Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Behind every news headline, there’s another, deeper story. It’s a story about power. In Deep Background, Harvard Law School professor and Bloomberg View columnist Noah Feldman will bring together a cross-section of expert guests to explore the historical, scientific, legal, and cultural context that help us understand what’s really going on behind the biggest stories in the news.iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.
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The Impeachment Era
Why are presidential impeachments happening more often? Are impeachments futile if they don't end in a conviction? What did Hamilton and Madison overlook about the impeachment and the transition of power? To discuss these questions, political journalist and CEO of Pushkin Industries Jacob Weisberg joins the conversation.
40 min
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Inside Facebook’s Decision to Ban Trump
Monika Bickert, Vice President of Content Policy at Facebook, takes us inside the decision to indefinitely suspend former President Donald Trump’s account.
42 min
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Noah Feldman on Axios Today About the Impeachme...
Noah Feldman is a guest on this episode of Axios Today, discussing the constitutionality of the impeachment trial.
11 min
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GameStop Is Just The Beginning
Alexis Goldstein, a former Wall Street trader and senior policy analyst at Americans for Financial Reform, discusses why GameStop’s wild ride is not actually a David vs. Goliath story.
43 min
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The New Coronavirus Strains
Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch shares his concerns about the emerging COVID variants from the UK, South Africa, and Brazil..
33 min
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The Inaugural Episode
Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley shares his predictions and warnings for writing historical narratives about the end of the Trump presidency.
36 min
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The History of the White Power Movement (Rebroa...
In this rebroadcast from 2019, historian Kathleen Belew discusses the modern history of the white power movement and the often overlooked connection between incidents like Charlottesville and the Oklahoma City bombing.
49 min
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Stacey Abrams, Architect of Social Justice (Reb...
In light of the Georgia Senate wins, we are re-sharing Noah Feldman's conversation with Stacey Abrams.
35 min
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Noah Feldman on Axios Today about Electoral Votes
Noah Feldman is a guest on this episode of Axios Today, discussing what to watch for as members of Congress officially count the electoral votes for the presidential election.
11 min
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Vaccinating America
Michelle Mello, a professor of law at Stanford Law School and a professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, discusses the practical and ethical questions surrounding the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines.
34 min
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Finding Peace in Turbulent Times
Michael Alexander, the author of the new book “Making Peace with the Universe,” discusses how different spiritual masters helped guide him through a moment of crisis.
36 min
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The Power of the Presidential Pardon
Seth Berman, a former state and federal prosecutor and a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School, discusses how Trump could use his pardoning power before leaving office.
35 min
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Noah Feldman on Axios Today
Noah Feldman is a guest on this episode of Axios Today, discussing what we learned from the presidential election about our democratic process and what it can and cannot withstand.
9 min
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The Big Data Revolution
Eric Lander, the head of the Broad Institute and the host of the Pushkin podcast “Brave New Planet,” explains how big data helped scientists in the search for COVID-19 vaccines.
28 min
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What We Know about the COVID-19 Vaccines
Dr. Paul Offit, a professor of vaccinology at the University of Pennsylvania and member of the F.D.A.’s vaccine advisory panel, discusses how the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work.
37 min
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Becoming a District Attorney
Tali Farhadian Weinstein, the host of the Pushkin podcast “Hearing” and a candidate to become the next District Attorney of Manhattan, discusses how she thinks local prosecution can be reformed from within.
31 min
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A Former Surgeon General on the Coronavirus Pan...
Joe Biden named Vivek Murthy as one of the co-chairs of his COVID-19 Advisory Board. We spoke to Dr. Murthy on September 30th and wanted to re-share that conversation with you.
35 min
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The Election and the Courts
Richard Pildes, a professor at New York University School of Law who specializes in legal issues affecting democracy, discusses the role that the courts could play in this election.
44 min
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Deep Background Presents: Axios Today Election ...
9 min
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The Road out of the Pandemic
Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, comes back to Deep Background to discuss where we are now in the fight against COVID-19.
29 min
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The Election Pollster’s Song
Anthony Salvanto, CBS News’ director of Elections and Surveys, discusses the latest polling data and how to make sense of it.
32 min
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Deep Background Presents: Takeover
We've taken our five part "Deep Bench" mini-series about the rise of the Federalist Society and expanded it into an audiobook entitled Takeover: How a Conservative Student Club Captured the Supreme Court.
4 min
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Deep Background Presents: Brave New Planet
Introducing Brave New Planet, a seven-part series that delves deep into powerful technologies changing our world.
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Will Trump Concede?
Adam Przeworski, a politics professor at New York University and one of the world’s foremost scholars on democratic transitions, explains his worries about a peaceful transfer of power.
31 min
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A Former Surgeon General on the Coronavirus Pan...
Dr. Vivek Murthy, the former Surgeon General of the United States and health care advisor to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, discusses how to rebuild public trust in science.
35 min