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Mike Madrid (Lincoln Project Cofounder) and Liz Gilbert (President of the 2020 Democratic National Convention) join host Ron Steslow to unpack some of the most important stories of the week:

(02:21 ) The bombshell testimony from the January 6th committee hearing

(34:33) The political impact of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade 

(52:25) Tuesday’s primary elections and the election deniers who lost the Republican primaries in Colorado

[Politicology+ Members Only] The deep divide in America’s white working class and how Republicans have used it to their advantage 

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Yonathan Keren (co-founder of House of Deep Democracy) joins Ron Steslow to discuss his work building deep democracy. 

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(01:27) Asking the minority opinion to come along

(11:45) The importance of conflict

(26:41) The origins of Lewis Deep Democracy

(37:50) Deep democracy in interpersonal relationships

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Matt Bennett (Executive Vice President for Public Affairs at Third Way) and Catherine Sanderson (Poler Family Professor of Psychology and Chair of Psychology at Amherst College) join host Ron Steslow to unpack some of the most important stories of the week:

(02:32) The Senate clears the first hurdle to passing the most significant gun legislation of the 21st century 

(13:15) The January 6th committee outlining Trump’s involvement in the plot to steal the 2020 election

(26:01) Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s testimony before congress, the stock market strain hitting retirement accounts, and Biden’s push for a temporary end to federal gas taxes

[Politicology+ Members Only] The New York Times’s latest “America in Focus” focus group 

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Yonathan Keren (co-founder of House of Deep Democracy) joins Ron Steslow to discuss his work building deep democracy. 

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(01:15) What is “deep democracy”?

(03:11) Quantum theory and deep democracy

(17:00) Quantum theory and Identity 

(28:35) Democracy that goes deeper than winner take all

(36:38) Bringing the minority view along with the majority

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Mike Madrid (Lincoln Project Cofounder) and Al Cardenas (former advisor to Presidents Regan and George H.W. Bush) join host Ron Steslow to unpack some of the most important stories of the week:

(02:24) The start of the January 6th Committee’s public hearings 

(23:48) Growing fears among Democratic leaders about Biden’s age being a liability

(36:43) Still rising inflation 

[Politicology+ Members Only] How Disney’s new film Lightyear could take the culture war to infinity and beyond.

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For nearly four decades, Ben Ginsberg was one of the preeminent Republican election lawyers. Now he’s working to stop their attempts to subvert elections. 

He and election law experts David Becker (Executive Director and Founder of the Center for Election Innovation & Research) join Ron Steslow to talk about the threats to elections officials and what it could mean for democracy. 

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(02:10) Their backgrounds in election law

(10:03) Why they created the Election Official Legal Defense Network

(18:46) How threats to elections officials are changing 

(30:50) The push for Republicans to recruit poll workers and the ‘precinct strategy’

(50:30) What will happen if we keep losing election officials?

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Frank Sadler (Chief of Staff to Carly Fiorina) and Michael Slaby (former Chief Technology Officer to the 2012 Obama campaign) join guest host Lucy Caldwell to unpack some of the most important stories of the week:

(02:26) The recall election of San Francisco’s District Attorney, the rise in crime, and what it might mean for elections this fall

(31:25) Did Facebook destroy democracy? What will Sheryl Sandberg’s exit mean for Meta

(52:55) President Biden’s planned trip to Saudi Arabia and what it means for our relationship with the authoritarian regime

[Politicology+ Members Only] What to expect from the January 6th Committee’s public hearings 

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What does it mean when you can’t trust what you see with your own eyes or hear with your own ears? In the second half of this  two-part episode, Author and political advisor Nina Schick joins Ron Steslow to discuss her book Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse and what the use of synthetic media could mean for our politics and society. 

(01:43) What can you do to protect yourself from deepfakes?

(05:09) Government-industry collaboration to educate consumers

(17:28) Deepfakes in the context of  wider geopolitical uncertainty

(24:10) The “Liar’s Dividend”

(30:15) Disinformation and the “Autocrat’s Dream”

(33:34) Deepfakes in the Russia-Ukraine War

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Communications expert Susan Del Percio and political strategist Mike Madrid join Ron Steslow to unpack some of the most important stories of the week:

(02:15) Biden’s growing inflation problem

(38:48) Top Gun: Maverick and the Department of Defense’s history partnering on some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters

[Politicology+ Members Only] Who could vie for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 and when a “sane” Republican might have a chance at national prominence. (What is a “sane” Republican, anyway?”)

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What does it mean when you can’t trust what you see with your own eyes or hear with your own ears? In this two-part episode, Author and political advisor Nina Schick joins Ron Steslow to discuss her book Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse and what the use of synthetic media could mean for our politics and society. 

(01:44) Her career as a political consultant and how she came to focus on misinformation

(04:15) What deepfakes are

(07:34) What is the Infocalypse? 

(09:10) How deepfakes have become available to the masses

(14:35) Can detection software keep up with advances in deepfakes?

(26:10) Deepfakes and non-consensual pornography 

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