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- Outrage 98 – Why Saving Democracy Sounds Like a Threat to Conservatives – Scott Warren and Sophia Winner
- New ethnographic research reveals why appeals to democratic norms fall on deaf ears
- Outrage 97 – Is Academic Research Compromising Its Own Standards – Ashley Rubin
- A multi-university commission investigating politicization across academic disciplines
- Spotlight Series – Decoding Democratic Socialism vs. Social Democracy
- An experimental dialogue untangling “scare words,” Social Democracy, and the DSA in modern politics
- Outrage 96 – Navigating Uncertainty: The Philosophy of Orientation – Douglas Giles
- How to turn heated conflicts into productive conversations
- Outrage 95 – The Legal Glitch That Engineered Our Political Rage – Larry Lessig
- Why Overturning Citizens United Isn’t the Only Way to Stop Super PACs
- Outrage 94 – Making Politicians Accountable to Voters – Ramon Perez
- How practical, tech-driven tools can flip broken political incentives and force representatives to answer to their districts.
- Civic Voices: What Occupy Taught Us About Grassroots Power – Mila Atmos
- An in-depth retrospective on the origins, media dynamics, and legacy of the 2011 Zuccotti Park occupation.
- Outrage 93 – The Structural Battle for the DOJ – Alex Lovit
- How did the post-Watergate norm of an independent Justice Department crumble so quickly?
- Outrage 92 – Breaking the Duopoly Loop – Nathan Smolensky
- How independent candidates can overcome defeatism and flip the duopoly script
- Bonus: “Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising” (from Future Hindsight)
- Episode one of a four part series from our friends at Future Hindsight
- Civic Voices: Reclaiming the Narrative at America 250
- Step back from the outrage industry this 250th anniversary
- Outrage 91 – Flipping the Incentives of the Outrage Economy with Don Templeman
- What if Algorithms Rewarded Bridge-Building?
- Outrage Overload x The Politics Guys: Deconstructing Polarization
- Crossover episode with Michael Baranowski, host of The Politics Guys, a fellow member of The Democracy Group
- Outrage 90 – A new third political option: The CenterCratic Party – Paul Chapman
- Can You Build a Political Tribe Out of the Moderates Left Behind?
- Outrage Bonus – When the State Loses Moral Legitimacy
- Are living through the quiet expiration of the social contract?
- Outrage 89 – The Mentalization Gap – Lura Forcum
- Why is it so easy to dismiss “the other side”?
- Outrage 88 – The Cost of Purity and the Power of Pluralism – Allison K. Ralph
- Why “Purity Over Coalitions” Is Killing Democracy
- Outrage Bonus – Navigating the Outrage Industry with Corey Nathan
- Can we talk about politics, faith, and culture without “killing each other”?
- Outrage 87 – The Human Need to Make the World Make Sense
- A Case Study in the Search for Truth
- Outrage 86 – Why We Viscerally Resist Talking to the Other Side – Mónica Guzmán
- Why Mónica Guzmán Thinks Your Curiosity is a Radical Act
- Outrage Bonus – An Island with No Plan B – Caleb Scharf
- How the Fermi Paradox and the Overview Effect can help us find a cosmic responsibility to look past the outrage
- Outrage 85 – Escaping the Filter Bubble: How to Find Consensus in a Divided World – Kristin Jackson
- How Freespoke Helps You Compare News Sources to Find the Full Story
- Outrage 84 – I Bought a Bar – K Scarry
- An experiment in bridge-building
- Outrage Bonus: Is the “Move to the Center” Framework an Outdated Political Myth? – Frank A. Spring
- Is the “move to the center” vs. “lean left” debate a false choice?
- Outrage 83 – Can Dinner Fix a Divided Society? – Tim Jones
- Rebuild social trust and connection through large-scale community table events
- Outrage 82 – Can Democracy Survive Tribal Thinking? – Timothy Redmond
- Why Democracy Needs an Athena Moment
- Outrage 81 – When a Film Changes the Filmmaker – Nick Beaulieu
- What polarization looks like inside a family, not on cable news
- Outrage Bonus – America’s Lost Generation – Cameron Cowan
- How economic precarity shapes political behavior and identity
- Outrage 80 – The Quiet Choices That Shape History – Luke Berryman
- Resisting Nazism & Everyday Resistance
- Outrage 79 – When We Stop Sharing the Same Reality – Stephen Maher
- How the Collapse of Local News Reshaped Public Life
- Outrage Bonus – A Clear-Eyed Look Back at the Pandemic Divide
- Why Political Blame Misses the Real COVID Lessons
- Civic Voices: The Congresspeople You’ve Never Heard Of Might Save Democracy – Brad Porteus
- Who Actually Gets Things Done in Congress?
- Outrage 78 – The Next Phase of Polarization Isn’t Social Media It’s AI – Petter Törnberg
- When AI Becomes the Most Persuasive Voice in the Room
- Civic Voices: The America You Don’t See on the News – Adam Mizel
- National Unity Day — A Nationally Recognized Movement
- Outrage 77 – Issue Salience Polarization: Why We Disagree About What Matters – Adrienne Kafka & Troy Campbell
- How solutions create division
- Okay Boomer – Talking Across Generations in the Age of Digital Overwhelm – Craig Mattson
- What happens when Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z try to communicate?
- Outrage 76 – The Revolt Against the Experts – Hillary Shulman
- Why So Many People Feel Shut Out of Science
- Outrage 75 – The Hidden Power of the Politically Homeless – Lura Forcum
- When the Center Becomes the Rebel
- Outrage Bonus – The Manosphere: A Shadow Network of Influence – Havana Mohr-Ramirez
- A digital undercurrent with real-world consequences
- Outrage 74 – When Polarized Communities Work Together – Kira Hamman
- Why Talking Isn’t Enough to Bridge Divides
- Outrage 73 – Rethinking Autism Advocacy – Ari Ne’eman
- What If Inclusion, Not Normalization, Was the Goal?
- Outrage 72 – The Fight to Make Online Spaces Civil Again – Yevgeny Simkin
- Why Owning Your Online Identity Matters More Than Ever
- Outrage Bonus – What’s Pulling Young Men to the Right?
- Inside the Growing Gender Divide That Could Reshape American Democracy
- Outrage 71 – Do Facts Really Change Minds? – Nick Stagnaro
- The Shift from Certainty to Nuance
- Outrage 70 – Is There Still Hope for the Internet? – Kristin Hansen
- The Hidden Power of Social Norms
- Civic Voices: What Happens When Students Talk Across Generations? – June Klees
- How an intergenerational dialogue project is changing hearts and minds.
- Outrage 69 – America’s Connection Opportunity – Kate Carney and Calista Small
- Hope, Barriers, and the Path Forward
- Outrage 68 – Is Our Democracy Failing Because We’re Not Thinking Enough? – James Fishkin
- Lessons from ancient Athens to modern Mongolia
- Outrage on the Mic, Part 3: Rage Sells, But We Don’t Have to Buy It
- Can we build meaningful media without playing the rage game?
- Outrage on the Mic, Part 2: Outrage Has Always Been With Us
- Outrage echoes through the ages.
- Outrage on the Mic, Part 1: Laughing Through the Outrage
- Part 1 of our special July series, Outrage on the Mic
- Outrage 67 – Can AI Help Us Talk About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? – Adam Boaz Becker
- Creating Space for Difficult Conversations
- Special Report: Are We Witnessing a Democracy in Crisis? – Lucan Way
- What Does Political Retaliation Tell Us About the Health of U.S. Democracy?
- Outrage 66 – What It Really Takes to Fix the Division in America – Rich Harwood
- How communities are healing despite the noise of outrage
- Outrage Bonus – The Crunchy to Radical Pipeline
- How Wellness Content Fuels Conspiracies
- Outrage 65 – Grief, Fatigue, and the Aftermath of COVID – Zeest Khan
- How a Doctor’s Long COVID Journey Exposed Systemic Failures
- Civic Voices: Crisis in National Service Undermines Civic Engagement – Maureen Eccleston
- How Service Years Strengthen Democracy from the Ground Up
- Outrage 64 – Our Democracy Is Fraying—Here’s How We Start Repairing It – Karissa Raskin
- Why 500 Organizations Joined Forces to Bridge America’s Deepest Divides
- Media Literacy: Crisis in Journalism with Michael Deas
- Exploring Media Consolidation, Distrust, and the Future of News
- Outrage 63 – Moral Psychology and the Harm-Based Roots of Political Polarization – Sam Pratt
- How Perceptions of Harm Drive Moral Outrage and Political Conflict
- Outrage 62 – Reducing Online Outrage: What Role Can Community-Driven Algorithms Play – Paul Resnick
- How Systems Like Community Notes on Twitter/X Aim to Break the Cycle of Misinformation
- Special Report: Lessons from Postcards to Hitler – Bruce Neuburger
- How Authoritarianism Creeps In and Why Resistance Matters
- Outrage 61 – Outraged! The New Science of Morality – Kurt Gray
- How Our Moral Minds Shape Political Fights—And How to Have Better Conversations
- Outrage Bonus – From Outrage to Reflection
- A Ritual for Intentional Living
- Outrage 60 – PODCASTHON: Bridging the Tech Divide with Dev Mission – Leonardo Sosa
- How Tech Training is Changing Lives for Underserved Youth
- Okay Boomer – Mental Health – Valerie Beck
- Understanding the Generational Divide
- Outrage 59 – Outrage, Fear, and Perception: Understanding Cultivation Theory – James Shanahan
- How Media Shapes Reality
- BONUS – The Imperial Presidency? Executive Overreach and the Constitution
- Why You Should Care About Government Bureaucracy
- Outrage 58 – The Truth Behind Political Division: Are We Really That Different? – James Coan
- How Correcting Misperceptions Can Heal Political Divides
- Outrage Bonus – Fairness, Biology, and Outrage: The Complexity of Sex Development
- How Biology Challenges the Male-Female Binary
- Outrage 57 -The Surprising Revival of Vinyl Records, Instant Cameras, and Analog Joys – David Sax
- Why Physical Experiences Still Matter in a Digital World
- Civic Voices: Behind the Curtain: A Conversation with DNC Chair Candidate Jason Paul
- Inside the Political Arena
- Outrage 56 – The Cost of Innovation: Who Pays for Silicon Valley’s Bold Experiments? – Émile P. Torres
- How Silicon Valley Elites Decide the Future Without Us
- Outrage Bonus -Aphantasia, Face Blindness, and the Diversity of Inner Worlds – Sadie Dingfelder
- Do I Know You? A Journey Through Neurodiversity and Inner Lives
- Outrage 55 – Surviving the Age of Misinformation – David Helfand
- How to Survive the Age of Misinformation
- Outrage Bonus – Special: The Hosts in the Hot Seat!
- Guest host Ross “Yergz” Yerger flips the script and puts David and Lisa Beckemeyer—the voices behind the podcast—on the other side of the mic
- Outrage 54 – Civic Renewal: Fighting Polarization with Local Solutions That Work – Rich Harwood
- Why Building Together Is the Key to Healing Divided Communities
- Special Report: The Hate Next Door: Unmasking the New Face of White Supremacy – Matt and Tawni Browning
- How Understanding Can Combat Hate: Insights from “The Hate Next Door”
- Outrage 53 – The Impact of Political Attacks on Social Media – Ariel Hasell
- How Social Media Hostility Impacts Democracy
- Outrage 52 – Nobody wants to be an idiot – Andrew Selepak
- Are We Finally Sick of the Media Outrage Machine?
- Post-Election 2024 Special
- What Are Voters Really Saying?
- Outrage 51 – The complex interplay between burnout, outrage, and societal challenges – Gary Simonds
- How Neuroscience Can Help Us Fight Burnout in an Age of Outrage and Division
- Special Report: Tech Bro Apocalypse Dreams – David Troy
- How Tech Bros Like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel want to Shape Our Future
- Outrage 50 – I got to the point where I just didn’t even want to consume the news anymore – Julie Rose
- Why Embracing Complexity and Nuance is Critical for Personal Growth and Informed Decision-Making
- Outrage Bonus – You can’t influence someone you are not connected to – Karin Tamerius
- How to Have Better Political Conversations (Even with Your Most Difficult Relatives)
- Outrage 49 – What would an environmental saint look like? – Roger S. Gottlieb
- Why We Need Courage, Not Hope, to Face Climate Change
- Outrage Bonus – We don’t have for election day any particular culture – Jonathan Bernstein
- Can Humor Save Election Day?
- Outrage 48 – The complex psychological effects of Twitter use – Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello
- How Twitter Impacts Our Well-being
- Outrage Bonus – Centrism is no longer viable – Steve McIntosh
- How AI Can Help Address Toxic Polarization
- Outrage 47 – People have already decided what is factual and correct – Samuel C. Spitale
- How to Combat the Misinformation Crisis
- Media Literacy: Rethinking Your News Diet: Two Approaches to a Healthier Information Intake – Drew Steigerwald & Alex Fink
- How Platforms Like OtherWeb and 1440 Are Changing News Consumption
- Outrage 46 – The Enduring Grip of Trumpism on America – Robert Gutsche
- After Trump: Understanding the Continuing Influence of Trumpism
- Special Report: Project 2025 and Agenda 47 – Sean Evans
- Checks and balances that could influence its execution
- Outrage 45 – A Messy Synthesis of Rational Decision-Making and Subjective Assessment – Guy Burgess
- How Understanding Intractable Conflicts Can Improve Our Society
- Perspectives: We’re Different. You’re Not Going to Turn a Conservative into a Liberal – Michael Anderson
- Why We Need Conservative Perspectives to Combat Polarization
- Outrage 44 – Outrage Fatigue – Inoculating Our Minds Against Misinformation – Melanie Trecek-King
- How to Build Mental Immunity Against Misinformation and Conspiracies
- Emergency Panel: When “Listen to the Other Side” Isn’t Enough
- Emergency Panel – Phyllis Leavitt and Lisa Swallow
- Outrage 43 – Enemy at First Sight: Decoding the Neural Shortcuts of Political Division – Carsten Sander
- How Our Brains Are Wired for Political Division
- Outrage Bonus – OMG, those other people are not insane – Lisa Swallow
- Why Crossing Party Lines is Essential for a Healthy Democracy
- Outrage 42 – Maybe we were not ready – Michalis Mamakos
- The Trolls Among Us: Understanding and Mitigating Online Toxicity
- Okay Boomer – Housing – Cameron Lee Cowan and Jake Didinsky
- Inaugural episode of our new “Okay Boomer” series
- Outrage 41 – You can’t make something settled just by saying it’s settled – Ilana Redstone
- How Certainty Fuels Outrage and Division
- Outrage Bonus – Negativity Addiction – Travis Monteleone
- How Negativity Bias Fuels Toxic Politics
- Outrage 40 – You’re funneled down this rabbit hole of extremist beliefs – Jack Wippell
- How to Combat Youth Radicalization Using Learning Psychology
- Outrage 39 – The Poisoning of the American Mind – Lawrence Eppard (rebroadcast)
- Navigating Media Trust and Misinformation
- Outrage Bonus – America on the Knife’s Edge
- A special audio documentary episode
- Outrage 38 – Was it social media in the living room with the candlestick? – Thomas Zeitzoff
- How to Rise Above Nasty Politics
- Outrage BONUS – Believing pencils are charming becomes politicized – Dino Carpentras
- How Polarization Extends to New Topics
- Outrage 37 – There is an enormous amount of distrust and gullibility – Andreas Schedler
- How Broken Trust is Poisoning American Democracy
- Outrage 36 – It’s not as if there’s only certain types of people that are affected by this – Åsa Wikforss
- Why We Resist Facts & How to Fight Back!
- Outrage 35 – We’re not giving the wrong answer, but we’re asking the wrong question – Hyrum Lewis
- Why we need to abandon the Left-Right political spectrum paradigm
- Outrage 34 – It has to be person to person for it to mean anything – Luke Nathan Phillips
- How Braver Angels is Lowering the Temperature in Political Conversations
- Outrage BONUS – They’re not evil. They just think differently than you – Tami Pyfer
- Success Stories: Why You Need the Dignity Index in Your Toolbox
- Outrage 33 – There’s been a lot of pushback against this – Alia Braley
- Why even those who value democracy might contribute to its decline
- Outrage BONUS – GuesSync! you don’t need to know politics to play the game – Ashwin Rajadesingan
- How a Fun Game Reduces Political Polarization
- Outrage 32 – We just dig our heels in and make assumptions that are often wrong – Ken Futernick
- How Understanding, Not Outrage, Can Bridge Divides in Education
- Perspectives: It doesn’t seem as if we’re all playing by the same rules – Shannon McGregor
- Is This Podcast Part of the Problem or the Solution?
- Outrage 31 – In a democracy you get exactly the government you deserve – Kevin Smith
- How to be the adult in the room, no matter your age
- Outrage 30 – The History of Outrage TV – Robert Thompson
- How Television Turned Outrage into a Commodity
- Outrage BONUS – MLK Day Special – Hajar Yazdiha
- How distorted memories of the Civil Rights Movement fuel today’s divisions
- Outrage 29 – This is basically trying to avoid civil war – Peter Coleman
- How Outrage Addiction Hijacked Our Conversations
- Outrage 28 – Listening is more important than talking – Matt Levendusky
- How to Bridge the Political Divide
- Outrage BONUS – One-year Anniversary Special – Peter Ditto
- Dr. Peter H. Ditto returns to celebrate with us
- Outrage 27 – Make sure that you’re not getting high on your own supply – Dannagal G. Young
- Late-Night Comedy, Far-Right Talk Shows, and Why You Might Be Wrong
- Outrage BONUS – There’s a lot of pressure to conform – Lawrence Eppard
- How to Overcome Challenges in Challenging the Status Quo
- Outrage 26 – The cascade process is a way that minds change at scale – David McRaney
- The Science of Changing Minds
- Outrage 25 – So we thought we would do a tournament – Jan Voelkel
- How Crowdsourcing Identified Effective Strategies to Reduce Political Polarization
- Outrage BONUS – 2023 Recap – Meet Austin Chen
- Apologies for the self-indulgence
- Outrage 24 – The good news is we really do know a lot about what we need to do – Phyllis Leavitt
- How Recognizing Fear and Pain Can Heal Our Divided Society
- Outrage 23 – For the most part, people are speaking into the void – Sanjay Jolly
- What C. Edwin Baker’s Ideas on Media Can Teach Us About Democracy
- Outrage BONUS – If traditional medicine was doing a good job, there wouldn’t be as much demand for alternatives – Britt Hermes & Michael Lenz
- How Chronic Conditions Drive Desperation: The High Cost of Naturopathic Care
- Outrage 22 – The Dignity Index – Tami Pyfer
- How the Dignity Index Offers Hope for More Productive Political Discourse
- Outrage 21 – I don’t try to make sense of it anymore – Courtney Heard
- How QAnon Impacts Lives: Exploring The Conspiracy’s Reach into Homes
- Civic Voices: Samizdat Online’s Battle Against Censorship – Yevgeny Simkin
- Why a Free Press Matters: Yevgeny Simkin’s Mission with Samizdat Online
- Outrage 20 – Make Hondas fly across the news – Yevgeny Simkin
- How to Break Free from Social Media’s Outrage Cycle
- Outrage 19 –About half the people simply don’t notice the gorilla – Chris Chabris
- What do scams and outrage porn have in common?
- Special Report: Step one: storm the capitol – Ben Hamilton
- Sorry Guys, We Stormed the Capitol
- Outrage 018 – You can’t necessarily just vote your way out of this – David Troy
- Why Building a Resilient Culture is Essential for Democracy
- Special Report: Secret docs Trump indictment – Jon Marshall
- How the Indictment speaks to our political divide
- Outrage 17 – The billion dollar question for democracy – Tobias Rose-Stockwell
- How Tech Amplifies Discontent and Disrupts Democracy
- Outrage 16 – The biggest conspiracy of all is that nobody really knows what they’re doing – Michael Serazio
- How Political Consultants Use Outrage as a Political Weapon: Understanding the Manipulation Game
- Outrage BONUS – Street Outrage – Unfiltered Trio
- Navigating Difficult Conversations, Unpacking Wokeism, and Discussing Cancel Culture
- Outrage 15 – Validation is the WD40 of our world – Hesha Abrams
- How we can bridge political divides and reconnect with people around us
- Outrage 014 – Erosion of trust in traditional media institutions – Lawrence Eppard
- How we can try to make sure news enlightens rather than enrages us
- Outrage BONUS – An anthropologist goes to CPAC – Alexander Hinton
- Why Understanding CPAC is Crucial to Political Discourse
- Outrage 013 – This is really primal stuff – Ritsaart Reimann
- How moral misinformation uses emotion to generate outrage
- Outrage 012 – Not everybody wants to talk to a sexologist, yet everybody has sex – Tiffynee Terry-Thomas
- How relationship counseling can help us heal political divisions
- Outrage BONUS – ChatGPT vs. Human Political Persuasion – Hui Bai
- How ChatGPT AI Can Persuade Humans on Political Issues
- Outrage 011 – The neuroscience of outrage porn – Alex Korb – Part Two
- Put your oxygen mask on first
- Outrage 010 – The neuroscience of outrage porn – Alex Korb – Part One
- How understanding our own limitations can help break us out of our outrage spiral
- Outrage BONUS – The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Shattered Trust in Science and Fueled Outrage – Kevin Bass
- Could we have done better to avoid the politicization of COVID?
- Outrage 009 – A lot of angry reactions – Steven Rathje – Part Two
- How social media gives us what captures our attention rather than what we actually want
- Outrage 008 – A lot of angry reactions – Steven Rathje – Part One
- How social media creates incentives for out-group animosity
- Outrage 007 – What took us five years of research he understood intuitively – Jeffrey M. Berry
- How the outrage industry has evolved in the past decade
- Outrage BONUS -ATM Robbery, Outrage, and the Toxic Side of Nextdoor
- What began as a simple call for safety had become something else entirely
- Outrage 006 – Stealing their dishwasher – Kurt Gray
- How virality results in moral panics
- Outrage BONUS – Twitter and Mastodon with David Troy
- Twitter blocking access to the API, Mastodon Twitter-alternative
- Outrage 005 – Holocaust Denial – Luke Berryman
- How Holocaust Denial and Other Bogus Claims Are Poisoning Schools
- Outrage 004 – We’ve Met the Enemy. And it’s Us. – Sean Evans
- Why political parties in America cater less to moderate and independent voters
- Outrage BONUS – ChatGPT weighs in on outrage porn
- ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence
- Outrage 003 – It Just Said “See Incivility” – Russ Charvonia
- Why it’s so important to restore civility in our lives
- Outrage 002 – Political Sectarianism: The Role of Outrage Porn – Peter Ditto – Part Two
- How democracy runs counter to almost all of our evolutionary tendencies
- Outrage BONUS – Outrage porn’s impact on the midterms – Sean Evans
- Were the 2022 midterms a referendum on outrage?
- Outrage 001 -Political Sectarianism: The Role of Outrage Porn – Peter Ditto – Part One
- How liberals and conservatives behave more like Sunnis and Shias than they do political parties and why that’s a problem
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