for a lot of people, it’s consi...
Eric Plutzer We end almost every episode of the show with four questions that come from the McCourtney Institute for Democracy’s Mood...
Penn State Provost Nick Jones Land-grant universities were once known as “democracy’s colleges,” places where people who w...
Norman Eisen As we’ve previously discussed, there are a lot of books about democracy filling book store and library shelves right now....
Robin Teater It’s not the Powerball or the Mega Millions, but this democracy lottery does give people the chance to directly impact in...
Gen. Wesley Clark We observe Veterans Day this week, a time when people across the United States remember and thank those who have served in...
Laura Rosenberger With the midterms this week, all eyes are on the threat of election hacking and interference. Electoral integrity is impor...
Stella Rouse From cooking to shopping to getting around town, disruption is the name of the game for Millennials. Will they do the same thin...