Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Will and Brian begin this week’s episode discussing the drone attack on Saudi Arabian oil sites. Both argue that they would like to see definitive evidence of Iran’s involvement. Brian believes we should take more diplomatic measures to attempt to improve relations while Will argues…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike talks with sociologist, author, and documentary filmmaker Jen Schradie. Dr. Schradie is an Assistant Professor at the Observatoire sociologique du changement at Sciences Po in Paris. Her research focuses on the empirical study of digital democracy, digital activism, and the digital divide. Her latest…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS This week’s show kicks off with Mike & Jay talking about the third Democratic presidential debate. They both see it as a continuing struggle between centrists, led by Biden, and the progressives, most prominently represented by Warren and Sanders. Neither Mike nor Jay expect any…
This week’s show kicks off with Mike & Jay talking about the third Democratic presidential debate. They both see it as a continuing struggle between centrists, led by Biden, and the progressives, most prominently represented by Warren and…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS In this listener mail show, Trey & Ken respond to questions on: how a libertarian-conservative can like Cory Booker the feasibility of penalizing candidates who break campaign promises if there are alternatives to polarized parties if hackers make using social media hard for government whether…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Trey & Ken start the show by talking about the Democratic Climate Change Town Hall. Ken doesn’t think the differences between the primary candidates matters. He just wants someone who thinks climate change is important, the details will come later. Trey is not convinced that…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike & Will kick off their ‘reforming democracy’ book project with an overview of the book, topics they’ll be covering, and a discussion of Mike’s first proposed reform: changing the Supreme Court nomination process so that every president gets at least one nomination that the…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike & Trey kick off the show by talking about a big opioid verdict against Johnson & Johnson in Oklahoma as well as a pending mega-settlement between Purdue Pharma and nearly 2,000 litigants. They agree that opioid abuse has had disastrous and tragic consequences, but…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS In this listener mail show, Mike & Jay respond to questions on: calling the Democratic Party the ‘Democrat’ Party the conservatism of nationwide judicial injunctions pros and cons of ranked-choice voting how small-d democratic Mike and Jay really are whether Jay tries to speak for…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Jay and Mike kick off the show by discussing President Trump’s tweets in response to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s comments at the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole symposium. Jay says that the tweets, which led to an over 600 point drop in the stock market,…