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Have you noticed that politicians struggle to enact the things they run on? They find themselves bound by what is popular, or at least their sense of it. The narrow range of policies that they can enact is called the Overton Window. The Overton Window podcast looks at issues around the country and the people changing what is politically possible.
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Investment banker Richard Shinder on unacceptable political risk in America’s largest states
Center for the American Experiment’s John Phelan on coping with the dollar’s decline
Michael Van Beek on the ideas that drove the American Revolution
Jaquetta Lee on educating the individual instead of the average
Jessica Snowden on Detroit’s educational landscape and opportunities
Oran P. Smith on South Carolina’s changing attitudes about taxation
Dennis Talluto on the fight over data centers
Dave Hebert on the state of U.S. manufacturing
Warren Anderson on how Michigan’s childcare apparatus reduces fertility
Alex Cartwright on the challenge of converting hotel space into housing
Michael James Clark on a teacher’s role and the impact of Hillsdale College
Joshua Bandoch on using persuasion to get what you want in family life and politics
Rod Lockwood on the renewed effort to make Belle Isle Detroit’s game changer
Jonah Goldberg discusses building The Dispatch and pushing back against clickbait journalism
Who's stealing your tax dollars? Haywood Talcove has the answer, and it's worse than you think
Donald Bryson demonstrates how think tanks help shape public policy for the better
Justin Callais discusses what helps states improve life outcomes
Barbara Oakley on the rise, retreat, and future of online learning
Chris Surprenant talks integrating financial literacy at the high school level to improve outcomes
Chris Waston discusses how AI can help teachers improve student outcomes
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