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Former registrar-recorder for Maricopa County in Arizona reacts to President Trump's address

President Trump continued to make claims of election fraud and he even declassified documents on election security that can be seen on the White House's website. Stephen Richer, the Republic Affairs CEO and former registrar-recorder for Maricopa County in Arizona, talks about it with L.A.'s Morning…

Sterling 8/30/26

Sterling wants to know what drives you crazy. He also takes time to remember Dolly Parton. If mail-in voting safe? Sterling asks Stephen Richer of the Cato Institute.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Fight for the Student Vote: Campus Democracy Under Pressure

As college campuses gear up for another election cycle, a wave of nonpartisan efforts is registering students, training poll workers, and driving turnout at record levels. Yet these same efforts now face mounting resistance, including a Trump administration investigation into NSLVE, the primary dat…

Part 2 - Unnatural Disasters

Election Day 2024 was hit not by natural disasters but by unnatural ones—more than 200 bomb threats in polling places across the US. A week earlier, ballot drop boxes had been set on fire. If chaos was the intention, it failed—the system absorbed the disruptions so cleanly that most voters never no…

The Ray Stevens Show (Sept. 17, 2026) | Lyons Township Football, SCOTUS Mail-Ballot Ruling, Building Wealth & Monster Jam

Coach Jon Beutjer, head coach of Lyons Township High School, joins the show to talk Lions football. Stephen Richer, a legal fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses the Supreme Court’s rejection of the Trump administration’s bid to revive stricter mail-ballot rules ahead of the midterms. Rick Heidne…

Is Democracy Eroding from the Top?

Everyone agrees that democracy is in trouble. But almost everyone disagrees on why. Larry Bartels, the Vanderbilt political scientist who wrote “Democracy for Realists” and “Democracy Erodes from the Top,” has spent two decades arguing that the story we tell ourselves about democracy – that informe…

Does American Politics Have a Nazi problem?

Racist appeals in American politics used to require deniability. Increasingly, they don’t. Critics on both the left and the right are writing articles with titles like “The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End" (Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, September 16, 2026) and "The Republican Party Has a Nazi Pro…

Matthew Baum on What Voters Fear, What They Don’t Know and Where They Look

With the 2026 midterms approaching, a troubling question surfaces: are we living in two completely different realities? Professor Matthew Baum of Harvard Kennedy School joins Archon Fung and Stephen Richer to examine new research from the Shorenstein Center in collaboration with the Ash Center for …

Is High Voter Turnout a Good Thing?

It's axiomatic within most democracy and election administration communities that high voter turnout is a good thing, and higher turnout is a better thing. Secretaries of State brim with pride when over 80% of the state votes in a November presidential election.  But does this actually matter? Is t…

Should Voting Be Mandatory in the U.S.?

This week on Terms of Engagement, Miles Rapoport joins cohosts Archon Fung and Stephen Richer to discuss universal voting in the United States. Rapoport is the co-author, with E.J. Dionne, of 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting. He serves as Executive Director of the 100% Democracy Initia…