You may have been seeing the name Scalia on your Facebook newsfeed a lot lately. This is because Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia suddenly and very unexpectedly died yesterday morning, leaving a vacant position on the US Supreme Court. I'm going to explain why this is a big deal, politically, and what could happen from this point forward.

Episode 1 - The Supreme Court and Justice Scalia's passing

Today we’re going to do a quick follow-up of what’s happened with the Supreme Court nomination process as well as talk about primaries, caucuses and what the heck is Super Tuesday?

Episode 2 - Super Tuesday

In this episode, we discuss the origins of Memorial Day (did you know it dates back to the American Civil War?) and untangle the Transgender Bathroom bill that's now involved all three levels of government.

Episode 3 - Memorial Day & Levels of Gov't.

Episode 4 - Electoral College

If you’re looking for someone to tell you how they think you should vote or feel about a particular issue, there are thousands of shows, YouTube videos and Facebook pages that you could turn to. But what I’ve found is that in this age of instant technology and partisan bickering, it all blends into noise. For most of the people who yell at us from a television studio about whatever inflammatory topic is in the news that day, their driving ulterior motive is to make themselves more money and more famous. I genuinely don’t believe their goal is to educate and inform.
That’s why I’m here. I have a deep love for civics. Let me say that again – a deep love for civics, not politics. Civics is the study of the rights and duties of citizenship. What it means to be part of a society. Remember all that stuff you had to read about in ninth grade and promptly forgot most of it the following summer? Well, what I’ve found is that when people aren’t comfortable with those fundamentals and don’t see how they relate to their day-to-day lives, it’s so easy to just shut out the noise altogether. My goal is to get back to those fundamentals in a non-partisan, informative way.

Simply Civics Podcast