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Politics, History & Society

US politics & elections

US politics & elections sits within Politics, History & Society. Pay attention to historical context, institutional power, and the perspective from which an argument is presented. This selection contains 187 catalog videos from 145 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include politics, us politics, trump, voting systems, campaign finance and congress. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, course, documentary, explainer, interview, lecture, music, news, other, podcast and talk. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea”, listed under Tom Scott, is cataloged as explainer. Tom Scott explains why electronic voting is a bad idea. Elections must be trusted by everyone and attacks on software scale in ways attacks on paper do not, so open source or…

“Senate hearing on National Security Space Launch Programs with Elon Musk”, listed under canadarm2, is cataloged as news. Video of the March 2014 Senate Defense Subcommittee hearing on National Security Space Launch programs. Elon Musk of SpaceX testifies alongside ULA's CEO, a GAO official and a policy expert, on launch…

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