# Trailer: Checks and Balance

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Podcast: [Economist Podcasts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/economist-podcasts-921330)
Published: 2026-05-06T15:07:41+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/checksandbalance/episodes/trailer-checks-and-balance
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Duration seconds: 83

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Unlock American politics with The Economist ’s John Prideaux, Charlotte Howard and James Bennet. Taking one big theme every week, they dig into the data, the ideas and the history behind it. Politicians, pollsters and political scientists join them to discuss where the great experiment of American democracy is headed. Published every Friday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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