Each episode takes one big question and explores it in about ten minutes: Who was America really built for? Why were the Founders afraid of democracy? Why did political parties form almost immediately? Has American politics always been this divided?

Rather than simply marching through presidents and elections, the show focuses on the ideas, conflicts, compromises, scandals, movements, and contradictions that explain how American politics became what it is today.

From the Revolution and the Constitution to civil rights, political parties, presidential power, culture wars, and modern polarization, Ten Minutes of American Politics looks backward to make the present make a little more sense.

Short episodes. Big questions. The history behind the politics we’re still arguing about.