How America can avoid a new civil war
We've Got Issues
English - January 21, 2022 05:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsPolitics News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Researcher finds largest divide ever between whites and Blacks over fear of police
Next Episode: The eye-opening humiliation of being a young fascist
Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a couple of developments in the quest for accountability for the MAGA coup attempt.
Then we are joined by Marquette University political scientist Julia Azari to talk about the unique challenges Joe Biden has faced in the first year of his presidency, and the reasons why the conventional wisdom about the upcoming midterms could prove to be wrong.
Finally, Lee Drutman, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins and fellow at New America, explains why America's system of governance is poorly equipped to support a healthy, multiethnic democracy and argues that there is a way out of our current levels of tribal conflict.
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