• Health of the Nation, Health of the Planet/ producer, Sally Beaty

  Despite attempts to provide an equitable baseline of healthcare for Americans, an estimated 44 million people in the United States have no health insurance at all, public or private. This episode looks at various governmental attempts to insure a "healthy" America, from the work of various research agencies (NIH and CDC) and regulatory units (EPA and FDA) to specific governmental programs, like Medicare and Medicaid

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• Leader for a nation

  The president operates within a system of separate institutions that share power. Without congressional authorization and funding, most presidential proposals are nothing but ideas, empty of action. Theodore Roosevelt longed to "be the president and Congress, too" if only for a day, so that he would have the power to adopt as well as propose programs. Whether a president's initiatives are likely to succeed or fail depends on several factors, including the force of circumstance, the stage of the president's...

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• Legal precedent

  In recent years the judiciary has become an increasingly powerful policymaking body. Although judicial decisions are constrained by applicable constitutional law, statutory law, and precedent, the courts have considerable discretion in the way they interpret these laws, causing some people to question the judiciary's proper role in a democracy. This episode probes contemporary questions regarding the federal judiciary including the debate surrounding originalism, textualism, judicial review, and...

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• The living constitution

  A look at the Constitution in contemporary terms reveals a short document-7,000 words long-shorter than every state constitution except Vermont's. Only thirty-three of the more than 11,000 amendments that have been proposed have been approved by Congress and submitted to states. Twenty-seven have been ratified. Nevertheless, the Constitution is an unfinished work that has evolved through less formal methods of change-congressional legislation, presidential actions, judicial review, custom and use

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• Party politics

  The patterns of party politics in the United States provide a fascinating platform from which to view American political history. Divergent interests, seeking to strengthen their voice, join with others in creating a common political agenda, often under the Republican or Democrat banner. In recent years, as the two major parties have become more narrowly defined, many political moderates feel they've lost their political home. Third party ventures tend to work to only a limited degree because of...

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• Pressure politics

  Alexis de Tocqueville observed in 1834, "that no country of the world have the principles of association been more successfully used or applied to a greater multitude of objectives than in America." The French traveler was amazed as the degree to which Americans formed groups to solve civic problems, establish social relations, and speak for their economic or political interests. The structure of the American government invites the participation of interests groups. The system has many points of...

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• Questions of sovereignty

  Explores American federalism-the system of relationships among the U.S. government; the fifty state governments; and town, city, and county governments-and compares it to other ways of ordering relations between central governments and local units

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• Rights of the accused

  The United States has one of the highest violent crime rates in the world. It is not surprising, therefore, that many citizens have extremely strong opinions about the rights of those accused of criminal offenses. When an accused person is set free because of an apparent legal technicality, some people feel that the rights of the accused are being given more weight than the rights of society and victims of crime. The courts and the police must constantly engage in a balancing act of competing rights....

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• PBS Video Arsenal of democracy

  The five years preceding World War II are captured in this episode with a host of images that reflect the turbulent timesas the promise of progress is comprised by continued poverty, despair and the horrors of Hitler's Blitzkrieg across Europeuntil finally, America is shown going back to work

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  Guns N' Roses Appetite for democracy

  Live at the Hard Rock Casino - Las Vegas; + bonus cd's

  Het verhaal van Guns N’ Roses is bekend: van de originele bezetting bleef alleen zanger Axl Rose over. Terwijl zijn voormalige bandmaten plaat na plaat uitbrachten, hulde Rose zich met een verbouwd GN’R vooral in stilzwijgen. Pas in 2008 kwam er, na zeventien jaar, weer een album met vers materiaal ( Chinese Democracy ). Het gros muzikanten met wie Rose die plaat opnam is ook weer vervangen. Dat blijkt wel uit deze dvd die in november 2012 werd opgenomen in het Hard Rock Casino van Las Vegas. Geflankeerd...

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• The war on democracy

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• Future of democracy abroad

  Mrs Roosevelt and her guests consider the long-term spread and survival of democracy in the West and the underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America

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• A Democracy in shock

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• The Democratic process

  This program discusses the importance of voting, and examines the democratic process and citizenship. Through discussions and interviews, students will understand why in U.S. society every vote counts.

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  Noam Chomsky Imperial grand strategy

  The conquest of Iraq and the assault on democracy

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