How the Word is Passed with Clint Smith
What we call history isn't a fixed thing; it's a narrative, contested and fought over, changing over time. Right now, the United States is in the midst of a massive historical battle over its own narr...
1 Jun 202152min
Treating Trans Youth with Dr. Izzy Lowell
What is gender-affirming health care? Around the country, there’s a Republican campaign to legislate and regulate the lives of trans youth. The most destructive of these efforts would bar trans youth ...
25 Mai 202149min
A More Violent America with Patrick Sharkey
What causes violent crime rates to rise? It probably won’t surprise you to learn that 2020 was the deadliest year in American history but what you may not know is that 2020 also saw a staggering rise ...
18 Mai 202153min
A Life in China with Te-Ping Chen
We largely hear about China in the news through the lens of what the Chinese government is doing, but it is a country with billions of people and a history thousands of years old. For as large and inf...
11 Mai 202149min
The Premonition with Michael Lewis
Back in 2019, a panel of health experts declared that of every country in the whole world, the United States was the most prepared for handling a pandemic. So what went wrong? Acclaimed author Michael...
4 Mai 202144min
Is Bitcoin for Real? with Joe Weisenthal
How does bitcoin work? Where did it come from, why does it exist, and will it ever be used for everyday purchases? Far from some passing fad, bitcoin has been around for more than a decade now and sho...
27 Apr 202153min
The Whiteness of Wealth with Dorothy A. Brown
Racial hierarchy in America is deeply embedded in big structural institutions. From housing to criminal justice to education, there’s decades of scholarly work and research dissecting the lasting lega...
20 Apr 202152min
The Endurance of Wikipedia with Katherine Maher
Wikipedia is not like a lot of our current internet. It’s not like sites like Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube that mines its users’ attention and tries to capture it through push notifications and algor...
13 Apr 202149min
