Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEconomic Hardship Reporting Project: Reporting on Poverty in America
Episode 304
Nearly 40 million Americans live in poverty, making less than $26,200 a year for a family of four. Their stories and their struggles, however, are ra…
5 years, 9 months ago
F-Word: Mourn Justice Ginsburg, Fight to Close Irwin Detention Center
"...one fitting way to honor the historic justice would be to take action on some unfinished feminist business. Justice Ginsburg is on my mind today,…
5 years, 9 months ago
A Public Health Approach to Policing: The Newark Model
Episode 303
In the face of on-going police brutality against African Americans and the disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on people of color, the U…
5 years, 9 months ago
F-Word: Resisting Authoritarianism One Co-Op at a Time
"A popularly-elected Republic overturned by a reactionary armed revolt: There are myriad reasons why the painful history of the Spanish civil war mi…
5 years, 9 months ago
Cooperation and Humanist Models of Business vs Authoritarianism in Spain
Episode 302
Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, uneq…
5 years, 9 months ago
Story Behind the Story: Season Trailer and Premiere Episode
This is the Story Behind the Story, for our season kick off and our new weekly behind-the-scenes conversation, featuring members of the Laura Flander…
5 years, 9 months ago
Disability Arts, Disability Justice
Episode 301
Laura Flanders interviews two performance artists whose work illustrates how difference and neurodiversity make art and society richer and much more …
5 years, 9 months ago
Liberating Pleasure and Sex: Desire in a World Transformed
Regulation, degradation, shaming, blaming - enough! Is it time for sexual liberation yet? We talk a lot about sex but not often enough about pleasure…
5 years, 10 months ago
The End of the American Frontier Myth, Greg Grandin
In this episode, Laura interviews author and Yale historian Greg Grandin about his new book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wal…
5 years, 10 months ago
Listening to Our Braver Angels
Red, blue, rich, poor, country, city, left or right. Chances are you probably fall into one of those categories. And you may be quite happy where you…
5 years, 10 months ago