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Government That Doesn't Suck

Rewind Studios

11 episodes

The government gets a bad rap. But the roads under your feet, the forecast on your phone, and the letter in your mailbox are all government too. Hosted by Professors Greg Jackson and Lindsey Cormack, Government That Doesn't Suck brings together the sharpest thinkers to reveal the real-world impact of American government, one episode at a time.

Episodes

  1. Elections Integrity (Federal Election Commission)

    · 1 h 00 min · Episode 9

    It's the same question every election season: can we trust our voting system? To get a straight answer, we talked to someone who spent more than two decades inside the agency that polices money in American politics. We…

  2. Government Reform Before DOGE: NPRG and the Hoover Commission

    · 53 min · Episode 8

    Every generation of leaders inherits a government that feels too slow, too wasteful, or too tangled in its own rules. From the Hoover Commissions of the 1940s and 50s to Al Gore’s forklift full of regulations in the…

  3. Introducing WHAT THE FACT with Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy, a new Rewind podcast!

    · 38 min · Bonus

    Fun fact: Did you know Jaws almost never existed because the shark kept sinking while filming? That is Connor Tomlinson just getting started. If that sounds fascinating, you are going to love Rewind Studios’ new…

  4. National Weather Service (Part II): A Day in the Life of Weatherman John Elliot

    · 42 min · Episode 7

    Hurricane season is almost here, and it’s time to ask yourself: Who do you want to be in charge of your weather forecast? For decades, the National Weather Service has provided free, life-saving forecasts to every…

  5. NASA and the Commercialization of Space

    · 1 h 18 min · Episode 6

    Following the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle disasters, the government had to rethink space exploration. In 2006, NASA launched the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, allocating $500 million to…

  6. Before the First Amendment: The Trial of John Peter Zenger

    · 1 h 03 min · Episode 5

    In 1735, a colonial printer named John Peter Zenger spent nine months in jail for printing someone else's criticism of a corrupt governor, and his trial helped plant the seeds of a free press in America decades before…

  7. National Weather Service

    · 48 min · Episode 4

    Hurricane season is upon us. Did you know that the weather app on your smartphone and the forecasts from TV meteorologists wouldn’t exist without data from the National Weather Service? Yep. The National Weather…

  8. The Spoils System / Pendleton Civil Service Act

    · 58 min · Episode 3

    It used to be that federal government jobs were awarded via a "spoils system," where political patronage and loyalty were the primary criteria for hiring and firing government employees. This system led to widespread…

  9. Moonshot / NASA Apollo missions

    · 56 min · Episode 2

    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…

  10. We The Founders (The Constitution)

    · 47 min · Episode 1

    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,…

  11. Introducing Government That Doesn't Suck

    · 0:49 · Trailer

    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…

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