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Sunday, November 8, 2026 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Jeremi Suri University of Texas, Austin, Jan Leighley is Professor of Political Science at American University and Seth C. McKee is Professor of Political Science at Oklahoma State University.
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| Last Tuesday was election day in the United States, and for these midterms, I am reminded that the President’s party typically loses seats. But this year, burdened with very low approval ratings and dissatisfaction with President Trump, the Republicans were routed. The Democrats won both houses with very comfortable majorities, exceeding even the most optimistic predictions for the party. How unprecedented is this Democratic victory? What led to these historic gains? What does it mean for the last two years of the Trump Presidency?
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Sunday, November 1, 2026 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Dr Mariana Borges is a Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton, Fernando Bizarro is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston College and Erica Resende, is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Security Studies at the Brazilian National War College in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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| Flavio Bolsonaro had won the first election round, in the recent Brazil elections, but Lula de Silva recovered and won the second round and rather handily. What happened? What rallied so many voters to Lula? How unprecedented is this? What does Lula's election mean for the nation and the rest of the world?
What role did outsiders play in this election, such as the US government and the allegations against Meta?
One area that the two candidates clearly differed was on Amazonian protection. What is Lula expected to do in preserving the Amazon in this fourth term?
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Sunday, October 25, 2026 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| David S. Meyer is Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Planning, Policy, and Design at UC Irvine, Michael T. Heaney is Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods at the University of Glasgow and Jeremy Pressman is Professor of Political Science at University of Connecticut.
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| What motivates big protest movements like the ones occurring in France, India, and the "No Kings" demonstrations in the U.S.? Are there common demands? Have generational shifts led to more protests?
When mass protests and large demonstrations break out, governments have responded with counter campaigns or violence to delegitimize protesters. What happens when governments counter movements? What constitutes a successful protest movement?
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Sunday, October 18, 2026 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Isaac Hale, Professor of Politics, Occidental College; Mike Bonin, executive director, Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs, Cal State Los Angeles; Reece Jones, Geography & Environment, University of Hawai'i at Mnoa
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| 1. In Los Angeles, Nithya Ramen is in the lead to clench the mayorship in the second largest city in America. What issues, policies and politics have led to the possible toppling of the incumbent Karen Bass? Does the race reflect a political shift in the US? How does it relate to other races around the country?
2. Then, we speak with Greg Boos the co-author of Smuggler: Drugs, Gangs and Refugees at Americas Northern Border.
About the book:SMUGGLER tells the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story of Bob Boul, who ran a bed and breakfast directly on the US-Canada border called the Smuggler's Inn. Bob was a conservative businessman and at first he worked as a confidential informant for the Border Patrol and Homeland Security Investigations targeting drug trafficking in the area. Over time, his perspective changed and he found his life's purpose in helping over 1000 asylum seekers sneak across the border into Canada. His help for the asylum seekers eventually cost him everything. He was assaulted by a Border Patrol agent while protecting an asylum seeker that led to a case before the US Supreme Court (Egbert v. Boule), he was arrested twice and served jail time in Canada, and he lost his business and his reputation. Despite that, he has no regrets and says he would do it all over again.
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Sunday, October 11, 2026 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Austin Sarat, Jurisprudence & Political Science, Amherst College; Sandra Babcock, Law, Cornell Law School; Frank R. Baumgartner, Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Jenny-Brooke Condon, Law, Seton Hall Law School
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| In light of the failed execution of Christa Pike, we explore the death penalty and its processes. Are they in violation of the 8th Amendment's prohibition of inflicting cruel and unusual punishment? How often are death penalty executions botched?
The U.S. is one of the 176 countries that have agreed to the convention against torture, and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment. Is the death penalty in the U.S. a violation of this convention?
Also,our experts say public opinion is shifting on the death penalty.
We explore whether courts consider the experience of the convicted, and in particular women who are convicted as victims of sexual and physical violence leading to their crime.
** A panel member, Sandra Babcock, is Christa Pikes' lawyer.
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Sunday, October 4, 2026 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Yvonne Chiu is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, David McCourt, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, Ricardo A. Crespo is Associate Professor of Political Science and the chair of the Political Economy Department at Grossmont College and Robert Williams Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University
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| Ever since Russia attacked Ukraine, there have been predictions that the normative order against aggressive war was under threat. Then the US and Israel attacked Iran. Numerous scholars have predicted this would encourage China to attack Taiwan. The normative restrictions on war are loosening and the US is distracted and hence not able to help defend Taiwan. But two clear developments challenge this prediction. Russia, after 4 full years of war, is not likely to win this war anytime soon. And the US, despite the President’s continual assertions that it has won the war, clearly has not. Technology such as drone warfare might be a reason. Defensive tactics could be another. So on today’s show, we will explore the future of warfare in light of the Russian and American wars and their current lack of success.
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Sunday, September 27, 2026 12:01 pm
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| Helen Nissenbaum, Information Science, Cornell Tech; Michael Patrick Lynch, Philosophy, University of Connecticut; Bruce Schneier, public policy, Havard; Joshua A.T. Fairfield, Washington and Lee School of Law.
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| Is the age of privacy over? We spend the hour on technology, spying and privacy, exploring how privacy, and the lack of it, affects security, democracy and society. What exactly is at stake when we lose our privacy?
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| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
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Sunday, September 20, 2026 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Danah Boyd is the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University
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| What are the politics of data? and of the U.S. Census? How do decisions about data, data collection and the census impact politics?
Our guest today Danah Boyd is the author of a new book, Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census.
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Sunday, September 13, 2026 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Mark Paradis is Professor of Political Science at Champlain College Saint-Lambert, Marc O'Reilly is Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University and Patrick James is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Relations at USC.
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| How has Donald Trump's raging trade war against Canada impacted relations between the two countries? What does that mean for their long alliance?
What political and economic risks does the US-Canadian trade war portend for Canada ?Will it affect the vote of Alberta on whether or not to secede from the rest of Canada?
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Sunday, September 6, 2026 12:01 pm
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| Umesh Haritashya is Director of the Sustainability Program and Professor of Earth, Environment and Sustainability at the University of Dayton, Ohio, Mathias Vuille is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, SUNY and Bethan Davies is Professor of Glaciology in the Department of Geography at Newcastle University.
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| How did a glacier collapse lead to the deadly disaster in Nepal? Was there something about the area that caused the collapse?
How much can we say this disaster is a climate disaster? Did climate change cause this glacier collapse?
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Sunday, August 30, 2026 12:01 pm
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| Roberto J. González is a professor of anthropology at San Jose State University , Ori Swed Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas Tech University and Hugh Gusterson is Professor of Anthropology and Public Policy at the University of British Colombias
Jennifer Trahan is a Clinical Professor and Director of the Concentration in International Law and Human Rights at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs.
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