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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...
The Line — Preview
Brennan Center LIVE - October 20, 2016 15:13 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsA preview 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.
How Political Operatives Transformed American Democracy: A Book Talk with David Daley
Brennan Center LIVE - October 07, 2016 19:22 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn conversation with: Michael Li Senior Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice David’s Daley’s Rat F**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy, is an explosive account of how political operatives undermined American democracy and fundamentally altered the elector...
Eric Holder on Automatic Voter Registration
Brennan Center LIVE - September 09, 2016 19:09 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe Brennan Center held the first ever national conference on automatic voter registration. Part 2 includes the keynote speech delivered by former Attorney General Eric Holder.
Alex Padilla on Automatic Voter Registration
Brennan Center LIVE - September 09, 2016 19:07 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe Brennan Center held the first ever national conference on automatic voter registration. Part one includes a keynote speech from California Secretary of State Alex Padilla.
Overseas Surveillance in an Interconnected World
Brennan Center LIVE - September 09, 2016 13:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsDespite the success of last year’s surveillance reform legislation (the “USA FREEDOM Act”), the U.S. retains the ability to collect millions of Americans’ phone calls and e-mails without a warrant—and without any oversight by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court—under Executive Order 1233...
Fragile Democracies: A Book Talk with Samuel Issacharoff
Brennan Center LIVE - September 01, 2016 21:45 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsListen to an engaging discussion with Samuel Issacharoff, one of the pioneers in the law of the political process and the author of Fragile Democracies: Contested Power in the Era of Constitutional Courts. In Fragile Democracies: Contested Power in the Era of Constitutional Courts, renowned p...
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Brennan Center LIVE - September 01, 2016 21:41 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsListen to an engaging discussion with Adam Cohen, author of Imbeciles, an exciting exposé of the American legal system. Imbeciles has been coined a "superb history of eugenics in America" by the New York Times,and the book's relevance to our current political state is highlighted in the New Y...
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