Podcast
The Overton Window
Hosted by Mackinac Center for Public Policy · EN
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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‘Access can change the trajectory of anybody's life’
4d agoTap to summarizeJessica Snowden on Detroit’s educational landscape and opportunities
Transcribe →‘Whichever candidate wins, they’re both promising to get rid of the personal income tax’
3w agoTap to summarizeOran P. Smith on South Carolina’s changing attitudes about taxation
Transcribe →‘The more you ask the computer to do for you, the more power you need’
Jun 26Tap to summarizeDennis Talluto on the fight over data centers
Transcribe →‘We need to unleash American workers, not protect them’
Jun 12Tap to summarizeDave Hebert on the state of U.S. manufacturing
Transcribe →‘The harsher the childcare regulations, the fewer kids people have’
May 29Tap to summarizeWarren Anderson on how Michigan’s childcare apparatus reduces fertility
Transcribe →‘Affordable housing: No matter what they say in public, they're terrified of it’
May 15Tap to summarizeAlex Cartwright on the challenge of converting hotel space into housing
Transcribe →‘You never talk to the people who lost the lottery, right?’
May 1Tap to summarizeMichael James Clark on a teacher’s role and the impact of Hillsdale College
Transcribe →‘The difference between having a good idea and having others embrace it’
Apr 17Tap to summarizeJoshua Bandoch on using persuasion to get what you want in family life and politics
Transcribe →‘If we do meet resistance from elected officials in Detroit, we’ll fund a referendum’
Apr 3Tap to summarizeRod Lockwood on the renewed effort to make Belle Isle Detroit’s game changer
Transcribe →‘People bemoan that they can't trust the news’
Mar 20Tap to summarizeJonah Goldberg discusses building The Dispatch and pushing back against clickbait journalism
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