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S4 E8: The Second Redemption

  • April 15, 2020
  • Tagged as: Season 4
2/26/1981 President Reagan with Prime Minister Thatcher of the United Kingdom in the Blue Room during her state visit

The conservative, neoliberal counterrevolution in the face of expanding democracy in America: It started long before Donald Trump. Even before Ronald Reagan and his like-minded counterpart across the Atlantic, Margaret Thatcher. By host and producer…

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S4 E7: Freedom Summer

  • April 1, 2020
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In the summer of 1964, about a thousand young Americans, black and white, came together in Mississippi to place themselves in the path of white supremacist power and violence. They issued a bold pro-democracy challenge…

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BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic America

  • March 27, 2020
  • Tagged as: bonus, Season 4

In this special episode, host John Biewen and series collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika discuss the coronavirus pandemic and how the crisis, and the nation’s response to it, echo themes we’re exploring in our Season 4 series…

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S4 E6: A New Deal

  • March 17, 2020
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The Great Depression presented a crisis not only for the U.S. economy, but for American democracy. President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to save the nation’s system of government, and its economic system, while reforming both. What…

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S4 E5: Feminism in Black and White

  • March 4, 2020
  • Tagged as: S4E5, Season 4

People fighting for more democracy in the United States often have to struggle against sexism and racism. In fact, those two struggles are often inseparable—certainly from the perspective of black women and some other women…

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S4 E4: The Second Revolution

  • February 19, 2020
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After the Civil War, a surprising coalition tried to remake the United States into a real multiracial democracy for the first time. Reconstruction, as the effort was called, brought dramatic change to America. For a…

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S4 E3: The Cotton Empire

  • February 5, 2020
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In the decades after America’s founding and the establishment of the Constitution, did the nation get better, more just, more democratic? Or did it double down on violent conquest and exploitation?   Reported, produced, written,…

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S4 E2: “The Excess of Democracy”

  • January 22, 2020
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Pelham Town Hall, Pelham, Massachusetts, the site of meetings for the farmers’ protest movement that came to be called Shays’ Rebellion, in 1786-7.

In the summer of 1787, fifty-five men got together in Philadelphia to write a new Constitution for the United States, replacing the new nation’s original blueprint, the Articles of Confederation. But why, exactly? What problems…

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S4 E1: Rich Man’s Revolt

  • January 8, 2020
  • Tagged as: S4E01, Season 4

In the American Revolution, the men who revolted were among the wealthiest and most comfortable people in the colonies. What kind of revolution was it, anyway? Was it about a desire to establish democracy—or something…

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S3 E12: The End of Male Supremacy?

  • December 12, 2018
  • Tagged as: Season 3

In our Season Three finale, co-hosts Celeste Headlee and John Biewen talk about where American culture goes from here, sexism-wise. And we hear from scholar Melvin Konner, who argues that we are in fact witnessing—and…

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2x Peabody-nom’d podcast of @CDSDuke. S5: "The Repair," on climate crisis. How did we go so wrong, and who's 'we'? Co-hosted by John Biewen and @amywestervelt.

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you don't have to "feel" positive to take constructive and positive actions...

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I have a message for the women of North Carolina: you still have a legal right to an abortion in our state. North Carolina state law protects women's reproductive freedoms. 1/

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RT @HC_Richardson @Jenna_Blum: When I was doing a book tour in Germany in 2017, a German police detective who was a child during Hitler’s regime said to me, “be very careful. Democracy disappears by inches and then quickly.” I believed him then and we are watching it now.

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“To limit warming to 1.5°C, 90% of fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground as unburnable carbon.” https://carbontracker.org/reports/unburnable-carbon-ten-years-on/

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IV_doorJosh Karr@IV_door·
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Today seems like the best time to donate (again) to the Women’s Health Center of WV (https://www.womenshealthwv.org/) and to (re)visit @SceneOnRadio’s 4th season … especially the recommendations on the SCOTUS (Listen to whole season - but min 32 - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scene-on-radio/id1036276968?i=1000477455236)

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