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Common Ground with Jane Whitney
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Democracy In Danger: Tipping PointMonday, April 29
3:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1When the Soviet Union dissolved, the triumph of liberal democracy seemed so complete that some historians declared the moment "the end of history." Three decades later, history is continuing apace and the fight to sustain democracy is this century's preeminent political challenge, dominating headlines at home and abroad and once again raising the specter of nuclear Armageddon. In this episode of Common Ground with Jane Whitney, a panel of A-listers discusses the life and death battle between autocracy and democracy and the future of constitutional government both in America and around the world. -
Democracy In Danger: Tipping PointSunday, April 28
11:01 pm on UEN-TV 9.1When the Soviet Union dissolved, the triumph of liberal democracy seemed so complete that some historians declared the moment "the end of history." Three decades later, history is continuing apace and the fight to sustain democracy is this century's preeminent political challenge, dominating headlines at home and abroad and once again raising the specter of nuclear Armageddon. In this episode of Common Ground with Jane Whitney, a panel of A-listers discusses the life and death battle between autocracy and democracy and the future of constitutional government both in America and around the world. -
Scotus: Flash PointMonday, April 22
3:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1Once the most admired and most trusted government institution in the country, the Supreme Court now is the point of the political spear, a partisan telltale that cleaves the country into warring camps: Conservatives, who spent a generation campaigning to reform the court, celebrate the new majority for shattering liberal precedents and hail it for goring a woke government's orthodoxies; liberals vilify it as corrupt, a blunderbuss in the right's effort to remake the country in its nationalist image. And even many centrists say the court is out of step with public opinion and mainstream legal theory. That has given new impetus to efforts to "remake" the court, threatening its very survival in its current form. In this episode of Common Ground with Jane Whitney, a panel of legal scholars from across the political spectrum discusses the swirling controversy enveloping SCOTUS and the burgeoning efforts to reform the court in what is billed as an effort to save it from itself. -
Scotus: Flash PointSunday, April 21
11:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1Once the most admired and most trusted government institution in the country, the Supreme Court now is the point of the political spear, a partisan telltale that cleaves the country into warring camps: Conservatives, who spent a generation campaigning to reform the court, celebrate the new majority for shattering liberal precedents and hail it for goring a woke government's orthodoxies; liberals vilify it as corrupt, a blunderbuss in the right's effort to remake the country in its nationalist image. And even many centrists say the court is out of step with public opinion and mainstream legal theory. That has given new impetus to efforts to "remake" the court, threatening its very survival in its current form. In this episode of Common Ground with Jane Whitney, a panel of legal scholars from across the political spectrum discusses the swirling controversy enveloping SCOTUS and the burgeoning efforts to reform the court in what is billed as an effort to save it from itself. -
Democracy In ColorSaturday, April 20
2:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1Although race and identity always have shaped U.S. politics, they reemerged seven years ago in what was supposed to be Obama's post-racial America with new intensity, a political pivot and the unapologetic driver of Donald Trump's unexpected victory. But the re-energized racial forces that propelled Trump to the White House did not spring out of a vacuum. The crowd-pleasing candidate merely marshaled spirits unleashed half a century ago in what was a culmination of the so-called "Southern strategy," the Republicans' effort to push race and identity to the political forefront. In this show, a panel of nationally known voices from across the political and racial spectrums examines the role of race in American politics and how identity issues continue to shape our daily lives. -
Democracy In ColorThursday, April 18
9:01 pm on UEN-TV 9.1Although race and identity always have shaped U.S. politics, they reemerged seven years ago in what was supposed to be Obama's post-racial America with new intensity, a political pivot and the unapologetic driver of Donald Trump's unexpected victory. But the re-energized racial forces that propelled Trump to the White House did not spring out of a vacuum. The crowd-pleasing candidate merely marshaled spirits unleashed half a century ago in what was a culmination of the so-called "Southern strategy," the Republicans' effort to push race and identity to the political forefront. In this show, a panel of nationally known voices from across the political and racial spectrums examines the role of race in American politics and how identity issues continue to shape our daily lives. -
Reality Bites Back: America's Trip Down FantasySaturday, April 13
2:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1Roger Ailes built Fox News into television's most powerful channel by his skillful adaptation of the aphorism, "if you tell them what to think, you lose them. If you tell them what to feel, they're yours." The replacement of reason with emotion, a favored trick of conjurers and con men that's as old as Mark Antony's eulogy for Julius Caesar, has created a new reality and battered America's democratic guardrails. In this episode of Common Ground with Jane Whitney, a diverse panel from across the political spectrum discusses how the country, which once elevated science into the unofficial national religion, came to accept the parasitic oxymoron of "alternate facts" and how so many of us have come to live in an impenetrable bubble that elevates ill-considered opinion into intractable certitude. -
Reality Bites Back: America's Trip Down FantasyThursday, April 11
9:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1Roger Ailes built Fox News into television's most powerful channel by his skillful adaptation of the aphorism, "if you tell them what to think, you lose them. If you tell them what to feel, they're yours." The replacement of reason with emotion, a favored trick of conjurers and con men that's as old as Mark Antony's eulogy for Julius Caesar, has created a new reality and battered America's democratic guardrails. In this episode of Common Ground with Jane Whitney, a diverse panel from across the political spectrum discusses how the country, which once elevated science into the unofficial national religion, came to accept the parasitic oxymoron of "alternate facts" and how so many of us have come to live in an impenetrable bubble that elevates ill-considered opinion into intractable certitude. -
Youth Activism: Tomorrow's Protest TodaySaturday, April 6
2:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1"The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world," the Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann said, "and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. " The generations just beginning their journey through adulthood grew up with an unprecedented series of apocryphal crises. But rather than despair, a few have started movements that are 'warming' the world, in Mann's proverbial phrase. In this episode of Common Ground with Jane Whitney, young people leading our journey into the future talk about their visions and how they crashed through the limitations imposed by conventional wisdom to build movements that are powering change all around us. -
Youth Activism: Tomorrow's Protest TodayThursday, April 4
9:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1"The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world," the Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann said, "and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. " The generations just beginning their journey through adulthood grew up with an unprecedented series of apocryphal crises. But rather than despair, a few have started movements that are 'warming' the world, in Mann's proverbial phrase. In this episode of Common Ground with Jane Whitney, young people leading our journey into the future talk about their visions and how they crashed through the limitations imposed by conventional wisdom to build movements that are powering change all around us.