UC3P: The Main Page

UC3P: The Main Page

UC3P is a student-run podcast network based at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. Our main page hosts current events, politics, research, debates, and more from across the University of Chicago.

Episodes

May 1, 2021 40 mins
The City of Chicago’s Commissioner of Public Health Department discusses all things Covid-19: vaccine distribution and equity, pandemic preparedness for major cities, mental health, and global implications for US vaccinations.
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Nimit Sawhney, Co-Founder and CEO of Voatz, discusses the company’s mission to make mobile voting a reality and the role that blockchain technology plays in this movement.
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February 6, 2021 40 mins
University of Michigan Professor Robert Mickey discusses subnational authoritarianism with Sidhant Wadhera in the context of historical and contemporary U.S. politics.
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January 31, 2021 59 mins
Dr. Jeff Martin and Dr. Gretchen Sneegas discuss their work on Critical Worldbuilding, which uses a social scientific lens to analyze the built worlds in speculative media like sci-fi, fantasy, games, movies, and more. They discuss the broader applications of their work for pedagogy, politics, and policy.
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Lisa Rosen, the Associate Director of the Committee on education at UChicago, sat down with UC3P to discuss the benefits that could come from CPS adopting a culturally responsive curriculum and explain the challenges facing the implementation of these curricular changes.
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January 16, 2021 31 mins
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Professor Dan Black talks about the polling error in the 2020 election and the futures of polling and election forecasting

Podcast Production Credit:
Sidhant Wadhera
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Sociologist and native Chicagoan Robert Vargas sat down with UC3P to discuss the evolution of his views on policing, the origins of the CPD as we know it today, and why he’s become an advocate of police abolition.
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November 8, 2020 54 mins
A diverse group of six University of Chicago students discuss their views on the election on November 4th, when several states were still considered to be toss-ups.
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November 1, 2020 48 mins
Dr. John Gastil, Professor of Communication and Political Science at Penn State discusses deliberative democracy and how its lessons and techniques can be applied to the United States.
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October 24, 2020 31 mins
Supreme Court Reporter for Slate, Mark Joseph Stern joins Andrew Weis to discuss the Supreme Court and the underlying ideological and political factors that affect its decisions.

Podcast Production Credit:
Olu Ogidan / David Raban
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October 17, 2020 43 mins
NYU Law Professor Samuel Isacharoff discusses the United States Supreme Court and the impact it has had on democracy and election.
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October 3, 2020 81 mins
Olu Ogidan (MPP ’21), for co-producing and co-interviewing
Sowmya Karun (MAIDP ’20), for co-producing and co-interviewing
Bryce Fields (MAPSS ’17), for co-producing and co-interviewing
David Raban (JD/MPP ’20), for engineering and editing.

Big ups as well to 2019-20’s other APMs: Arjun Motta, Sidhant Wadhera, and Suo Wu.

Congratulations to Sidhant Wadhera, who will now be the new Main Page Production Manager.

Finally, thank you to everyo...
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August 26, 2020 25 mins
Content Warning: This episode contains explicit language.

Welcome to our newest mini-series: Policy Jam. In this series of quarterly episodes, we’ll first explore a topic through an interview with a policy expert, and then we’ll write a song about it.

Today’s topic is immigration. Carmelo de Grazia and Olu Ogidan spoke with Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute. Her research expertise includes U.S. legal...
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In Naked Love 6, we explore what folks’ relationships have been like during the current COVID-19 pandemic. We hosted a group conversation to hear how both new and long-term relationships have adjusted during these strange times. Brianne Johnson, a graduate student at VCU’s Brandcenter, takes us through reconciling commitment with her own changing ambitions as she thinks through graduation, while Jenish Patel and Reema Rao-Patel t...
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In this episode, the Main Page team got to speak with Dr. Jeffrey Butts, Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Director of the John Jay Research and Evaluation Center. Dr. Butts walked us through gun violence as a public health issue – what sorts of interventions have been researched, the degrees of success, and how we should be approaching this issue to solve it at its root.

Podcast Production Credits:

Arjun Motta ...
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In this episode, the Main Page team got to speak with Mary Stonor Saunders, Executive Director of Strides for Peace. Strides for Peace is an organization that aims to empower, amplify, and collaborate with community groups working to end gun violence in Chicago.

Podcast Production Credits:
Arjun Motta (MBA/MPP ’22), for producing and engineering
Sidhant Wadhera (MPP ’21), for co-interviewing
Caroline Kubzansky (BA ’21), for co-intervi...
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For the next three episodes, UC3P: The Main Page presents a three episode mini-series: Gun Violence: The Other Epidemic.

In this episode, we focus on policy advocacy. We spoke with Kris Brown, the President of Brady. Brady is a nonprofit organization working to help end America’s gun violence epidemic. In our conversation, Ms. Brown spoke about Brady's policies and initiatives, what’s missing at the federal level, and gun violence...
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Dr. Raghuram Rajan discusses the economic impact of COVID-19 and the associated policy responses in both the United States and developing countries. Dr. Rajan is a former head of the Reserve Bank of India –– which is India’s equivalent of the Federal Reserve –– and is now the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Sidhant Wadhera (MPP ’21), for produci...
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Anna Carroll of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) analyzes the US policy responses to COVID-19 and gives insight into the best and worst-case scenarios for how the virus could play out.

Here are Ms. Carroll's most recent articles:

On Privacy: https://www.csis.org/analysis/find-my-friends-pandemic-future-contact-tracing-america

On Scenarios: https://www.csis.org/analysis/which-covid-19-future-will-we-choose

On Pr...
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Last week, we shared some reflections from the Harris community to tell us how they’ve been coping at this moment. Today, we asked students how they've been sheltering at home.

Podcast Production Credits:

Yi Ning Wong (MPP '21), for producing and interviewing
Rachel Li (MPP'20), for editing
David Raban (JD/MPP '20), for supervising

Special thanks to Arjun Motta, TJ Chatto, Aliya Bean, Yahan Cheng, and Nelson Puc Cruz for sharing their ...
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