Politics in Question
Hosted by Lee and James · Julia Azari, Lee Drutman, and James Wallner
4.7from 103 ratings
- 183
- Episodes
- 44
- Transcribed
- 103
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About Politics in Question
A podcast about how our political institutions are failing us and ideas for fixing them. Join hosts Lee Drutman and James Wallner as they imagine and argue over what American politics could look like if citizens questioned everything. Politics In Question is a joint venture of New America and the Foundation for American Innovation.
- Publisher
- Julia Azari, Lee Drutman, and James Wallner
- Category
- education · government · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Jun 2019
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
44 of 183 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is Congress Too Old?
26 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Do We Build and Break Power?
26 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Who Controls the Party?
Inside a recent episode
Is Congress Too Old?
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So the party rules. So I think about things like seniority in the House and Senate, how one gets a committee gavel or the top-ranking minority position, how the conditions for, say, party leaders... Um, and as we kind of work through those and others, I just want to push back in a very general way and say like, if the, if the need for kind of some sort of mandatory retirement age is linked to kind of performance in office, however, we want to talk about that, but just in general performance in office, what I find so interesting right now is that the younger lawmakers and the older lawmakers for the most part appear to be acting in in the same way, right? […]
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- Alex Hertel-Fernandez
- Jamila Michener
- Georgia Kernell
- Seth Masket
- Tabitha Abu El-Haj
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 77 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.3 / 5
- 26 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100
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- Quality
- 58
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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Lee and James host the show. Published by Julia Azari, Lee Drutman, and James Wallner.
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