Blog Topic: Democracy in Crisis

In the Loop: Podcast: The House Where Trump Was Conceived

By Baynard Woods | August 31, 2017 10:14am

This week, co-host Baynard Woods talks with Amanda Petrusich, who recently wrote for the New Yorker about spending a night in the home where Donald Trump was conceived.

Democracy in Crisis is a weekly podcast hosted by Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner, produced and engineered by Baynard Woods for The Center for Emerging Media. Theme music by Ruby Fulton and the Rhymes with Orchestra.

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In the Loop: Podcast: Bannon and Breitbart

By Blake Aued | August 24, 2017 5:07pm

This week, co-host Baynard Woods talks with Wil Hylton, whose New York Times Magazine story "Down the Breitbart Hole" came out just two days before Steve Bannon, booted from the White House, returned to the site. And then Bannon called Wil...

Democracy in Crisis is a weekly podcast hosted by Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner, produced and engineered by Calvin Perry for The Center for Emerging Media. Theme music by Ruby Fulton and the Rhymes with Orchestra.

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In the Loop: Podcast: The Racist Rally in Charlottesville

By Baynard Woods | August 17, 2017 12:10pm

On this week’s episode, Marc Steiner talks to co-host Baynard Woods and Baltimore City Paper editor Brandon Soderberg about their experiences at the racist rally in Charlottesville.

Democracy in Crisis is a weekly podcast hosted by Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner, produced and engineered by Calvin Perry for The Center for Emerging Media. Theme music by Ruby Fulton and the Rhymes with Orchestra (although this week, we mixed it up a bit).

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In the Loop: White House Shrugs Off Stories Suggesting Trump Orchestrated Russia Cover-Up

By Baynard Woods | August 3, 2017 11:57am

Photo Credit: Baynard Woods

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At Tuesday’s press briefing, just a day after Anthony Scaramucci was fired from his role of White House Communications Director, that story already seemed distant. As Sarah Huckabee Sanders came out into the briefing room, everyone wanted to ask about two stories that had broken since the Mooch’s ignominious departure.

The Washington Post reported Monday that President Trump himself had dictated his son’s first, misleading statement that the discussion with a Russian lawyer—who we now know had contacted Don Jr. with the promise of handing over dirt on Hillary—had been about adoption.

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In the Loop: Podcast: Alternative Voices Are Silenced

By Baynard Woods | July 22, 2017 2:20pm

On this week’s special episode, co-host Marc Steiner and Baynard Woods are joined by Baltimore City Paper and Democracy in Crisis editor Brandon Soderberg and City Paper staffer Lisa Snowden-McCray to discuss the impending doom that is facing both "The Marc Steiner Show" and the City Paper.

Democracy in Crisis is a weekly podcast hosted by Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner, produced and engineered by Imani Spence for The Center for Emerging Media. Theme music by Ruby Fulton and the Rhymes with Orchestra.

The podcast will take a two-week break and return Aug. 10.

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In the Loop: Podcast: Trump's Mob Ties

By Baynard Woods | July 14, 2017 11:02am

On this week’s episode, co-hosts Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner talk with Baltimore City Paper's Edward Ericson Jr. about the way President Donald Trump's old mob ties might affect special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

Democracy in Crisis is a weekly podcast hosted by Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner, produced and engineered by Imani Spence for The Center for Emerging Media. Theme music by Ruby Fulton and the Rhymes with Orchestra.

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In the Loop: Podcast: Trump Protesters Prosecuted

By Baynard Woods | July 10, 2017 10:52am

On this week’s episode, co-hosts Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner talk about the the various legal cases extending from the arrest of more than 200 protestors on Inauguration Day.

Democracy in Crisis is a weekly podcast hosted by Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner, produced and engineered by Imani Spence for The Center for Emerging Media. Theme music by Ruby Fulton and the Rhymes with Orchestra.

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In the Loop: Podcast: The Alt-Right's Racist Rallies

By Baynard Woods | June 30, 2017 1:31pm

On this week’s episode co-host Baynard Woods talks with Baltimore City Paper editor Brandon Soderberg and Center for Emerging Media's Imani Spence about the racism, rallies and the rift on the far right.

Democracy in Crisis is a weekly podcast hosted by Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner, produced and engineered by Imani Spence for The Center for Emerging Media. Theme music by Ruby Fulton and the Rhymes with Orchestra.

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In the Loop: Nazis Gather in DC for 'Free Speech' Rally

By Brandon Soderberg | June 28, 2017 2:09pm

"Can I get some sunscreen?" one young Nazi asks another young Nazi near the Lincoln Memorial where the alt-right’s "Free Speech" rally—the more edgy of two right-wing rallies scheduled for the same time in Washington, D.C. on June 25—is about to kick off.

The second rally, which is supposed to be "against political violence" splintered off from the first once alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer was invited. Spencer and his supporters call Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, and the other viral right-wingers leading the competing march “alt-light” because they are less openly racist and mostly fall in line with Trump.

Photo Credit: Brandon Soderberg

Who these “free speech” Nazis are specifically—their names, where they came from, the specifics of their beliefs—doesn't matter, and many don't call themselves Nazis, but that doesn't matter either. (FWIW, they prefer "tribalists" and/or suggest white pride is like black power or whatever and shouldn't be a big deal.)

The Nazi in need of sunscreen eventually gets some from a Baby Huey-like Nazi wearing a baseball helmet, holding "Join, or Die." flag. Bounding up the steps past Baby Huey is neo-Confederate Jason Kessler, who waves a Confederate flag and yells that Lincoln was a traitor in the direction of D.C. United Against Hate’s nearby counter-rally.

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In the Loop: Podcast: Journalist Jailed Covering Trump Protest

By Baynard Woods | June 23, 2017 1:57pm

On this week’s episode, co-host Baynard Woods talks with Baltimore City Paper editor Brandon Soderberg and the Center for Emerging Media's Imani Spence about the charges against journalist Aaron Cantú stemming from the black bloc actions on Inauguration Day.

Democracy in Crisis is a weekly podcast hosted by Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner, produced and engineered by Imani Spence for The Center for Emerging Media. Theme music by Ruby Fulton and the Rhymes with Orchestra.

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