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Checks and Balance
Checks and Balance unlocks American politics by taking a big theme each week and digging into the data, the ideas, and the history shaping the country. Join John Prideaux, Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon as they talk to politicians, pollsters, academics and people across the country about the great experiment of American democracy. Published every Friday.
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