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Lindsey Cormack is an associate professor of political science at Stevens Institute of Technology, the author of How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It) and Congress and U.S. Veterans: From the GI Bill to the VA Crisis, and co-host of the podcast Government That Doesn’t Suck!. She is also a featured co-host and contributor to the National Constitution Center’s Civic Parenting podcast. In 2009, she created DCinbox, an extensive archive of official email communications sent by members of Congress, and she now translates findings from that collection for a broader public through the substack DCinbox Insights. Cormack’s research examines Congress, political communication, civic education, elections, veterans’ politics, and women in politics. Her scholarship has appeared in journals including Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Science Research and Methods, American Politics Research, and Congress & the Presidency. Her public-facing work and commentary have appeared in outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, NBC News, ProPublica, MarketWatch, and The Hechinger Report. She earned her Ph.D. in government from New York University and serves as Secretary of Manhattan Community Board 8. Across her research, books, podcasts, public service, and civic education work, she focuses on helping people understand how government operates and how ordinary citizens can participate more confidently and effectively.
What problem was government trying to solve? What machinery did it build? And did it work? Every other Monday, Professor Greg Jackson and political scientist Professor Lindsey Cormack dig into the laws, agencies, and policies that actually shape American life. From the interstate highway system to the National Weather Service, they break down how government works, when it succeeds, and when the answer is a little more complicated.
About 200 years ago, We the People created a baseline for a Government That Doesn’t Suck. "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. In today’s episode, Greg Jackson and Lindsey Cormack discuss the United States Constitution and why we are all founders.
With its lavishly funded mandate to put a man on the moon, the Apollo mission promised to reinvigorate a country that had lost its way. But a new breed of activists denounced it as a colossal waste of resources needed to solve pressing problems at home. Neil Maher reveals that there were actually unexpected synergies between the space program and the budding environmental, feminist and civil rights movements as photos from space galvanized environmentalists, women challenged the astronauts’ boys club and NASA’s engineers helped tackle inner city housing problems.
Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other
Consider the Consitution
How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It's Up to You to Do It)
Congress and U.S. Veterans: From the GI Bill to the VA Crisis
Lindsey Cormack discussed civic education, common misconceptions about government and what to expect from her new podcast "Government That Doesn't Suck."
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