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How does popular will actually function in a constitutional democracy where power has been consolidated among the few? Why has faith in elections and institutions, and democracy itself, eroded so dramatically—and what would it take to restore it? Can our fragmented education system deliver civic outcomes that work for students and for a polarized public?
Louise Dubé, CEO of iCivics, explores these and other questions with some of the top civic education minds in the country. This series uses the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence to investigate how far we've come as a nation, and how we might progress forward.
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since March 4, 2026
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One of the most pressing issues in modern-day civic life is our inability to have conversations across multiple perspectives. Students are deeply invested in politics, but polarization has stymied civil discourse and, worst of all, created an atmosphere of fear in the classroom. To shed some light …
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In civic education, we are often asked to prove something no other subject is asked to prove in quite the same way:
What will a student do 10, 20, or even 40 years after taking the course?
That is a high bar. But it is also the right aspiration.
Today on the A250 Interviews, we speak with two peo…
Richard Haass is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, a longtime diplomat, and the author of The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens. He has spent his career thinking about America’s role in the world, the use and limits of diplomacy, and the fragile conditions t…
Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Madison. How do we teach students about these people, taking into account 250 years of hindsight? Were they heroes? Villains? Or ordinary people in extraordinary times?
Today we talk with Jane Kamensky, CEO and President of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Previously, J…
In the world of civics education, one of the most hotly debated topics is what we teach and how we teach it. So how, in a hyperpolarized era, can education standards even be written?
Today we talk with Andy Rotherham, founder of Bellwether and author of Eduwonk. Andy served on the Virginia Board o…
The ballot box is where we give the Constitution meaning. So how did elections become the frontlines of the culture wars? Today to talk with us about the evolution of election security and access is Ben Ginsberg, a nationally known political law advocate representing participants in the political p…
Today we speak with Larry Kramer, constitutional scholar and President & Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics. We explore judicial review, popular sovereignty, and the power of the People in our constitutional order.
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