Gerrymandering is bad, right? Drawing congressional or statehouse districts to benefit one party at the expense of the other is wrong. Right? As we untangle redistricting this season, we wanted to unravel the belief that gerrymandering is bad. Guests include: Matt Huffman, Ohio Senate President (R-Lima); Maureen O’Connor, former chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court; Allison Russo, Ohio House Minority Leader (D-Upper Arlington); David Pepper, former Ohio Democratic Party Chair; Jeff Berding, co-owner of FC Cincinnati; and David Niven, political science professor at the University of Cincinnati.

Ohioans are going to the polls this November to vote on redistricting, again. It’s the fifth time in 20 years that we’ve been asked whether we want to change how we draw the boundaries for our statehouse and congressional districts. Guests include Matt Huffman, Ohio Senate President (R-Lima); Maureen O’Connor, former chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court; Tom Hunter, professor of political science at the University of West Georgia; Jo Ingles, reporter with the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau; Allison Russo, Ohio House Minority Leader (D-Upper Arlington); David Pepper, former Ohio Democratic Party Chair; and Frank Strigari, Republican Senate Counsel.

Buckeye voters are being asked this November whether we want to change our process for drawing electoral boundaries. Mapmaking is a complicated process, and it could use a little untangling. Over the next five episodes, we'll untangle the history of redistricting, how to draw fair maps, how other states do redistricting, and let both sides of Issue 1 make their case.

What can be done at the local, state and federal levels to solve the immigration crisis? Join us for the final episode of this season. Guests: Angie Plummer, Executive Director, Community Refugee & Immigration Services (CRIS) and David Bier, Director of Immigration Studies for the CATO Institute.

Politicians on the right often bring up crime when discussing immigration but research shows that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than people born in the U.S. Guests include Marty Schladen, Reporter, Ohio Capital Journal; Austin Kocher, Geographer, Syracuse University; and Alex Nowrasteh, Vice President of Economic and Social Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

When we talk about our immigration system being broken, we’re really talking about asylum. Our laws let people seek refuge from persecution, but the rules weren’t created to handle hundreds of thousands. Out guests include Emily Brown, director of the Immigration Clinic at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law; Chris Levesque, assistant professor of law at Kenyon College; and Debu Ghandi, senior director of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress.

When it comes to the politics of immigration, Ohio's members of Congress have been front and center. We look the political fault lines that severed bipartisan efforts at immigration reform. Guests include Theresa Cardinal Brown, Senior Advisor for Immigration and Border Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center, and James Massa, CEO of NumbersUSA.

The immigration system in the U.S. needs to be fixed, but how and when? We'll discuss with New Yorker reporter Jonathan Blitzer and Roy Beck, an author and founder of NumbersUSA.

Untangled is back. Listen as we take a complicated topic and untangle it. This season we’re untangling immigration - from an Ohio perspective. Guests include Angie Plummer, executive director of Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS); Rob Cohen, an immigration attorney at Porter Wright; Steven Hubbard, data scientist for the American Immigration Council; and Julia Gelatt, associate director of U.S. Immigration Policy Program, Migration Policy Institute.

Let's be honest, these days immigration feels like a four-letter word. Compromise in our current political environment feels impossible and a showdown at the Texas border feels inevitable. But Ohio isn't Texas. Our borders don't touch other countries, but we are touched by immigration.