Bill Clause asked attendees at  July 17 John Lewis Day “Good Trouble” event why they were there; that event was organized in part by Indivisible Kansas City, discussed in the […]

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Natalie Fenton discusses her new 2025 book, Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It, and related work. She is interviewed by Spencer […]

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Bill Clause, Beverly Harvey and Skie Pearson discuss with Spencer Graves activities by Indivisible Kansas City, the Solidarity School of Resistance, and the campaign to prevent CoreCivic from reopening their prison […]

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University of British Columbia history professor Heidi J.S. Tworek1 discusses her research on the impact of the media on politics in Germany focusing especially in 1900 through 1945 and its […]

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University of San Diego Communications Professor Nik Usher discusses their research on how news impacts democracy. Recent publications describe how media impacted the response to Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, illiberal politics, […]

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Sherman Smith discusses the Kansas Reflector. Bill Clause interviews a woman with Respect Missouri Voters at the “No King” rally last Saturday. Winston Apple claims the US was “Founded on […]

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Bill Clause, Beverly Harvey, Iris Craver, Nancy Mays, Bill Thompson, and Keith Washburn discuss best practices of successful organizing and mobilizing tactics used by Indivisible Kansas City, Arc of Justice, […]

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Bill Clause, Daniel Scharpenburg, Martha Lawrence, and Diane Bulan discuss their “Solidarity School of Resistance”, starting with a “Boots on the Ground” volunteer fair May 31, 1-4 PM, Second Presbyterian […]

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Ashley Hernandez, William Rogers, and Esmie Tseng discuss opposition to the efforts of CoreCivic and the Trump administration to reopen the CoreCivic prison in Leavenworth. Hernandez is with the Sisters […]

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Canadian journalist Marc Edge summarizes his research on the evolution of media and democracy internationally including different media policies that have been attempted and their impact on political corruption and […]

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