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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Across 11 different democracies, politicians share a shockingly pessimistic view: They believe that their voters are uninformed, unreasonable, and short-sighted. In a paper recently published by the […]

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts The book begins by asking the reader to dream. This particular dream is of a world in which clean, abundant energy flows from nuclear plants and rooftop

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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts In 1971, a British doctor was trying to puzzle out a mystery: How can a child with no signs of external trauma or injury present with bleeding

American politicians must have a very low opinion of their own voters. In recent months, the Trump administration and the Republican Party writ large seem to have bought into the idea that Americans are craving cruelty, and as a result

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Progressive ideas around race, gender, and immigration are under scrutiny by both the Republican-controlled federal government and Democrats chastened by the loss of the 2024 election. In

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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Democrats need to build a bigger tent to be competitive. But building a bigger political tent means compromising—and that compromise usually means making someone inside your tent

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts It’s conventional wisdom that young people will be more progressive than their forebears. But although young people can often be counted upon to be more comfortable with