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The Politics Lab The Politics Lab
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- Новости
Politics isn’t always black and white. Dr. Bill Muck and Dr. Phil Barker, professors of political science and longtime friends, talk through the week’s news and discuss how political science might help make sense of things. In The Politics Lab, we put politics under the microscope.
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Global Election Round-Up
On this week’s episode, Bill and Phil ask what we learned about the state of democracy from the recent elections around the world AND why North Korea is sending balloons full of garbage into South Korea.
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Guilty!
Bill and Phil analyze Trump’s guilty verdict and ask whether it will matter in November.
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Making Sense of the Middle East
Bill and Phil break down the latest developments in the Middle East and discuss whether a legal or political solution is the best path forward AND then address the implications of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito hanging the American flag upside down in his yard in the aftermath of the January 6th attacks.
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Bad Polls for Biden?
With 6 months to the election, Bill and Phil wonder if Trump has emerged as the clear leading candidate AND whether President Biden made the right call in withholding weapons from Israel.
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Disinformation Wars
On this week’s episode, Bill and Phil discuss whether democracies can adapt to changing authoritarian propaganda AND what to take make of the first few weeks of the Donald Trump hush money trial.
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Presidential Immunity?
Bill and Phil grapple with some pressing legal questions, including what we learned from the Supreme Court’s oral arguments about Donald Trump’s claim of absolute presidential immunity AND what to make of news that the International Criminal Court may issue arrest warrants for Israeli conduct in Gaza.