Democracy Works host Michael Berkman talks with Christopher Claassen, a political scientist at the University of Glasgow, about how to... more

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate's senior legal correspondent, joins us to discuss how the Supreme Court has shaped — and could continue... more

Author and scholar Eddue Glaude Jr. joins us to discuss what happens when we let the heavy democratic lifting fall... more

Chris Beem talks with political theorist Alexandre Lefebvre about why liberalism is more than just a political ideas and procedures,... more

Anthropologist Jason De León joins us to discuss his book "Soldiers and Kings," which tells the stories of smugglers who... more

We're back from summer break with a deep dive on the National Popular vote Interstate Compact, a campaign to render... more

While Democracy Works is on summer break, we bring you an episode from our friends at Making Peace Visible, a... more

We've reached the end of another school year and another season of Democracy Works. Before we go on summer break,... more

Democracy Works host Michael Berkman, director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy and professor of political science, talks with fellow... more

At the end of April, South Africa marked the 30th anniversary of its first post-Apartheid election — the first in... more