In the Making
This nation is still in the making. We the People? We're in the making too. In the Making is a new series from PolicyLink hosted by Baratunde Thurston, featuring kitchen table conversations with PolicyLink CEO Michael McAfee and President Ashleigh Gardere. Together, they explore how to redesign the nation so that it serves all people.
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Governing for All, Where You Are
<p>Baratunde Thurston and PolicyLink CEO Michael McAfee and President Ashleigh Gardere return for Part 2 of “Rooting in Place”, exploring how local and state efforts can build governing power from the ground up. </p> <p>They discuss how small local efforts with tangible results, like a park cleanup, can grow into larger political power, and how local level work can facilitate accountability through proximity. </p> <p>They also explore how to implement a floor on governing standards–ensuring basic rights– with regional implementation that respects local culture and history. </p> <p>They close with an invitation to answer deeper questions about who w...
Rooting in Place
<p>When the federal government blocks progress, how can state and local communities advance a nation that serves all? Baratunde Thurston and PolicyLink CEO Michael McAfee and President Ashleigh Gardere explore how states and local communities can and must be the center of transformative change on Episode 5 of "In the Making."</p> <p>They discuss why localities and states must serve as safe harbors when the federal government stands against progress, and examine real-world examples, from New Orleans' post-Katrina rebuilding to Palm Springs reparations for displaced Black communities, to St. Paul, Minnesota winning tenant protections. They explore what it means...
Rewriting the Rules
<p>What will it take for this country to work for its people, and for government to earn public trust? Baratunde Thurston and PolicyLink CEO Michael McAfee and President Ashleigh Gardere explore how we rewrite the rules to serve all people on Episode 4 of “In the Making.” </p> <p>They get into why even the best programs and policies can't create lasting change when the underlying design of our nation is working against them. They unpack how we need to empower the 14th amendment’s "affirmative duty of government.” This means we need a shift from making marginalized people prove they’re b...
Rebuilding the Foundation
<p>Host Baratunde Thurston talks with PolicyLink CEO Michael McAfee and President Ashleigh Gardere to explore why America's foundation was flawed from the start—and how we can build a new one that works for everybody. </p> <p>They discuss why the nation's original design excluded many from "We the People," how across ideology, so many experience the system as rigged, and why we should raise the level of our expectations and demands of what government should do. </p> <p>They explore why the next founding must be built by millions, and why soul work—seeing each other's humanity—is an essen...
Becoming We the People
<p>Host Baratunde Thurston returns with PolicyLink CEO Michael McAfee and President Ashleigh Gardere to explore why we should be the founders of a redesigned nation for all.</p> <p><br>They discuss why we must own our power and birthright to do this work, how love and accountability must guide us, and the six essential founders’ capacities we must cultivate in ourselves and our institutions on this journey.</p>
Redesigning Democracy for All
<p>Amid political chaos, low trust in institutions and government, and the grief of this moment, host Baratunde Thurston, CEO Michael McAfee and President Ashleigh Gardere discuss why this moment calls for redesigning this nation—and how it's always been the people excluded from democracy who have brought it closer to its promise.</p>
