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Beyond Your News Feed: Understanding Contemporary Politics
Welcome to "Beyond Your News Feed: Understanding Contemporary Politics" a new podcast sponsored by the Providence College Political Science Department. Host William Hudson, Political Science Department Chair, and colleagues will provide expert analysis of current political events and issues, delving...
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2024 Election Aftermath
Host Dr. Hudson discusses the 2024 election with PC political science professors Dr. Myers and Dr. Cammarano. Our conversation reviews that factors t...

2024 Election
Host William Hudson discusses the 2024 election with PC political science professors Adam Myers and Joe Cammarano. They review the astonishing events...

The Discursive Self-Cleaving of Donald Trump
Host William Hudson is joined by Professor Andrea McDonnell, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of PC’s Communication Program to di...

Regulation of Religious Practice in China
Although most of us associate the People’s Republic of China (the PRC) with its officially sanctioned atheism, the government tolerates a variety of r...

New Class Divisions and the Meritocratic Left
This episode features, Zachariah Wheeler, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College. We discuss his research on the evol...

The Muslim Social
This episode features Gizem Zencirci, Associate Professor of Political Science and her new book: The Muslim Social: Neoliberalism, Charity, and Povert...
2024 Presidential Election
Professors Joe Cammarano and Adam Myers join Beyond Your News Feed host William Hudson for a wide-ranging conversation about the 2024 presidential ele...

American Reactions to the War in Gaza
Host William Hudson discusses the current Israeli-Palestinian crisis with two political science colleagues who are experts on Israel and its long conf...

Does American Federalism promote or undermine American democracy?
Professor Adam Myers joins host William Hudson to discuss federalism’s impact on American democracy. Jacob M. Grumbach’s recent book: Laboratories aga...

Chinese Politics
This episode features a conversation with the Providence College Political Science Department’s Chinese politics expert, Professor Susan McCarthy. For...

Introducing PC Political Scientist Professor Sara Hassani
For this episode, we were pleased to welcome to Beyond Your News Feed the newest member of the PC Political Science faculty Assistant Professor Sara H...

Political turmoil in Israel
Podcast host, William Hudson, invites back to the podcast the Providence College Political Science Departments expert on all this Israeli, Professor R...

2022 Midterm Elections
This episode takes a deep dive into the results of the 2022 midterm elections. Professors Matt Guardino and Adam Myers join host, William Hudson, to d...

Political Turmoil in Iran
In September, Iran's morality police arrested a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Masha Amini, for violating rules regarding proper wearing of the hijab, a h...

The State of American Politics – Summer 2022
This episode features our knowledgeable and insightful team of American politics experts, Professor Adam Myers and Professor Matt Guardino to discuss...

Understanding Hostility Toward Immigrants and Immigrant Political Participation
America has often prided itself as a nation of immigrants. Apart from indigenous peoples, Americans generally are descended from someone who came to...

Celebrity, Gossip, and Contemporary Politics
On this episode of Beyond Your News Feed, Dr. Bill Hudson is joined by Associate Professor of Communication and Director of PC’s new Communication Pro...

IPCC Reports - Climate Change Assessment
Today’s guest on Beyond Your News Feed, Professor Casey Stevens, sits down with Dr. Bill Hudson to discuss the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Clima...

PC PSC Students' Experience With Senior Research Seminar
On this week's episode of Beyond Your News Feed, three Political Science seniors were asked to share their experiences with their capstone research se...

PC Political Science Alumnae who are Political Scientists
This year Providence College is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the first class of women students at the college. Since 1971 when the college...

The Democratic Soul
Can political philosophy help us understand what ails American Democracy? Host Professor William Hudson explores this question with guest Assistant P...

American Conservative Thought: The Demise of “Fusionism”
This episode explores the tension within American conservative thought between Traditional Burkean conservatism and classical liberalism. Host Willia...

The State of American Politics One Year After the 2020 Election
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The Demise of Local Newspapers and American Democracy
This episode of Beyond Your News Feed explores the fate of local news. Professors Andrea McDonnell and Matt Guardino of the Providence College Politic...

Budgetary Conflict: From Obama to Biden (via Trump)
For this episode, the tables are turned on Beyond Your News Feed’s normal host, Professor William Hudson. Guest host Professor Adam Myers interviews...

Utopia
This episode takes up the topic of Utopia. What value do dreams of a better world have for understanding politics in the real world? What impact has...

Israel’s New Government
Providence College Associate Professor of Political Science Ruth Ben-Artzi joins host William Hudson to discuss the formation of a new Israeli governm...

The Afghan Taliban Return to Power
Last week, after twenty years of conflict, the Afghanistan Taliban took effective control of the country. The rapid collapse of Afghan government for...

The Climate Crisis
This special edition of Beyond Your News Feed analyzes last week’ report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Professor Casey Steve...

Keith Morton on Youth Gangs, Violence, and Non-violence
This episode is a conversation with Professor Keith Morton of the Public and Community Service Department about his recent book “Getting Out: Youth Ga...

History of the Providence College Political Science Department – 1970 - today
Listeners will find this a different kind of Beyond Your News Feed episode. Rather than analyze political events in the news as we usually do, this e...

The Democratic Party After Trump
Donald Trump’s defeat in last November’s election spawned an eruption of press analyzes about the impact of the defeat on the Republican Party. Pundi...

Israeli Elections and Middle East politics
In this episode, Providence College Professor of Political Science Ruth Ben-Artzi talks with podcast host Professor William Hudson about the recent Is...

Providence College Students and Election 2020
Today Bill Hudson, host of Beyond Your News Feed, interviewed six PC students: Megan Labbe, Sienna Strickland, Cole Dougherty, Carson Giles, Sofia Bel...

Analysis of 2020 Election
Professors Adam Myers, Matt Guardino, and Joe Cammarano, all of the PC political science department join host, William Hudson for a post-election anal...

Pre-election forecast
Professors Adam Myers, Matt Guardino, and Joe Cammarano, all of the PC political science department join host, William Hudson to look at the state of...

The Life and Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
In this episode, Professors Abigail Brooks, Director of PCs Women’s Studies Program, and Paul Herron, the PC Political Science Department’s Supreme Co...

Senate Elections
On today’s episode, I was joined by Professor Adam Myers to discuss the 2020 races for the US Senate. With more Republican Senate seats at stake in t...

Latinos and the 2020 Election
In this episode, Professor Tony Affigne, Professor of Political Science at Providence College takes a deep dive into survey data of Latinos

Climate Crisis
This summer the United States has experienced a number of severe weather events that seem related to climate warming. In the West, weeks of drought a...