Is the Supreme Court above politics, or is the law just politics by other means? UVA Law School Dean Risa Goluboff helps analyze the role of the federal judiciary amid America’s cultural shifts and rifts.

Kate Manne argues that contempt for women is not a bug but a feature of Donald Trump’s politics. More than that, she says, misogyny runs deep in American culture and shapes how our government works — for the worse.

Fascism. Can a creeping enthusiasm for World War Two–era totalitarianism prevail in the 21st century? Yale philosopher Jason Stanley thinks so. Not only that, he says: democracies are especially susceptible to fascist ideals.

Is Donald Trump a rhetorical genius? Communications expert Jennifer Mercieca thinks so. This time on the show, she unpacks Trump’s linguistic virtuosity — and explains why it makes him a demagogue.

Phil Howard has studied — and lived through — misinformation campaigns around the world, but he never thought Western countries like the United Kingdom and the United States could fall prey to bots, trolls and digital operatives.

The core safeguards of the Voting Rights Act are unraveling. We’ve been here before, historian Carol Anderson tells Will and Siva. But Americans won’t sit by as their ballots are shredded.

Charleston. Tree of Life. Christchurch. All these deadly attacks have some grim details in common — their death tolls were massive... white-power ideology fueled their architects... and they only seemed like the work of loners, according to historian Kathleen Belew.

The attraction to violent far-right extremism often begins with innocent online chatter before it’s fed by degrees — and algorithms, says Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a sociologist and education expert who tracks such groups.

Internet giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter aren’t just part of the disinformation problem — they are the problem, according to author Nina Jankowicz. She says they’ve abdicated their role to protect the public from trolls, bots and outright lies.