Congress

Podcasts

• "#784: Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map," from This American Life, 4 November 2022. -- added 11.6.22

• The Racist History of the Senate Filibuster, from Fresh Air

• The Fate of the Filibuster, from The Daily

• Redistricting - a story of divisive politics, odd shapes, from Fresh Air

• Paul Ryan's Exit Interview, from The Daily

• "Pirates of the Senate," from Throughline, 22 February 2022

• "The Role of the Filibuster," an explainer from the Heritage Foundation (podcast audio + transcript available)

Films/video clips

• Gerrymandering: Why We're Mad at Washington (YouTube - free)

• "They Don't Represent Us" talk by Lawrence Lessig at Politics & Prose bookstore (YouTube - free)
  You can also listen to this talk from the Your Undivided Attention podcast here or read the transcript

• Slay the Dragon (HULU subscription required) - about gerrymandering

• Knock Down the House (Netflix subscription required) - about AOC

• The Swamp (HBOMax subscription required) - about the House Freedom Caucus

Readings

• "The Problem of Majorie Taylor Greene," by Robert Draper, The New York Times Magazine, 17 October 2022.

• "This Is Not the Senate the Framers Imagined" from The Atlantic

• "Transparency Is Killing Congress" from The Atlantic

• "The Bill That Congress Might Be Embarrassed Enough to Pass," by Russell Berman, from The Atlantic, 30 January 2022.

• "All the Lies They Told Us About the Filibuster" from New York

• "Nine Myths About the Filibuster," an opinion piece by Norm Ornstein in The Washington Post

• My Declaration of Independence, by Jim Jeffords (Amazon link) -- each chapter = 1 learning activity

• It's Even Worse Than It Looks, by Norm Ornstein & Tom Mann (Amazon link) -- each chapter = 1 learning activity

• Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy, by Adam Jentleson (Amazon link) -- each chapter = 1 learning activity