Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner discusses the promise and peril of institutional reform and how he built a coalition of voters.
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: Laboratories Of Restricting Democracy
How Republican legislators are pushing shortened mail-in voting windows, expanded voter ID requirements, and other cumbersome administrative changes.
Podcast: Danielle Allen On Achieving Democracy’s Ideals
Democracy is in crisis and the only way out of it is to double down on democratic reforms while wrestling with our complicated past.
Podcast: Citizenship In A Consumer World
“The Consumer Citizen” by Ethan Porter generated more discussion among the Democracy Works team than any book we’ve read recently. Tune in to hear why.
Podcast: Understanding – And Addressing – Domestic Terrorism
How the United States responds to these threats touches on some of democracy’s most basic tensions. We explore those tensions this week.
Podcast: Anne Applebaum On Why Democracy Is Not Inevitable
Journalist, author, and historian Anne Applebaum says that democracy is not like running water — something that we know will always be there.
Your Guide to Ranked-Choice Voting
Ranked-choice voting has been in the news a lot lately. But, what is it? How does it work? And, is it more democratic than the single-vote method we’re used to?
Inside the world’s largest democracy
More than 600 million people voted in India’s most recent election, but that does not mean all is well with democracy there. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP recently won re-election on a platform based on Hindu nationalism. As we’ve seen with other countries experiencing democratic erosion, the people and parties coming to power […]
Andrew Sullivan On Democracy’s Double-Edged Sword
Andrew Sullivan discusses the future of American democracy on this week’s episode of the Democracy Works podcast.
Impeachment — From the Federalist Papers to the Whistleblower
Michael Berkman and Michael Nelson discuss the constitutional framework for impeachment and what the Framers had in mind when they set it up. They also discuss how impeachment is a unique cooperation between the three branches.