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Scenes from the Culture War: Tommy Craggs
0:00 — We welcome friend of the show Tommy Craggs, enterprise editor at Mother Jones magazine. We first get Tommy’s thoughts on last summer’s inadver…
5 years, 5 months ago
Lux magazine and lockdowns with Sarah Leonard
Today, Doctors Liu, Kang, and Kim are joined by Doctor Sarah Leonard, publisher of the soon-to-launch Lux magazine (named after socialist extraordina…
5 years, 5 months ago
Filipino nurses and "Better Luck Tomorrow"
Hello from Neera Tanden’s shoe closet!
0:00 – The gang’s back together, with geographic and pandemic updates.
10:00 – Data recently compiled by Nation…
5 years, 6 months ago
The Asian American voter with Professor Taeku Lee
Hello!
This week we have another part of what can now be called a series on the AAPI voter with our guest Taeku Lee, a professor of law and political…
5 years, 6 months ago
Vaccine apartheid, tankies redux, and the TTSG manifesto
Happy birthday, Jay’s sister!
Tammy checks in from a motel in Kennewick, Jay remembers his lost novel, and we talk turkey.
8:30 – On the global vaccin…
5 years, 6 months ago
Asians are white again, pandemic rage, what to expect from Biden, and mega free trade
Hello from White House transition headquarters!
This week: literal housekeeping, “students of color” and “students of poverty,” coronavirus nightmare…
5 years, 6 months ago
The history of Filipino DJ culture in the Bay Area with Oliver Wang
Hello,
Today we have something a bit different for you. TTSG goes a bit Melvyn Bragg with a history episode about Bay Area Filipino DJ culture. Our gu…
5 years, 6 months ago
National *phew* and your letters
Hello from a USPS mailbag!
This week, before getting into your letters, we reminisce about Saturday’s election news a.k.a the international dopamine-f…
5 years, 7 months ago
The neverending election
Hello from Philly, Berkeley, and Missoula!
In this #2020 special, we share our jaundiced views of the U! S! A! and the election as of Wednesday night…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Asian American vote, with Hua Hsu!
Hello from Tammy’s snowbank!
This week, we welcome TTSG friend Hua Hsu, a professor at Vassar and a staff writer at The New Yorker, who just wrote an…
5 years, 7 months ago