Episode 15: Mr. Speaker
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is quitting, not forced out by scandal or defeated for re-election, but quitting after only a li...
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15 episodesEpisode 14: When Intelligence Was Bipartisan
More than 40 years ago Congress undertook two major investigations into the nation’s intelligence agencies – the House investigation became...
Episode 13: The Klan
Since the 2016 presidential election various groups that keep track of white supremacist political activity – the Southern Poverty Law Cente...
Episode 12: Big Oil and American Politics
American foreign and domestic policy is shaped by many factors, but perhaps none is more important or more pervasive than oil – Big Oil. In...
Episode 11: A Short History of Leaks
The business of leaking government secrets has a long, long history and the whole subject of leaking and leaks is complicated. Why do leaks...
Episode 10: Fear Itself
Seventy-five years ago a president signed an Executive Order that resulted in the relocation and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese-Americans...
Episode 9: Richard Milhous Trump
Despite what they say almost every politician dislikes the press – too many pesky, probing questions and that constant effort to check real...
Episode 8: Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8
It is not likely that many of us have dropped a reference to the Constitution’s emoluments clause into casual conversation. But the once obs...
Episode 7: In the Great American Tradition - Dissent
The founders of the great American experiment so valued dissent that they wrote the idea into the First Amendment to the Constitution. But w...
Episode 6: A Christmas Like No Other
Imagine Winston Churchill as a houseguest. Then imagine him as a houseguest at Christmas…in the White House…while the world is at war. In la...
Episode 5: All the News - Fake and Otherwise
The election is over, but the debate about journalism, politics, facts and fakes roars on. So just what is the state of political journalism...
Episode 4: The Leader
Why has the U.S. Senate gone from the world’s greatest deliberative body to the country’s most dysfunctional political institution? The answ...
Episode 3: Lame Ducks
How do we usher out “lame duck” presidents and bring on the victors? Often with stumbles and mistakes. The interval between lame duck Herber...
Episdoe 2: Making a Judge
Appointing judges has always been an overtly political process, after all politicians are involved, but the process has not always been as c...
Episode 1: The Most Consequential Loser
Barry Goldwater, the conservative Republican senator from Arizona, lost the 1964 presidential election to Lyndon Johnson in one of great lan...