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What is affective polarization?

Next-Level Thinking for Public Safety, Meet a 10-Year-Old Chess National Master, and the Biden-Harris Administration Toughens Up on Covid-19 and Voting Rights

David Stasavage on Early Democracy and its Decline

Defending The Constitution of Knowledge: Jonathan Rauch

Why Rising Inequality Doesn't Stimulate Political Action

Voting Blocked [Rebroadcast]

The Chicago 7: Mark Levine

A different take on local news and democracy

Jan-Werner Müller on Democracy Rules

Voting Rights under Attack, Talking to Loved Ones about the Covid-19 Vaccine, and Freeing Ourselves from Political Myths