CUNY Podcasts

Since the November 2010 elections, more than a dozen states have passed legislation requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls. Republicans argue it helps protect against voter fraud, but according to Dale Ho, assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Fund, these tactics have been tried...

When Mayor Michael Bloomberg completes his third and final term in 2013, a Republican mayor would have been at the helm of the overwhelming Democrat New York City for the past two decades. “There’s is a divide inside the Democratic party itself that leaves an opening for more conservative candid...

Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s drive to curb to the bargaining rights of public employees in Wisconsin is just the start of a much larger campaign to weaken the rights of labor unions across the country, according to John Nichols, Washington correspondent for the The Nation. “This was, and is, t...

Although the 2010 elections saw historic losses for the Democrats, the directional shift wasn’t all that unusual. “It’s almost always the case that the party of the president loses in midterm elections,” said Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Ce...