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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.
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Lochner v New York, a 1905 Supreme Court case about working hours and contracts, is considered anti-canon. Right up there with Dred Scott, Plessy and Korematsu. The question is, how did it get there? Why do people think it's so bad? And what does this decision, and the era that followed, say about politics and the Supreme Court?Our guides to this case and what came after are Rebecca Brown, Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law at USC Gould School of Law and Matthew Lindsay, Associate Professor of Law at University of Baltimore School of Law. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
TikTok - an app with around 170 Million American users - is under intense scrutiny by the U.S. government, including a bill passed by the House of Representatives which issues a threat: "sell or be banned." But how and why can the government do that? What does this kind of business restriction look like? We talked to Steven Balla of George Washington University to get the low down on regulations and bans in the United States. TLDR: This episode goes beyond the current legislation, but it's updated from an earlier version which dropped in April, 2023. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
When the Supreme Court says something is or isn't constitutional, what does that really mean? What are the effects, or lack thereof, of their decisions? And what do we do if we don't agree with what they say?Today Linda Monk, author of The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, walks us through four times in US History that the Supreme Court was not the be-all-end-all decision maker.Here are some links to shows we reference in the episode:Dred Scott v SandfordBrown vs. Board of Education of Topeka CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
The process is pretty straightforward. Plenty of people want to make some change. And yet? We've only done it 27 times. So what does it take to amend the U.S. Constitution and why does it barely ever happen?Robinson Woodward Burns, Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University, is our guide.Want more Civics 101? Sign up for our newsletter and enjoy the pure delight of an extra dose of (genuinely fun) civics musing twice a month. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
Listen to our full, two-part series from 2023 on the history of civics education, and the current legal and ideological debates around social studies happening in across the country today.  Walking us through the past, present, and future of social studies and civic education are Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and Adam Laats, Historian and Professor of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership at Binghamton University.  We also hear from Louise Dube, Executive Director of iCivics and member of the Implementation Consortium at Educating for American Democracy, Justin Reich, Director at MIT Teaching Systems Lab and host of the TeachLab podcast, and CherylAnne Amendola,  Department Chair and teacher at Montclair Kimberly Academy and host of the podcast Teaching History Her Way. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
When the cats are away...well...you know. In this special episode, Executive Producer Rebecca Lavoie and Senior Producer Christina Phillips follow up on some recent discussions sparked by our newsletter Extra Credit. How do you have a legitimate discussion with someone who has the facts wrong? And what's going on with all of these different trials involving former President Donald Trump?Click here to read Nick's essay on responding to someone who's wrong. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter!Click here to make a donation to Civics 101. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
The president has the power to release someone from prison, restore their voting rights, or stop a federal criminal investigation with little more than the wave of a hand. How did the president get this power, and are there any limitations? What would it mean for a president to pardon themselves? Brian Kalt, constitutional law professor at Michigan State University, helps answer these questions. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
Machine learning is being used in police precincts, schools, courts and elsewhere across the country to help us make decisions. Using data about us, algorithms can do almost instantly what it would take human beings both time and money to do.  Cheaper, faster, more efficient and potentially more accurate -- but should we be doing it? How should we be using it? And what about our privacy and our rights?Aziz Huq,  Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, is our guide to the new world order. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
What is Federalist 10?

What is Federalist 10?

2024-01-3025:40

Federalist 10 was one of the Federalist Papers, a collection of 85 essays that were published in New York to encourage ratification of the newly drafted Constitution. This essay is taught in classrooms across the country and often referred to as the most important. So what's it about?Taking us through the ideas of faction, republicanism, and Madison's inability to predict Facebook are Jeffrey Rosen, President of the National Constitution Center,  Alison LaCroix, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, and our dear friend Ryan Werenka, AP Government and Politics teacher at Troy High School in Michigan. Click here to listen to our episode on the Federalist and Antifederalist Papers.And click here to support our show and get yourself some wool socks and a hat! CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
Primaries, caucuses, conventions, court cases -- oh, it's a lot. Hannah and Nick have the most important dates and some crucial context for your calendar this election year. Buckle up, 2024 is already underway.Check out our recommended listening for more helpful info!Primaries and CaucusesConventionsStranglehold: Make Room (for context on New Hampshire and its hold on the first in the nation Primary)By the way, it isn't too late to snag a Civics 101 baseball hat! Donate now and show the world you know what's going on. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
Government salaries vary an awful lot; from $100 a year to $11.5 million. So who makes what? Today we divide the issue of taxpayer-funded salaries in two. How much officials make, and then how much they really make. Why do so many politicians make money once they leave office? How much can you get from speaking at events? And how do lobbyists affect not only policy, but their career trajectory? Our guest is Anna Massoglia from Open Secrets, the "nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics."Click here to get a hat and/or socks during our podcast fund drive! CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
In this double feature of two of our favorite episodes we cover misinformation, disinformation and propaganda -- three tricky truth-benders that come at you from every angle in American life. Our guides include Samantha Lai of the Brookings Institute, Peter Adams of the News Literacy Project, John Maxwell Hamilton (professor and author of Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda and Jennifer Mercieca, professor and author of Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
Expulsion from Congress is extremely rare. Nevertheless, NY Congressman George Santos was expelled on December 1, 2023. So how did that happen?Today on Civics 101 we are guided by Carlos Algara, who lays out the history of expulsion in both chambers, the process, the Ethics Committee, censure, and how Congress fills an empty seat after somebody is expelled.  CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
Between the corporate interests, the politics, the infrastructure and the shaming, what can the grown ups in the room actually do to make the school cafeteria a safer, healthier place where kids want to be? Ross Wilson of the Shah Foundation, Jessica Terrell of the Left Overs podcast and Crystal FitzSimons of the Food Research and Action Center try to answer that. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
Federal and state dollars pay for so much of what goes into the American public school education of our kids, but it isn't so straight forward when it comes to keeping them fed on school grounds. What movements and laws lead to American school kids accessing lunch? What does it cost, and who has to pay? Jessica Terrell, journalist and host of Left Over podcast and Crystal FitzSimons, Director of School and Out-of-School Time Programs at the Food Research and Action Center are our guides to the first part of our two-parter on school meals in America.   CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
Today we answer this question from a listener, "Is Santa a criminal?"We get to the bottom of the myriad actions of the jolly old elf, and whether he could reasonably be tried for civil and criminal violations, including but not limited to trespassing, breaking and entering, voyeurism, stalking, surveillance, burglary, tax evasion, bad labor practices, emotional distress, and (in one instance) involuntary manslaughter.Taking us through this complex web of charges is Colin Miller, professor at University of South Carolina School of Law.  CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
How does something go from an annual tradition to a mandated day off? Who decides to make a holiday official?  Our guides to the holiday season are Jeff Bensch, author of History of American Holidays, and JerriAnne Boggis, Executive Director of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
 Term limits for legislators, both in Congress and at the state level, are extremely popular among voters, and have been, since their heyday in the 1990s. And while we don't currently have term limits on members of Congress, they do exist in 16 states. What can we learn from the state legislatures that already have them? Do they deliver on their promises? We talk with Carlos Algara, assistant professor of political science at Claremont Graduate University, where he studies political parties, electoral accountability, and legislative behavior, and Jordan Butcher, assistant professor of political science at Arkansas State University, where she studies state legislatures. She is the author of the forthcoming book Navigating Term Limits.  CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
America's first congress debated it in the 1790s, and it's been debated about ever since. Who should step into the president's shoes if the offices of President and Vice President are simultaneously vacant? Today we talk about the many different Presidential Acts of Succession that we've had in the US, as well as designated survivors, the "football," and the recurring question of the constitutionality of such acts.Click here to listen to our episode on the Executive Branch, should you want to learn the mnemonic "See That Dog Jump In A Circle, Leave Her House To Entertain Educated Veteran's Homes." CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
SCOTUS Watchlist

SCOTUS Watchlist

2023-11-1431:11

The Supreme Court chooses what it wants to offer opinions on, and those opinions redefine the way law works in this nation, trickling down to your world works for you. So what did they pick this time around? This is our watchlist for the most significant cases before the court this year. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! 
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lorenzo leal jr.

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Oct 31st
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Shawna

these are very informative . Thank you so much!!!

Jun 26th
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Jerry Stibral

We are 'Hybrid' Democracy; - A 'Representative' Democracy or - A 'Democratic' Republic!

Nov 8th
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Alex Braccio

The Capitol Police didn't kill any protesters. They killed a traitor and a terrorist. I thought this podcast was better. unsubscribed.

Jan 23rd
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Abdullah ÖZDEMİR

very good

Aug 19th
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dok dicer

The choice of metaphor was *very* weird. To frame what is a matter of democracy, access, and of life and death as a matter of choice between dance styles trivializes it to a troubling degree. It was not about trivial matters of taste (as in tango vs waltz), but about the question of whether racist politicians are allowed to uphold racist policies that exploit and kill people.

Jan 30th
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Carolyn Hochlowski

Love the little song at the end!!

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Chloe Watson

Great episode and answers to a lot of my questions!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Jun 5th
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Chloe Watson

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Robby Hunt

this podcast comes from 1 sided political view. not neutral and educational. dissapointed

Apr 30th
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Dan Mac

I wouldn't use this podcast as an educational asset but it was entertaining. it portrayed extremely niche ideas as a conclusive take on history. Using strawmen made of a handful of straw isn't a great way to teach anyone.

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Jason Moyer

love u guys

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hava oman

great podcast and the host is amazing!

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Jeff morgan

this show rocks.

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