Michael Rebell joins us to discuss how the courts can and should address the civic empowerment gap and create better civics education for everyone.
Jenna Spinelle articles
Jenna Spinelle is the communications specialist for the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State and host of the podcasts When the People Decide and Democracy Works.
PODCAST: When Religion And Democracy Collide
New book highlights the use of religious identity to fuel the rise of illiberal, nationalist, and populist democracy.
PODCAST: Sore Losers Are Bad For Democracy
Penn State’s Jim Piazza returns to the show this week to discuss a new study on why the loser’s consent is a critical part of a healthy democracy.
On Democracy’s Doomsayers
There’s no shortage of articles about how democracy is doomed. Michael, Chris, and Candis discuss them this week how much weight to give the doomsayers.
Podcast: Democracy As A Way Of Life
We talk about democracy in the context of politics and institutions, but this week’s guest draws from Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and John Dewey.
PODCAST: Discussion On The State Of US Democracy
It’s our duty as democrats to persevere despite these challenges and push the limits of our imagination about what democracy can and should be.
PODCAST: There Is No “I” In Democracy
From economic inequality to racial injustice and political polarization, the deck seems to be stacked against rebuilding America’s social fabric.
How Democracies Can Win The War On Reality
Peter Pomerantsev is one of the people trying to figure out how to make the Internet more democratic and combat disinformation.
Can Pranksters Save Democracy?
Our guests this week offer a framework for effective nonviolent organizing by trapping authority figures between a rock and a hard place.
Podcast: Public Schools, Not Government Schools
Our guest this week argues that, much like democracy itself, public education is an ideal that we’ve never quite lived up to.