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Civics 101
NHPR
305 episodes
4 days ago
How do landmark Supreme Court decisions affect our lives? What does the 2nd Amendment really say? Why does the Senate have so much power? Civics 101 is the podcast about how our democracy works…or is supposed to work, anyway.
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How do landmark Supreme Court decisions affect our lives? What does the 2nd Amendment really say? Why does the Senate have so much power? Civics 101 is the podcast about how our democracy works…or is supposed to work, anyway.
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Government
Society & Culture,
History
Episodes (20/305)
Civics 101
How President Trump is trying to change elections
It's not in the Constitution. Can it happen anyway?
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1 day ago
22 minutes 7 seconds

Civics 101
Fixing a problem that doesn't exist
Jason Carter is asking questions about the SAVE Act.
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1 week ago
26 minutes 49 seconds

Civics 101
How can Congress check the president?
What happens when a governing body puts party over institution?
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2 weeks ago
27 minutes 28 seconds

Civics 101
Who pays for public media?
Public media funding makes up less than 0.0001% of the federal budget. What is public media, and why does the government support it?
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3 weeks ago
49 minutes 20 seconds

Civics 101
What happens when we don't trust democracy?
You can't preserve what you don't understand.
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4 weeks ago
30 minutes 5 seconds

Civics 101
What is the Rule of Law?
What is the rule of law? It's certainly not the same as the rule of men.
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1 month ago
30 minutes 49 seconds

Civics 101
Efficiency v. Democracy
Unpacking the relationship between tech and the executive branch. Or, more specifically, the relationship between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
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1 month ago
33 minutes 15 seconds

Civics 101
Why do we have the National Weather Service?
What is the federal government's role in predicting the weather?
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1 month ago
32 minutes 29 seconds

Civics 101
Who decides what politicians should say?
Brought to you by the words "weird," "quiddich," and "Pepsi."
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1 month ago
28 minutes 41 seconds

Civics 101
April Fools: Politicians, the press, and more
Pranks are a staple of April Fools' Day - even when it comes to politics and the press.
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1 month ago
40 minutes 40 seconds

Civics 101
The Politics Behind Your Taxes
How politicians decide who pays taxes, and how much they pay.
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2 months ago
55 minutes 19 seconds

Civics 101
How does the Post Office work?
How the government visits every American home, and how and why we pay for it.
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2 months ago
22 minutes 20 seconds

Civics 101
The Kids are Alright: Civics Ed Update
To kick off Civic Learning Week, we see how students are (and aren't) being civically prepared.
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2 months ago
27 minutes 51 seconds

Civics 101
Who's running the country? (Part 2)
Meet your president's Cabinet!
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2 months ago
23 minutes 27 seconds

Civics 101
Who's running the country? (Part 1)
Meet your president's Cabinet.
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2 months ago
26 minutes 36 seconds

Civics 101
A midwife's early American story
Ariel Lawhon discusses the real-life early American midwife at the center of her novel The Frozen River.
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3 months ago
38 minutes 37 seconds

Civics 101
NY Times v Sullivan: What if the press couldn’t tell the truth?
What would happen if the press couldn't tell the truth?
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3 months ago
23 minutes 1 second

Civics 101
All The President's Lawyers
The White House counsel, the Department of Justice, and the unprecedented appointments and moves being made by the Trump administration
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3 months ago
50 minutes 30 seconds

Civics 101
What is a Constitutional crisis?
You keep using that word...
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3 months ago
48 minutes 28 seconds

Civics 101
What are Executive Orders?
When a president makes law all by themselves. With some help.
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3 months ago
24 minutes 27 seconds

Civics 101
How do landmark Supreme Court decisions affect our lives? What does the 2nd Amendment really say? Why does the Senate have so much power? Civics 101 is the podcast about how our democracy works…or is supposed to work, anyway.