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2024
- Apr 9, 2024 How to file your taxes
- Apr 9, 2024 Why do we pay income taxes, again?
- Apr 2, 2024 Promises, Promises: What Biden and Trump are saying they'll do if elected
- Mar 26, 2024 How did Lochner v New York end up on the naughty list?
- Mar 18, 2024 How Can The Government Ban TikTok?
- Mar 12, 2024 Can the Supreme Court save us from ourselves?
- Mar 5, 2024 Amending the Constitution
- Feb 27, 2024 What's Going On With Civics Education?
- Feb 20, 2024 Extra Credit: How to Argue Against Disinformation; Trump Trials Update
- Feb 13, 2024 What are Presidential Pardons?
- Feb 6, 2024 How Should We Govern the Algorithm?
- Jan 30, 2024 What is Federalist 10?
- Jan 23, 2024 Election 2024: What Is Happening?
- Jan 16, 2024 How much do government employees get paid?
- Jan 10, 2024 Rumors and Lies, the American Version
- Jan 2, 2024 Expulsion from Congress
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2023
- Dec 28, 2023 Can We Fix School Lunch?
- Dec 19, 2023 The Politics of School Lunch
- Dec 12, 2023 Does Santa Break the Law?
- Dec 8, 2023 What is a Federal Holiday?
- Nov 28, 2023 Term Limits for Congress?
- Nov 21, 2023 What is the Order of Succession?
- Nov 14, 2023 SCOTUS Watchlist
- Nov 7, 2023 What Powers Does the Speaker of the House Have?
- Oct 31, 2023 The After School Satan Club
- Oct 25, 2023 Heather Cox Richardson on the State of America
- Oct 17, 2023 The National Weather Service
- Oct 10, 2023 Separation of Church and State
- Oct 4, 2023 BONUS: American Girl Dolls and YOU
- Oct 3, 2023 What Are Government Shutdowns?
- Sep 27, 2023 A (Sorta) Civics Trivia Battle
- Sep 19, 2023 Did American Girl Dolls Do Right By History?
- Sep 12, 2023 Classified Documents
- Sep 5, 2023 What is RICO?
- Aug 29, 2023 The Republican and Democratic Parties
- Aug 22, 2023 Civics Education 2: When the Curriculum is Against the Law
- Aug 15, 2023 What Is (or Was) Affirmative Action?
- Aug 8, 2023 When Espionage Means The Death Penalty
- Aug 1, 2023 Presidential Records
- Jul 25, 2023 What Moore v Harper Means for Elections
- Jul 18, 2023 Civics Education 1: What Do We Teach?
- Jul 11, 2023 America's "War on Drugs"
- Jun 27, 2023 Supreme Court Arguments
- Jun 21, 2023 Socialism, Communism, Fascism
- Jun 12, 2023 The 14th Amendment
- Jun 6, 2023 Supreme Court Ethics
- May 30, 2023 What's the Debt Ceiling and the National Debt?
- May 23, 2023 The Fairness Doctrine
- May 16, 2023 Reconstruction: The Laws of the Land
- May 9, 2023 Reconstruction: The Big Lie
- May 2, 2023 Reconstruction: Why We Didn't Learn About It
- Apr 24, 2023 Defamation, Libel, and Dominion, Oh My!
- Apr 18, 2023 US vs: Freedom
- Apr 11, 2023 How Can The Government Ban An App?
- Apr 2, 2023 How do Indictments and Grand Juries Work?
- Mar 28, 2023 Jury Duty: What To Expect When You Get That Summons
- Mar 21, 2023 Who Writes Bills?
- Mar 14, 2023 Paying Income Taxes
- Mar 7, 2023 A Primary Battle
- Feb 28, 2023 Who owns the sky?
- Feb 21, 2023 The 2008 Financial Crisis Explained
- Feb 14, 2023 Why Do We Have an Income Tax?
- Feb 7, 2023 What's Up With The U.S. Space Force?
- Jan 31, 2023 The Government and Housing: One City's Story
- Jan 31, 2023 The Government and Housing: Policy
- Jan 24, 2023 Federal Courts: Muhammad Ali and the Draft
- Jan 13, 2023 The Last State To Hold Out Against Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Jan 10, 2023 The Life of a Political Operative
- Jan 3, 2023 The Lavender Scare
- Jan 2, 2023 How the Government Makes a Holiday
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2022
- Dec 20, 2022 Is Santa a Criminal?
- Dec 13, 2022 The President & The 25th Amendment
- Dec 6, 2022 Who gets to run for president?
- Nov 29, 2022 Propaganda
- Nov 22, 2022 Post-Presidency Perks: What do former presidents get when they leave office?
- Nov 15, 2022 The White House Press Corps & The Press Secretary
- Nov 8, 2022 Are We A Democracy? Or A Republic?
- Nov 1, 2022 American Myths Part Two: Progress
- Nov 1, 2022 American Myths Part One: Origins
- Oct 25, 2022 Host v Host: A Battle of Wits
- Oct 18, 2022 Civics 101 Presents: Future Hindsight on the Asian American Vote
- Oct 11, 2022 Nina Totenberg Live On Stage
- Oct 4, 2022 Taking The Fifth: When What You Say Could Be Used Against You
- Sep 27, 2022 Oaths
- Sep 20, 2022 Federal Courts: The Trial of the Chicago 7
- Sep 13, 2022 How Powerful is the President's Veto?
- Sep 6, 2022 Disinformation and Misinformation
- Aug 30, 2022 What's The Difference Between The House & The Senate?
- Aug 23, 2022 Federal Courts: Espionage and the Rosenbergs
- Aug 16, 2022 Everything You Need to Know About the Midterms
- Aug 9, 2022 Federal Courts: Our First Treason Trial (US v Burr)
- Aug 1, 2022 What is the National Debt?
- Jul 26, 2022 Why You Should Vote (Even When They Don't Want You To)
- Jul 26, 2022 How to Vote
- Jul 19, 2022 The Declaration Does Not Apply
- Jul 13, 2022 The 1965 Voting Rights Act: Where Does It Stand?
- Jun 28, 2022 National Park Service
- Jun 21, 2022 M, F & X: Gender Markers & Government Documents
- Jun 14, 2022 What Does the 2nd Amendment Say?
- Jun 10, 2022 Precedent and the Leaked Draft SCOTUS Opinion
- Jun 7, 2022 Precedent and the Supreme Court
- Jun 2, 2022 Should Animals Have Human Rights?
- May 24, 2022 District, Circuit, Supreme: How does the federal court system work?
- May 18, 2022 Freedom of the Press: Parts 1 & 2
- May 10, 2022 The Shadow Docket
- May 3, 2022 Roe v Wade: Facts of the Case
- Apr 27, 2022 The First National Park
- Apr 19, 2022 What is NATO?
- Apr 12, 2022 Citizens United v FEC
- Apr 5, 2022 US vs: Constitutions
- Mar 29, 2022 The Senate Parliamentarian
- Mar 22, 2022 The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
- Mar 15, 2022 Election Security
- Mar 8, 2022 Why You Should Care About the Federal Reserve
- Mar 1, 2022 When the Supreme Court Got It Wrong: Civil Rights and Dred Scott
- Feb 24, 2022 Civics at the Movies: National Treasure
- Feb 22, 2022 What are Committees?
- Feb 15, 2022 Who Writes the President's Speeches?
- Feb 7, 2022 How Does Security Clearance Work?
- Feb 1, 2022 The President and the Price of Gas
- Jan 25, 2022 The Politics Of The Olympics
- Jan 18, 2022 The USDA
- Jan 12, 2022 Congressional Investigations
- Jan 4, 2022 Declaring War
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2021
- Dec 28, 2021 A Civics Trivia Special! - Holidays at the White House
- Dec 21, 2021 The Lottery
- Dec 14, 2021 Federal Holidays
- Dec 9, 2021 Civics at the Movies: NASA and Hollywood
- Dec 7, 2021 Emergency Powers of the President
- Nov 30, 2021 US vs: Two Party System
- Nov 23, 2021 Diplomacy
- Nov 16, 2021 Gerrymandering
- Nov 2, 2021 After 9/11: Department of Homeland Security
- Oct 19, 2021 Government Shutdown
- Oct 5, 2021 State Attorneys General
- Sep 7, 2021 After 9/11: The FBI
- Aug 24, 2021 John Marshall and the Supreme Court
- Aug 10, 2021 Civil Rights: Obergefell v Hodges
- Jul 27, 2021 Civil Rights: Loving v Virginia
- Jul 13, 2021 Civil Rights: Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
- Jun 29, 2021 Japanese American Internment
- Jun 15, 2021 Civil Rights: Korematsu v United States
- Jun 1, 2021 Civil Rights: Plessy v Ferguson
- May 18, 2021 Civil Rights: Dred Scott v Sandford
- May 4, 2021 There Ought to Be a Law!
- Apr 20, 2021 The Chinese Exclusion Act
- Apr 6, 2021 Right to Privacy: Roe v Wade
- Mar 23, 2021 Right to Privacy: New Jersey v T.L.O.
- Mar 9, 2021 Right to Privacy: Griswold v Connecticut
- Feb 23, 2021 Right to Privacy: Mapp v Ohio
- Feb 9, 2021 Electoral College Addendum
- Jan 22, 2021 Insurrection, Protest, Terrorism, Sedition, Coup
- Jan 20, 2021 Ask Civics 101: Who Are the United States Capitol Police?
- Jan 20, 2021 Ask Civics 101: Inauguration Day
- Jan 18, 2021 Ask Civics 101: What Is Moving Day Like at the White House?
- Jan 15, 2021 Ask Civics 101: What Are Democratic Norms?
- Jan 14, 2021 Ask Civics 101: Has the U.S. Capitol Been Ambushed Before?
- Jan 13, 2021 Ask Civics 101: What Happens When One Party Controls Congress and the Presidency?
- Jan 11, 2021 Ask Civics 101: The Peaceful Transition of Power
- Jan 7, 2021 Ask Civics 101: The 25th Amendment
- Jan 6, 2021 Ask Civics 101: Why Does the Vote Certification Take So Long?
- Jan 4, 2021 Ask Civics 101: What Role Does Congress Play in the Electoral College?
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2020
- Dec 28, 2020 Ask Civics 101: How Does a Contested Convention Work?
- Dec 21, 2020 Ask Civics 101: Holidays at the White House
- Dec 18, 2020 Ask Civics 101: What Is Voter Fraud?
- Dec 16, 2020 Ask Civics 101: How Is a Seat Filled When a Member of Congress Takes Another Job?
- Dec 14, 2020 Ask Civics 101: How Do Presidential Pardons Work?
- Dec 11, 2020 Ask Civics 101: How Does the Electoral College Vote?
- Dec 9, 2020 Ask Civics 101: Who Are Electors?
- Dec 7, 2020 Ask Civics 101: What Does the National Archives Have To Do With the Electoral College?
- Dec 4, 2020 Ask Civics 101: What Does the Solicitor General Do?
- Dec 2, 2020 Ask Civics 101: What Do Politicians Do After They Leave Office?
- Nov 30, 2020 Ask Civics 101: What's Going On in the Georgia Senate Races?
- Nov 25, 2020 Ask Civics 101: What Happens to Campaign Funds after the Election Is Over?
- Nov 23, 2020 Ask Civics 101: How Do We Add States? What Is the Difference Between a State and a Commonwealth?
- Nov 20, 2020 Ask Civics 101: What Is an Executive Order?
- Nov 18, 2020 Ask Civics 101: How Do Judicial Appointments and Elections Work?
- Nov 16, 2020 Ask Civics 101: What Are the Differences Among Constructionist, Originalist, and Liberal Supreme Court Justices?
- Nov 13, 2020 Ask Civics 101: How Do Elections Rise to the Supreme Court?
- Nov 11, 2020 Ask Civics 101: Will We Ever Get Rid of the Electoral College System?
- Nov 10, 2020 Reconstruction: The Big Lie
- Nov 9, 2020 Ask Civics 101: What Is a Concession Speech?
- Nov 9, 2020 Ask Civics 101: What Is "Court Packing?"
- Nov 6, 2020 Ask Civics 101: What Is a "Lame Duck" Session?
- Nov 4, 2020 Ask Civics 101: How Is My Ballot Counted?
- Oct 27, 2020 The Election
- Oct 23, 2020 Ask Civics 101: Why Is Our Voting Age Eighteen?
- Oct 20, 2020 Ask Civics 101: How Did the Supreme Court Become so Important?
- Oct 20, 2020 Ask Civics 101: What is the Hatch Act?
- Oct 20, 2020 Freedom of the Press: Part 2
- Oct 16, 2020 Ask Civics 101: What Does the 25th Amendment Say About the President Stepping Down?
- Oct 12, 2020 Ask Civics 101: How Do Recounts Work?
- Oct 6, 2020 Presidential Debates
- Sep 22, 2020 Freedom of the Press: Part 1
- Sep 22, 2020 Ask Civics 101: Why Is the American Campaign Season so Long?
- Sep 18, 2020 Ask Civics 101: Why Do We Have the Electoral College?
- Sep 15, 2020 Introducing Ask Civics 101: What Are We?
- Sep 8, 2020 The Declaration Revisited: The Declaration of Sentiments
- Aug 25, 2020 Birthright Citizenship: US v Wong Kim Ark
- Aug 11, 2020 The Declaration Revisited: Native Americans
- Jul 28, 2020 The Declaration Revisited: Black Americans
- Jul 14, 2020 Civic Action: Voting, Part 2
- Jul 2, 2020 Civic Action: Voting, Part 1
- Jun 16, 2020 Posse Comitatus
- Jun 9, 2020 Civic Action: Protest
- May 19, 2020 The United States Postal Service
- May 8, 2020 AP US Government Prepisode
- Apr 14, 2020 Emergency Powers of the Governor
- Apr 7, 2020 19th Amendment: Part 2
- Mar 24, 2020 19th Amendment: Part 1
- Mar 13, 2020 Civics 101 Presents: Code Switch
- Mar 10, 2020 Money
- Feb 25, 2020 Independents
- Feb 11, 2020 The Stump Speech: Student Contest
- Jan 29, 2020 The Republican Party
- Jan 14, 2020 The Democratic Party
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2019
- Dec 17, 2019 Third Parties
- Dec 3, 2019 Becoming a U.S. Citizen
- Nov 19, 2019 Census
- Nov 5, 2019 Electoral College
- Oct 22, 2019 Conventions
- Oct 9, 2019 Impeachment
- Sep 24, 2019 Primaries and Caucuses
- Sep 10, 2019 How To Run for President
- Aug 13, 2019 Student Contest Winner: On the Bench
- Aug 6, 2019 Starter Kit: How a Bill (really) Becomes a Law
- Jul 30, 2019 Starter Kit: Federalism
- Jul 23, 2019 Starter Kit: Judicial Branch
- Jul 16, 2019 Starter Kit: Legislative Branch
- Jul 9, 2019 Starter Kit: Executive Branch
- Jul 2, 2019 Starter Kit: Checks and Balances
- May 14, 2019 Life Stages: Death
- May 7, 2019 Life Stages: Retirement
- Apr 30, 2019 Life Stages: Marriage
- Apr 23, 2019 Life Stages: Work
- Apr 16, 2019 Life Stages: School
- Apr 9, 2019 Life Stages: Birth
- Feb 26, 2019 Founding Documents: The Bill of Rights
- Feb 19, 2019 Founding Documents: The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
- Feb 12, 2019 Founding Documents: The Constitution
- Feb 5, 2019 Founding Documents: Articles of Confederation
- Jan 29, 2019 Founding Documents: Declaration of Independence
- Jan 22, 2019 Founding Documents: Magna Carta
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2018
- Nov 26, 2018 Midterm Edition: 5 Things to Know About the Midterms
- Nov 6, 2018 Midterm Edition: Why Vote?
- Oct 30, 2018 Midterm Edition: Propositions (aka Ballot Measures)
- Oct 23, 2018 Midterm Edition: Campaigning
- Oct 16, 2018 Midterm Edition: House v Senate
- Oct 9, 2018 Midterm Edition: State and Local Elections
- Aug 21, 2018 Special Announcement and IRL2
- Aug 7, 2018 IRL1: Free Speech in Schools [Rebroadcast]
- Jul 31, 2018 The Death Penalty
- Jul 24, 2018 The Equal Rights Amendment
- Jul 17, 2018 The Affordable Care Act
- Jul 10, 2018 Tariffs
- Jul 3, 2018 Contest Winner: Unconventional
- Jun 26, 2018 The Draft
- Jun 19, 2018 The Federal Register
- Jun 12, 2018 National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Jun 5, 2018 Police
- May 29, 2018 Infrastructure – Water!
- May 22, 2018 Freedom of Information Act
- May 15, 2018 NASA
- May 11, 2018 The White House Press Secretary
- May 8, 2018 ICE: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- May 1, 2018 The National Guard
- Apr 24, 2018 Presidential Transitions
- Apr 20, 2018 Hostages
- Apr 17, 2018 Infrastructure - Roads!
- Apr 13, 2018 Foreign Aid
- Apr 10, 2018 The CIA
- Apr 6, 2018 The Americans with Disabilities Act
- Apr 3, 2018 The Eighth Amendment
- Mar 30, 2018 The Department of Justice
- Mar 27, 2018 The Hatch Act
- Mar 23, 2018 The Fourth Amendment
- Mar 20, 2018 The FBI
- Mar 16, 2018 Torture
- Mar 13, 2018 Department of State & Department of Defense [REBROADCAST]
- Mar 9, 2018 Democratic Norms
- Mar 6, 2018 IRL2: The Flag and the Pledge
- Mar 2, 2018 Voting Rights
- Feb 27, 2018 The Fifteenth Amendment
- Feb 23, 2018 The Fourteenth Amendment
- Feb 20, 2018 The Thirteenth Amendment
- Feb 16, 2018 DACA
- Feb 13, 2018 First Ladies
- Feb 9, 2018 Nuclear Weapons
- Feb 6, 2018 Inspectors General
- Feb 2, 2018 The Federal Election Commission
- Jan 30, 2018 How We Vote
- Jan 26, 2018 Super PACs
- Jan 23, 2018 Welfare
- Jan 19, 2018 Lightning Round
- Jan 16, 2018 The Two-Party System
- Jan 12, 2018 The Surgeon General
- Jan 9, 2018 Post-Presidency
- Jan 5, 2018 Department of Homeland Security
- Jan 2, 2018 The National Anthem
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2017
- Dec 29, 2017 Camp David
- Dec 26, 2017 Lobbying [Rebroadcast]
- Dec 22, 2017 FEMA
- Dec 19, 2017 The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
- Dec 15, 2017 U.S. Allies
- Dec 12, 2017 HUD
- Dec 8, 2017 The National Archives
- Dec 5, 2017 The U.S. Flag Code
- Dec 1, 2017 Congressional Committees
- Nov 28, 2017 U.S. Postal Service
- Nov 24, 2017 IRL 1: Free Speech in Schools
- Nov 21, 2017 Native American Reservations
- Nov 17, 2017 White House Staffers
- Nov 14, 2017 Unions
- Nov 10, 2017 The Vice President
- Nov 7, 2017 The 2nd Amendment
- Nov 3, 2017 The Secret Service
- Oct 31, 2017 The 1st Amendment - Freedom of the Press
- Oct 27, 2017 The Federalist Papers
- Oct 24, 2017 Populism
- Oct 20, 2017 The 1st Amendment - Freedom of Assembly
- Oct 17, 2017 The EPA
- Oct 13, 2017 The Secretary of Education
- Oct 10, 2017 The Nuclear Codes [Rebroadcast]
- Oct 6, 2017 The CDC
- Oct 3, 2017 The Debt Ceiling
- Sep 29, 2017 The Attorney General
- Sep 26, 2017 Federalism
- Sep 22, 2017 The Census
- Sep 19, 2017 Government Shutdown
- Sep 15, 2017 Commander in Chief
- Sep 12, 2017 The 1st Amendment - Freedom of Speech
- Sep 1, 2017 Judges
- Aug 29, 2017 State of Emergency
- Aug 25, 2017 Treason
- Aug 22, 2017 U.S. Voting Systems
- Aug 18, 2017 Sanctions
- Aug 15, 2017 Who Gets to Run for President
- Aug 11, 2017 Federal Grand Juries
- Aug 8, 2017 Ambassadors
- Aug 4, 2017 Speaker of the House
- Aug 1, 2017 Intelligence Agencies
- Jul 25, 2017 U.S. Territories
- Jul 21, 2017 Obstruction of Justice
- Jul 18, 2017 Church & State
- Jul 14, 2017 Lobbying
- Jul 7, 2017 Autocracies & Oligarchies & Democracies, Oh My!
- Jun 28, 2017 Approval Ratings
- Jun 21, 2017 Party Whips
- Jun 14, 2017 Separation of Powers
- Jun 1, 2017 Budget Basics
- May 24, 2017 How a Bill Becomes a Law
- May 17, 2017 National Debt & The Deficit
- May 10, 2017 Political Speechwriting
- May 5, 2017 Congressional Caucuses
- Apr 26, 2017 How a Case Gets to the Supreme Court
- Apr 21, 2017 The Cabinet
- Apr 18, 2017 Term Limits
- Apr 14, 2017 The IRS
- Apr 11, 2017 Emoluments
- Apr 7, 2017 Congressional Investigations
- Apr 4, 2017 The Congressional Budget Office
- Mar 31, 2017 The Electoral College
- Mar 28, 2017 Senate Rules
- Mar 24, 2017 Office of Scheduling & Advance
- Mar 21, 2017 Veto
- Mar 17, 2017 Gerrymandering
- Mar 14, 2017 Department of State & Department of Defense
- Mar 10, 2017 The Office of Presidential Correspondence
- Mar 6, 2017 Filibuster
- Mar 2, 2017 The Nuclear Codes
- Feb 28, 2017 The State of the Union Address
- Feb 24, 2017 Impeachment
- Feb 21, 2017 Overturning a Supreme Court Ruling
- Feb 16, 2017 Federal Courts
- Feb 13, 2017 Executive Orders
- Feb 9, 2017 The National Security Council
- Feb 7, 2017 Calling Your Congressperson
- Feb 2, 2017 How to Amend the Constitution
- Jan 31, 2017 The Comment Period
- Jan 27, 2017 White House Press Corps
- Jan 19, 2017 Chief of Staff
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