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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...
Trumpocracy: David Frum in Conversation with Trevor Morrison
Brennan Center LIVE - February 26, 2018 20:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWhen can a democracy slide into autocracy? In his provocative new book, Trumpocracy, conservative writer David Frum examines the ways in which Trump and his administration continually undermine our most important public institutions. As Frum argues, Trump has steadily damaged many of the tenets ...
Reforming Government Ethics in the Age of Trump
Brennan Center LIVE - February 05, 2018 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPresident Donald Trump’s decision to keep control of his business empire despite apparent conflicts of interest is but one of a number of ethical controversies that have made headlines since Inauguration Day one year ago. As informal guardrails that constrain self-dealing by those in power fall ...
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf: Periods Gone Public (DC)
Brennan Center LIVE - December 06, 2017 16:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsJoin the Brennan Center’s Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, author of Periods Gone Public, and Malaka Gharib, Deputy Editor and Digital Strategist of NPR's Goats and Soda, to learn more about how this campaign emerged, why the issue resonates across party lines, and what is next for “menstrual equity.” Gret...
Lauren-Brooke Eisen: Inside Private Prisons (DC)
Brennan Center LIVE - November 30, 2017 17:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsFact: More than 100,000 individuals in the US are held in private prisons and private immigration detention centers. These institutions are criticized for making money off mass incarceration―$5 billion every year―and have become a focus of the anti-mass incarceration movement. The Department of ...
Katy Tur on the 2016 Election, the Campaign, and Media
Brennan Center LIVE - November 28, 2017 21:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsFor 510 days, NBC News Correspondent Katy Tur reported on Republican Nominee Donald Trump. She visited forty states with the candidate and made over 3,800 live television reports. Over the course of the year and a half, Trump taunted Tur incessantly, transforming her into a prominent figure in t...
One Year Under Trump: Solutions for Restoring Law and Democracy
Brennan Center LIVE - November 28, 2017 21:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsOne year after the election of Donald Trump as president, this special program looks forward and asks: What can we do now? Trump has broken countless unwritten norms of democratic conduct meant to protect against corruption and abuse. In the past, reform often followed abuse, frequently in the f...
Lauren-Brooke Eisen: Inside Private Prisons
Brennan Center LIVE - November 28, 2017 21:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsFact: More than 100,000 individuals in the US are held in private prisons and private immigration detention centers. These institutions are criticized for making money off mass incarceration―$5 billion every year―and have become a focus of the anti-mass incarceration movement. The Department of ...
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf: Periods Gone Public
Brennan Center LIVE - November 28, 2017 21:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn an otherwise treacherous political era for women’s bodies and health, activists and lawmakers are advancing a new, affirmative agenda – for the very first time, one that meshes menstruation and public policy. From tax reform to public benefits to corrections policy, periods have become the su...
Ganesh Sitaraman: The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution
Brennan Center LIVE - October 23, 2017 20:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsDive in to this lively dialogue about economics, history, philosophy, law, and politics with Ganesh Sitaraman, author of The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution. He makes a compelling case that inequality is more than just a moral or economic problem; it threatens the very core of our Americ...
Extreme Vetting and the Muslim Ban
Brennan Center LIVE - October 23, 2017 20:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsJoin the Brennan Center and New York Immigration Coalition for a discussion on extreme vetting, the Muslim ban, and the implications for American democracy and society.
Danielle Allen: Cuz - A Memoir on Mass Incarceration
Brennan Center LIVE - October 23, 2017 19:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsA deeply personal memoir that critiques the American prison system, Danielle Allen’s Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.tells a coming-of-age story born of the tragedy of mass incarceration. Her fifteen-year old cousin Michael was arrested and tried as an adult for attempted carjacking. Droppe...
Lessons from Watergate for the Trump Era
Brennan Center LIVE - October 23, 2017 18:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe Watergate scandal revealed a trail of crimes and cover-ups that ultimately changed the course of American politics. Forty-three years after President Nixon’s resignation, many have drawn parallels between the Watergate era and our own. What lessons can we learn that apply to today? The Brenn...
Latino Leadership in the Age of Trump
Brennan Center LIVE - October 09, 2017 19:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPresident Trump has incited open racism, xenophobia, and hostility to Latinos and immigrants. From his attacks on Judge Curiel during his campaign to his claims that 3-5 million noncitizens voted to his pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to his recent vow to end DACA, there has never been any questio...
Daniel Franklin: Technology, Democracy and the World of Tomorrow
Brennan Center LIVE - October 09, 2017 19:58 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsTechnology moves like lightning—so how will innovation affect our democracy and economy? Will it eliminate privacy? What tools will the military and police have, and who will control them? What are the big ideas, fantastic inventions and potentially sinister trends that will shape our future? Ar...
The Line - Electoral College
Brennan Center LIVE - December 07, 2016 22:34 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsBrennan Center contributor, Victoria Bassetti's podcast series, "The Line," examines the Electoral College.
The Line - Extra: First Time Voting
Brennan Center LIVE - November 21, 2016 18:46 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsAn extra session of Brennan Center contributor, Victoria Bassetti's podcast series, "The Line," examining first time voters.
The Line - Extra: Tammany Hall
Brennan Center LIVE - November 21, 2016 18:28 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsAn extra session of Brennan Center contributor, Victoria Bassetti's podcast series, "The Line," discussing Tammany Hall.
The Line - Episode 3: Voter ID
Brennan Center LIVE - November 04, 2016 21:16 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPart 3 of Brennan Center Contributor Victoria Bassetti's new three-part podcast series, “The Line,” examining voter ID laws and the myth of voter fraud with the Brennan Center's Director of Democracy, Wendy Weiser.
The Line - Episode 2: Voter Turnout
Brennan Center LIVE - November 02, 2016 19:50 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPart 2 of Brennan Center Contributor Victoria Bassetti's new three-part podcast series, “The Line,” examining the problem of low voter turnout today and historically with Brennan Center president Michael Waldman.
The Line — Episode 1: Voter Fraud
Brennan Center LIVE - October 27, 2016 18:59 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPart 1 of Brennan Center Contributor Victoria Bassetti's new three-part podcast series, “The Line,” examining the false claims of election rigging, how to fix low voter turnout in America, and the continued fight over voter identification laws.
The Great Suppression: A Book Talk with Zachary Roth
Brennan Center LIVE - October 24, 2016 18:41 - application/zip ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsControl of the country is up for grabs — and the integrity of our democracy is at stake this November. Nearly two dozen states passed new voting restrictions. Gerrymandering keeps partisans in power. And the Supreme Court gutted campaign finance laws and protections against voting discriminatio...
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