S5E3 How Afterschool Programs Can Empower Parents Research into how government-funded afterschool programs for poor families are empowering politically motivated parents. Features Chicago and Durham, NC programs.…
S5E2 When Local News Dries Up A look at why local news is struggling, why that matters for democracy and what can be done about it.…
S5E1 Reparations: How it Could Happen The question of whether and how to compensate descendants of people formerly enslaved in the United States has hung over the country since the end of the Civil War. It’s getting new traction in the 2020 election, and now a Duke researcher has assembled a team to determine how such a program could be enacted.…
Ways & Means Podcast Dedicates Season Five to Issues in Politics Season 5 of Ways & Means is dedicated to issues in U.S. politics, civic life and hot topics in the 2020 election. The season is made possible by Polis: Center for Politics at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy.…
S4E6 Beyond Elmo: How Puppets Teach Preschoolers Self-Control New research into how to best help children control themselves in the classroom.…
S4E5: Answering New Parents’ Cries for Help We go inside an innovative, free public program that helps new moms and dads adjust to life with a newborn.…
S4 Episode 4: Adding Up the Bill for Climate Change Who will take the hardest hit financially as the world heats up, and can anything be done about it? …
S4 Episode 3: A Small Green Idea to Power Rural Nepal A research team from Duke University treks into the Himalayas to investigate why a promising way to deliver electricity to those who need it, the micro-hydro minigrid, sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t.…
S4 Episode 2: A Greener Commute: One City’s Story Using behavioral economics to nudge commuters into leaving their cars behind. …
S4 Episode 1: How Parenthood Affects Climate Change Skeptics Explore new research into how to overcome partisanship when it comes to belief about climate change.…
Climate Change Miniseries Season 4 launches with a miniseries featuring policy ideas for understanding and dealing with our changing climate. …
Ways & Means Podcast Wins Award for International Series Ways & Means wins CASE Award for the second year in a row.…
