Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchArt Cullen on Iowa's Corn Gospel, Cancer, and Capture
Iowa's rivers run brown, its cancer rates climb, and its politics tilt redder. Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Art Cullen joins to discuss his new book Dear Marty: We Crapped in Our Nest — Notes from t…
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Beth Macy: "When the Local Paper Dies, the Community Follows"
Journalist Beth Macy, author of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, returns to her Ohio roots to chart what's been lost in the hollowing-out of middle America. Pap…
Published on 1 day, 23 hours ago
Karine Jean-Pierre: "Independent," Evasion, and the Party She Says Left Her
Former Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre joins to promote her memoir Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House Outside the Party Lines—and faces pointed questions about contradictions be…
Published on 3 days ago
Steve Hayes & Damon Linker: The Hole Truth
Steve Hayes and Damon Linker debate whether Trump's demolition of the White House East Wing is another norm-busting outrage or just a gaudy renovation. They argue over visuals versus substance in ant…
Published on 4 days, 1 hour ago
Barista Michelle Eisen on Face Tattoos, Short Staffs, and Union Shots Fired
Michelle Eisen, barista-turned-organizer from Buffalo’s first unionized Starbucks, breaks down how Workers United grew from one store to hundreds—and why the real fight now is over pay, scheduling, a…
Published on 5 days ago
Jeremy Workman — “Walking Every Block, Hiding in a Mall”
Two conversations with documentarian Jeremy Workman: first on The World Before Your Feet (a quest to walk every NYC block), then on Secret Mall Apartment (artists who built a hidden flat inside Provi…
Published on 1 week ago
Funny You Should Mention: Ariel Elias
Kentucky-raised, New York-forged, and newly “A Jewish Star,” Ariel Elias breaks down how outsider status becomes comic superpower. We talk growing up Jewish in the Bluegrass, explaining Kentucky to N…
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No Capes, Real Peace: U Thant's UN and What We Lost
Historian and grandson of third secretary-general of the United Nations U Thant, Thant Myint-U, discusses Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World—how the UN once brokered real ce…
Published on 1 week, 2 days ago
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Carnegie Endowment’s Alicia Wanless argues that disinformation isn’t new—it’s just our latest pollutant. In The Information Animal, she maps centuries of “information ecosystems,” from King Charles I…
Published on 1 week, 3 days ago
Michael Kirk — "RFK Jr.'s Latest Addiction: Attention"
Frontline's Michael Kirk discusses The Rise of RFK Jr., charting Kennedy's path from sex and drug addiction to what Kirk calls "an addiction to validation." He describes a man driven by grievance, an…
Published on 1 week, 3 days ago