Blog Topic: Democracy in Crisis

In the Loop: Podcast: Freddie Gray and the War on Drugs

By Baynard Woods | April 20, 2017 2:20pm

On this week’s episode, hosts Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner talk with D. Watkins, educator, editor at large at Salon.com,and the author of The Cook Up and The Beast Side, about the drug war and Freddie Gray, who died after being arrested in Baltimore two years ago this week. And composer Ruby Fulton puts one of Trump's tweets to music.

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

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In the Loop: Trump Advisor Roger Stone Thinks the Deep State Is Trying to Kill Him

By Baynard Woods | April 17, 2017 2:30pm

Photo Credit: Screencap via Infowars

Carter Page—the seemingly hapless, dead-eyed and bald-headed former-Trump advisor who is at the white-hot center of the controversy surrounding Trump campaign-collusion with Russia—looks like he tried to learn to smile like Putin but can’t pull it off. Yet he continues to accept offers to botch television interviews.

Last week, he refused to say who brought him into the Trump campaign as a foreign policy advisor on skittery appearances with Jake Tapper and George Stephanopoulos.

Speculation about Page grows, reaching a fever pitch in former British MP and rom-com novelist Louise Mensch's explosive, and seemingly unfounded, claim that Page delivered a video of Trump making policy promises to the Russians in exchange for hacking the election.

In conversation, long-time Trump advisor and Republican dirty-trickster Roger Stone—who, like Page is expected to testify before the House intelligence committee, and, also like Page suspects that he was the subject of a FISA warrant—told me that he also thinks that former campaign head Corey Lewandowski is responsible for Page’s presence on a list of Trump advisors—but added that Page had previously worked for Ben Carson’s campaign.

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In the Loop: Podcast: The Gorsuch Confirmation Catastrophe

By Baynard Woods | April 6, 2017 3:04pm

On this week’s episode, Lawrence Weschler—a longtime New Yorker staff writer and the author of numerous books including the recent Waves Passing in the Night—talks with host Baynard Woods about the catastrophic implications of confirming Neil Gorsuch, the need for massive mobilization, and the nature of scientific inquiry. And composer Ruby Fulton puts one of Trump's tweets to music.

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

Co-host Marc Steiner is on a reporting trip in Alabama for the next two weeks.

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In the Loop: Podcast: Trump, Putin and Propaganda

By Baynard Woods | March 30, 2017 3:31pm

Clinton Watts testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

In this week's episode, hosts Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner talk with writer and analyst Imara Jones about what's next for health care and investigations into Russian involvement in the presidential election. Jones holds a degree from the London School of Economics and is currently developing a television news program aimed at progressive millennials of color.

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

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In the Loop: Podcast: House Hearings on Russia's Election Meddling

By Baynard Woods | March 23, 2017 2:59pm

In this week's episode, hosts Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner talk about the House Intelligence Committee hearings on possible Russian involvement in the U.S. election and ask: Where does this all lead?

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

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In the Loop: Podcast: What the Heck Is Steve Bannon Thinking?

By Baynard Woods | March 16, 2017 2:24pm

In this week's episode, hosts Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner take a step back to try to figure out just what the hell White House advisor Steve Bannon means by "the deconstruction of the administrative state."

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

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