Politics

Postcards From The Great Divide

Examining the deeply partisan split among the American electorate, this series of shorts travels to key locations across the US to help provide a greater understanding of how changing demographics and political self-sorting will continue to have a profound effect on American politics for years to come.

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Vote For Me

Comprising dozens of stories that help illuminate the excitement, contradictions, and the occasional glories of the American way of politics, this entertaining and revealing Peabody Award-winning series travels across the country to show us how politics is really played in the U.S.

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Louisiana Boys

A hilarious, unorthodox look at the colorful, Byzantine political culture of Louisiana, home to Huey and Earl Long, David Duke, and Edwin Edwards, where politics is a long-running spectator sport.

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Getting Back to Abnormal

Getting Back To Abnormal is an intimate look at race, politics and culture in post-Katrina New Orleans. In its freewheeling tale of exhilaration and dysfunction, it's a reminder of how little has changed in the Crescent City since Lafcadio Hearn wrote in 1883: "The city is buried under fraud and maladministration, but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio."

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