The Kids Are All Right. The Adults Are F***ing Up!
It’s all about the young folk this week: We’ve got Gen Z protestors disrupting anti-abortion galas…a student reporter holding colleges to task…and clever TikTokers lobbying for debt relief. And that’s...
1 Sep 202242min
Will We Be Smarter About the Next Epidemic? Two Experts Break it Down
COVID taught us a lot of lessons—or did it? With MPV (aka monkeypox) here in its wake, host Brittany Packnett Cunningham sits down with Dr. Monica Gandhi and Dr. David Johns to talk about what we’re g...
25 Aug 202245min
A Future Without Police? Andrea Ritchie on Crime and Abolition
The headlines say crime is up. And our politicians say more police are the answer. What’s the truth? And what happened to all those abolitionist promises made in the summer of 2020? Host Brittany Pack...
18 Aug 202244min
“People’s Kids Are the Center of Their World”- Caitlin Dickerson on the Horrors of Family Separation
On this week’s episode, Undistracted host Brittany Packnett Cunningham talks to journalist Caitlin Dickerson about one of the darkest policy moments in American history: the “Zero Tolerance” family se...
11 Aug 202243min
Beyoncé’s Renaissance, According to Four Brilliant Black Women
“This started off as a conversation about Beyoncé,” says host Brittany Packnett Cunningham, “but like her music, it became about so many other things: the evolution of womanhood, our queer siblings, s...
4 Aug 202248min
“The System Works For Those Who Occupy It”: Maria Teresa Kumar on Voting Rights
The majority of Americans didn’t want to see Roe v. Wade overturned—but it was. Most Americans want gun reform—but it doesn’t happen. So the big question is: What’s going on here? Maria Teresa Kumar, ...
28 Juli 202235min
Phoebe Robinson is Writing Her Own Rules (on TV and in Life)
"The media has such a limited understanding about Black femaleness,” says Phoebe Robinson, the actress, comedian, writer, podcast host and producer. “But the complexity is always more interesting!” So...
21 Juli 202238min
“Covering the End of the World”: A Reporter on Gun Violence
You know gun violence is an American epidemic. But…why? And how do we get out of this mess? Jennifer Mascia understands those answers better than almost anyone. As a reporter with The Trace, her entir...
14 Juli 202241min
