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14:22
Siyanda Mohutsiwa
How young Africans found a voice on Twitter
14:14
Arthur Brooks
A conservative's plea: Let's work together
19:51
Yanis Varoufakis
Capitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up
14:04
Dambisa Moyo
Economic growth has stalled. Let's fix it
13:34
Wael Ghonim
Let's design social media that drives real change
12:56
Mathias Jud
Art that lets you talk back to NSA spies
9:04
Monica Palacio
Why the District of Columbia should get an equal right to vote
18:00
David Rothkopf
How fear drives American politics
7:01
Eric Liu
How to understand power
3:23
Kenneth C. Davis
What you might not know about the Declaration of Independence
3:36
Doug Levinson
What gives a dollar bill its value?
15:58
George Takei
Why I love a country that once betrayed me
13:44
Lawrence Lessig
The unstoppable walk to political reform
4:15
Nicki Beaman Griffin
The fight for the right to vote in the United States
17:15
Eric Liu
Why ordinary people need to understand power
10:41
David Puttnam
Does the media have a "duty of care"?
16:23
Dambisa Moyo
Is China the new idol for emerging economies?
20:37
Eric X. Li
A tale of two political systems
20:06
George Papandreou
Imagine a European democracy without borders
18:19
Lawrence Lessig
We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim
9:48
Zahra' Langhi
Why Libya's revolution didn't work -- and what might
5:05
Christina Greer
Does your vote count? The Electoral College explained
3:41
Christina Greer
Gerrymandering: How drawing jagged lines can impact an election
18:57
Heather Brooke
My battle to expose government corruption
14:04
Ivan Krastev
Can democracy exist without trust?
17:23
Beth Noveck
Demand a more open-source government
13:41
Rory Stewart
Why democracy matters
8:36
Jarreth Merz
Filming democracy in Ghana
17:53
Maajid Nawaz
A global culture to fight extremism
18:51
Yasheng Huang
Does democracy stifle economic growth?
9:51
Wael Ghonim
Inside the Egyptian revolution
17:11
Mustafa Akyol
Faith versus tradition in Islam
7:02
David Bismark
E-voting without fraud
19:42
Michael Sandel
The lost art of democratic debate
6:07
Omar Ahmad
Political change with pen and paper
15:07
Noah Feldman
Politics and religion are technologies
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