Eastern Standard: September 24th, 2026
Exercising the right to vote.(Shutterstock / Shutterstock)
This week on Eastern Standard:
Episode 32 of our series, Democracy Optimist, takes the temperature of a challenged American democracy with only weeks to go before a highly consequential midterm election.
Host Joshua Douglas, a research professor of election law and voting rights at the University of Kentucky welcomes Professor Steven Levitsky, Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and a Professor of Government at Harvard University, and League of Women Voters CEO, Celina Stewart.
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