Ask a Judge: What is Pro Se?
What is the process when a person wishes to represent themselves in court? How common is it? Is it true that a person who represents themselves "has a...
Introducing Wayfinder: Life-Changing Travel
We would like to encourage you to check out Wayfinder: Life-Changing Travel. Hosted by veteran travel writer Daniel Scheffler, this is a rich and imme...
What's the Strait of Hormuz? And how do blockades work?
You've been hearing about it in the news, but what exactly is the Strait of Hormuz? And as for those blockades...how do they work? Learn more about yo...
How did federal income taxes get this way?
We haven't always had a federal income tax, and in the beginning, it only applied to the very richest Americans. So how did we end up with the permane...
What is the 25th Amendment?
Sometimes, news happens in the real world, and suddenly a political or civics topic becomes very top of mind for members of the public. And when tha...
The Raw Milk Question
Today we bring you a story from our sister podcast Outside/In, produced and reported by Marina Henke. In 2009, the state of Maine ordered farmer Dan...
Can American elections be "nationalized"? What does that mean?
In this country, the states run elections. Congress is empowered to step in; the president is not. So what does it mean for the president to call on a...
Why are we paying more for gas right now?
Four years ago we made an episode about how the president has very limited powers when it comes to lowering the price of gas. Turns out, we hadn't con...
Someone oughta open up a window
Today we take a field trip to Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Nick explains why he's like this via an obsession with 1776, the m...
The Civic Role of Religious Leaders
Why do religious leaders step out from behind the pulpit and take to the streets? What does it mean to practice what you preach? As faith groups acros...