Podcast America’ Choice 2020
Episode 21: Transition with Obstacles
With Dr. Anna Sauerbrey, Member of the Editorial Board and Head of Opinion Department at Tagesspiegel, and Dr. David Sirakov, Director of the Atlantic Academy Rhineland-Palatinate (December 10, 2020)
Episode 20: A Historic Election
With Christiane Meier, ARD Correspondent in New York, Steven Sokol, President of the American Council on Germany, and Prof. Dr. Christian Lammert, Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute (November 10, 2020)
Episode 19: Blue, Red, Purple – The Role of Swing States in the Outcome of the U.S. Elections
With Rieke Havertz, U.S. correspondent at ZEIT Online, and Dr. Jackson Janes, President Emeritus at AICGS and Senior Fellow at GMFUS (October 21, 2020)
Episode 18: Playing Hardball – The First 2020 Presidential Debate
With Prof. Lora Anne Viola, Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute in Berlin, and Dr. Daniela Schwarzer, Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (September 30, 2020)
Episode 17: Mysterious Powers, Viral Delusion and Social Media – Conspiracy Theories in the U.S. Election
With Marie-Astrid Langer, Silicon Valley correspondent at Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and Julia Friedlander, C. Boyden Gray Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at the Atlantic Council (September 16, 2020)
Episode 16: Make America Great Again, Again – The Republican National Convention
With Andrea Römmele, Professor of Communication in Politics and Civil Society and Director of Executive Education at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and Matthew Karnitschnig, Chief Europe Correspondent at Politico’s Berlin office (August 28, 2020)
Episode 15: Convention without a Live Audience – The Virtual Democratic National Convention
With Sarah Wagner, Education Manager at the Atlantic Academy, and Dr. Danyal Bayaz, Member of the Bundestag (Alliance 90/The Greens) (August 21, 2020)
Episode 14: Harris, Housewives and the American Dream
With Kerstin Kohlenberg, U.S. correspondent at the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT (August 13, 2020)
Episode 13: Strategy and Tactics – A Look at the Trump and Biden Campaign
With Constance Chucholowski, political communications consultant and director at the Berlin office of 365 Sherpas – Corporate Affairs & Policy Advice, and Julius van de Laar, political strategist, communications consultant and expert in digital media (July 22, 2020)
Episode 12: Trouble Behind, Trouble Ahead? The U.S. Presidential Election and Transatlantic Relations
With Daniel S. Hamilton, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and Rüdiger Lentz, Executive Director at Aspen Germany (July 8, 2020)
Episode 11: What Do Women Want? The Female Vote in the U.S. elections
With Annett Meiritz, U.S. correspondent at Handelsblatt (June 24, 2020)
Episode 10: America in Turmoil – Protests against Racism and Police Brutality in the United States
With Laura Kupe, Counsel on the Committee on Homeland Security at the U.S. House of Representatives, Priscilla Layne, Professor of German Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Daniel-Friedrich Sturm, U.S. correspondent of WELT(June 10, 2020)
Episode 9: An Astronaut, a Football Coach, and a Kennedy – The U.S. Senate Elections
With Juliane Schäuble, U.S. correspondent at Tagesspiegel, and Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, KCRW Berlin’s Program Director (May 26, 2020)
Episode 8: Corona in the White House
With Christiane Hoffmann, editor at Spiegel’s Berlin office (May 17, 2020)
Episode 7: Podcasts, Protests, and Pick-ups – The 2020 Election and Media in Times of COVID-19
With Prof. Dr. Curd Knüpfer, junior professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute (May 1, 2020)
Episode 6: Who Elects Whom? Black People, Evangelicals and the Disappointed Youth
With Martin Klingst, political correspondent at DIE ZEIT and author of the book Trumps Amerika: Reise in ein weißes Land (April 17, 2020)
Episode 5: Cuomo for President?
With Cathryn Clüver, Executive Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project and the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Peter Rough, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute (April 3, 2020)
Episode 4: 2020 Election Campaigns amid Coronavirus Shutdown
With Astrid Dörner, U.S. correspondent at Handelsblatt, and Sudha David-Wilp, Deputy Director of the Berlin Office and Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund (March 27, 2020)
Episode 3: COVID-19, the Economic Consequences, and the U.S. Elections
With the Deputy Chairman of the Atlantik-Brücke, Prof. Dr. Michael Hüther, Director of the Institute of German Economics and member of the Executive Board (March 20, 2020)
Episode 2: Super Tuesday Edition
With Sigmar Gabriel, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Atlantik-Brücke (March 3, 2020)
Episode 1: Ready to Rumble – U.S. Primary Elections Enter Crunch Time
With Sumi Somaskanda, American journalist and senior news anchor at DW News (February 21, 2020)
