Podcast Episodes

Vice President Kamala Harris's Mother and History of Indian Americans

Journalist Rikha Sharma Rani discusses her profile of Vice President Kamala Harris’s late mother, Shyamala, who came to the United States from India …

5 years, 1 month ago

Aruna Viswanatha, WSJ Reporter, & Max Abrahms, Northeastern University political science professor

Wall Street Journal reporter Aruna Viswanatha talks about the federal investigation into the January 6th attack on the Capitol and Northeastern Unive…

5 years, 1 month ago

Lawrence Roberts, Author of "Mayday 1971"

Investigative journalist Lawrence Roberts talks about the “Spring Offensive” of 1971, during which tens of thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters, …

5 years, 1 month ago

Elena Conis, Author of "Vaccine Nation"

University of California at Berkeley historian of medicine Elena Conis talks about the development of the polio vaccine in the 1950s.

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5 years, 2 months ago

Presidential Inaugural Addresses

Sarada Peri, senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama, and John McConnell, senior speechwriter for President George W. Bush, join us to talk ab…

5 years, 2 months ago

Helen Andrews, Author, "Boomers"

Helen Andrews, senior editor at The American Conservative magazine, takes a critical look at the Baby Boomer Generation and argues that they have lef…

5 years, 2 months ago

Nic Novicki, Founder and Director, Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

Actor Nic Novicki, founder and director of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, talks about the 2020 entries and the winning films in three cat…

5 years, 3 months ago

Jake Wood, Author of "Once a Warrior"

Jake Wood talks about serving with the U.S. Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan and with Team Rubicon, the disaster response organization that he co-foun…

5 years, 3 months ago

New Members of Congress

This week on Q&A we talk with the youngest women in the freshmen class of 117th Congress, Republican Kat Cammack of Florida and Democrat Sara Jacobs …

5 years, 3 months ago

Susan Schulten and Eric Rauchway, Historians on contentious presidential transitions

Historians Susan Schulten and Eric Rauchway talk about two of the most contentious presidential transitions in U.S. history - in 1861, between James …

5 years, 3 months ago