The Briefing with Michael Waldman
Every week, Brennan Center President Michael Waldman interviews the leaders, thinkers, and activists who are changing American democracy.
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What to Expect From the Supreme Court Term
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The Experts’ Guide to Free and Fair Elections
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Solutions for a Threatened Democracy
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The Data Behind Bail Reform
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A Historic Moment for Supreme Court Reform
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Fix The Insurrection Act
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A Supreme Fact Check
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Supreme Court: Ready for Reform?
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A Politicized Supreme Court Is Remaking America
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What Originalism Means for Women
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Resisting Minority Rule
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What Comes Next in the Trump Legal Saga?
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The High Cost of Public Service
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The Failed Experiment of Mass Incarceration
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Misdemeanors by the Numbers
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Decoding the Trump Indictments
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Anne Applebaum on the Twilight of Democracy
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Martin Garbus and the Cuban Five
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Supreme Inequality
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George Washington: You Never Forget Your First
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Susan Rice on Things Worth Fighting For
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Election Meltdown
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When Should Law Forgive?
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The Fight for Reproductive Rights
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The Revolution in Prosecutors’ Offices
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How Progressives Can Compete for Power
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The Great Migration’s Complicated Legacy
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How the Tumultuous ’70s Shaped Our Political Conflicts
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Preet Bharara on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Race, the Law, and Politics
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Lessons From Watergate
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Van Jones, Darren Walker: How To End Mass Incarceration
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Carol Anderson: One Person, No Vote
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Voter Suppression 2018
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Danielle Allen: Cuz – A Memoir of Mass Incarceration
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Trumpocracy: A Conversation With David Frum
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The 2020 Census: What's at Stake
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Democracy's Problems and Prospects: A Book Talk with Douglas E. Schoen
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What Went Wrong with the FISA Court?
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The Black Vote & U.S. Democracy
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What Caused the Crime Decline?
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Scott Horton Book Talk: Lords of Secrecy
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Kenneth P. Vogel and Walter Shapiro on 'Big Money' Book
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