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PODZAPP 99. Mother FocasEntrevistaHoy tenemos a Jair Barragan JAIR BARRAGÁNExperto en Adwords y Facebook AdsJair BarragánTe cuento desde el principio Soy un ex-directivo de una PYME que a punto estuvo de ser una gran empresa. Viví la extraordinaria satisfacción de ver crecer una compañía que sentía como propia. Es imposible resumir 14 años de tu vida en solo un puñado de palabras, así que me limitaré a decir que empecé desde abajo, que me impliqué al 100% en un proyecto que me apasionó desde el primer instante y que aunque los últimos momentos fueron de una dureza casi divina, la conclusión final no puede ser otra que valió la pena.Los cortes Hoy la sección ha sido dificil de hacer! Habia muchos cortes y muy buenos! Al final tenemos tantos cortes que podriamos hacer la competencia a Margot y su podcast “El recuento”. Pero bueno, aqui están y aquí se los presentamos.Zombies y negocios.Joan Boluda, en su capítulo 608 de “Marketing Online” nos cuenta un secreto. Un secreto en el que juegan un papel al alimón los zombies y los negocios…Como besa Richie Fintano?Las Pepis (En el capitulo 1 de la tercera temporada de Pepi Luci y Bom…) quieren poner en un aprieto a Richie Fintano, preguntandóle cómo le gustan los besos. ¿Lo conseguirán?Porque Podcast y las iniciativasEn el capítulo 45 de Porque Podcast, Jorge propone una iniciativa benéfica a sus compañeros. ¿La aceptarán?... ¿La aceptariais?Que es el cruising?Povedilla nos explica en la Mesa de los Idiotas, en su capítulo 69, que es esta enigmática actividad. Atención al momento en el que responde a las preguntas que les hacen sus compañeros… y el jardín en el que se mete...Jarras y Podcasts y MapasAtención a la presentación que hace Bukaker de su invitado en el capítulo 27 de su podcast “Jarras y Podcast” a la hora de presentar al responsable del podcast “Swisspain”Joan Boluda y el secreto de su energíaSi antes conocíamos una faceta oculta de Joan Boluda, ahora, en el capítulo 5 de “En Clave de Podcast” se nos revela el origen de la inagotable fuente de energía de Joan Boluda cada mañana a las 7 de la mañana. Albricias! Un secreto compartido!Donde caga el solMarta y David, que están viajando por Japón, están haciendo un podcast llamado “Donde nace el sol”. En este capítulo nos explican algunas de las interioridades muy interiores de su viaje, con todo lujo de detalles. Un corte muy fresquito, de hoy mismo.AQUEL MARAVILLOSO PODCASTER”Canción de AdriSabéis esa pregunta que te hace a veces la gente sobre … “qué personaje histórico te hubiera gustado conocer”? Ó ¿“a qué personaje admiras más del panorama actual”? Pues ésa respuesta es fácil para mi en cuanto al mundo de la podcasfera se refiere.Sin duda, me hubiera gustado conocer a Adri, Adripod. No tuve el gusto de coincidir con él ni personalmente ni en cuanto a podcast se refiere, pero por suerte, su legado queda ahí y al acceso de todos. Para este número 99 queríamos hacer un pequeño homenaje a este maravilloso podcaster y después de recopilar distintos tipo de información he llegado a hacerme una imagen de él y…… éstas son las cosas que sé de Adri:- Sé que era una persona entregada a su familia, a su hijo Mario por sobre todas las cosas- Sé que compartíamos profesión y no dejo de pensar la de conversaciones que hubiéramos tenido sobre el tema- Sé que era friki y futbolero y que le llamabáis con cariño “el señor enfurruñado”- Sé que era un pionero en el mundo del podcasting y que siempre le rondaban ideas nuevas por la cabeza - Sé que era imprevisible y que con él en un podcast podía pasar cualquier cosa- Sé que capitaneó o colaboró en muchísimos podcast como: No soy un troll, Club Delorean, El Señor Enfurruñado, Te toca Podcast, Trending Sport Podcast, Podzzap y Adripod- Sé que era de ésas personas que dejan un hueco enorme para aquellos que le conocieron y que le echáis muchísimo de menos y por todo ello Adri es:EL MARAVILLOSO PODCASTER QUE ME HUBIERA GUSTADO CONOCER Audio de AdriEl Ranking RaroRanking de Podcast de Politica(Introducción del Capitan Garcius)10. Decode DCDecodeDC has a broad mandate: to help Americans understand how crucial political issues affect everyday life. We do this by using every narrative tool we can – from podcasts to analysis to interactive graphics and video.We want to be a reliable, honest and, when appropriate, highly entertaining source of insight and explanation of Washington, D.C.’s people, culture, policies and politics, but mostly we want to be useful.The podcast was launched by Andrea Seabrook, long-time Congressional Correspondent at NPR, in 2012 and is produced weekly in the Scripps News Washington Bureau.http://www.decodedc.com/9. ELGL (Engaging Local Goverment Leaders)We are innovative local government leaders with a passion for connecting, communicating and educatingConnect. We believe that attracting and retaining local government professionals requires making meaningful connections.Communicate. We share information – a learning process that empowers us to work harder, smarter, faster and more creatively.Educate. We provide educational offerings that address new trends and ways we can proactively respond as local government professionals.We believe we can make a difference in people’s lives and communities.http://elgl.org/8. Political GabFestStephen Colbert says "Everybody should listen to the Slate Political Gabfest." The Gabfest, featuring Slate's Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz, is the kind of informal and irreverent discussion Washington journalists have after hours over drinks. Part of the Panoply Network.http://www.slate.com/7. What Would Bernie Sanders doIn support of the progressive ideals of Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. In this first episode we get things going and state some Bernie fundamentals. Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/whatwouldberniesandersdo for much more daily information on Bernie Sanders, 2016 candidate for president.Read more at http://whatwouldberniesandersdo.libsyn.com/podcast#O7FCXrqlU7Lopz1U.996. El vorticeUn programa que abre fuego contra un presente que se ha convertido en un juego de suma cero, que necesita muchos perdedores para que muy pocos puedan ganarlo todo.Una visión interna junto a una perspectiva global donde se analiza una realidad en la que casi nadie puede reconocerse y prefiere mirar hacia otro lado antes que asumir que está siendo cómplice y parte de un teatro tan demoledor como nocivo.Cuando no se tiene un norte al que ir, todos los vientos son desfavorables. Bienvenidos a una realidad diseñada para ser creída mientras va quedando cada vez menos presente y nada a futuro.Bienvenidos al mar de la tranquilidad.Ellos se definen como la resistencia, y en sus capitulos podreis encontrar desensmascaramientos de los medios de comunicación generalistas, análisis de libros, etc..www.elvorticeradio.comEscuchemoslo.5. Congressional DishEste podcast se autodefine como “La voz de la resistencia ante la conquista del mundo por parte de las corporaciones”.Como sabeis, es grande la presión que hacen los lobbys y las multinacionales en el capìtolio para impulsar leyes que les beneficien. A modo de curiosidad, podeis encontrar muchos ejemplos en Netflix de documentales que denuncian esta clase de situaciones. En este podcast podeis escuchar alguna de las barbaridades que pasan en este entramado. Aquí se denucian como misteriosamente una gran empresa se deshace de la noche a la mañana de un competidor, por una ley publicada con más sombras que luces.Escuchemoslo.4. Global Politics and Law.Este es el blog personal de Julio González García. Soy Catedrático de Derecho administrativo en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y en la actualidad dirijo el Instituto de Derecho Europeo y de Integración Regional.Los posts que encontrarás aquí serán de análisis político y jurídico. Asimismo, en las secciones de e-print y e-books tendrás enlaces a estudios míos.https://globalpoliticsandlaw.com/3. La contracrónicaEs el podcast de Fernando Díaz Villanueva. Definido como 100% puro liberal, este podcaster no se casa con nadie, y en capítulos de media hora (a veces dos al día), desgrana la actualidad política. Hoy por ejemplo ha publicado un capítulo sobre lo que está sucediendo en Ferraz.2. Common SensesCommon Sense with Dan Carlin isn’t a show for everyone, and that’s what makes it so great. It’s a smart, deep, passionate, engaging, inquisitive and of course, politically Martian view of news and current events. There’s nothing else like it.Más de 300 capítulos. Una manera de hablar de política y de historia que no deja a nadie indiferente.http://www.dancarlin.com/common-sense-home-landing-page/Escuchemoslo.1.Politics, politics, PoliticsEl número 1, sin duda, en Estados Unidos. Se publica los lunes, los miercoles y los viernes.Realiza crónicas de los debates, de los mitines, poniendo especial enfasis en las elecciones americanas. Dispone de una sintonia que merecería estar en el ranking que hicimos en su momento de mejores sintonias y con un tono desenfadado, repasa la poliitica del país más importante del mundo con desenfado.http://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/Escuchemoslo.http://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/Conducido por @labienpe @Sunne @CapitanGarcius @Nosoyunmuggle @wiichit0 y @JossGreen Feed: http://feedpress.me/podzappiTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/mx/podcast/podzapp/id301402130?mt=2Producción: http://puntoprimario.com/

PODZAPP 99. Mother FocasEntrevistaHoy tenemos a Jair Barragan JAIR BARRAGÁNExperto en Adwords y Facebook AdsJair BarragánTe cuento desde el principio Soy un ex-directivo de una PYME que a punto estuvo de ser una gran empresa. Viví la extraordinaria satisfacción de ver crecer una compañía que sentía como propia. Es imposible resumir 14 años de tu vida en solo un puñado de palabras, así que me limitaré a decir que empecé desde abajo, que me impliqué al 100% en un proyecto que me apasionó desde el primer instante y que aunque los últimos momentos fueron de una dureza casi divina, la conclusión final no puede ser otra que valió la pena.Los cortes Hoy la sección ha sido dificil de hacer! Habia muchos cortes y muy buenos! Al final tenemos tantos cortes que podriamos hacer la competencia a Margot y su podcast “El recuento”. Pero bueno, aqui están y aquí se los presentamos.Zombies y negocios.Joan Boluda, en su capítulo 608 de “Marketing Online” nos cuenta un secreto. Un secreto en el que juegan un papel al alimón los zombies y los negocios…Como besa Richie Fintano?Las Pepis (En el capitulo 1 de la tercera temporada de Pepi Luci y Bom…) quieren poner en un aprieto a Richie Fintano, preguntandóle cómo le gustan los besos. ¿Lo conseguirán?Porque Podcast y las iniciativasEn el capítulo 45 de Porque Podcast, Jorge propone una iniciativa benéfica a sus compañeros. ¿La aceptarán?... ¿La aceptariais?Que es el cruising?Povedilla nos explica en la Mesa de los Idiotas, en su capítulo 69, que es esta enigmática actividad. Atención al momento en el que responde a las preguntas que les hacen sus compañeros… y el jardín en el que se mete...Jarras y Podcasts y MapasAtención a la presentación que hace Bukaker de su invitado en el capítulo 27 de su podcast “Jarras y Podcast” a la hora de presentar al responsable del podcast “Swisspain”Joan Boluda y el secreto de su energíaSi antes conocíamos una faceta oculta de Joan Boluda, ahora, en el capítulo 5 de “En Clave de Podcast” se nos revela el origen de la inagotable fuente de energía de Joan Boluda cada mañana a las 7 de la mañana. Albricias! Un secreto compartido!Donde caga el solMarta y David, que están viajando por Japón, están haciendo un podcast llamado “Donde nace el sol”. En este capítulo nos explican algunas de las interioridades muy interiores de su viaje, con todo lujo de detalles. Un corte muy fresquito, de hoy mismo.AQUEL MARAVILLOSO PODCASTER”Canción de AdriSabéis esa pregunta que te hace a veces la gente sobre … “qué personaje histórico te hubiera gustado conocer”? Ó ¿“a qué personaje admiras más del panorama actual”? Pues ésa respuesta es fácil para mi en cuanto al mundo de la podcasfera se refiere.Sin duda, me hubiera gustado conocer a Adri, Adripod. No tuve el gusto de coincidir con él ni personalmente ni en cuanto a podcast se refiere, pero por suerte, su legado queda ahí y al acceso de todos. Para este número 99 queríamos hacer un pequeño homenaje a este maravilloso podcaster y después de recopilar distintos tipo de información he llegado a hacerme una imagen de él y…… éstas son las cosas que sé de Adri:- Sé que era una persona entregada a su familia, a su hijo Mario por sobre todas las cosas- Sé que compartíamos profesión y no dejo de pensar la de conversaciones que hubiéramos tenido sobre el tema- Sé que era friki y futbolero y que le llamabáis con cariño “el señor enfurruñado”- Sé que era un pionero en el mundo del podcasting y que siempre le rondaban ideas nuevas por la cabeza - Sé que era imprevisible y que con él en un podcast podía pasar cualquier cosa- Sé que capitaneó o colaboró en muchísimos podcast como: No soy un troll, Club Delorean, El Señor Enfurruñado, Te toca Podcast, Trending Sport Podcast, Podzzap y Adripod- Sé que era de ésas personas que dejan un hueco enorme para aquellos que le conocieron y que le echáis muchísimo de menos y por todo ello Adri es:EL MARAVILLOSO PODCASTER QUE ME HUBIERA GUSTADO CONOCER Audio de AdriEl Ranking RaroRanking de Podcast de Politica(Introducción del Capitan Garcius)10. Decode DCDecodeDC has a broad mandate: to help Americans understand how crucial political issues affect everyday life. We do this by using every narrative tool we can – from podcasts to analysis to interactive graphics and video.We want to be a reliable, honest and, when appropriate, highly entertaining source of insight and explanation of Washington, D.C.’s people, culture, policies and politics, but mostly we want to be useful.The podcast was launched by Andrea Seabrook, long-time Congressional Correspondent at NPR, in 2012 and is produced weekly in the Scripps News Washington Bureau.http://www.decodedc.com/9. ELGL (Engaging Local Goverment Leaders)We are innovative local government leaders with a passion for connecting, communicating and educatingConnect. We believe that attracting and retaining local government professionals requires making meaningful connections.Communicate. We share information – a learning process that empowers us to work harder, smarter, faster and more creatively.Educate. We provide educational offerings that address new trends and ways we can proactively respond as local government professionals.We believe we can make a difference in people’s lives and communities.http://elgl.org/8. Political GabFestStephen Colbert says "Everybody should listen to the Slate Political Gabfest." The Gabfest, featuring Slate's Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz, is the kind of informal and irreverent discussion Washington journalists have after hours over drinks. Part of the Panoply Network.http://www.slate.com/7. What Would Bernie Sanders doIn support of the progressive ideals of Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. In this first episode we get things going and state some Bernie fundamentals. Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/whatwouldberniesandersdo for much more daily information on Bernie Sanders, 2016 candidate for president.Read more at http://whatwouldberniesandersdo.libsyn.com/podcast#O7FCXrqlU7Lopz1U.996. El vorticeUn programa que abre fuego contra un presente que se ha convertido en un juego de suma cero, que necesita muchos perdedores para que muy pocos puedan ganarlo todo.Una visión interna junto a una perspectiva global donde se analiza una realidad en la que casi nadie puede reconocerse y prefiere mirar hacia otro lado antes que asumir que está siendo cómplice y parte de un teatro tan demoledor como nocivo.Cuando no se tiene un norte al que ir, todos los vientos son desfavorables. Bienvenidos a una realidad diseñada para ser creída mientras va quedando cada vez menos presente y nada a futuro.Bienvenidos al mar de la tranquilidad.Ellos se definen como la resistencia, y en sus capitulos podreis encontrar desensmascaramientos de los medios de comunicación generalistas, análisis de libros, etc..www.elvorticeradio.comEscuchemoslo.5. Congressional DishEste podcast se autodefine como “La voz de la resistencia ante la conquista del mundo por parte de las corporaciones”.Como sabeis, es grande la presión que hacen los lobbys y las multinacionales en el capìtolio para impulsar leyes que les beneficien. A modo de curiosidad, podeis encontrar muchos ejemplos en Netflix de documentales que denuncian esta clase de situaciones. En este podcast podeis escuchar alguna de las barbaridades que pasan en este entramado. Aquí se denucian como misteriosamente una gran empresa se deshace de la noche a la mañana de un competidor, por una ley publicada con más sombras que luces.Escuchemoslo.4. Global Politics and Law.Este es el blog personal de Julio González García. Soy Catedrático de Derecho administrativo en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y en la actualidad dirijo el Instituto de Derecho Europeo y de Integración Regional.Los posts que encontrarás aquí serán de análisis político y jurídico. Asimismo, en las secciones de e-print y e-books tendrás enlaces a estudios míos.https://globalpoliticsandlaw.com/3. La contracrónicaEs el podcast de Fernando Díaz Villanueva. Definido como 100% puro liberal, este podcaster no se casa con nadie, y en capítulos de media hora (a veces dos al día), desgrana la actualidad política. Hoy por ejemplo ha publicado un capítulo sobre lo que está sucediendo en Ferraz.2. Common SensesCommon Sense with Dan Carlin isn’t a show for everyone, and that’s what makes it so great. It’s a smart, deep, passionate, engaging, inquisitive and of course, politically Martian view of news and current events. There’s nothing else like it.Más de 300 capítulos. Una manera de hablar de política y de historia que no deja a nadie indiferente.http://www.dancarlin.com/common-sense-home-landing-page/Escuchemoslo.1.Politics, politics, PoliticsEl número 1, sin duda, en Estados Unidos. Se publica los lunes, los miercoles y los viernes.Realiza crónicas de los debates, de los mitines, poniendo especial enfasis en las elecciones americanas. Dispone de una sintonia que merecería estar en el ranking que hicimos en su momento de mejores sintonias y con un tono desenfadado, repasa la poliitica del país más importante del mundo con desenfado.http://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/Escuchemoslo.http://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/Conducido por @labienpe @Sunne @CapitanGarcius @Nosoyunmuggle @wiichit0 y @JossGreen Feed: http://feedpress.me/podzappiTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/mx/podcast/podzapp/id301402130?mt=2Producción: http://puntoprimario.com/

It’s no secret that members of Congress spend much of their time raising money. But here’s something you probably didn’t know: A huge chunk of the money they haul in is not spent on their campaigns. It’s funneled directly to the political parties in the form of dues. On the latest DecodeDC podcast, host Andrea Seabrook explains how Congress works a little like another organized group when it comes to money, power and loyalty — the mafia. There are no Don Corleones, of course, in the strict sense of the name, and there’s nothing illegal. Still, members are expected to pay up. Seabrook talks to former members of Congress and other players in the Washington political game about the hundreds of thousands of dollars members must collect to satisfy the party leadership. It is an enormous amount of political power — even by Washington standards — to have streams of money flowing up, up, up into the control of a few at the top of the party.

Once upon a time in the fairytale land of politics, there was an epic clash of magical beasts. On one side, the sea-unicorn called the narwhal. With a wave of his single tusk, he could muster thousands of volunteers, knock on millions of doors and direct a laser-beam of votes on behalf of Barack Obama. On the other side, the narwhal’s natural enemy, the orca, tasked with unearthing voters across the realm for challenger Mitt Romney. This may sound too fantastical to believe, but it’s actually closer to reality than you think. The presidential race of 2012 did indeed see such a contest, between the President’s Project Narwhal team and Mitt Romney’s Project Orca. But the contest wasn’t waged on Middle Earth, it was waged online, by Silicon Valley hackers wielding the power of…database computing. For many, the showdown between the two digital camps came to symbolize the growing and dominant role technology has come to play in today’s politics. But that story is, well, a fairy tale, according to the man behind Project Narwhal. “It wasn’t technology. The answer was that we had a great field team and we had good volunteers and our grassroots was on point ,” says Harper Reed, former Chief Technology Officer for President Obama’s 2012 campaign. “We raised all the money and the finance team did this really great work. Technology just helped a little bit to make some of that stuff faster.” On this week’s podcast, host Andrea Seabrook sits with Harper Reed to recount a story that ended up being too good to be true, about a Narwhal, an Orca, and the real magic behind campaigns that help a candidate’s dreams come true.

For the past 20 years, Dr. M Sanjayan has devoted his life to environmental policy and the protection of wildlife. After decades in the environmental movement, Sanjayan has come to realize that you can’t separate humans from the natural environment around them. That’s a pretty radical idea in the environmental movement and a theme that pervades his new PBS series, "Earth: A New Wild." On this week’s podcast, host Andrea Seabrook speaks with Sanjayan about his television series, his views on preservation and what Washington can and must do about its environmental policy. “When I started in the environmental movement I thought my whole goal was to take things back to some point in the past. Then, during graduate school I thought my whole plan was to stop the train wreck and leave enough pieces that something could be rebuilt,” Sanjayan tells DecodeDC host Andrea Seabrook. “Now I think my whole purpose is to really remind people that we’re part of nature and start to explain and understand all the ways in which nature materially impacts our lives.” Sanjayan says that when it comes to making policy about nature, there are two big challenges to good decision-making. First, we consistently undervalue the role nature plays in our lives, the way it affects our jobs, the economy, even our security. And second, people who are closest to the problem often feel like policy decisions are made far from them and their concerns. That sets up a conflict situation that’s often difficult to overcome. What would the noted environmentalist do if he was in charge? Surprisingly, Sanjayan says that environmentalists and advocates have to make a case for valuing nature beyond a love of natural beauty. “Love alone is not enough. And I think that after spending half my life working to try to convince people why nature is so beautiful, I kind of threw my hands up and said I’m not a good enough story teller,” he says. “I would love it if there comes a day where people value nature just because it ought to exist right alongside of us. We’re nowhere near there.”

No matter where you stand on the issue of same-sex marriage, Tuesday's historic oral arguments at the Supreme Court represented the next step in what will be an unprecedented moment to define - or redefine - the institution of marriage. On a special episode of DecodeDC, host Andrea Seabrook examines the most powerful moments from the hearing.

When someone asks what the most important event in Washington is every year, you’d hope that the answer would involve a key piece of civic action or an instance of Americans making their voices heard. In reality, D.C’s biggest event is an altogether different affair - a weeklong extravaganza of lavish parties where journalists rub shoulders with the very people they’re supposed to hold accountable. It all leads up to one night in particular, the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, or as it has come to be known within insider circles — Nerd Prom. As a reporter for Politico, Patrick Gavin used to cover those insiders. Now, after 10 years of covering the dinner and Washington politics he’s made a documentary about the correspondents dinner, “Nerd Prom: Inside Washington’s Wildest Week”. On this week’s podcast, DecodeDC goes inside Nerd Prom with Gavin to figure out what the dinner is really for. Host Andrea Seabrook and producer Rachel Quester take you to the film’s premiere and speak with Gavin about the event he says Washington doesn’t want you to see.

The Voting Rights Act. The Civil Rights Act. Medicare. Vietnam. The 1960s were a transformational time for America and at the center of much of it was Lyndon B. Johnson. This year marks the 50th anniversary for landmark legislation that would not have been possible without one of Washington’s most heralded legislators. On this week’s podcast, host Andrea Seabrook sits down with Julian Zelizer, author of “The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress and the Battle for the Great Society.” Zelizer says yes, Lyndon Johnson was an incredible legislator. But in order to really understand how he was able to move massive change through Congress, we have to look at the broader social and political context of the time. It’s this bigger picture, says Zelizer, that can give us clues on how to break through today’s Washington gridlock.

It’s “House of Cards” week on DecodeDC. We are helping get YOU ready for the release of Season 3 of the Netflix series with a five-podcast special series, “Inside House of Cards.” Today’s installment – the third – is all about the business, or maybe the bloodsport, of lobbying and politics. One day, you’re an elected official or a political staff member. The next, you’re a member of a K Street firm trying your best to influence the very same government officials and legislators you just worked with.That’s the revolving door Jimmy Williams spun through when he went from Senate staffer to lobbyist. In the Netflix series, Remy Danton is a former press secretary and protege of Frank Underwood turned lobbyist. He uses his connections and contacts on behalf of one main client, an energy company. Jimmy Williams says Danton is a great character – he’s just not realistic. “You know what a lobbyist does in Washington, D.C.?” he rhetorically asks podcast host Andrea Seabrook. “Fund-raises. Nothing more and nothing less.” Williams says being a successful lobbyist means raising and delivering the most cash to a politician. “You raise the most money, you have the most access.” And it’s all legal. We go inside the real and fictional world of lobbying in today’s installment of “Inside House of Cards.”

Picture this: Girl agrees to go on date with boy. Girl and boy are having a great time together. But girl has a really bad feeling about boy. Girl thinks boy is a Republican. Date comes to a screeching halt. No, this is not some weird political romance novel. It’s the true story of Jessica’s first date with her now-husband, Ross. (Side note, he’s not a Republican.) “I sort of stopped and was like, can we set the record straight on this, like are you a Republican or not? Because if you are, like we could just end this date right now,” said Jessica Morales Rocketto. It may sound a little dramatic—refusing to date someone based on political ideology. But on this week’s podcast, host Andrea Seabrook and producer Rachel Quester explore the wonky world of how much politics actually affect our romantic relationships. For liberals and conservatives, compatibility on political ideology is more important when picking a spouse than personality or physical characteristics. That’s according to John Alford, a political science professor at Rice University. Alford says that our biology predisposes us toward one ideology or the other—that the brains of liberals and conservatives are just wired differently. And that, he says, is why it’s really difficult to marry across the aisle. “One of the nicest views about the United States is this idea of the United States as a melting pot where over generations, differences disappear…. because we’re mating disproportionately with people of like-political views, there is no melting pot,” Alford said. Now for those who haven’t already picked their mate, there is hope for the politically minded single. Two dating sites, Red State Date and Blue State Date, match people based on compatible political ideologies. Alex Fondrier, the founder of both sites, said the purpose of the dating service is to help people passionate about politics find others who share that same passion. Listen to this week’s podcast for political dating advice, and why you should start every date with this question: What’s the first word that comes to mind when someone says Hillary Clinton? Want to keep up with all the latest DecodeDC stories and podcasts? Sign up for our weekly newsletter at decodedc.com/newsletter.

We’ve all been watching events unfold in Paris with sinking horror. Another terrorist attack, turning police, civilians, writers and satirists into blood and meat. Another man-hunt broadcast on TV; mugshots of terrorists with Muslim names. And now the chattering class is once again embroiled in the divisive argument we’ve witnessed for the last couple of decades; the argument over terrorism and Islam. To one side it seems obvious that Muslims condone violence, that Islam is the problem, or part of it anyway. To the other, it’s blasphemy to even consider the idea, wrong to even ask the question, ‘is there something about Islam that leads its followers to violent tactics?’ The two sides are deeply entrenched and totally sure of their points of view -- with mostly anecdotes to back them up. Well today we talked to a guy who does have data, a political science professor at U.C. Berkeley named M. Steven Fish. His research lead to a book with this title: Are Muslims Distinctive? A Look at the Evidence. Here’s a passage from the introduction: This book provides no definitive answers and addresses only a portion of the large issues. But it does take on a substantial chunk of the big questions and it examines them using hard evidence.Unbiased by prejudice and unconstrained by political correctness, this book treats the assumptions about Muslims that rattle around public debate as hypotheses, rather than as unassailable truths or as unconscionable falsehoods. The book aims to shift the grounds of the debate from hot and wispy rhetoric to fact-finding and hypothesis testing. It occurred to us that Fish’s work is exactly what we need right now: Data. Evidence. Someone to decode these questions, and Steve Fish has answers. No matter what you think now about Islam and terrorism, we guarantee that this conversation between DecodeDC host Andrea Seabrook and M. Steven Fish will change your mind -- or at least add nuance to your thinking.

It was the early morning hours of Oct. 6, 1976. Adolph Lyons, a 24-year-old African-American, was driving through Los Angeles with a broken taillight. Two LAPD officers in a squad car pulled Lyons over, and approached with their pistols drawn. Lyons got out, the cops turned him around, spread eagle, and placed his hands on the back of his head. Lyons’ keys, still in his hand, dug into his scalp and he complained. One of the police officers called that resisting arrest and grabbed Lyons from behind, putting an arm across Lyons’ neck. The cop kept Lyons in the chokehold until he passed out and dropped to the ground. Lyons awoke to find that he had urinated and defecated on himself and was coughing up blood and dirt. The police officers who had pulled him over then issued him a citation -- a traffic ticket for the broken taillight -- and let Lyons go. Reporter Dave Gilson of Mother Jones Magazine rediscovered this story after the death of Eric Garner last summer. Garner had been put in a chokehold by a police officer on Staten Island, N.Y.; his death was later ruled a homicide. Gilson wanted to know if the use of chokeholds by police had ever come before the federal courts -- and it had. Adolph Lyons sued the City of Los Angeles for violating his constitutional rights: the right to due process under the Fifth Amendment, and the right to equal protection, under the Fourteenth Amendment. His case rose all the way to the Supreme Court, where, in 1982, the high court included the nation’s first African-American Justice and the grandson of slaves: Justice Thurgood Marshall. In this week’s DecodeDC podcast,host Andrea Seabrook and Mother Jones reporter Dave Gilson recount the case of Adolph Lyons and the legal battle over race, police and chokeholds. The case’s similarities with the case of Eric Garner are palpable and stunning. And the conclusions of Thurgood Marshall show that the issues of race, police and chokeholds struck people of conscience long before Eric Garner’s death.​

There are hard, deep-seeded questions in the public’s outcry following two police killings – that of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City. Race, poverty, police training, and the use of deadly force are only a few of them. There’s a legal question, too, only a small slice of the issue, but one that could be worked on in concrete ways. It stems from this: In both Ferguson and New York City, local prosecutors took the cases before local grand juries, and in both instances the jurors declined to indict the police officers involved in the killings. So the legal question is this: Should a criminal justice system investigate itself? Is there a conflict of interest when prosecutors, who work with cops every day putting away criminals, turn around and prosecute accused police officers? Gina Barton, an award-winning investigative reporter at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, says it’s a question people have been asking in Wisconsin for years. “If somebody in your own police department does something wrong, the investigators know this guy, they’ve worked with this guy, maybe he saved their life at some point or backed them up on something. And so, even if there’s not an actual conflict of interest, there’s definitely a perceived conflict of interest,” she says. In this week’s DecodeDC podcast, host Andrea Seabrook talks to Barton about the country’s first law to address the problem. Enacted in Wisconsin earlier this year, the law came up after two earlier police-involved deaths outraged the public, those of Michael Bell in 2004, and then Derek Williams in 2012. Barton tells these two young mens’ stories, and then recounts a third, the police killing of Dontre Hamilton earlier this year. Just days after the new law passed, a Milwaukee police officer shot Hamilton 14 times in a public park, providing a test case by which Wisconsin’s law is being judged. Want to keep up with all the latest DecodeDC stories and podcasts? Sign up for our weekly newsletter at decodedc.com/newsletter.

Like any parent might, one Wisconsin mom wanted to make sure her adult daughter’s new boyfriend was a decent guy. So she went online and and searched for his name, Matthew Carr. What she found was nothing -- which, in retrospect, is incredibly shocking. A few years earlier, while serving in the Air Force, Carr had been court-martialed for posing as a doctor and luring women into “gynecological exams.” The Air Force convicted Carr of “indecent assault" of seven women and sentenced him to seven years in prison. But none of this came up in the Wisconsin mom’s search. Carr’s name didn’t pop up in criminal background checks or appear on any sex offender registry. So by the time the mom learned the truth -- from another family member’s deeper sleuthing -- her daughter had already submitted to several of Carr’s “exams.” This convicted military sex offender had blended back into civilian society, only to commit the same heinous crime against more women. This week on the DecodeDC podcast, host Andrea Seabrook talks with Scripps national investigative reporter Mark Greenblatt, who led a team of Scripps journalists that conducted a nine-month reporting project into military sex offenders who drop under the radar when returning to civilian life. “We took the names of all 1,300 military sex offenders that we believed were convicted,” Greenblatt tells Seabrook, “and we plugged them into the sex offender registry databases of all 50 states. We found that in an alarming number of cases, these names were not popping up on any available list that you or I or a mom in Wisconsin would ever have access to.” What the team uncovered is that Matthew Carr is one of at least 242 convicted military sex offenders whose names and offenses are not on any public U.S. sex offender registries today. Read the full investigation here and search the team's database of military sex offenders here. Want to keep up with all the latest DecodeDC stories and podcasts? Sign up for our weekly newsletter at decodedc.com/newsletter.

Does the thought of Thanksgiving make your palms sweat? Does your stomach hurt, BEFORE the meal? Maybe holiday fun translates to holiday dysfunction when it comes to your family gathering? We hear you. So just in time for your yearly gathering of the relatives, from the left, right and center, we offer this survival guide for talking turkey and politics. On this week’s podcast, host Andrea Seabrook takes your stories of politics and holidays past and runs them by journalist Amy Dickinson , who writes the syndicated advice column Ask Amy. Here’s an excerpt of their conversation. Amy: It’s very common starting around September for people to write to me already nervous about Thanksgiving and how are they going to manage these disparate points of view. And its not like “oh how silly”, it’s a real issue. We don't spend enough time together to work things out, so it all happens around the table…I actually have a number of suggestions for families to cope with the dinner. A lot of people say pass the butter and retreat to football games. If who ever is host of the dinner can be a little more intentional they can create a different sort of atmosphere at the table. One way to do this that’s worked really well in my family is with toasting people. You sort of start the meal with toast. Andrea: Besides a toast... another thing Amy says you can do is get everyone to write down their funniest Thanksgiving memory, and then pass the stories around to read aloud... Amy: So you have a kid reading Uncle Harvey’s memory from 1942, you know it’s a lot of fun and it engages people more in a personal way because I think a lot of families if they are political and if they are likely to engage in political arguments the goal should be to just sort of stave that off just maybe over coffee instead of over turkey and stuffing. Andrea: Now what about people who WANT to talk politics around the turkey? Or worse, what if you’re seated next to one of them... That’s what happened to Jeff Pierce when his sister brought her fiance home to meet the family for the first time at Thanksgiving. Jeff Pierce: I had just won a scholarship for writing an essay on the importance of unions. Instead of not bringing it up he ask, “So what do you think of unions?” Because he knew I was the only liberal in my family. He really took advantage of my uncle who is the most conservative person in my family and together they were just jumping on me and I was just sitting there trying not to get incredibly angry. Andrea: So he’s trapped. What do you say to him? Amy: Okay, now everyone needs to focus- this is really important. This is when you get to use children as human shields. Andrea: I've been waiting for some way that was okay. Amy: I know they come in so handy! It sound like this person did what he could to suppress his anger and I think that’s great but sometimes you can just say this is a really loaded topic for me so I’m just going to ask Billy, “How was that soccer game?” Andrea: The thing to remember, says Amy, is that, it’s not just dinner, it’s THANKSGIVING. And with every helping could come a new tradition, a new memory, even if they are a little goofy.

Some politicians slide into Congress after a boring, predictable, easy win as the predestined candidate. Others practically stumble — like Congressman Bill Owens, who was the last man standing in the dust of a political nuclear war back in 2009. In this week’s podcast, host Andrea Seabrook sits down with the Democratic congressman from upstate New York as part of DecodeDC’s Exit Interview series. Owens announced his retirement in January of this year. Congressman Owens is one of the most endangered species in Washington—the rational pragmatist. “My view of the world is that there is a band of rational thought that we should all act in. I’m not saying that there is nothing you should be passionate about. But I think ultimately you have to go back to a thought-process that is fact-based and analytic,” Owens said. But to understand how a lawmaker can be so rational, let’s take a look at how he got to Congress. It was a special election in upstate New York that came at the end of President Obama’s first year in office. Republicans were in an uproar, and the tea party was on the rise. Two candidates jumped into the race from the right. One was a moderate, and the other was a tea party-endorsed conservative. But through all of this, no one seemed to notice the guy in the corner—the Democrat, Bill Owens, in the race for a seat that hadn’t been held by a Democrat since the Civil War. When the dust finally settled, Owens had won. But the day after the election, the news coverage practically ignored him and instead focused on the two opponents he beat – and Owens says he was actually pretty glad not to be on the television. “Because the narrative that they (his opponents) were putting out was in large measure inaccurate. And so it was my introduction, if you will, to the idea that people talked from a script rather from, in my perspective, what they believed,” Owens says. Owens isn’t one for the Red Team/Blue Team fight. In fact, he was a registered Independent for much of his career. “You can’t take a position, in my view, that says, ‘Well, I’m going to have you sacrifice but not me. ‘… We need to finds ways to, if you will, conjoin the interests of groups as opposed to splitting them apart. And we don’t focus on that in my view very often,” Owens says. Want to keep up with all the latest DecodeDC stories and podcasts? Sign up for our weekly newsletter at decodedc.com/newsletter.

There was a time when Americans weren’t so intensely divided as we are today. In fact, says journalist and writer Bill Bishop, from World War II to the mid 1970s, Americans’ attitudes about culture, family and politics grew more alike. Then things started to change, says Bishop. Politics split us up, became harsher and more polarized. At the same time, economic forces and rising standards of living sparked a huge increase in people’s mobility; it’s no longer common to spend your life in one town, one church or one company. That new mobility added to Americans’ separating political views, as people moved to regions, cities and neighborhoods in which they felt comfortable -- surrounded by people of a similar world view. Bill Bishop outlines this process in his book, “The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart.” This week on the DecodeDC podcast, Bishop brings a fresh perspective on the polarization of politics, suggesting that, rather than point fingers at Washington, we ought to take a look in the mirror. The act of voting has new meaning for Americans argues Bishop, now that we’ve clustered together among people with similar world-views. “Politics becomes more about expressing the self rather than policy or decisions that Congress makes,” he tells host Andrea Seabrook. “People vote to reinforce their identities rather than to change policy.” The surprising conclusion to Bishop’s thesis is this: today’s intensely partisan Washington may look grid-locked and broken, but it’s actually doing exactly what Americans’ have asked of it. In Bishop's words, “it’s representative government at its best.”

There’s really only one story to tell about the 2014 midterm elections, right? Only one story, that is, if you rely on the constant stream of chatter from 24-7 cable TV, election-obsessed political rags, and the twitterverse for your news. The story? Republicans won – BIG TIME. And it’s true. Not only did the GOP swoop in and seize more than enough seats to take control of the Senate, in the House they likely* increased their majority to a margin Republicans haven’t enjoyed since Harry Truman was in the White House (*likely because vote-counts aren’t complete in a handful of congressional districts). But that’s not the only story the midterms have to tell. “On one level, they (the Republicans) were the big winners of the night,” says DecodeDC’s Senior Washington Correspondent Dick Meyer. “But you scratch deeper and you see this anger towards Washington, and I think even more importantly, you see a profound pessimism about the future, about the future of the economy, about the direction the country is going in. Sixty-five percent of the people in the exit poll said they think the country is seriously on the wrong track; not a little bit on the wrong track, seriously on the wrong track.” On the latest DecodeDC podcast, Meyer and host Andrea Seabrook talk about this, and other hidden stories from the midterm elections. Plus they ponder the consequences of an angry, disappointed, and pessimistic electorate for a Congress that, so far anyway, hasn’t learned its lesson. “It will take something for politicians at some moment in time, at some moment in our history to say ‘hey, let’s change the formula, and let’s try to act more statesmen-like for awhile and see how that changes the deck’,” Meyer tells Seabrook. “I think the opportunity for this election to do that is there, because I think the message is very clear to Washington. It was a profound message that we don’t like either party, we don’t like any group of leaders. Whether it plays out that way, I’m skeptical.” Want to keep up with all the latest DecodeDC stories and podcasts? Sign up for our weekly newsletter at decodedc.com/newsletter.

Next Tuesday Americans across the country will participate in one of the most basic civic duties: voting. For many, that means taking time off work, driving to a designated polling place and casting their ballot through standalone voting machines. But what if the process of voting could be vastly different? Today we can do almost anything on the Internet from banking to ordering take-out, so it only feels natural that we should be able to vote that way too. In this week’s podcast, host Andrea Seabrook and Decode DC reporter Miranda Green delve into the benefits and road blocks to online voting and try to see into the future of elections. Not all elections experts think going online is a great idea. But Thad Hall, a professor of political science at the University of Utah, is ready. “You know it’s kind of the ultimate easy, convenient way to vote. And I don’t have to have a piece of paper, I don’t have to mail it back, I can send my ballot instantaneously. If Hurricane Sandy comes, I don’t have to worry about voting because I can just vote from my phone or I can vote from a computer somewhere.” But then there are the naysayers, many of them statisticians and engineers who think the Internet is too insecure for such a sacred thing as voting. Alex Halderman, a professor at the University of Michigan puts it this way, “I think most people like 100 percent accuracy in voting. The problem with voting with computer technology is [hackers] can change the election result to be whatever they wanted.” There are even those who believe electronic voting booths should be done away with, that what America needs is good old paper voting. Ronald Rivest, a professor at MIT says,“The high level goal is to not to just get the right vote count but one that’s provably right. Now here I am at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a fan of paper, but when you deal with security for a long time, you find that simpler is often better.” So when it comes to the future of voting, the crystal ball is cloudy. Some say it’s only a matter of time before Americans demand online voting, especially as younger digital-natives start voting in larger numbers. And to be sure, voting is already changing in the U.S. Not only are more states allowing mail-in ballots and early voting but one of the biggest election-tech companies is piloting ways to thread the needle between the security of paper ballots and the convenience of voting online. Want to keep up with all the latest DecodeDC stories and podcasts? Sign up for our weekly newsletter at decodedc.com/newsletter.

Tis the season for elaborate costumes, anonymous boogiemen and masked pranksters. That's right, it’s election season. Across the country, races for the House, Senate, governors and state legislators are being haunted by nasty attack ads. In this week’s podcast, host Andrea Seabrook takes a deep dive into dark money groups, responsible for some of the nastiest ads . As the co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project, Michael Franz tracks political ads on TV stations across the country and collects data on interest groups and their spending. What makes dark money groups so ominous, Franz explains, is they are not required to disclose any information about who their donors are. So it is unclear who exactly is funding them. “You could Google American’s for America and maybe find their P.O. Box or something, but you wouldn’t necessarily find anything else really about them. And I think that from a simple standpoint of what we know when making decisions [that] this is a troubling development,” he says. And when dark money groups blast into a campaign, pouring in millions of dollars to bombard it with attack ads, it can totally confuse the entire election. “You’re going to see a candidate win on Election Day talk about voters having spoken on affirmation of my message and it might not be that at all. It could be an affirmation of the negative messages from unaffiliated organizations,” says Franz. Because the funders of those ads could be anyone, or any special interest, or any business, voters have no way of judging the real motives of the ads or who is responsible for them. Is that the way we want our democracy to work?

Ebola has killed nearly 5,000 people and put America and the world on high alert. In contrast, the world’s worst pandemic, AIDS, hit the U.S. three decades ago and was largely ignored. Because of that, hundreds and then thousands fell sick and died of AIDS before the U.S. government even mentioned it publicly. “The country had never had much of a discussion about homosexuality, they loathed us and feared us,” says long-time AIDS activist Peter Staley. In those bleak years, activists organized, staged dramatic protests, and demanded new procedures at the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health -- procedures that could help Ebola patients today. “The openness to using experimental treatments and vaccines is a legacy of the AIDS epidemic and AIDS activists,” says Mark Harrington, director of the Treatment Action Group, an organization founded at the height of the crisis. The lessons learned from AIDS are informing the world’s response to Ebola. But, says Harrington, it’s also clear there are lessons the world didn’t learn. “We don’t really have a good rapid response system and these outbreaks are going to keep happening until we have better health systems in place in poor countries.” On this week’s DecodeDC podcast, host Andrea Seabrook explores the legacy of the AIDS crisis, and its reverberations in the world’s response to Ebola.

A staggering number of young women are having babies today who say they didn’t mean to get pregnant. New statistics from the Brookings Institution show that, among American women under age 30, more than 70% of pregnancies are unintended. In her new book, “Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage,” Brookings fellow Isabel Sawhill tackles the hot-button issues of poverty, contraception and having children out of wedlock. DecodeDC host Andrea Seabrook talked to her for our latest podcast. Here’s an edited excerpt from their conversation: Andrea Seabrook: You have a couple of different prescriptions for what the government should do. One seems to focus on the fertility of women, that women who want to make it into the middle class or to break this cycle, should be on long-term birth control. Tell me a little bit about that idea. Isabel Sawhill: Right now, the amount of unintended and unwanted pregnancies we have in the United States is enormous. Fifty percent of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended. For single women under 30, unmarried women under 30, it’s 73%. So this is not a minor problem. This is the norm that people are having babies before they’re ready, and before they say themselves they want them. Think about the following statistics: If you and your partner are using a condom after five years, your chances of getting pregnant are 63%. People haven’t been told that. If you’re on the pill, your chances of getting pregnant after five years are 38%. Now if you’re on long acting contraceptives like the IUD or implant, your chances are 2% after five years. So it makes a huge difference what kind of contraception you use. We’ve had all of this debate about birth control, but very little discussion about how much difference it makes what kind you use. Andrea Seabrook: Your work is controversial. Some people seem to think, ‘Oh, she just doesn’t want those poor kids or those brown kids to have babies.’ What’s your response? Isabel Sawhill: This is a hugely important issue. So of course there’s huge sensitivity in this country to any suspicion that someone might be trying to prevent births to low income or minority women. And I looked at that issue very carefully and what I think people don’t realize is that the data show that rates of unintended and unwanted pregnancies are three or four times among low income women as they are amongst higher income women. The same for minority versus whites. Minority women are having huge rates of unintended pregnancy. Why shouldn't we want to empower them to align their fertility outcomes or behavior with what they really want? It’s not doing anybody a favor to allow them to have a child that came too soon or that they didn’t want. Want to keep up with the latest DecodeDC stories and podcasts? Sign up for our weekly newsletter at decodedc.com/newsletter.

On April 14, 1994, the top executives of America’s seven largest tobacco companies filed into the hearing room before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. Before speaking, the CEOs took an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth – as most witnesses before Congress do. Each man then proceeded to testify that cigarettes and nicotine are not addictive. It was a moment that would change America’s relationship with tobacco. On March 17, 2005, six of the most important Major League Baseball players at the time sat side-by-side before the House Government Reform Committee: Alex Rodriguez, Jose Canseco, Curt Schilling, Rafael Palmeiro, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. With fans, kids, and reporters watching, most of the players refused to admit they were aware of the illegal use of steroids in baseball, or downplayed the breadth of the problem, until the question was posed to Jose Canseco. He told the assembled congressmen that a “large number of players” were using drugs, and that the trainers, managers and even team owners knew about it. It was a moment that would turn around Major League Baseball’s response to rampant drug use. The work of one individual congressman was critical to both of these historic hearings: Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. In both cases it was Waxman’s vision of bringing together the most important people at a sweet-spot in history that led to major changes in American culture. After a four-decade career in Congress, Waxman announced this year that this term would be his last. As part of DecodeDC’s “Exit Interviews” series, podcast host Andrea Seabrook talks to Waxman about his career – and about mastering the art of the congressional hearing.​

He is called the Vicar of Baghdad, though his life couldn’t be more different from the average English vicar. The Reverend Canon Andrew White leads St. George’s Church, the last Anglican church in Iraq. He also runs a clinic that sees thousands of patients a month, and a food program that feeds hundreds every week – regardless of their beliefs or religious affiliation. But though this work is much admired, it is not what has made Rev. White famous. As president of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East, White has forged personal relationships with the heads of opposing Muslim groups in Iraq. He is one of the precious few people in the world who has the trust of both Sunni and Shia leaders. Because of this, and because of the gritty humanitarian aid he extends to Iraqis, White says he is a danger to terrorists, especially ISIS, the brutal group ruling over large swaths of Iraq and Syria. “I do not allow them to maintain their own extremist positions, and I do not allow them to say, ‘look, we have got to fight against the other’,” White says. In this week’s DecodeDC podcast, host Andrea Seabrook sits down with Rev. White in the Library of Congress. He describes the danger and difficulty of continuing his work in Baghdad, and what keeps him going. White says he is driven to go deeper into the conflict, and tells Seabrook: “You do that by listening to those who might be against you. Who is my enemy? It is the person whose story I haven’t heard. And so you listen to their story, you get to know who they are, and you befriend them. You eat with them, you become their neighbor. And then you can bring about change.”

On this edition of B-Side from April 2006, Andrea Seabrook visits the Leather Rack, an adult accessories store, to talk about taboos.

On this edition of B-side from September 2005 we're taking a chance as host Andrea Seabrook visits the Reno airport and introduces us to some risk-takers.

On this edition of B-side from July 2005 we're talking about birth, rebirth, reincarnation and a lot of other stuff, too. Host Andrea Seabrook guides us through RE:birth with the help of her mother-in-law, who has lived through it all...in this life and others.

Have you ever started out on a project thinking it will be easy - only to find that it is way more difficult than you could have ever expected? On this edition of B-Side from December 2005, host Andrea Seabrook and the B-Side Crew bring you an assortment of 'piece of cake' moments.

You could call this the cut and paste edition of B-Side. Host Andrea Seabrook brings you some of our favorite stories from recent shows. And she finds a pattern...our best pieces always seem to have something to do with how we define ourselves. Produced in October 2005.

On this week's DecodeDC podcast, host Andrea Seabrook talks to three experts about a deceptively simple question: What responsibility does the U.S. have, if any, to respond to ISIS? Many Americans have been surprised in recent weeks by the brutal takeover of large regions of Iraq and Syria by the fundamentalist regime as it threatens men, women and children who don’t comply with its violent form of strict Sharia law with the most atrocious consequences -- massacres, beheadings and crucifixions. Earlier this week, President Barack Obama outlined his plan for military action against the group and announced the country would be working with a coalition of partners to degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIS. The experts we spoke with -- Bruce Hoffman, the director of Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies; Justin Logan, the head of Foreign Policy Studies at the libertarian think tank The Cato Institute; and Jim Wallis, a public theologian and activist -- disagree on what action the U.S. should take against ISIS. But they do not differ on these two facts: Americans are exhausted and war-weary. And they are desperate to return to a world where terrible threats don’t interrupt their lives with violent images. By all accounts, this brutal form of Islamic fundamentalism and the terrorists who propagate it are not fading. The question is what could -- or should -- the United States do about it.

It aired only once. A one-minute spot during “The NBC Monday Night Movie.” But it changed every political ad that came after -- as well as the entire field of advertising. The Daisy ad aired during the height of Lyndon B. Johnson’s re-election campaign, on the night of Sept. 7, 1964. Republican Barry Goldwater, LBJ’s challenger, had said in speeches and interviews that he would be willing to use nuclear weapons to better America’s position in the Vietnam war. The ad was the Johnson campaign’s attempt at exploiting Goldwater’s aggressive military stance. And it worked. Johnson would go on to win re-election by a landslide. The ad itself has a long-lasting legacy as well. Its mastermind was a man named Tony Schwartz, a young writer at a new kind of ad agency (one that would later be the inspiration for the AMC hit TV show, "Mad Men"). Rather than focusing on a candidate’s policy statements or plans for the future, as almost every political ad before it had done, Schwartz honed in on the viewers and their emotions. His aim was to create ads that evoked feelings the audience might already have, to “strike the responsive chord”, as he called it. On this week’s podcast, host Andrea Seabrook talks to Joe Slade White, now one of the most sought after political consultants in American politics, and David Schwartz, chief curator of the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Their conversations range from the history and importance of the Daisy ad to the psychology that underlies it. It is critical background for the educated voter, especially in these times of political ads saturating the airwaves. You can view political ads through U.S .history at The Museum of the Moving Image’s archive of political ads, The Living Room Candidate.

Americans can carry more guns in more places than ever before. Across the country, grassroots movements in states and on college campuses are demanding that gun regulations be relaxed -- and lawmakers are meeting those demands. This is one, major trend reported by News21, an eight-month project in investigative reporting that brought together top journalism students to study one issue: Guns in America. Here at DecodeDC we’re featuring many of the News21 stories, from the prevalence of women carrying guns to the refusal by some local authorities to enforce gun control laws. And last week’s DecodeDC podcast focused on the evolution of the political debate surrounding guns, and a smaller microcosm of that debate: Colorado. This week, host Andrea Seabrook talks to News21 reporters Kate Murphy and Wade Millward about the sweeping trend they found through their reporting: Americans are reacting to continuing gun violence in a new way. Whereas a few decades ago, a shooting might cause citizens to demand tighter gun control, today they demand more leeway to defend themselves.

It has been twenty years since Congress passed federal gun control legislation. That’s two decades in which America has seen some of the most horrific massacres in our nation’s history. But despite DC's gridlock on the issue, America’s debate over gun rights and gun regulations has gained energy. Just not in Washington. That’s just one conclusion of an in-depth, eight-month reporting project by this year’s News21 team. Student journalists tackled the issue of guns in America, turning out dozens of stories from the new, changing front lines of the debate. We here at DecodeDC have featured several of their stories, from funding of gun rights groups to the problems with our national background check system and state efforts to nullify federal gun laws. Today, we’re featuring them on the podcast. Host Andrea Seabrook talks to News21 reporters Justine McDaniel Jacy Marmaduke, getting a broad overview of the current state of the gun debate in America, and then looking at a single state that is both a microcosm of the national debate, and a crucible for activists’ tactics.

Tens of thousands of children have crossed into the United States this year, fleeing desperate conditions in Central America. The news media have dubbed it a “border crisis,” though none of these kids stays at the border for very long. And in Washington, Congressional leaders seem more focused on who to blame rather than what to do about it. In this week's podcast, host Andrea Seabrook goes straight to the front lines of the crisis. No, not the border but an elementary school just a few miles from the U.S. Capitol. Susan Holiday, the principal at Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary School, in Cheverly, Maryland doesn’t have the luxury of debating the politics of immigration, or playing the blame-game. With a third of her students unable to speak or read English, she and her staff focus on the practicalities: teaching young immigrants in a new language, a new school, and a new home. "On their enrollment it will say you know, 'Date first entered the United states'," says Holiday. "Let's just say their first day of school is August 25, it might say August 20. That means they just got here." Students like this have very different needs from American kids returning to school, she says. Some have just made an arduous trek through the desert, some without an adult. Many new immigrant students at Spellman school don't read or write in their native language, much less in English. And so Holiday and her staff reorganize classes, pair new students with bilingual ones, and make any accommodation they can to get those kids in class. In the end, it doesn't matter what the politics are, and it's clear that this is much more than a "border crisis." The way Susan Holiday sees it, it's a practical problem. There's work to do. Now do it.

It was three days after the attacks —September 14th, 2001 -- that Congress gathered in Washington to respond to the vicious blow America had sustained. Every member of the House and Senate, save one, voted to give President George W. Bush the authority to capture or kill those responsible. The bill they passed that day is called the AUMF -- The Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against Terrorists. Many predictions were made that day, of the coming war, the stamina and depth of the commitment it would require of American citizens. But what no one knew, what no one could know, is how the AUMF would anchor the country to that moment, and drag it back there again and again during the longest war in the nation's history. On this week's podcast, DecodeDC host Andrea Seabrook tells the story of how it happened, and what many think should come next.

Ellen Weiss is vice president and bureau chief for E.W. Scripps Company's multimedia news bureau. She joins Jeff from Washington DC to discuss podcasting's new frontiers in journalism. They talk about Ellen's distinguished career in news at NPR and the Center for Public Integrity and how that led to her taking over Scripps' digital newsroom. Then she explains the strategy behind Scripps's acquisition of the DecodeDC podcast--founded and hosted by former NPR correspondent Andrea Seabrook--and reveals what she thinks is the most exciting thing happening in podcasting today.

Which is worse: breaking the law to leak classified secrets? Or keeping quiet about what could be a violation of Americans' constitutional rights? Andrea Seabrook talks to an expert who believes that these modern times call for a Morality 2.0.

When the news becomes obsessed with a new story every week, do you ever wonder what's being pushed OUT of the headlines? Andrea Seabrook talks to a media critic and a historian about how news outlets choose the most important story, and why they often get it wrong.

Andrea Seabrook introduces America's best pUNdit -- a man you'll rarely hear from on the daily news, but who knows more than almost anyone about what's wrong with Washington.

Andrea Seabrook spent more than a decade at National Public Radio, and covered Congress for a good part of that time. She left NPR to start something of her own: DecodeDC, a podcast and syndicated radio program (on this very network) that cuts through the blandification of politics, and speaks the unvarnished truth that gets lost in the interest of presenting supposedly balanced viewpoints. Andrea is fair, but she doesn't shrink from cutting through layer after layer of spin, something that's typically not possible in conventional broadcast media. We talk about the future of public radio and the joy of making your own decisions about what your audience wants to hear.

Sarah Palin's turkey-slaughter and Kenny G is mistaken for Bill Clinton. Andrea Seabrook and Roman Mars explain the 7-1/2 secrets of political staging. This is a joint episode between DecodeDC and 99% Invisible. Double the fun!

On this special edition of 99% Invisible, we joined forces with Andrea Seabrook of DecodeDC to investigate all the thought that goes into the most miniscule details of a political campaign. Andrea was the star of episode #48 of 99% … Continue reading →

On this special edition of 99% Invisible, we joined forces with Andrea Seabrook of DecodeDC to investigate all the thought that goes into the most miniscule details of a political campaign. Andrea was the star of episode #48 of 99% … Continue reading →

The brilliant Andrea Seabrook stops by to chat about quitting NPR, Lying Bastards, and whether or not Congress can be fixed.

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Washington is broken. You are not. DecodeDC is for smart, engaged, and busy people like you. Through the podcast and blog, DecodeDC will decipher Washington's Byzantine language and procedure, sweeping away what doesn't matter so you can focus on what does.

“I have this habit of walking into any door that's unlocked…You start poking around, going into doors…you find the coolest things…” -Andrea Seabrook, NPR Congressional Correspondent In the eight years Andrea Seabrook has been reporting on Congress, she has made … Continue reading →

“I have this habit of walking into any door that’s unlocked…You start poking around, going into doors…you find the coolest things…” -Andrea Seabrook, NPR Congressional Correspondent In the eight years Andrea Seabrook has been reporting on Congress, she has made … Continue reading →