We get a lot of questions here at the show. While we try to answer them in some form or another with our full-length episodes, we’ve always wanted a way to answer you directly. So we launched Ask Civics 101! Send us your questions and we’ll get to the bottom of things for you.
Our inaugural episode addresses a question (and critique) that we’ve received for years here at the show. It's an oft-lobbed claim, "We're not a democracy, we're a republic." And it's half true! We are a republic. But we're also a democracy.
What does that actually mean, and why is the question important? For our first-ever Ask Civics 101, we're answering this not-so-straightforward question: what are we?
