Join Saladin Ambar and Michael Smerconish as they explore the 2024 campaign landscape. Gain insights from Smerconish on navigating diverse viewpoints and the evolving political landscape.

In this episode, Lee Drutman, Senior Fellow at New America, discusses the challenge of party politics and explores ways a multi-party system could better represent America's  diversity.

This Moment in Democracy host Saladin Ambar is joined by Dr. Christina Greer, Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus, for a conversation on the historical intersectionality of gender and politics, specifically speaking to the role black women play in defending democracy.

In honor of Black History Month, Saladin Ambar and Harvard University professor, Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, discuss reparations progress in New Jersey and nationwide, and the impacts censoring race education has on democracy.

In a special President's Day episode, Saladin Ambar is joined by Prof. Justin Vaughn and Prof. Brandon Rottinghaus as they share findings from the Presidential Greatness survey and the lasting impact of executive legacies.

In the first episode of 2024, Saladin Ambar is joined by Jon Ralston, founder of the nonpartisan news and opinion website The Nevada Independent and MSNBC contributor, for a discussion about Nevada's important role in the upcoming presidential contests.

Dr. Kelly Dittmar, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University–Camden and Director of Research and Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics discusses CAWP's latest report, Rethinking Women's Political Power.  Dittmar explores the report findings and shares opportunities for increasing women's access to political power within and across states.

Join us on The Morning After as journalists, political experts, and public officials analyze New Jersey's legislative race results and their impact on the 2024 primary season.  Featured Panelists:   · Jeannine LaRue - Founder, LaRuelist Cafe and Senior Vice President, Kaufman Zita Group   · Matthew McDermott - Senior Vice President, Zita Group   · Colleen O'Dea - Senior Writer and Special Projects Editor, New Jersey Spotlight News   · Arlene Quiñones Perez, Esq. - Equity Partner at DeCotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin, LLP   · Stacy Schuster - Executive Director, Women for a Stronger New Jersey  · Charles Stile - Political Columnist The Record   Moderators:   · Dr. Ashley Koning - Director, Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling   · Sarah Samdani - Editor in Chief of the Eagleton Political Journal  (Webinar recorded 11/8/2023)

In this episode, experts discuss how film and popular culture contribute to shaping political culture. Specifically, the discussion explores the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon from this summer's Barbie and Oppenheimer film releases, and how they ignited a contentious debate between liberals and conservatives. Guest panelists: Joanna Weiss,  Executive Director of the AI Literacy Lab at Northeastern University & Contributing Writer at POLITICO Magazine Professor Lilly J. Goren, Professor of Political Science at Carroll University  Louis Abramson, Astrophysicist and community organizer in Hollywood; Candidate for California State Assembly.

Former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine shares his insights on the rise of populism in politics and opens up about what he would have done differently during his tenure as governor.