Political parties & interest groups

Podcasts

• "The Evangelical Vote," from Throughline, 24 September 2020 -- added 10.30.22

• "Will I Know Anyone at this Party?" from This American Life, 28 October 2016

• "Sex, Boyhood, and Politics in South Carolina," from episode #580 of This American Life, 19 February 2016

• "Trump Wanted to Scrap Obamacare. His Party Didn't." from The Daily, 3 April 2019

• The Primaries Project from fivethirtyeight.com -- look for a player with a circle icon of a flag and a "play" button, down the page a bit

  • Episode 1: Our presidential primary system is an accident

  • Episode 2: How the modern primary system has shaped our politics

  • Episode 3: There has to be a better way to pick presidential nominees ... right?

• "Why the Dean Scream Sounded So Different on TV," from fivethirtyeight.com -- look for a player down the page a bit (as in the previous bullet)

• "Take the Money and Run for Office," from This American Life, 30 March 2012

• "Who's Really On Line 1?" from This American Life episode #578, 29 January 2016

• Season 4 of Slow Burn from Slate podcasts - about David Duke's run for Senate/governor of Louisiana (each episode = 1 learning activity)

Videos

• Reversing Roe, streaming on Netflix (subscription required)

• NRA Under Fire, from PBS Frontline, streaming via web for free

• American Patriot: Inside the Armed Uprising Against the Federal Government, from PBS Frontline, streaming via web for free (2017)

• The Abortion Divide, from PBS Frontline, streaming via web for free (2019)

• Primaries, a series available on Amazon Prime / IMDbTV (free with ads), each episode = 1 learning activity (2016)

• Dark Money, streaming at no cost via the ChattState Library (login required)

• Explained: Billionaires, streaming on Netflix (subscription required)

• The Lincoln Project, streaming on Showtime (subscription required) -- added 10.30.22

Readings

• "America is Now the Divided Republic the Framers Feared," from The Atlantic, 2 January 2020

• "Why Do People Who Don’t Like Politics Hold the Fate of the Country in Their Hands?" an editorial (guest essay) from The New York Times, 1 November 2022 -- added 11.4.22