Bedeviled: A Podcast about American Democracy from Duke University

Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy
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Bedeviled: A Podcast about American Democracy from Duke University Podcast

Veteran journalist John Harwood, now a Distinguished Fellow at Duke's Polis Center for Politics, interviews politicians and voters, academics and activists about the 21st century divisions imperiling our national experiment in self-government.

Episodes

  1. A Top Elections Expert on the Challenge of 2024

    MAR 1

    A Top Elections Expert on the Challenge of 2024

    Few Americans know more about the nuts and bolts of American elections than Nate Persily. A professor at Stanford Law School, he was named research director of President Obama's special commission to explore improvements in the American voting experience in 2013. That makes him ideally suited to analyze the storms swirling around a 2024 campaign that poses an existential threat to the American experiment.

    38 min
  2. With Democracy on the Line, Liz Cheney on Putting Country Over Party

    JAN 10

    With Democracy on the Line, Liz Cheney on Putting Country Over Party

    Liz Cheney is not merely a conservative. She was born and raised in the GOP. But when President Trump tried to overturn his 2020 reelection defeat to Joe Biden, Cheney found the line she wouldn't cross for her party. It cost Cheney her House seat. Now, she's written a new bestselling book, Oath and Honor, which warns American voters that preserving our democracy requires preventing Trump from ever returning to the Oval Office.

    34 min
  3. Why Enough was Enough for Cassidy Hutchinson

    12/18/2023

    Why Enough was Enough for Cassidy Hutchinson

    Cassidy Hutchinson is the former White House aide who testified at the public hearings of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 attack. She is the author of Enough, a riveting account f her White House experience and her warnings and concerns about threats to democracy posed by Donald Trump.

    38 min
  4. The View from the Oval Office with President Biden

    10/03/2023

    The View from the Oval Office with President Biden

    In a rare interview, President Biden talks about battling Donald Trump and the threat to American democracy.

    21 min
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Veteran journalist John Harwood, now a Distinguished Fellow at Duke's Polis Center for Politics, interviews politicians and voters, academics and activists about the 21st century divisions imperiling our national experiment in self-government.

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