Ultra
Rachel Maddow outlines the second season of her award-winning podcast “Ultra,” which tells an all-but-forgotten true story of an ascendant American demagogue and the frayed line between violent extremism and mainstream politics. There’s an international manhunt for an American traitor, a spy inside the U.S. Army’s Nazi war crimes prosecutions, and a bizarre (and successful!) foreign influence operation inside Congress.
Civic Conversations – Gerrymandering
Civic Conversations is produced by WFHB in support of the League of Women Voters of Bloomington-Monroe County, a non-partisan organization. Civic Conversations is produced by Jim Allison, with help from WFHB News Director Kade Young and members of the League of Women Voters of Bloomington-Monroe County. This particular episode from September 23, 2020 focuses on the challenge of Gerrymandering.
Letters From an American
Heather Cox Richardson is a history professor interested in the contrast between image and reality in American politics. Her podcast on Substack has millions of followers. She writes and reads her daily newsletter that makes connections between the past and present in the experiment of American democracy. This episode from August 20, 2025, Cox-Richardson describes the perpetual “republican thumb on the sale of American elections” in their effort to replace democracy with an oligarchy.
Reverse Citizens United 