Podcast Episodes

Back to the moon — and beyond?

Sometime soon, NASA plans to launch a powerful new rocket. The launch is part of an ambitious quest to get people back to the moon for the first time…

3 years, 10 months ago

How illegal cannabis smoked California

California voters legalized cannabis in 2016, and one of the issues that was supposed to be solved was the violence and environmental wreckage associ…

3 years, 10 months ago

A wildfire with your Airbnb?

A Los Angeles Times analysis found that thousands of short-term Airbnb rentals are in California’s most hazardous fire zones. But the company does no…

3 years, 10 months ago

Fast cars, furious residents

Street takeovers. Street races. Burnouts. They’re the latest manifestations of car culture in the region — cousins to the drag races, lowrider cruise…

3 years, 10 months ago

A Wyoming wind farm to power California

There’s a Gold Rush right now happening in Wyoming — for wind. Billionaire developers are putting up wind turbines to help power California and turn …

3 years, 10 months ago

An unprecedented use of Mexico's military

Mexico president Andrés Manuel López Obrador came into office promising to get the military off the streets. Instead, he’s more than doubled their nu…

3 years, 10 months ago

Melanie Lynskey gets very real with us

For her role as Shauna in “Yellowjackets,” Melanie Lynskey has an Emmy nomination for lead actress in a drama series. 

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3 years, 10 months ago

Less loan debt, more midterm love for Dems?

Millions of Americans who attended college could have their debt completely canceled or reduced under a plan announced by President Joe Biden last we…

3 years, 10 months ago

The Haitian dream for America

After displacement from Haiti, an exodus from South America and an epic journey through the Americas, what became of Haitians’ American dream? Today,…

3 years, 10 months ago

Hope, struggles for Afghan refugees in U.S.

One year ago this month, U.S. forces left Afghanistan after 20 years of war. Some 94,000 Afghan nationals, American citizens and lawful permanent res…

3 years, 10 months ago