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Terms of Engagement – Navigating Unprecedented Politics: A Conversation with Kevin McCarthy

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy joins hosts Archon Fung and Stephen Richer to share his experience leading through some of the most intense political challenges in recent memory and his thoughts on the future of American democracy.

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Terms of Engagement – American Birthright: The Constitution, Citizenship, and Immigration

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Terms of Engagement – American Birthright: The Constitution, Citizenship, and Immigration

Penn University Professor Emeritus Rogers Smith joins Terms of Engagement hosts Archon Fung and Stephen Richer to discusses birthright citizenship, an American institution enshrined in the Constitution but increasingly under scrutiny from President Trump and his allies.

Terms of Engagement – Behind a Bipartisan Bid to Protect Election Integrity

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Terms of Engagement – Behind a Bipartisan Bid to Protect Election Integrity

GOP lawyer Ben Ginsberg has launched a new initiative, the Bipartisan American Election Project, with former Obama White House counsel Bob Bauer to oppose efforts by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress to impose new rules on election administration.

Terms of Engagement – Can Ideological Diversity Improve Campus Culture?

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Terms of Engagement – Can Ideological Diversity Improve Campus Culture?

Professor Eitan Hersh, the inaugural director for Tufts University’s new Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education, wants create a new campus atmosphere of “robust intellectual life, where norms of curiosity and goodwill reign.”

Terms of Engagement – Trump and His Billionaire Allies Make their Move on the Media

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Terms of Engagement – Trump and His Billionaire Allies Make their Move on the Media

Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center director and former TIME editor Nancy Gibbs joins co-hosts Archon Fung and Stephen Richer to discuss the impacts of billionaire media consolidation and pressure from the Trump administration on the flow of information vital to democracy.

Terms of Engagement – The Bombs to Ballots Fantasy: Can the Iran War Lead to Democracy?

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Terms of Engagement – The Bombs to Ballots Fantasy: Can the Iran War Lead to Democracy?

Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow and Boston College Associate Professor Ali Kadivar joins Terms of Engagement hosts Archon Fung and Stephen Richer to discuss the prospects for democracy in Iran now that the country is at war with the U.S. and Israel.