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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...
Soldiers on the Home Front: A Book Talk with Stephen Dycus
Brennan Center LIVE - September 01, 2016 21:29 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsListen to a riveting discussion by author Stephen Dycus about his new book, "Soldiers on the Home Front: The Domestic Role of the American Military." Called a “required reading for serious students of national security and responsible citizens alike” by former NSA and CIA General Counsel Elizabe...
The Parties Versus the People: A Book Talk with the Honorable Mickey Edwards
Brennan Center LIVE - September 01, 2016 19:57 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn his new book The Parties Versus the People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans, Mickey Edwards exposes the detrimental effects of partisanship on democracy in the United States. Reaching back to his own experience as an eight-term member of the United States House of Represe...
Struggling for Air: Power Plants and the "War on Coal"
Brennan Center LIVE - September 01, 2016 19:17 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe Brennan Center hosted an engaging discussion with Richard L. Revesz and Jack Lienke, authors of Struggling for Air: Power Plants and the "War on Coal." Their new book chronicles the Environmental Protection Agency's five-decade struggle to clean up the nation's dirtiest coal-fired power plan...
Plutocrats United
Brennan Center LIVE - September 01, 2016 19:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn response to the growing influence of money in politics in recent elections, the Brennan Center hosted a workshop to discuss Professor Rick Hasen’s most recent contribution to the debate – his new book Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Electio...
We Too Sing America: A Book Talk with Deepa Iyer
Brennan Center LIVE - April 07, 2016 18:27 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future, Deepa Iyer draws on her work as a lawyer, civil rights advocate and academic to shed light on the post-9/11 climate in the United States, focusing on the experiences of Muslim, South Asian, Arab a...
Chasing Ghosts: The Policing of Terrorism
Brennan Center LIVE - April 07, 2016 18:24 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn conversation with Brennan Center fellow Mike German, John Mueller and Mark Stewart examine and evaluate the costs of the massive counterterrorism enterprise put in place since 2001, focusing on the efforts by police and intelligence agencies to follow up on over 5,000 tips flooding in each da...
One Person, One Vote: A Supreme Court Preview
Brennan Center LIVE - December 09, 2015 22:47 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a case that could radically change how legislative lines are drawn in America. In Evenwel v. Abbott, the Supreme Court might order states to draw boundaries using voters instead of total people. This change in the rule could have a signific...
Who Will Represent Us? The Status of Black Women in Elected Office
Brennan Center LIVE - December 03, 2015 18:01 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsDespite representing a significant political constituency and large consumer base, Black women remain one of the most underrepresented groups in elected office today. The Status of American Women in Politics, a forthcoming report update from Higher Heights, reiterates this discrepancy, focusing ...
Stronger Parties, Stronger Democracy: Rethinking Reform
Brennan Center LIVE - October 28, 2015 21:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPolitical parties are a core ingredient of representative democracy, but in the age of super PACs there are serious questions about whether organized parties can still provide the many democratic benefits they have traditionally furnished to our political system. Today’s climate calls for new th...
The Shifting Politics of Criminal Justice – An Inside Look
Brennan Center LIVE - July 15, 2015 18:07 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsHow did reducing mass incarceration become such a potent national political issue? Can recent controversies from Ferguson to Baltimore translate into broader policy goals? Why are presidential candidates calling for reform? How will the issue play out in lead up to the 2016 election? And – most ...
Government Secrecy and the Fourth Estate
Brennan Center LIVE - April 22, 2015 21:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsDocuments disclosed by Edward Snowden and published by multiple news organizations have brought new focus to some age-old questions: what role should journalism play in the balance between the public’s right to know and the government’s need to keep secrets in the name of national security? In t...
Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment
Brennan Center LIVE - March 31, 2015 20:48 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWhat if most of what we think we know about reading the text of the First Amendment is just wrong? For years, the Supreme Court has treated the First Amendment like a laundry list of isolated words, stopping every once in a while to pull a couple of words out of the full text and claiming to be ...
Democracy's Problems and Prospects: A Book Talk with Douglas E. Schoen
Brennan Center LIVE - March 31, 2015 20:46 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsAmerica’s democracy is floundering, Congress is hopelessly gridlocked, and millions remain without gainful employment. Despite all this, longtime political strategist and polling expert Douglas E. Schoen remains optimistic. Democracy’s Problems And Prospects represents the best of Dr. Schoen’s...
What Went Wrong with the FISA Court?
Brennan Center LIVE - March 31, 2015 20:42 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court is no longer serving its constitutional function of providing a check on the executive branch’s ability to obtain Americans’ private communications. Dramatic shifts in technology and law have changed the role of the FISA Court since its creation...
The Black Vote & U.S. Democracy
Brennan Center LIVE - March 31, 2015 20:38 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsDarryl Pinckney’s new book, Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy, is a meditation on the intersection between civil rights and the history of black participation in U.S. electoral politics. Fifty years after the first passage of the Voting Rights Act, Pinckney investigates the struggle f...
What Caused the Crime Decline?
Brennan Center LIVE - March 16, 2015 19:20 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWhat Caused the Crime Decline? This podcast examines the Brennan Center's new report that explores one of the nation’s least understood recent phenomena – the dramatic decline in crime nationwide over the past two decades – and analyzes various theories for why it occurred, by reviewing more tha...
Scott Horton Book Talk: Lords of Secrecy
Brennan Center LIVE - February 18, 2015 20:29 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn the last decade, national security issues have increasingly faded from the political agenda, due in part to the growth of government secrecy. In his new book, Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Warfare, journalist and lawyer Scott Horton explains how secrecy h...
Kenneth P. Vogel and Walter Shapiro on 'Big Money' Book
Brennan Center LIVE - June 18, 2014 20:53 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn our first podcast, Walter Shapiro speaks with Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel about money in politics and Vogel’s new book Big Money: 2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp—on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics. Theme music courtesy of Boy Girl Party.
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