Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchConfused By The U.S. Economy? You're Not Alone
How are changing tariffs, the AI boom, immigration policies and uncertainty in employment and the stock market impacting the economy? Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist, explains.…
Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way
After surviving the Taliban's 2012 attempted assassination, activist Malala Yousafzai didn't back down. She continued to advocate for girls' education across the globe. In 2014, Yousafzai became the …
Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Ken Burns On The American Revolution
Burns' new six-part PBS documentary series includes the perspectives of women, Native Americans and enslaved and free Black people — all of whom were initially excluded from the declaration "all men …
Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Best Of: Julian Brave NoiseCat / Laufey
Julian Brave NoiseCat's Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane is about the mostly Catholic missionary boarding schools which Indigenous children, including older members of his family, were required …
Published on 4 weeks ago
A Girl Grows Up In The Epicenter Of Gay Liberation
The new movie Fairyland, produced by Sofia Coppola, is adapted from the memoir by Alysia Abbott. She wrote about being the child of a gay single father at the dawn of the gay liberation movement. He …
Published on 4 weeks ago
A Story Of Indigenous Survival & Resurgence
Filmmaker and writer Julian Brave NoiseCat is the son of an Indigenous Canadian father and white mother. After a cultural genocide, he says, living your life becomes an existential question. "To live…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
How Trump’s Transactional Nature Led To The Ceasefire
Former State Department negotiator Aaron David Miller, now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, attributes the Gaza deal in part to Trump's transactional nature and brea…
Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago
Remembering Diane Keaton
The incomparable Diane Keaton died last week at age 79. Her career spanned more than five decades and 60 film and TV roles, including standout performances in Marvin's Room, Reds, The First Wives Clu…
Published on 1 month ago
Mitch Albom Is A 'Walking Example Of A Second Chance'
Albom's new novel, Twice, asks a question most of us have daydreamed about: what if you could go back and relive any moment of your life? In the book, a man is born with that exact power, but every s…
Published on 1 month ago
Best Of: Dwayne Johnson / Comic Cristela Alonzo
WWE superstar Dwayne Johnson plays MMA fighter Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine. "The Rock" spoke with Terry Gross about the role, his many injuries, and his wrestling personas.
For th…
Published on 1 month ago