The number of college students across the nation who voted in the midterms doubled between 2014 and 2018. At Duke University, the voting rate was even higher – it jumped 114 percent. We explore how that jump happened and what specific strategies other colleges could use to increase their own student voting rates.

Guests: BJ Rudell, Associate Director of POLIS, the Center for Political Leadership, Innovation and Service at Duke University and Lindsay Morgenstein, student voting drive organizer.

• Read the episode transcript
• Visit the Duke Votes website
• Music: Georgia Overdrive and The Zeppelin by Blue Dot Sessions / Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution

In 2009, President Obama launched an initiative designed to use a community outreach approach to counter violent extremism. Ten years later, Professor David Schanzer, Director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security has analyzed the policy, and he says it was deeply flawed, but there are lessons to be learned.

• Read the episode transcript
• Read the report, “Engaging with Communities to Prevent Violent Extremism: A Review of the Obama Administration’s CVE Initiative”
• Music: Careless Morning by Blue Dot Sessions / Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution