Beyond Your News Feed: Understanding Contemporary Politics

For this episode, the tables are turned on Beyond Your News Feed’s normal host, Professor William Hudson. Guest host Professor Adam Myers interviews Hudson about federal budgetary politics. Budget issues are very much in the news these days with Democrats internally divided over President Biden’s proposals for increased spending on physical and social infrastructure and Republicans, once again, seeking to derail these proposals through refusal to help raise the debt ceiling. In this conversation, Adams and Hudson try to place the current controversies in the context of conflict over the federal budget going back decades. They explore how the current moment is informed by the budgetary politics during the Obama administration. What is different about current budgetary politics and what happened then?

Show Notes

For this episode, the tables are turned on Beyond Your News Feed’s normal host, Professor William Hudson.  Guest host Professor Adam Myers interviews Hudson about federal budgetary politics.  Budget issues are very much in the news these days with Democrats internally divided over President Biden’s proposals for increased spending on physical and social infrastructure and Republicans, once again, seeking to derail these proposals through refusal to help raise the debt ceiling.  In this conversation, Adams and Hudson try to place the current controversies in the context of conflict over the federal budget going back decades.  They explore how the current moment is informed by the budgetary politics during the Obama administration.  What is different about current budgetary politics and what happened then? 

Creators & Guests

Host
Bill Hudson
Beyond Your News Feed: Understanding Contemporary Politics is a podcast of the Providence College Political Science Department. On the podcast, we provide analysis of political issues and events featuring the expertise of Providence College faculty members. Our episodes seek to offer in depth discussion of contemporary events that go beyond what typically is covered in the media. In particular, our guests draw on the most up to date research in political science and other fields to throw light on world events. Our episodes cover political events in all regions of the world and in the United States. The issues and events analyzed include elections, public policy, domestic and international crises, political ideologies, racial and ethnic relations, prominent political figures, and many other topics.

What is Beyond Your News Feed: Understanding Contemporary Politics?

Welcome to "Beyond Your News Feed: Understanding Contemporary Politics" a new podcast sponsored by the Providence College Political Science Department. Host William Hudson, Political Science Department Chair, and colleagues will provide expert analysis of current political events and issues, delving more deeply into their causes and consequences than can be found in typical media sources.