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Welcome to the Vaccine Free-for-All
Episode 145
As Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. works to dismantle the national vaccine infrastructure, states have started going their …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
A Blueprint for Military Takeovers
Episode 144
President Donald Trump recently deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and has talked about federalizing the Guard in other cities across t…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Peace in Ukraine Is Not a Real-Estate Deal
Episode 143
There was so much symbolism in President Donald Trump’s two most recent international summits—in Alaska last week with Russian President Vladimir Put…
6 months ago
No Easy Fix | 3. A Golden Opportunity
Episode 142
In July, President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for an expansion of involuntary commitment—forcing people into treatment facilities…
6 months, 1 week ago
No Easy Fix | 2. Tolerance
Episode 141
At the onset of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, U.S. cities began trying new ways to stop the spread of infection among drug users. Ideas that we…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
No Easy Fix | 1. Vanishing Point
Episode 140
For the past five years, American cities have tried—and often failed—to meaningfully address worsening homelessness and addiction.
In San Francisco,…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
A New Kind of Family Separation
Episode 139
The Trump administration is again going after undocumented minors—but their approach is different than it was during his first presidency.
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7 months ago
Epstein Conspiracy, or Epstein Conspiracy Theory?
Episode 138
Donald Trump and his Department of Justice kicked the conspiracy-theory beehive last week when they rescinded previous promises to make public the go…
7 months, 1 week ago
Should You Be Having More Babies?
Episode 137
In the United States and many other Western countries, the decision to have children or not is sometimes framed as a political affiliation: You’re ei…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Patriotic Punk
Episode 136
The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg talks to Ken Casey, frontman for the Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys, about the time he called out …
7 months, 3 weeks ago