Truth, Politics and Power Podcast
1) Big Fella: Special Edition of Truth, Politics and Power
A hundred years ago, a young man was about to become famous on an entirely new scale. The dawning engines of mass communication, advertising and public relations elevated Babe Ruth into a national phe...Show More
2) TRUTH AND FAITH: The Sixth and Final Episode of The Democracy Test
Donald Trump lied routinely as a businessman and as a presidential candidate: their frequency did not change once he took office, but, on the next episode of “The Democracy Test,” co-hosts Neal Conan ...Show More
3) CHECKS AND BALANCES: Episode Five of The Democracy Test
A key innovation of the American constitution, is a system of checks and balances to make sure the President can’t govern like a king. In the next Episode of “The Democracy Test,” co-hosts Neal Conan ...Show More
4) CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED: Episode Four of The Democracy Test
The right to vote - once limited to white male landowners - expanded to include African Americans and women, but many states enacted literacy tests and poll taxes that almost eliminated the minority v...Show More
5) CREATED EQUAL: Episode Three of The Democracy Test
In the depths of the Great Depression, many Americans lost their faith in a democracy that allowed an enormous gap between the wealthy and the too-often desperate poor. In “Created Equal,” the latest ...Show More
6) A HOUSE DIVIDED Episode Two of the Democracy Test
A HOUSE DIVIDED Episode Two of the Democracy Test with co-hosts Neal Conan and Heather Cox Richardson If you think partisan politics are bad now, consider the 1850s, when members of Congress pulled kn...Show More
7) WHY DEMOCRACY: Episode One of The Democracy Test
EPISODE ONE: WHY DEMOCRACY Why did Athens and Rome choose democracy in ancient times, and why did the founders decide to adapt a form of government that had been widely shunned for two millennia? In t...Show More
8) Final Edition
As Truth Politics and Power winds up weekly production, host Neal Conan puts Donald Trump and Trumpism into historical context. Historian Heather Cox Richardson argues that we’re in the convulsions o...Show More
9) Politically Correct
“Politically Correct” originated as an insult on the fringes of the American left…and migrated over to the conservative rhetorical arsenal. In an archive edition of Truth Politics and Power, Host Neal...Show More
10) Presidential Milestones
The slave owner who founded the Democratic Party and, much later, a favorite of Donald Trump. The first President to be impeached. The history of Ronald Reagan’s most famous speech. In a compilation f...Show More