Tuesday, December 31, 2024Special Episode: How Novels Defend Democracy
This special episode of The Context includes voices from three previous guests on the show: James Comey, Stacey Abrams, and David Pepper. All three ha...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024Donald Moynihan: Friction, Frustrations, and Fear in Government Bureaucracies
“Administrative burdens” is a term for the frictions people experience when interacting with government—learning how a program works, taking the time ...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024Hahrie Han: Belonging Comes Before Belief
In 2015, Crossroads Church, a majority-White evangelical megachurch based in Cincinnati, Ohio, launched a new program to address racial division and r...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024Chris Matthews: The Election’s Over. Now What?
Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States. He will enter the White House with his party in control of both the House and S...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024Roberto Saba & Steven Levitsky: Elections Have Consequences—Just Ask Argentina
Argentina’s constitution is among the oldest democratic constitutions in the world, and in significant respects it was modeled after the constitution ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024Donald Moynihan: Project 2025’s Threat to Democracy | SPECIAL EPISODE
Project 2025 is a transition plan for a second Trump administration created by the Heritage Foundation, along with other conservative organizations. H...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024Melissa Murray: For the Supreme Court, Dobbs Was Just the Beginning
For 49 years, from 1973 until 2022, the Supreme Court declared that the US Constitution protected abortion rights. With this precedent overturned, dec...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024María Teresa Kumar: Latinos and America’s Promise
Latinos are the fastest growing demographic group in the United States and are now the second-largest ethnic group in the country. Growing diversity s...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg & Ruby Belle Booth: Will Gen Z Vote?
For democracy to endure, democratic institutions and values must be passed from one generation to the next. And there’s plenty of good news about how ...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024Rachel Kleinfeld: US Systems Amplify Polarization—But They Don’t Have To
In a democracy, we resolve political disagreements through elections rather than through physical force. Political violence is a threat to democratic ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024Christine Todd Whitman: One-Party Governance is Not Healthy Democracy
Democracy should work for everyone. Christine Todd Whitman explains how political parties are more concerned with maintaining power than solving probl...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024Stacey Abrams: DEI Is In America's DNA
American history is a story about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Stacey Abrams discusses why Americans should embrace and defend DEI as democ...