Episode 15: Mr. Speaker
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is quitting, not forced out by scandal or defeated for re-election, but quitting after only a little more ...
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In “Many Things Considered” one-time journalist and full-time political analyst Marc Johnson applies his passion for context to connect current politics with political history. What are the links between the debacle of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign and the Tea Party movement? Did Alexander Hamilton foresee the partisanship that now surrounds judicial appointments? Why haven’t third parties had political success in America? Johnson weaves interviews, archival sound, humor and authoritative narration to connect political history to today’s political stories.
Episode 14: When Intelligence Was Bipartisan
More than 40 years ago Congress undertook two major investigations into the nation’s intelligence agencies – the House investigation became a politica...
Episode 13: The Klan
Since the 2016 presidential election various groups that keep track of white supremacist political activity – the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) f...
Episode 12: Big Oil and American Politics
American foreign and domestic policy is shaped by many factors, but perhaps none is more important or more pervasive than oil – Big Oil. In this episo...
Episode 11: A Short History of Leaks
The business of leaking government secrets has a long, long history and the whole subject of leaking and leaks is complicated. Why do leaks happen? Wh...
Episode 10: Fear Itself
Seventy-five years ago a president signed an Executive Order that resulted in the relocation and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese-Americans, most of ...
Episode 9: Richard Milhous Trump
Despite what they say almost every politician dislikes the press – too many pesky, probing questions and that constant effort to check real facts and ...
Episode 8: Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8
It is not likely that many of us have dropped a reference to the Constitution’s emoluments clause into casual conversation. But the once obscure claus...
Episode 7: In the Great American Tradition - Dissent
The founders of the great American experiment so valued dissent that they wrote the idea into the First Amendment to the Constitution. But while disse...
Episode 6: A Christmas Like No Other
Imagine Winston Churchill as a houseguest. Then imagine him as a houseguest at Christmas…in the White House…while the world is at war. In late Decembe...