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Jonathan Evans: Are Americans Really the World's Harshest Moral Critics? Pew Research Has the Data.

The U.S. is the only country in a 25-nation study where more than half of citizens view their fellow citizens as morally bad. Jonathan Evans of Pew Research Center joins us to unpack what the data actually says. Jonathan Evans is a senior researcher at Pew Research Center special ... Show more

. 59min 18sec

Truth. Christian. Conservative. Patriot. We're Taking These Words Back.

Bono once said, before launching into Helter Skelter: “This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles. We’re stealing it back.” That line describes exactly what’s been happening to some of the most important words in the English language, and exactly what we need to do abou ... Show more

. 18min 18sec

David M. Drucker of The Dispatch on the MAGA Coalition, the Media, and What Twitter Gets Wrong

What do voters actually want? And does what happens on social media have anything to do with it? David Drucker spent his twenties running his parents' manufacturing businesses in East LA. He was paying workers' comp, dealing with state regulations, signing the checks. Then he bec ... Show more

. 1h 7min

Not a Cult. A Coalition. Stephen Hawkins of More in Common on What Trump Voters Actually Believe

62% of Trump voters say being MAGA is not an important part of their identity. So who, exactly, did we just elect? Stephen Hawkins has been trying to answer that question with data for nearly a decade. As Director of Research at More in Common since its founding in 2016, he helpe ... Show more

. 1h 15min

Frederick J. Riley, WEAVE's Executive Director: Connection — Not Policy — Is the Only Thing That Saves Us. Here's Who's Making It Happen.

What does it look like to grow up in a city running power cords between neighbors' houses just to stay warm — and then spend your career trying to rebuild that ethic everywhere else? Fred Riley is the Executive Director of Weave: The Social Fabric Project at the Aspen Institute, ... Show more

. 1h 5min