How to Save a Country

Season 2 Trailer

How to Save a Country

Show Notes

In season 1 of How to Save a Country, hosts Felicia Wong (Roosevelt Institute) and Michael Tomasky (The New Republic) spoke to progressive luminaries about democracy-saving ideas at the intersection of economics, law, and politics.

Today, thanks to some surprising legislative successes, some of those big ideas are a lot more real. In Season 2, Felicia and Michael ask: what happens when ideas hit the real world? Where are they working? How can we do better? What ideas might work tomorrow?

New episodes beginning April 6. Presented by the Roosevelt Institute, The New Republic, and PRX.

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