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Can We Mitigate the Effects of Climate Change by Putting a Price on Carbon?
Episode 361
There's no denying the world is already paying for climate change. The price is stronger hurricanes, bigger wildfires, and unpredictable heat waves. …
5 years, 5 months ago
America's Unspoken Caste System
Episode 360
America has been shaped by a hidden phenomenon that touches all of our lives. A rigid hierarchy of human rankings, or caste system, influences our cu…
5 years, 5 months ago
Is National Unity Possible?
Episode 359
The United States is facing one of the most difficult tests in its 244-year history. American democracy is struggling, economic and social justice ar…
5 years, 5 months ago
How One Woman's Detective Work Uncovered a Racist Tax System
Episode 358
In tax law, most people think the only color that matters is green. But, after more than two decades of research, tax scholar Dorothy A. Brown discov…
5 years, 6 months ago
Finding the Strength to Leave: One Woman's Story of Domestic Abuse
Episode 357
When she met him, Tanya Selvaratnam thought New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was her perfect match. But as time went on, Schneiderma…
5 years, 6 months ago
Walter Isaacson on the Next Great Innovation Revolution
Episode 356
Biographer Walter Isaacson's latest book tells the story of biochemist Jennifer Doudna. She helped develop a controversial tool that has the power to…
5 years, 6 months ago
Women Beating the Odds in Business
Episode 355
In the United States, the odds are stacked against women and people of color who want to start a business. As a Black entrepreneur, Danielle Kristine…
5 years, 6 months ago
Net Zero or Bust
Episode 354
The sobering impacts of the pandemic, and the need for a rapid transition to a clean energy economy compel us to consider opportunities that lie at t…
5 years, 6 months ago
Stop Being an Unreliable Narrator of Your Own Story
Episode 353
Grappling with the challenges and problems life throws at us is difficult, especially during a pandemic. Psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb says the stori…
5 years, 7 months ago
How Racism Feeds the Hunger Crisis
Episode 352
In this pandemic recession, millions of Americans are going hungry, and Black and Hispanic households are hit harder than white ones. Throughout US h…
5 years, 7 months ago