Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Election Meltdown, Professor Brendan Nyhan

Brendan Nyhan is a political science professor at Dartmouth College who focuses on misinformation and so-called fake news. His views on how fake news affects election outcomes might surprise you. 

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Election Meltdown, Professor Brendan Nyhan

Brendan Nyhan is a political science professor at Dartmouth College who focuses on misinformation and so-called fake news. His views on how fake news affects election outcomes might surprise you. 

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Podcast production by Sara Burningham.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Did Bill Barr Break the Justice Department?

Attorney General William Barr has lost the confidence of more than 2,600 former Department of Justice employees. We talked to one of them. 

Guest: Donald Ayer, who served in the Department of Justice under George H. W. Bush. Read his piece in the Atlantic, “Bill Barr Must Resign.”

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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – Did Bill Barr Break the Justice Department?

Attorney General William Barr has lost the confidence of more than 2,600 former Department of Justice employees. We talked to one of them. 

Guest: Donald Ayer, who served in the Department of Justice under George H. W. Bush. Read his piece in the Atlantic, “Bill Barr Must Resign.”

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Why Republicans Always Win

Republicans have relied on one organization in particular to help pass conservative laws in states across the country: The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. The kicker is that ALEC learned its tricks from public-sector unions.

Guest: Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Assistant Professor of Political Affairs at Columbia University. 

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, Danielle Hewitt, and Mara Silvers.

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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – Why Republicans Always Win

Republicans have relied on one organization in particular to help pass conservative laws in states across the country: The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. The kicker is that ALEC learned its tricks from public-sector unions.

Guest: Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Assistant Professor of Political Affairs at Columbia University. 

Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, Danielle Hewitt, and Mara Silvers.


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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Election Meltdown, Part 5

In the fifth and final part of this special series of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined live on stage in Washington by former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, MacArthur fellow Professor Danielle Citron of Boston University law school, director of the ACLU’s voting-rights initiative Dale Ho, and election law professor Rick Hasen of the University of California, Irvine. Together, they pick themselves up from the rug of despair with a pile of can-do fixes for the stress points threatening the integrity of U.S. elections. 


Rick Hasen’s new book Election Meltdown forms the basis for this special series of Amicus. 


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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Election Meltdown, Part 5

In the fifth and final part of this special series of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined live on stage in Washington by former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, MacArthur fellow Professor Danielle Citron of Boston University law school, director of the ACLU’s voting-rights initiative Dale Ho, and election law professor Rick Hasen of the University of California, Irvine. Together, they pick themselves up from the rug of despair with a pile of can-do fixes for the stress points threatening the integrity of U.S. elections. 


Rick Hasen’s new book Election Meltdown forms the basis for this special series of Amicus. 


Podcast production by Sara Burningham.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - WN TBD: Inside Facebook’s Supreme Court

After years of controversial content moderation decisions, from deepfakes to deplatforming, Facebook is trying something new. In January, the social network announced that its new Oversight Board, which will act as a sort of supreme court for controversial content, will begin hearing cases this summer.


Could this independent board change the way we govern speech online?


Guest: Kate Klonick, assistant professor at St. John’s University School of Law, and fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale. 

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What Next - What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future – Inside Facebook’s Supreme Court

After years of controversial content moderation decisions, from deepfakes to deplatforming, Facebook is trying something new. In January, the social network announced that its new Oversight Board, which will act as a sort of supreme court for controversial content, will begin hearing cases this summer.


Could this independent board change the way we govern speech online?


Guest: Kate Klonick, assistant professor at St. John’s University School of Law, and fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale. 


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