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Decoding the Trump Indictments
Brennan Center LIVE - April 09, 2024 16:47 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsListen to the recording of our in-person event from last month, Decoding the Trump Indictments. Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann, coauthors of the new book The Trump Indictments, discuss the historic charges against the former president in a discussion moderated by Brennan Center President Mi...
Anne Applebaum on the Twilight of Democracy
Brennan Center LIVE - October 28, 2020 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWhat role do members of the cultural and media elite play in the ascent of nationalist rule? In her new book, Twilight of Democracy, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Anne Applebaum examines the surrogates who enable autocracy. She discusses the patterns of weakening democracies ar...
Martin Garbus and the Cuban Five
Brennan Center LIVE - July 08, 2020 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn his most recent book, North of Havana, legendary trial lawyer Martin Garbus recounts one of his most high-profile cases: the Cuban Five. In this episode of Brennan Center Live, Garbus talks to Victoria Bassetti about what this case can teach us about the U.S. justice system, American politics...
Supreme Inequality
Brennan Center LIVE - June 24, 2020 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn recent years, the Supreme Court has empowered moneyed interests to wield disproportionate influence in elections, gutted the Voting Rights Act, and upheld President Trump’s travel ban. These decisions fit a troubling, decades-long pattern, argues journalist Adam Cohen. He talks with NYU Law p...
George Washington: You Never Forget Your First
Brennan Center LIVE - June 10, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsHow did George Washington view the presidency? What might he think of politics today? Historian Alexis Coe examines America's first president in a freshly humanizing light in her new book You Never Forget Your First. She talks with Julian Zelizer in this new episode of Brennan Center Live.
Susan Rice on Things Worth Fighting For
Brennan Center LIVE - June 03, 2020 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn her memoir Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, former National Security Advisor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice reveals pivotal moments from her career on the front lines of U.S. diplomacy and foreign policy. In this episode of Brennan Center Live, Rice...
Election Meltdown
Brennan Center LIVE - May 27, 2020 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe coronavirus pandemic has exposed several problems with the American elections system, but even outside of global pandemic, Americans are increasingly questioning the fairness and accuracy of our elections. In his new book Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American ...
When Should Law Forgive?
Brennan Center LIVE - May 20, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWhen Should Law Forgive?, former Harvard Law School dean Martha Minow argues that we should build forgiveness into the administration of American law. She speaks with NYU Law Professor Melissa Murray in this new episode of Brennan Center Live."}" data-sheets-userformat= "{"2":13245,"3":{"1":0},"...
The Fight for Reproductive Rights
Brennan Center LIVE - May 13, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsNearly half a century after Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to undermine or overturn the landmark ruling. It’s an unnerving time for reproductive rights across the U.S., but it’s not new: social movements, politics, and courts have lead us here. Legal experts Melissa Murray, Rev...
The Revolution in Prosecutors’ Offices
Brennan Center LIVE - April 15, 2020 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsDistrict attorneys wield tremendous power and have for decades been a driving force in mass incarceration. In her new book Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, journalist Emily Bazelon follows a new crop of district attorneys who are using their...
How Progressives Can Compete for Power
Brennan Center LIVE - April 08, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPolicies supported by a majority of Americans are stymied in Washington and state capitals time and again. Enacting this agenda requires progressives to redouble their efforts at gaining power by expanding the franchise, ending voter suppression, and winning judicial elections, argues Caroline F...
The Great Migration’s Complicated Legacy
Brennan Center LIVE - April 01, 2020 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsAfrican Americans fleeing racial terror in the South sought refuge in the North but instead encountered discrimination in housing, employment, and policing. Marcia Chatelain, Kenisha Grant, Ted Johnson, and Mark Whitaker discuss the history of the Great Migration and how it reverberates in mass ...
How the Tumultuous ’70s Shaped Our Political Conflicts
Brennan Center LIVE - March 25, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe upheavals of the 1970s — the Watergate cover-up, defeat in Vietnam, racial conflict, and economic convulsions — formed the contours of today’s polarization, argue Princeton historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer. They joined Soledad O’Brien to discuss their new book, Fault Lines: A ...
Preet Bharara on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
Brennan Center LIVE - March 18, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsReflecting on a distinguished prosecutorial career, former U.S. attorney Preet Bharara discusses the need for lawyers to take into account flaws in the legal system and in human nature in his new book, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law. He is joined...
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Race, the Law, and Politics
Brennan Center LIVE - March 11, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsJournalism and cultural production are crucial to making law and policy, Ta-Nehisi Coates argues, because they expand peoples’ empathy and imagination. In a wide-ranging conversation, the celebrated journalist discusses criminal justice reform, the 2020 election, the #MeToo movement, and more wi...
Lessons From Watergate
Brennan Center LIVE - November 29, 2018 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWatergate revealed a trail of crimes and coverups that brought down a president and changed the course of American history. With Robert Mueller's findings likely to be unveiled soon, what can we learn from Watergate about Trump-era abuses of power? John Dean, who was President Nixon's White Hous...
Van Jones, Darren Walker: How To End Mass Incarceration
Brennan Center LIVE - November 20, 2018 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsAmerica has five percent of the world’s population, but nearly a quarter of its prisoners. Now, a dynamic movement for change is sweeping the country. CNN host Van Jones and Ford Foundation president Darren Walker on how to keep the momentum going. Brennan Center Live is a weekly series of pod...
Carol Anderson: One Person, No Vote
Brennan Center LIVE - November 03, 2018 09:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsNew York Times best-selling author Carol Anderson speaks with Cornell Brooks about her new book on racist voter suppression and the fight against it. Anderson focuses in particular on the drive to weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act, and argues that voter suppression ultimately aims to make it...
Voter Suppression 2018
Brennan Center LIVE - October 30, 2018 08:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsAs crucial elections approach, voters from Georgia to North Dakota to Texas are at risk of disenfranchisement, and the result could be further skewed by extreme gerrymandering. Meanwhile, automatic voter registration could expand access to the polls in several states. How will the battle over vo...
Danielle Allen: Cuz – A Memoir of Mass Incarceration
Brennan Center LIVE - October 24, 2018 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsHow did we lose an entire generation to the American prison system following the War on Drugs? In Cuz, The Life and Times of Michael A., the Harvard professor and political theorist Danielle Allen explores the issue through the experience of her cousin, who served 11 years in prison for an atte...
Trumpocracy: A Conversation With David Frum
Brennan Center LIVE - October 16, 2018 15:16 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsDonald Trump poses a grave, long-term threat to our democratic institutions, Atlantic senior editor and former White House speechwriter David Frum has been warning. But, in this wide-ranging conversation with NYU Law School president Trevor Morrison, Frum argues we need to focus not just on Trum...
The 2020 Census: What's at Stake
Brennan Center LIVE - May 14, 2018 16:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsEvery ten years, the federal government conducts the census of all people in the United States. The stakes are extraordinarily high, particularly in light of the push to include questions about citizenship. The tally determines everything from the allocation of congressional seats and the shape ...
The Constitution vs. Trumpism: Challenges to the Rule of Law in 2018
Brennan Center LIVE - May 14, 2018 16:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe courts have proven a key battleground in the fights of the Trump era. On immigration, voting rights, freedom of religion and more, legal advocates are taking on federal policy – and, often, winning. What are these new legal strategies? Will they last? And how can issues of democracy, justice...
Revolution Unfinished: Remembering MLK's Vision for a Nation Transformed
Brennan Center LIVE - April 11, 2018 14:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsReverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is largely remembered for his campaigns against segregation, his calls for racial brotherhood, and his unwavering commitment to nonviolence. He is less often remembered, however, for his fervent opposition to increasing global militarism, his all-consuming d...
Decarcerating America: From Mass Punishment to Public Health
Brennan Center LIVE - April 11, 2018 14:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThere are a shocking 2.2 million Americans behind bars right now, but how can we cure America of its epidemic of mass punishment? Leaders across the criminal justice movement share an array of reform ideas, including improving prison conditions, creating effective youth re-entry programs, change...
Policing, Profiling, and Human Rights in the Age of Big Data (DC)
Brennan Center LIVE - April 10, 2018 22:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsBig data has produced big change. As anyone with a phone knows, technology has exploded – and created startling amounts of data about our lives. How is this information tracked and stored, and how does that affect our rights? Algorithms trained on big data have transformed law enforcement and so...
Democracy in Danger: Yascha Mounk in Conversation with Wendy Weiser
Brennan Center LIVE - April 10, 2018 22:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWith social media on the rise, living standards stagnating, and fears of multiethnic democracy growing, voters are discontent with politics. Across the world — from India to Turkey to the United States — authoritarian populists have seized power. In his new book, Yascha Mounk examines how trust ...
Carnegie Hall Festival on the 1960s: Voting Rights Then and Now
Brennan Center LIVE - March 13, 2018 19:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsA half century after the Voting Rights Act guaranteed the franchise to all Americans, access to this fundamental right is once again under siege. How did a group of great citizens drive the enactment of the Voting Rights Act? How did the legislation work to secure access to the ballot? Why is it...
The Legacy of Justice Scalia: Rick Hasen in Conversation with Joan Biskupic
Brennan Center LIVE - March 13, 2018 14:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsConsidered one of the most influential justices to ever serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia left behind a complex legacy as a conservative legal thinker and disruptive public intellectual. A vivid writer known for caustic dissents, Justice Scalia was crucial to reshaping jurisprudenc...
Corporations and the Constitution: Adam Winkler with Dahlia Lithwick
Brennan Center LIVE - March 12, 2018 19:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsCitizens United. Hobby Lobby. Many Americans had not heard of the movement to expand constitutional rights for businesses before these landmark cases. But the struggle for corporate rights has a long, complicated history in the United States. The first Supreme Court case extending constitutional...
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