Civics 101 Podcast Transcripts
NHPR · 383 episodes with transcripts
How do landmark Supreme Court decisions affect our lives? What does the 2nd Amendment really say? Why does the Senate have so much power? Civics 101 is the podcast about how our democracy works…or is supposed to work, anyway.
Spoken has transcripts of 383 Civics 101 episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 6, 2026.
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Latest Civics 101 transcripts
What Does it Mean to Be a Democrat or a Republican?
October 6, 2026
Nick Capodice (0:02)
Well, September has come to a close. Spirit Halloween has started to open and recently shuttered businesses. School is in full swing, which means that our Back to School series is coming to a close. And next week, we're gonna get back to some new Civics 101 episodes. So for our final salvo, it is the last of our…
Our two parties. We're talking the R and the D.
Kathryn DePalo-Gould (0:55)
So good, so good, so good.
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