Podcast Episodes

Go To on the Civics Gap

Season 1 Episode 261

Somewhere between what we're taught and what we actually believe, there's a gap—and someone is always ready to fill it. Kelly sits down again with Am…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

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Welcome to For the Love with Jen Hatmaker

Joy isn't the reward you earn after all the work is done. Joy is the work. That's what a new series on For the Love with Jen Hatmaker is all about, t…

3 weeks, 4 days ago

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Deep Dive with Geraldine Brooks on Fairness

Season 1 Episode 308

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks set out to profile a government bureaucrat and found something closer to fiction: Jarod Koopman, a f…

3 weeks, 5 days ago

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Thanks For Being Here - Honoring Glen Hansard

Season 1 Episode 234

This week, a quiet goodbye. Kelly remembers Glen Hansard—musician, actor, and the beating heart of the lovely independent film Once—who died this wee…

4 weeks ago

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Go To on Working With Your Enemies

Season 1 Episode 260

This is the second clip from Kelly's conversation with Sharon McMahon — former public school teacher, America's unofficial government teacher, and so…

4 weeks, 2 days ago

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Deep Dive with John Lanchester on Knowing

Season 1 Episode 307

The Consumer Price Index determines your grandmother's Social Security, your SNAP benefits, your divorce settlement, and — historically, at least — w…

1 month ago

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Thanks For Being Here - The Group Ride

Nobody calls it therapy. That's why it works. Kelly's husband Edward rides bikes several times a week, and keeps coming home saying the conversations…

1 month ago

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Go To on the Antidote to Cynicism

Season 1 Episode 259

Sharon McMahon is a former public school teacher who now teaches civics to over a million people on the internet. Kelly caught up with her at the Asp…

1 month ago

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Deep Dive with Sarah Vowell on Access

Season 1 Episode 306

Somewhere in the National Archives, there are 13 billion documents that belong to every American — and for most of our history, you had to get yourse…

1 month, 1 week ago

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Thanks For Being Here - Andra's Short & Sweet Anniversary Message

Season 1 Episode 232

This week we're sharing listener Andra Cardow's reflection on twenty years of marriage. She shows us how love grows through everyday moments—dog walk…

1 month, 1 week ago

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