Getting more young people to vote means getting the hurdles out of the way.
Alexander Heffner
Alexander Heffner is host of The Open Mind on PBS and co-author of A Documentary History of the United States.
Posted inPolitics
Institutional Failure and Autocracy in Waiting
Missouri-based journalist Sarah Kendzior discusses her new book ‘Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America.’ and the threat of authoritarianism in the United States.
Posted inCoronavirus
Documenting the Origins of COVID-19
Author and COVID-19 news aggregator Rachel Graham discusses how she tracked the pandemic from its inception and helped inform public health on Twitter.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Kremlin’s Hack Attacks
Wired reporter Andy Greenberg discusses the next wave of Russian cyber crimes in his new book.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Democratizing the Jury Box
Wesleyan University political scientist Sonali Chakravarti discusses her new book ‘Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life.’
Posted inPolitics
Can Americans Stop a Demagogue?
Patricia Roberts-Miller is the author of ‘Demagoguery and Democracy.’ The University of Texas at Austin professor of rhetoric breaks downs how demagogues succeed in destabilizing societies—and what that means for the United States.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Neuroscience of Friendship
Science writer Lydia Denworth, the author of ‘Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond,’ discusses the new scientific investigations into how friendship sustains human life.
Posted inEducation in America
Preserving Civil Discourse on College Campuses
Vassar College President Elizabeth Bradley examines how our vicious political climate has affected freedom of speech on college campuses and beyond.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Battle for the Constitution
Yale Law professor Justin Driver discusses the erosion of Brown v. Board of Education.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Baldwin-Buckley Debate on Civil Rights
Nicholas Buccola discusses his book ‘The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America,’ which explores their momentous 1965 discussion at Cambridge University in England.