349 Episodes

  1. Water in the West

    Published: 8/29/2024

  2. We The People: Canary in the Coal Mine

    Published: 8/22/2024

  3. We The People: Equal Protection

    Published: 8/15/2024

  4. We The People: Legal Representation

    Published: 8/8/2024

  5. Tested: Questions of a Physical Nature

    Published: 8/6/2024

  6. We the People: Gun Rights

    Published: 8/1/2024

  7. We The People: Free Speech

    Published: 7/25/2024

  8. The Creeping Coup

    Published: 7/18/2024

  9. The Roots of Poverty in America

    Published: 7/11/2024

  10. Road to Rickwood: The Holy Grail of Baseball

    Published: 7/4/2024

  11. Pop Music's First Black Stars

    Published: 6/27/2024

  12. The Lavender Scare (Throwback)

    Published: 6/20/2024

  13. A History of Zionism

    Published: 6/13/2024

  14. The Whiteness Myth (Throwback)

    Published: 6/6/2024

  15. The Rules of War

    Published: 5/30/2024

  16. Mythos and Melodrama in the Philippines (Throwback)

    Published: 5/23/2024

  17. The Mandela Effect

    Published: 5/16/2024

  18. The Labor Of Love (Throwback)

    Published: 5/9/2024

  19. We the People: Search and Seizure

    Published: 5/2/2024

  20. The Ghost in Your Phone (Throwback)

    Published: 4/25/2024

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