Overview
309 Episodes
Public media funding makes up less than 0.0001% of the federal budget. What is public media, and why does the government support it?
Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2025
You can't preserve what you don't understand.
Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2025
What is the rule of law? It's certainly not the same as the rule of men.
Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2025
Unpacking the relationship between tech and the executive branch. Or, more specifically, the relationship between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2025
What is the federal government's role in predicting the weather?
Transcribed - Published: 10 April 2025
Brought to you by the words "weird," "quiddich," and "Pepsi."
Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2025
Pranks are a staple of April Fools' Day - even when it comes to politics and the press.
Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2025
How politicians decide who pays taxes, and how much they pay.
Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2025
How the government visits every American home, and how and why we pay for it.
Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2025
To kick off Civic Learning Week, we see how students are (and aren't) being civically prepared.
Transcribed - Published: 11 March 2025
Meet your president's Cabinet!
Transcribed - Published: 4 March 2025
Meet your president's Cabinet.
Transcribed - Published: 4 March 2025
Ariel Lawhon discusses the real-life early American midwife at the center of her novel The Frozen River.
Transcribed - Published: 27 February 2025
What would happen if the press couldn't tell the truth?
Transcribed - Published: 25 February 2025
The White House counsel, the Department of Justice, and the unprecedented appointments and moves being made by the Trump administration
Transcribed - Published: 18 February 2025
You keep using that word...
Transcribed - Published: 11 February 2025
When a president makes law all by themselves. With some help.
Transcribed - Published: 4 February 2025
Cities and towns all over the country add fluoride to their water supply. That wasn't always the case, and the controversy over the element continues today.
Transcribed - Published: 29 January 2025
A slew of executive orders and promises kept.
Transcribed - Published: 28 January 2025
Not many people have ever heard of Wong Kim Ark and the landmark Supreme Court decision that decided both his fate and the fate of a U.S. citizenship policy that endures to this day.
Transcribed - Published: 23 January 2025
Dismantling the Department of Ed? It's been tried before.
Transcribed - Published: 21 January 2025
What should we expect from his second term when it comes to the environment?
Transcribed - Published: 14 January 2025
We talk SOT and DOT with Pete Buttigieg... the SOT.
Transcribed - Published: 7 January 2025
How do we mourn our presidents? We break down the history and mystery of presidential funerals.
Transcribed - Published: 31 December 2024
In our latest edition of Holiday Trivia, a rundown of some of the quirky food, drinks, and celebratory ephemera at the White House during the most wonderful time of the year.
Transcribed - Published: 24 December 2024
What they are, who pays them, and how they might affect our lives.
Transcribed - Published: 17 December 2024
What happens when the people have no power?
Transcribed - Published: 10 December 2024
Former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius talks about the powers - and limits - of the role in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump's pick of RFK Jr. for the role.
Transcribed - Published: 3 December 2024
It happened once and never again.
Transcribed - Published: 26 November 2024
The people who advise (or don't advise) the president, and how they get the job.
Transcribed - Published: 19 November 2024
What Trump promises to do when he's "dictator" for a day.
Transcribed - Published: 12 November 2024
What happens when you have to turn over the largest institution in the world?
Transcribed - Published: 8 November 2024
You voted for president. So what happens to your ballot next? We talk about ALL of it.
Transcribed - Published: 5 November 2024
Emilia's Thing: A story about a former Capitol Police officer who's life has been shaped by the events of January 6th.
Transcribed - Published: 31 October 2024
How do we measure up to the rest of the world when it comes to taking care of the sick?
Transcribed - Published: 29 October 2024
The Smithsonian's bone library and the conflict between ethics and science
Transcribed - Published: 22 October 2024
We are told corruption is a force of nature. It is not.
Transcribed - Published: 15 October 2024
Whenever there's a big strike in the news, someone inevitably invokes the phrase "Taft-Hartely Act" when talking about whether or not the president should intervene. But what is Taft-Hartley?
Transcribed - Published: 8 October 2024
A special episode recorded in front of a live audience!
Transcribed - Published: 1 October 2024
The relatively recent philosophy of channeling the people who wrote our founding documents.
Transcribed - Published: 24 September 2024
How we turned one of our country’s biggest rivers into a machine - and what happens when that machine starts to break down.
Transcribed - Published: 17 September 2024
How we turned one of our country’s biggest rivers into a machine - and what happens when that machine starts to break down.
Transcribed - Published: 17 September 2024
Hannah and Nick face off on It's Been a Minute from NPR
Transcribed - Published: 13 September 2024
Why focus on George Washington? Because the candidate was picked before they wrote the job description.
Transcribed - Published: 10 September 2024
Let's just say it took a lot of fighting.
Transcribed - Published: 3 September 2024
A breakdown of some common campaign jargon, along with some quasi-related trivia for your listening pleasure.
Transcribed - Published: 27 August 2024
The courts don't have to listen to the experts anymore.
Transcribed - Published: 20 August 2024
Games can teach us about civics in completely new ways.
Transcribed - Published: 13 August 2024
Why they do it and what happens to them.
Transcribed - Published: 6 August 2024
How we fill the shoes of the Commander in Chief. In certain circumstances.
Transcribed - Published: 30 July 2024
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