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Second Reading Podcast episodes

June 08, 2022 June 8, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast
Jim is joined by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, the Houston Bureau Chief of the Los Angeles Times, to discuss her on-site reporting of two current situations: the patrolling of the Texas border by armed militia group Patriots for America, and the aftermath of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. This episode was Mixed and Mastered by Clayton […]
37 min
June 01, 2022 June 1, 2021 – Second Reading Podcast
In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Jim and Josh discuss polling on gun attitudes and the upcoming gubernatorial election in Texas. Mixed and Mastered by Oscar Kitmanyen and Clayton Faries
33 min
May 10, 2022 May 10, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast
This week, Jim and Josh talk about public education attitudes captured in the latest UT/Texas Politics Project Poll in the context of recent school board elections and Gov. Greg Abbott’s signals about private school vouchers.This Episode was Mixed and Mastered by Karoline Pfiel
31 min
May 04, 2022 May 4th 2022 – Second Reading Podcast
This week, Jim Henson, Josh Blank and Daron Shaw discuss results from the newly-released University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll, including attitudes toward banning abortion in Texas, border security, the economy, and more.This Episode was Mixed and Mastered by Clayton Faries and Will Shute
44 min
April 27, 2022 April 27th, 2021 – Second Reading Podcast
This week, Jim Henson and Josh Blank talk about at the structural context of the politics of border security and immigration in Texas, from the complexity of immigration as a policy issue to the cultural politics driving the continued salience of the issue among Republican voters. Mixed and Mastered by Clayton Faries and Will Shute
51 min
April 20, 2022 April 20th, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast
Jim and Ross Ramsey talk about the range of issues in Ross’s last four Texas Tribune columns – public education, broadband internet to areas of Texas in need, abortion, and gerrymandering in redistricting.
32 min
April 13, 2022 April 13, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast
Jim Henson and Josh Blank discuss the collision of COVID-19 and border security politics in Washington D.C. and Texas, and implication for the Texas gubernatorial race between Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke. This Episode was Mixed and Mastered by Clayton Faries and Will Shute
41 min
March 30, 2022 March 30th, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast
Jim and Josh discuss Texas governor Greg Abbot’s renewal of the disaster declarations for COVID-19 and border security, as well as the changing public views of the pandemic in Texas. This Episode was Mixed and Mastered by Clayton Faries and Will Shute
38 min
March 23, 2022 March 23, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast
Journalists Perla Trevizo of The Texas Tribune and ProPublica and Andrew Rodriguez Calderón of the Marshall Project join Jim to discuss their joint investigation of Greg Abbott’s border initiative, Operation Lone Star.
37 min
March 16, 2022 March 16th 2022 – Second Reading Podcast
This week, Jim talks with Robert Vitalis, the author of Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, about the reemergence of misconceptions and myths about oil and geopolitics in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This Episode was […]
46 min