Temporada 1
Crash Course U.S. Government and Politics
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Introduction
23 de enero del 2015
10 min
Craig Benzine introduces a brand new Crash Course about U.S. Government and Politics! This course will provide you with an overview of how the government of the United States is supposed to functio...
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1x02 Episodio 2
The Bicameral Congress
30 de enero del 2015
9 min
In which Craig Benzine teaches you about the United States Congress, why it's bicameral, and what bicameral means. Craig tells you what the Senate and House of Representatives are for, talks about ...
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1x03 Episodio 3
Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances
06 de febrero del 2015
8 min
In which Craig Benzine teaches you about the US Governments Separation of powers and the system of checks and balances. In theory, the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Bra...
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Federalism
14 de febrero del 2015
9 min
In which Craig Benzine teaches you about federalism, or the idea that in the United States, power is divided between the national government and the 50 state governments. Craig will teach you about...
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1x05 Episodio 5
Constitutional Compromises
20 de febrero del 2015
8 min
In which Craig Benzine teaches you about the compromises met in ratifying the U.S. Constitution. The United States didn’t always have its current system of government. Actually, this is its second ...
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1x06 Episodio 6
Congressional Elections
27 de febrero del 2015
8 min
This week Craig Benzine talks about the importance of elections in the strongest branch of the U.S. Government: Congress. He'll talk about the frequency of elections in the Senate and House, the ty...
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1x07 Episodio 7
Congressional Committees
06 de marzo del 2015
8 min
This week Craig Benzine clears up the role of committees in Congress. We’ll talk about standing committees, joint committees, conference committees, and caucuses (and not the candidate-choosing kin...
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1x08 Episodio 8
Congressional Leadership
14 de marzo del 2015
8 min
This week Craig Benzine explores the leadership structure of congress. We’ll break out the clone machine to examine the responsibilities of the speaker of the house, the majority and minority leade...
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1x09 Episodio 9
How a Bill Becomes a Law
20 de marzo del 2015
7 min
Oh my, Craig has his work cut out for him this week. The process of how a bill becomes a law can be pretty complex, fraught with potential bill-death at every corner. As if just getting through com...
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1x10 Episodio 10
Congressional Decisions
27 de marzo del 2015
6 min
This week Craig breaks out the crystal ball to try and figure out why our congresspeople do the things that they do. We’ll talk about the three motivating factors of congressional decisions - const...
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Presidential Power
11 de abril del 2015
6 min
This week Craig looks at the expressed powers of the President of the United States - that is the ones you can find in the Constitution. From appointing judges and granting pardons, to vetoing laws...
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Presidential Powers 2
17 de abril del 2015
7 min
This week Craig continues our conversation on presidential powers by looking at those NOT found in the Constitution - implied or inherent powers. We’ll talk about how the President uses their power...
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1x13 Episodio 13
Congressional Delegation
24 de abril del 2015
6 min
In which Craig Benzine teaches you about delegation and informal powers. What are all these federal agencies about? Well, the President has a lot of stuff to do as the chief executive, and as much ...
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1x14 Episodio 14
How Presidents Govern
01 de mayo del 2015
9 min
This week Craig Benzine talks about how the President gets things done. Filling the role of the Executive Branch is a pretty big job - much too big for just one person. It's so big that the Preside...
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1x15 Episodio 15
Bureaucracy Basics
09 de mayo del 2015
6 min
This week Craig Benzine discusses bureaucracies. Bureaucracies tend to be associated with unintelligible rules and time-wasting procedures, but they play an important, though controversial, role in...
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Types of Bureaucracies
15 de mayo del 2015
5 min
In which Craig Benzine breaks down the different types of bureaucracies. I mean sure, they’re all part of the executive branch, but some work more directly with the President than others. Some bure...
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1x17 Episodio 17
Controlling Bureaucracies
23 de mayo del 2015
7 min
In which Craig Benzine tells you how we keep bureaucracy in check. So we've spent the last few episodes telling you all about what bureaucracies are and why they are formed. And throughout we've hi...
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Legal System Basics
30 de mayo del 2015
8 min
This week Craig Benzine takes a first look at the judicial branch. It's pretty easy to forget that the courts, and the laws that come out of them, affect our lives on a daily basis. But how exactly...
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Structure of the Court System
05 de junio del 2015
6 min
In which Craig Benzine talks about the structure of the U.S. court system and how exactly it manages to keep things moving smoothly. You'll learn about trial courts, district courts, appeals courts...
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1x20 Episodio 20
Supreme Court of the United States Procedures
12 de junio del 2015
6 min
This week Craig Benzine talks about what happens when a case makes it to the Supreme Court of the United States (or the SCOTUS). We're going to focus on court procedure today. We talk about how to ...
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1x21 Episodio 21
Judicial Review
26 de junio del 2015
8 min
Today, Craig Benzine is going to tell you about the Supreme Court's most important case, Marbury v. Madison, and how the court granted itself the power of judicial review. Judicial review is the po...
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1x22 Episodio 22
Judicial Decisions
10 de julio del 2015
7 min
Today, Craig Benzine is going to dive into the factors that influence judicial decisions. As you may have noticed, the Supreme Court recently handed down some pretty big decisions on same-sex marri...
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1x23 Episodio 23
Civil Rights & Liberties
17 de julio del 2015
7 min
Today, Craig is going to give you an overview of civil rights and civil liberties. Often these terms are used interchangeably, but they are actually very different. Our civil liberties, contained i...
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1x24 Episodio 24
Freedom of Religion
24 de julio del 2015
6 min
Today, Craig is going to take a look at the First Amendment and your right to freedom of religion. We’ll examine some significant Supreme Court decisions and talk about how they’ve affected our int...
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1x25 Episodio 25
Freedom of Speech
31 de julio del 2015
6 min
Today, FINALLY, Craig is going to talk about Free Speech! Now, free speech is so important because it not only allows you to critique the government, but it also protects you from the government. B...
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1x26 Episodio 26
Freedom of the Press
07 de agosto del 2015
7 min
Today, Craig is going to finish up our discussion of the First Amendment with freedom of the press. Like an individual's right to free speech, the press has a right, and arguably responsibility, to...
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1x27 Episodio 27
Search and Seizure
15 de agosto del 2015
7 min
This week Craig talks about police searches and seizures. Now, the fourth amendment says that you have the right to be protected against "unreasonable searches and seizures" but what exactly does t...
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1x28 Episodio 28
Due Process of Law
21 de agosto del 2015
8 min
This week Craig is going to continue our discussion of due process. Technically, we started last week with the 4th amendment and search and seizure, but this week we’re going to look at the 5th and...
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1x29 Episodio 29
Equal Protection
29 de agosto del 2015
8 min
Today, Craig is going to talk about the most important part of the Constitution - the Fourteenth Amendment. In particular, we're going to discuss the "equal protection" clause and how it relates to...
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1x30 Episodio 30
Sex Discrimination
04 de septiembre del 2015
8 min
Today, Craig is going to talk about employment discrimination, and we're going to focus primarily on women in the workforce. Discrimination against women tends to be handled somewhat differently in...
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1x31 Episodio 31
Discrimination
19 de septiembre del 2015
8 min
Today, Craig is going to wrap up our discussion of discrimination by looking more closely at those “discrete and insular minorities” referenced in the 14th Amendment. We’ll talk about instances of ...
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1x32 Episodio 32
Affirmative Action
26 de septiembre del 2015
7 min
So we've been talking about civil rights for the last few episodes now, and we're finally going to wrap this discussion up with the rather controversial topic of affirmative action. We'll explain w...
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1x33 Episodio 33
Public Opinion
02 de octubre del 2015
9 min
So today, Craig is finally going to start talking about politics. Now up until this point we've specifically been looking at government - that is answering the questions of who, what, and how in re...
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1x34 Episodio 34
Shaping Public Opinion
09 de octubre del 2015
7 min
So today Craig is going to talk about where our political opinions come from. Of course, most people’s politics are grounded in their ideologies, but there are also other external influences such a...
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1x35 Episodio 35
Political Ideology
16 de octubre del 2015
8 min
So today Craig is going to look at political ideology in America. We're going to focus on liberals and conservatives and talk about the influencers of both of these viewpoints. Now, it's important ...
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1x36 Episodio 36
Election Basics
23 de octubre del 2015
8 min
This week Craig is going to give you a broad overview of elections in the United States. So as you may have noticed, there are kind of a lot of people in the U.S, and holding individual issues up t...
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1x37 Episodio 37
Gerrymandering
31 de octubre del 2015
7 min
Today Craig is going to talk about a topic that makes voters and politicians alike ANGRY! We're going to talk about Gerrymandering - that is the process in which voting districts are redrawn in a w...
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1x38 Episodio 38
How Voters Decide
13 de noviembre del 2015
7 min
So today, Craig is going to try to get inside the heads of voters by discussing how voters make decisions. Now obviously, like all decision making, voter decisions are influenced by a multitude of ...
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1x39 Episodio 39
Political Campaigns
21 de noviembre del 2015
9 min
So political campaigns are a pretty big deal in the United States. For instance the 2012 presidential election clocked in at the most expensive ever - at around $6 billion dollars! Needless to say,...
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1x40 Episodio 40
Political Parties
04 de diciembre del 2015
9 min
Today, Craig is going to talk about political parties and their role in American politics. So, when most people think about political parties they associate them with the common ideologies of the v...
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1x41 Episodio 41
Party Systems
11 de diciembre del 2015
10 min
Today, Craig is going to dive into the history of American political parties. So throughout most of United States history our political system has been dominated by a two-party system, but the poli...
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1x42 Episodio 42
Interest Groups
19 de diciembre del 2015
8 min
Today, Craig is going to talk about something you fans out there have been demanding for months - money in politics. Specifically, we're going to talk about special interest groups and their role i...
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Interest Group Formation
08 de enero del 2016
8 min
So last week we talked about what special interest groups are and how they influence the political system, and today we’re going to focus on why we even have them in the first place. As to avoid ge...
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1x44 Episodio 44
Media Institution
16 de enero del 2016
8 min
So today we're going to look at the rather thorny issue of the media and its role in politics. Wether you're talking about older forms of media like newspapers and radio or newer forms like televis...
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Media Regulation
23 de enero del 2016
9 min
Today we wrap up our discussion of the media by talking about how the government interacts with and influences the content we see. Now it may be easy to assume that because we live in a free-market...
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1x46 Episodio 46
Market Economy
29 de enero del 2016
9 min
Today, we’re going to take a look at how the government plays a role in the economy. Specifically, the way the government creates and maintains our market economic system. Now sure, the government’...
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1x47 Episodio 47
Government Regulation
06 de febrero del 2016
9 min
Today, we’re going to wrap up our discussion of economic policy by looking at government regulation. We're going to talk about the government's goals for the U.S. economy and the policies it employ...
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1x48 Episodio 48
Monetary and Fiscal Policy
12 de febrero del 2016
9 min
Today, Craig is going to dive into the controversy of monetary and fiscal policy. Monetary and fiscal policy are ways the government, and most notably the Federal Reserve, influences the economy - ...
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1x49 Episodio 49
Social Policy
27 de febrero del 2016
8 min
Today, Craig is going to talk about social policy - in the United States this means achieving one of three goals: protecting Americans from risk, promoting equal opportunity, or assisting the poor....
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Foreign Policy
04 de marzo del 2016
9 min
Today Craig finishes up our series on U.S. Government and Politics by talking about both the least and most important aspect of government: foreign policy. Foreign policy is important because it ha...
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Estreno:
23 de enero, 2015
Episodios:
50
Última emisión:
04 de marzo, 2016
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