• Election 2024: Through Duke Students' Eyes
    Oct 30 2024

    In this episode, something different: the views of Duke students on next week's presidential election.

    Young voters represent a key target for both Vice President Kalama Harris and former President Donald Trump. Those under 30 lean Democrat, so Harris is working to maximize her advantage on college campuses and elsewhere. Trump seeks to narrow his deficit among young voters, especially young men, as part of his broader strategy for a winning coalition.

    Meet Sherman Criner, Evan Brown, and Annika Aristimuno. On this episode of Bedeviled, they give us a window into how young voters see America's choice.

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    1 hr
  • The Long Haul to Protect Democracy with Ian Bassin
    Oct 2 2024

    An unbroken record for transferring power peacefully after free and fair elections has made America a model for the world. The violent Jan 6 insurrection on behalf of Donald Trump broke it.

    Our guest, Ian Bassin, is a former lawyer in Barack Obama's White House and heads the watchdog group Protect Democracy. The non-profit and non-partisan organization seeks to check what it believes are authoritarian attacks on the United States, and to preserve democracy with a unified and cross-ideological strategy.

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    44 mins
  • A Top Elections Expert on the Challenge of 2024
    Mar 1 2024

    Few Americans know more about the nuts and bolts of American elections than Nate Persily. A professor at Stanford Law School, he was named research director of President Obama's special commission to explore improvements in the American voting experience in 2013. That makes him ideally suited to analyze the storms swirling around a 2024 campaign that poses an existential threat to the American experiment.

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    38 mins
  • With Democracy on the Line, Liz Cheney on Putting Country Over Party
    Jan 10 2024

    Liz Cheney is not merely a conservative. She was born and raised in the GOP. But when President Trump tried to overturn his 2020 reelection defeat to Joe Biden, Cheney found the line she wouldn't cross for her party. It cost Cheney her House seat. Now, she's written a new bestselling book, Oath and Honor, which warns American voters that preserving our democracy requires preventing Trump from ever returning to the Oval Office.

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    34 mins
  • Why Enough was Enough for Cassidy Hutchinson
    Dec 18 2023

    Cassidy Hutchinson is the former White House aide who testified at the public hearings of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 attack. She is the author of Enough, a riveting account f her White House experience and her warnings and concerns about threats to democracy posed by Donald Trump.

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    38 mins
  • The View from the Oval Office with President Biden
    Oct 3 2023

    In a rare interview, President Biden talks about battling Donald Trump and the threat to American democracy.

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    21 mins