Flux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change)
263 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsFlux is a media platform for change, with smart and fun podcasts like Theory of Change, Doomscroll, and So This Just Happened.
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Theory of Change #004: Has Trump really changed the GOP all that much?
November 06, 2019 03:57 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBThere’s been a lot of commentary about how Donald Trump is changing the Republican Party. There’s even a cottage industry of former Republicans who often write about how Trump has ruined the GOP they once knew and loved. But according to Bruce Bartlett, a former senior White House economic adviser to President Bush 41, most of what today’s Trump skeptics point to as something new in the party was there long ago. Bartlett had a falling out with the GOP in the early 2000s when he realized tha...
Theory of Change #004: Bruce Bartlett on whether Trump really changed the GOP
November 06, 2019 03:57 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBThere’s been a lot of commentary about how Donald Trump is changing the Republican Party. There’s even a cottage industry of former Republicans who often write about how Trump has ruined the GOP they once knew and loved. But according to Bruce Bartlett, a former senior White House economic adviser to President Bush 41, most of what today’s Trump skeptics point to as something new in the party was there long ago. Bartlett had a falling out with the GOP in the early 2000s when he realized tha...
Theory of Change #3: Sanders vs Warren and the battle over how to make change, feat. Carl Beijer
October 30, 2019 01:51 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBAs the actual voting in the Democratic presidential primary gets closer, the race is becoming tighter, both numerically and emotionally. Some wealthy Democratic donors appear to be panicking as the candidate they’ve gravitated toward, Joe Biden, has had trouble in debates and also demonstrated significant problems appealing to the small-dollar donors that have become so important in Democratic presidential campaigns. Additionally, the informal truce between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sand...
Episode 3: Sanders vs Warren and the battle over how to make change, feat. Carl Beijer
October 30, 2019 01:51 - 59 minutesAs the actual voting in the Democratic presidential primary gets closer, the race is becoming tighter, both numerically and emotionally. Some wealthy Democratic donors appear to be panicking as the candidate they’ve gravitated toward, Joe Biden, has had trouble in debates and also demonstrated significant problems appealing to the small-dollar donors that have become so important in Democratic presidential campaigns. Additionally, the informal truce between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sand...
Theory of Change #003: Sanders vs Warren and the battle over how to make change, feat. Carl Beijer
October 30, 2019 01:51 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBAs the actual voting in the Democratic presidential primary gets closer, the race is becoming tighter, both numerically and emotionally. Some wealthy Democratic donors appear to be panicking as the candidate they’ve gravitated toward, Joe Biden, has had trouble in debates and also demonstrated significant problems appealing to the small-dollar donors that have become so important in Democratic presidential campaigns. Additionally, the informal truce between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sand...
Episode 2: How do you impeach a president? Pollster Lee Miringoff discusses his latest survey
October 12, 2019 00:00 - 53 minutesHow do you impeach a president? As a legal matter, it's all very simple. But as a political matter, it's anything but. Impeaching and removing a president has never been done before in the American political system. Even impeachment trials themselves are extremely rare in the history of the Republic. Only two presidents, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, have been impeached while Richard Nixon resigned before he was likely to have been removed by the Senate. That means it's historically ver...
Theory of Change #2: How do you impeach a president? (With Lee Miringoff of Marist)
October 11, 2019 00:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBHow do you impeach a president? As a legal matter, it's all very simple. But as a political matter, it's anything but. Impeaching and removing a president has never been done before in the American political system. Even impeachment trials themselves are extremely rare in the history of the Republic. Only two presidents, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, have been impeached while Richard Nixon resigned before he was likely to have been removed by the Senate. That means it's historically ver...
Theory of Change #002: How do you impeach a president? (With Lee Miringoff of Marist)
October 09, 2019 00:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBHow do you impeach a president? As a legal matter, it's all very simple. But as a political matter, it's anything but. Impeaching and removing a president has never been done before in the American political system. Even impeachment trials themselves are extremely rare in the history of the Republic. Only two presidents, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, have been impeached while Richard Nixon resigned before he was likely to have been removed by the Senate. That means it's historically ver...
Episode 1: Why has GOP control of numerous state governments had few real results?
October 09, 2019 00:00 - 56 minutesRepublicans have taken control of dozens of state governments since the mid-1990s. But despite having complete authority in many state legislatures and governors’ mansions, GOP elected officials have not managed to accomplish much. That’s the argument of Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States, a new book by Michigan State University political scientist professor Matt Grossmann. He joins Theory of Change host Matthew Sheffield to discuss his survey of scores of...
Theory of Change #1: Why has GOP control of numerous state governments had few real results?
October 08, 2019 00:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBRepublicans have taken control of dozens of state governments since the mid-1990s. But despite having complete authority in many state legislatures and governors’ mansions, GOP elected officials have not managed to accomplish much. That’s the argument of Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States, a new book by Michigan State University political scientist professor Matt Grossmann. He joins Theory of Change host Matthew Sheffield to discuss his survey of scores of...
Theory of Change #001: Why has GOP control of numerous state governments had few real results?
October 06, 2019 00:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBRepublicans have taken control of dozens of state governments since the mid-1990s. But despite having complete authority in many state legislatures and governors’ mansions, GOP elected officials have not managed to accomplish much. That’s the argument of Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States, a new book by Michigan State University political scientist professor Matt Grossmann. He joins Theory of Change host Matthew Sheffield to discuss his survey of scores of...
Theory of Change #001: Political scientist Matt Grossman on why state-level Republicans keep failing to cut government to the bone
October 06, 2019 00:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBRepublicans have taken control of dozens of state governments since the mid-1990s. But despite having complete authority in many state legislatures and governors’ mansions, GOP elected officials have not managed to accomplish much. That’s the argument of Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States, a new book by Michigan State University political scientist professor Matt Grossmann. He joins Theory of Change host Matthew Sheffield to discuss his survey of scores of...
Theory of Change #001: Political scientist Matt Grossman on why state-level Republicans keep failing to cut government to the bone
October 06, 2019 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBRepublicans have taken control of dozens of state governments since the mid-1990s. But despite having complete authority in many state legislatures and governors’ mansions, GOP elected officials have not managed to accomplish much. That’s the argument of Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States, a new book by Michigan State University political scientist professor Matt Grossmann. He joins Theory of Change host Matthew Sheffield to discuss his survey of scores of...