Heather Cox Richardson

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126 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 17 Jul

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What A Day · Amending The Constitution For The 21st Century With Heather Cox Richardson · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

But what I see in this moment is a bunch of people waking up and thinking, voice-verified

Hey, government really can work. voice-verified

And so you get somebody like Zoran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, who's doing really simple stuff that makes people's lives better in a hurry. voice-verified

And one of the things that I think you saw in the Biden administration was the attempt to do that, but people didn't know what was going on because they didn't communicate it terribly well. voice-verified

Now, when you see Mamdani picking up something like the idea that you should be able to unsubscribe from something as quickly as you subscribe to it, like, how is that not working for us? voice-verified

That is great. voice-verified

And I think the idea of our government representing what we really want it to do seems much more within reach when you can see that happening around you. voice-verified

The fact that we got this... voice-verified

Housing bill, now the housing law, through Congress was sort of a miracle, really, and it was on a strong bipartisan basis. voice-verified

Again, the president refused to sign it. voice-verified

It became law anyway. voice-verified

But I feel like I'm seeing more people have faith that, in fact, the government can do things that we want it to do. voice-verified

And here's a news flash. voice-verified

It needs to. voice-verified

We are stuck in a country that in many ways moved backward after the 1970s rather than forward. voice-verified

And if we're going to face the challenges of the 21st century, we need to think of some new things in a hurry and make them happen in order for the United States to function, really, not only to be a responsible part of the world community. voice-verified

I think we are in a period of transition, and there has been a real move in America to focus on the leaders in the federal government and what they are or are not doing. voice-verified

And one of the things that jumped out to me about the curriculum that was voice-verified

being developed in places like Florida and Oklahoma over the last several years, is we talked a lot about the individuals or the events that were stripped out of it. voice-verified

And they were pretty astonishing, I have to say. voice-verified

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