Every other Tuesday, Civics 101 hosts, Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, join NHPR’s All Things Considered host Julia Furukawa to talk about how our democratic institutions actually work.
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Debates continue over what powers the federal government should have versus state governments.
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What did the Second Amendment mean when it was ratified, and what does it mean today?
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There's been a lot of chaos in the House this year over who the speaker should be. So what does the speaker of the House actually do?
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A government shutdown looms again, as Congress attempts to pass a spending bill before the deadline this Friday. What’s the history behind government shutdowns in the U.S.?
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What’s the verdict? And what does it mean to be a democracy?
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The framers of the U.S. Constitution designed a system of checks and balances. How does that system actually work today?