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Can we make 2020 something more than a civil war between Democrats and Republicans? That’s the challenge that has inspired this podcast by Lawrence Lessig. Without doubting the urgent need to defeat our current President, Lessig lays out a strategy that l


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    S2E5: Why We Need A Convention

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2019 17:41


    There's going to be a train wreck unless we act now. A train wreck for the convention movement, and hence, a train wreck for the only reasonable chance that we have to fix our broken Constitution, and hence, a train wreck for this nation.

    S2E4: Why Conventions Should NOT Terrify

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2018 9:43


    So do we really need an Article V Convention? This should be the only real question that should trouble Americans just now. Do we need a different way to propose amendments to the Constitution? Do we need amendments to our Constitution at all?

    S2E3: Why Conventions Terrify

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2018 15:46


    “This would be chaos.” An Article V convention would be “chaos.” Or so says the great Robert Reich in the video that has triggered this season of Another Way.

    S2E2: That Conventions Terrify

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2018 5:46


    This is Larry Lessig, and this is Episode 2 of Season 2 of the podcast Another Way. In the first episode, I described two ways that the Constitution allows that amendments to the Constitution might be proposed. Only one of those two ways of proposing amendments has ever succeeded. The second way — “a convention”—has never happened, though we've gotten close. That second way terrifies people like Robert Reich. In this episode, I describe why.

    S2E1: How Constitutions Get Changed

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2018 3:31


    The Constitution of the United States specifies the rules for its own amendment. Article V lays out those rules. An amendment must first be proposed and once proposed, adopted or, as the Constitution says, ratified. More than 11,000 amendments have been proposed in the 230 years since the Constitution was adopted. Of those, 27 have been ratified.

    Introducing Season 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2018 2:50


    There's a scholar, an activist, a leader, a former Labor Secretary, a citizen, and a friend — Robert Reich — who has been trash-talking the idea of a convention to propose amendments to our Constitution. That fact really bothers me.

    S1E6: Why Different When the Same Is So So Easy

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2018 13:22


    “But why,” the Democratic politicians will insist, “why do we need anything more than simply elect Democrats? What's the need for a Reform Caucus when the Democratic Party is already committed to a platform of reform? Why complicate what could be so simple: a Democratic President with a Democratic Congress committed to passing the changes that reform obviously requires?”

    S1E5: How America Beats Donald

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2018 8:32


    I think the answer's pretty obvious: we would win by stealing Donald Trump's words while changing their meaning. The campaign to defeat President Trump and to reform this democracy must be led by candidates who make two simple promises: first, drain the swamp; second, make America great again.

    S1E4: A Different Kind of President

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2018 10:50


    In 1864, in the middle of our “great Civil War,” America held a presidential election. Lincoln was President. None were confident, especially his supporters, that he would be re-elected. Indeed without the gift of a Grant victory at Petersburg, it's pretty clear he would not have been reelected. The nation was exhausted by war. Most Americans were resolved to peace at any price.

    S1E3: A Different (Kind of Control of) Congress

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2018 16:15


    In the middle of 2016, the University of Maryland's Program for Public Consultation conducted a massive survey to measure America's satisfaction with their government. Surprise! Surprise! Not many Americans were very satisfied. Much more surprising was this: the reasons that Americans gave for their dissatisfaction were almost universally the same — regardless of age or sex or geography or, most amazingly, political party.

    S1E2: How Different Has Been Done

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2018 11:39


    There have been critical moments in the history of America when we have come to see that something more than ordinary politics was necessary. Moments when citizens understood that the existing machinery of government was just not up to the task — and when the politicians did something fundamental to fix it.

    S1E1: Aiming for Something Different

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2018 9:45


    It's pretty clear how things are going to happen. In January, whatever the outcome in the 2018 election, Democrats are going to begin to vie in earnest to become the party's nominee for President. There'll be a gaggle of normal politicians on the left and in the middle, and a handful of billionaires.

    Introducing: Another Way Stories

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2018 1:15


    Anyone paying attention can see that we're gearing up for a train wreck in 2020, as both political parties map out an increasingly partisan choice for America — as if we are just a nation divided, with nothing that we share in common.

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