Civics 101
Series produced by New Hampshire Public Radio
A podcast refresher course on the basics of how our democracy works.
Why does the U.S. have an Electoral College? How do congressional investigations work? What does the minority whip actually do? Civics 101 is the podcast refresher course on the basics of how our democracy works.
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When do the robes get involved?
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 04:34
What is the likelihood that we will get rid of the electoral college system? Is anyone actively working toward that goal?
- Added: Nov 03, 2023
- Length: 04:29
There's no law that says they have to happen, but the presidential candidate concession speech is an important element of the peaceful transition o...
- Added: Nov 03, 2023
- Length: 04:30
How justices are added to the Supreme Court, via partisan or nonpartisan means.
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 04:32
What can the President and Congress do before they're sworn in?
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 04:36
Every state has different election laws -- what does that mean for the ballot count, and when will we finally know who won?
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 04:30
How can we learn the truth in an age of misinformation, "fake news" and media mistrust?
- Added: Nov 03, 2023
- Length: 14:20
What prevents someone from affiliating with a political party? What is the ideology of an independent? And how can these voters exist in a two part...
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- Added: Sep 30, 2020
- Length: 19:21
- Purchases: 1
What’s wrong in America today? What would you do to fix it? These are the winners of our third annual Student Contest.
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 12:57
How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump?
- Added: Sep 30, 2020
- Length: 23:12
How did the party that supported slavery become the party that nominated our first African-American president?
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 19:25
What do third parties do to American politics?
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 25:04
Citizens deserve to know what’s going on, so the framers made sure that news could be printed and information disseminated. But how does the press ...
- Added: Sep 28, 2020
- Length: 21:25
How the document at the heart of the women's suffrage movement turned the framer's message on its head.
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 17:12
The story of the Supreme Court case that established an immigration principle that we lean on to this day.
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 23:43
The anti-Native American sentiments within the Declaration of Independence, and where those same sentiments can be found today.
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- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 17:43
- Purchases: 2
How enslaved Americans and Black Americans pushed against the document from the very beginning of our nation’s founding.
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 14:42
What does it mean when the police use military gear and tactics to enforce that law?
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 19:35
We explore the long scope of public dissent from the Boston Tea Party to the current #blacklivesmatter protests.
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- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 25:14
- Purchases: 1
It’s the government on your doorstep — the only Executive Branch agency that visits every home in the country on a regular basis. So how does the U...
- Added: Sep 28, 2020
- Length: 23:52
