Deep Background with Noah Feldman

Pushkin Industries

Behind every news headline, there’s another, deeper story. It’s a story about power. In Deep Background, Harvard Law School professor and Bloomberg View columnist Noah Feldman will bring together a cross-section of expert guests to explore the historical, scientific, legal, and cultural context that help us understand what’s really going on behind the biggest stories in the news.iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

  • 39 minutes 24 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Bonus - Inside the Florida Secretary of State’s Office During the 2000 Recount

    Conversations with Florida’s former Secretary of State Katherine Harris, the Bush supporter who presided over the 2000 recount, and self-described Republican operative and “Bush liege” who embedded in Harris’s office during the recount and helped her bring the election “in for a landing.”

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    25 November 2024, 5:01 am
  • 26 minutes 54 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Bonus - A Mile In Their Shoes

    An interview with Brian Noyes, who worked on the Bush 2000 presidential campaign, and what it was like to feel like an election is being stolen. Noyes oversaw an oral history project with recount alums from the Bush campaign. 

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    18 November 2024, 5:01 am
  • 53 minutes 7 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Episode 6 – No Precedent

    In the season finale: How the 2000 presidential election was distilled and decided in a case called Bush v. Gore.

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    13 November 2024, 5:01 am
  • 46 minutes 25 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Episode 5 – Contingencies

    Democrats and Republicans hope for the best and plan for the worst.

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    6 November 2024, 5:01 am
  • 53 minutes 20 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Episode 4 – Spin-Off

    How public relations battles yielded big legal wins for the Bush team.

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    30 October 2024, 4:01 am
  • 55 minutes 45 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Episode 3 – Ballot With Butterfly Wings

    What happened in Palm Beach County when a bitterly-contested national election came to town–and who paid the price?

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    23 October 2024, 4:01 am
  • 50 minutes 31 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Episode 2 – Real Numbers

    On election night 2000 an ad hoc network of statisticians, news producers, TV anchors, and political operatives tried to figure out what the hell was going on in Florida–and failed spectacularly.

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    16 October 2024, 3:45 am
  • 51 minutes 38 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Episode 1 – Homestead

    How the largely forgotten race between Al Gore and George W. Bush roiled Florida long before anyone had ever heard of a hanging chad.

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    16 October 2024, 3:30 am
  • 37 minutes 6 seconds
    The Future of COVID-19 with Marc Lipsitch

    Harvard epidemiologist and recurring guest Marc Lipsitch discusses what we can learn from omicron surge. Lipsitch also addresses some common omicron myths and discusses the possibility of a “master vaccine.” 

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    27 January 2022, 1:01 am
  • 32 minutes 6 seconds
    How One Bank Shaped American Capitalism

    Zachary Karabell, financial executive and historian, discusses his recent book Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power, outlining the formation of American capitalism told through the history of one often-overlooked bank. He explains how the evolution of trust in financial systems has shaped American capitalism today and informs where it could go in the future.

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    20 January 2022, 1:34 am
  • 38 minutes 46 seconds
    Inside The Facebook Oversight Board

    Jamal Greene, co-chair of the Facebook Oversight Board, an independent governing body reviewing Facebook’s content moderation decisions and issuing binding rulings, explains the inner workings of the Board. Greene is the Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he focuses on constitutional law and American federal courts. 

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    12 January 2022, 11:41 pm
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