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Inside Joe Biden’s First Term (with Franklin Foer)
When President Biden took office in 2021, he set out to fix the institution broken by his predecessor. Over his first two years in office, he accomplished many of his policy goals, and The Atlantic r…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
What You Need to Know About COVID Vaccines and Variants (with Katelyn Jetelina)
Is the new BA 2.86 variant the latest in a wave of deadly outbreaks, or just a "scariant" that is all hype? Will the new COVID booster shots work against this latest variant, and when is the best tim…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
How to Talk to Your Kids about Climate Change (with Elizabeth Cripps)
As an environmental philosopher, writer Elizabeth Cripps spends a lot of time thinking about what we owe the next generation -- which includes her two young daughters, who she hopes to educate and em…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Why Some People Live to Be 100 (with Dan Buettner)
Author Dan Buettner has spent his career traveling to places where people have lived the longest, healthiest, and happiest lives. He found that much of what we think drives health and happiness is mi…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
How Our HealthCare System Needs To (And Can) Change
What if we reimagined the health care system so it was incentivized to keep people healthy instead of just treating them when they got sick? That’s the discussion Andy has with Congresswoman Suzan De…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
COVID Variants, Summer Wave and Fall Boosters (w/ Dr. Celine Gounder)
Two new COVID variants are making headlines this week as cases continue to rise across the United States. The new strain known as EG.5, also known as Eris, is now the most dominant strain in the U.S.…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
What Trump Robbed Us Of (with Samantha Bee)
Comedian Samantha Bee has some Choice Words for Andy when she’s In The Bubble this week. In this wide-ranging conversation, Andy and Sam chat about what we’ve lost because of former President Trump, …
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Why You Need to Say Yes to Affordable Housing
America’s homelessness crisis is getting worse, despite the billions spent each year to fix it. Single family home prices continue to rise. In California alone, fewer than 20% of households can even …
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
The New CDC director on the COVID Wave (w/ Dr. Mandy Cohen)
COVID cases are rising in the U.S. -- does this mean we are on the precipice of a summer wave? That’s the question for the new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Mandy Cohen.…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Equal Pay: How US Women’s Soccer Set the Mark (with Meghan Klingenberg)
The U.S. women's national soccer team faces a difficult road to a threepeat at the World Cup as the round of 16 starts this weekend. But tough battles are nothing new for gold medalist Meghan Klingen…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago