The Fairness Doctrine
What can we do with these invisible magnetic waves in the sky? Today we explore what we can say on the air. Are radio and television stations allowed ...
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How do landmark Supreme Court decisions affect our lives? What does the 2nd Amendment really say? Why does the Senate have so much power? Civics 101 is the podcast about how our democracy works…or is supposed to work, anyway.
BONUS: Talking to Kids About the News
Ryan Willard is the co-host of The Ten News, a news podcast created for 8-12 year-olds. He shared some of the ways his team frames complex and controv...
Reconstruction: The Laws of the Land
While Black citizens fought for their civil and human rights in the Reconstruction era, state and federal governments alike passed law and policy pert...
Reconstruction: The Big Lie
Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. The true story is one of great force. The great force of a powerful activist Black com...
Reconstruction: Why We Didn't Learn About It
The Reconstruction Era, a period in American history at the end of and immediately following the Civil War, is one of the single-most important and in...
Defamation, Libel, and Dominion, Oh My!
What is defamation? Libel? Pre-trial discovery? Actual malice? Today we go into everything tied to the recently settled Dominion Voting Systems vs Fox...
US vs: Freedom
How free are we? Are some countries more free than we are? What does freedom even mean?In this episode in our "US vs" series, we talk with the co-auth...
How Can The Government Ban An App?
A social media app with 150 million American users is under intense scrutiny by the U.S. government. The threat is "sell or be banned," but how and wh...
How Do Indictments and Grand Juries Work?
What are grand juries? Who gets picked for one? What does an indictment mean? What's next? Why does it seem like this process is taking so long?? Tod...
Jury Duty: What To Expect When You Get That Summons
On this episode, you've been summoned to learn about jury duty. Do the reasons some people want to avoid jury duty have merit? How do you even get on ...