Landslide
Episodes
Are we doomed?
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Historically, societies fall. Civilizations collapse. But is that what’s happening now in the United States? With the help of historians, a former C...
Introducing the American Storytelling collection
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be an American? There’s no one way. At NPR, we think of the American identity as a story - one that's always being rewritten by...
Engines of Outrage Pt. 4
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does the internet work to polarize us on an individual level?As tech and media companies, battle for online engagement, they feed their users — ...
Engines of Outrage Pt. 3
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Librarians in Ukraine. Rural newspapers. A tweak to social media algorithms. The infrastructure of a political campaign. All of these offer lessons ab...
Engines of Outrage Pt. 2
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 2000s, key tech companies made a series of choices that shaped the future of the internet. They "gave away"" their products "for free." F...
Engines of Outrage Pt. 1
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Just a few decades ago most people used — and trusted — the same news sources. Now, Americans are siloed in separate ecosystems, consuming conflic...
The Exoneration of Richard Nixon
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If the new Supreme Court decision, Trump v. U.S., had applied back in 1974, could President Richard Nixon have been prosecuted for Watergate? Or, woul...
When Money Became Speech
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After Watergate, both parties cracked down on political spending with a new, strict campaign finance law. But instead of money in politics shrinking, ...
New Right TV
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before Fox News, the grassroots conservative activists known as "the New Right" spent decades attempting — and failing — to launch their own telev...
Making Abortion Partisan
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Even in the years after Roe vs. Wade, the issue of abortion did not divide the political parties — or most Americans. But as Reagan, the New Right, ...
Landslide
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Four years later. Jimmy Carter is now an embattled president, unpopular and facing a tough primary challenge. Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan storms to the R...
Outsider
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bruised after the primaries, the unpopular Ford looks headed for a blowout defeat in the 1976 general election. But his campaign adopts a clever strat...
Ordinary Man
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An unexpected contender ambushes the Democratic field. The one-term Georgia governor Jimmy Carter has planned a campaign of military precision for the...
Shootout
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the primaries over, the nomination hangs in the hands of a few remaining "unbound" delegates. Ford and Reagan scramble to win them over, as the b...
The New Right
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 1976 Republican primary looks finished. After a string of losses to Ford, Reagan's aides prepare to concede. But a network of right-wing groups ha...
Lightweight
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The idea that Ronald Reagan can win is laughable. "Suicidal," writes the New York Times. Too extreme, too gaffe-prone, too unserious a candidate, the ...
Trust
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gerald Ford had planned to retire. But in the days and weeks after Watergate, the new president looks to rebuild Americans' collapsing trust in their ...
Introducing Landslide
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When President Richard Nixon resigns in disgrace, three unlikely candidates emerge to fill the vacuum: Gerald Ford, savvy veteran of partisan wars. Ro...