The Politics Of Intelligence
December 19, 2016Joshua Rovner, chair of International Politics and National Security at SMU, joins us to talk about what’s at stake if the future president ignores the intelligence community.
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Presidential Appointees
December 12, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about building smooth transitions from one administration to the next with G. Edward DeSeve of the Brookings Institute. He writes about the topic in “The Presidential Appointee’s Handbook.”
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The Politics Of The White Working Class
December 7, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how many in the white working class have come to feel disenfranchised with George Mason University’s Justin Gest. He’s the author of “The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Era of Immigration and Inequality.”
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The Republic Of Spin
December 1, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how every administration since then has used presidential press conferences as opportunities to craft the messages they want the American public to hear with Rutgers University presidential historian David Greenberg. He writes about the topic in “Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency”
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The National Endowment For The Arts
November 29, 2016This hour, we’ll talk with National Endowment for the Arts chair Jane Chu about how her organization distributes its funding and about the intersection of politics and the arts.
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The Use And Abuse Of Stop And Frisk
November 28, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about the history of the stop and frisk – and about if it’s even possible to hunt for criminals without racial profiling. We’ll be joined by Arizona State criminology professor Michael D. White, co-author of “Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic.”
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Election 2016 Recap
November 9, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about why the polls showing a Clinton win got it wrong with UTD polling expert Harold Clarke. And we’ll talk about what we learned on Election Day – and about how the country can bridge the partisan divide – with TCU political science professor James Riddlesperger and UNT assistant political science professor Andrea Silva.
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The Politics Of Black Republicans
November 8, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about the 10 percent of African Americans who say they lean Republican with Corey D. Fields of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford.
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The Rise Of Populism
October 26, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how populists movements form and gain momentum with John B. Judis, author of “The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics.”
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How Polls Work
October 24, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how polling data is collected – and about how we should interpret the results – with UT-Dallas political science professor and polling expert Harold Clarke.
