Future Hindsight

Thursday, January 5th, 2023

Steve Phillips is the host of the Democracy in Color podcast and the author of How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for …

Thursday, December 29th, 2022

We’re sharing a clip from an episode of Some of My Best Friends Are…

Here’s a preview of another podcast, Some of My Best Friends Are, from Pushkin

Industries. Harva…

Thursday, December 22nd, 2022

Chris Kang is the Co-Founder and Chief Counsel of Demand Justice. He served in the White House for nearly seven years as Deputy Counsel to President Obama and Special …

Thursday, December 15th, 2022

Jackie Salit and Thom Reilly are co-directors of the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy at Arizona State University and co-authors of The Independent …

Thursday, December 8th, 2022

Chris Melody Fields Figueredo is the Executive Director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, which seeks to strengthen democracy by building a national progressive…

Thursday, December 1st, 2022

Cecile Richards is the co-chair of American Bridge, former president of Planned Parenthood, a co-founder of Supermajority, and author of the book Make Trouble. We make …

Thursday, November 23rd, 2022

Andrew Koppelman is the author of Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed. It’s a fascinating history of this idea and a…

Thursday, November 10th, 2022

Rebecca Cokley is a disability-rights advocate and the first U.S. Disability Rights Program Officer for the Ford Foundation. From 2009 to 2013, she served as an appoin…

Thursday, November 10th, 2022

Thaddeus Johnson is a former police officer, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice, and Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice & Criminology at  Georgia …

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022

Dr. Alison Gill is a veteran, former federal government executive, and Host of Mueller She Wrote and the Daily Beans Podcast. We discuss democracy, accountability and a…

Thursday, October 27th, 2022

Amanda Brown Lierman is the Executive Director at Supermajority and Supermajority Education Fund, which builds women’s political power through efforts to inform, train …

Thursday, October 20th, 2022

Orly Lobel is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Employment and Labor Law. Her latest book is The Equality Machine: Harnessing…

Tuesday, October 18th, 2022

We're sharing an episode of Civics 101 from New Hampshire Public Radio.

The House and the Senate have mostly the same powers: they both propose and vote on bills that …

Thursday, October 13th, 2022

Ryan Busse is a former firearms executive, Senior Policy Advisor to Giffords, and author of Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry That Radicalized America. We discus…

Thursday, October 6th, 2022

Aidan Kohn-Murphy is the founder and Executive Director of the organization Gen Z for Change, a youth-led nonprofit working to educate and create change on issues that a…

Thursday, September 29th, 2022

Jonathan Friedman is the director of free expression and education programs at PEN America. He oversees research, advocacy, and education related to academic freedom,…

Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale and the author of 5 books, including How Propaganda Works and most recently How Fascism Works: The …

Thursday, September 15th, 2022

Steve Pierson is the host of the How We Win podcast. He’s an activist, community organizer, and trainer, who started as a “class of 2016” volunteer. He’s currently an…

Thursday, September 8th, 2022

Ian Bremmer is a political scientist and he’s the founder and president of the research and consulting firm Eurasia Group. We discuss his latest book, The Power of Cri…

Thursday, September 1st, 2022

Christopher Beem is Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, co-host of the Democracy Works podcast, and the author of The Seven Democratic Virtues…