After the 2016 presidential election, Rob Blair, an assistant professor of political science at Brown University, began teaching a new course. It’s designed to answer one question: is our democracy failing? And it’s proven to be popular enough to go nationwide. Blair claims that this is not an anti-Trump course.

Brown professor Rob Blair talks to RIPR’s Chuck Hinman about his course “Democratic Erosion.”

Morning Edition Host Chuck became part of RIPR in 2012 after a career on commercial radio. He got his broadcasting start as an announcer for Off Track Betting Corporation in NYC. He’s been a news...