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Restoring Civility in our Politics (on The Middle)
This week Nick appears on The Middle, with Jeremy Hobson. The topic is civility in politics, and they're joined by former New Hampshire State Legislator Doug Teschner and Citizens Count Executive…
Probable Claus: Is Santa a Criminal?
Today we answer this question from a listener, "Is Santa a criminal?"We get to the bottom of the myriad actions of the jolly old elf, and whether he could reasonably be tried for civil and criminal…
What is the filibuster?
Why does it take, in practice, 60 votes for a bill to pass in the Senate? Why doesn't it seem like anyone is up there talking for days anymore? And why do we even have it in the first place?Today is…
The Lottery: How it happened, and what it pays for
The lottery generates over $70 billion in revenue each year. Today on Civics 101 we explore how we got here; from failed lotteries in the Revolutionary War to the Golden Octopus to the Numbers Game…
What is SNAP?
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, once upon a time called food stamps, helps nearly 42 million Americans every month. While the 2025 government shutdown showed us what happens when SNAP…
How did the Epstein Files Transparency Act happen?
Today we talk about the myriad procedures involved in getting the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed in record time. How do discharge petitions work? What did HR 581 do exactly? How did it get…
What can we learn from the American Revolution?
Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein spent nearly a decade making a twelve-hour documentary on the American Revolution. This is what they learned from the thousands of stories and events that resulted in the…
Billionaires
In sixty years, we have gone from 2 billionaires in the United States to just under 2,000. How on earth did that happen?Today, Timothy Noah from the New Republic takes us all the way from our framers…
Why are so many voters sitting out this week?
Off-year elections -- as in, not a presidential or a midterm -- have fairly dismal voter turnout. Yet they matter a great deal. Most of our lives are lived at the local, not the national, level. So…
Project 2025: What it is and what it's doing
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has published a Mandate for Leadership since 1981, making policy recommendations to the federal government. The latest edition is part of something…
Who's the most outdoorsy president? (A trivia crossover)
This episode is a crossover with our sister NHPR podcast, Outside/In.What do pastries have to do with environmental justice? Cat butts with the climate crisis? And what US president ate a half-chewed…
The government is shut down....again. But what does that mean?
In this episode, we give a brief explanation of what's behind the current government shutdown. The, we explain all the ins and outs of government shutdowns. Have they always been part of our…
What Could Go Right: Whatever Happened to Civics?
Today we’re bringing you an episode of What Could Go Right from our friends at The Progress Network.Each Wednesday on What Could Go Right, hosts Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas converse with…
What are the rules for making fun of politicians?
Did you know cartoonists were on Nixon's enemies list? Or that LBJ prevented a cartoonist from getting a medal when he made a cartoon against the Vietnam War? Today we talk about the history of…
The Grievances in the Declaration (part 2)
Click here to listen to part one of our airing of the grievances if you haven't yet! Today we tackle charges 13-27 against the King, as well as comparisons that have been made between George III and…
Can the president legally hide their health status?
The American public has long been on the lookout for unsteadiness in the leader of the free world. It's important to us (or, historically, has been) that the president seems, well, well. If not…
The Grievances in the Declaration (part 1)
"He" has done bad things. Twenty seven of them. And these things were so bad that the colonists used them to demonstrate that they had no choice but to become an independent nation. King George III…
Why does the government fund things, and what happens when it stops?
Congress appropriates funds, the executive branch ensures those funds are spent and spent wisely. That is how it works. It is not, however, how it is working right now. The Trump Administration has,…
Civics Trivia: Taxes, terrifying birds, and The West Wing
It's another edition of Civics 101 Trivia! This time, it's also the swan song for one of our own.Senior Producer Christina Phillips, our mastermind of minutiae and all things related to taxes, joins…
Is same-sex marriage in legal peril?
In 2015, the Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land. However, for the first time in over five years, Kim Davis (an opponent of same-sex marriage) petitioned for a writ of certiorari…
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