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Beyond Bromance: Searching For Deeper Male Friendship
American men are in a friendship recession. Compared to a few decades ago, five times as many men have no close friends. So what’s going on? Anita ta…
13 hours ago
BONUS: How to Emigrate as a Throuple, from How To!
Each week on How To!, award-winning journalist Mike Pesca tackles a listener’s question – on topics ranging from travel and finance to health and rel…
3 days, 13 hours ago
Inside The World of Sugar Babies, Sugar Daddies & Sugar Dating
When B. Chionne first heard about sugar dating in college, she was intrigued — what if in exchange for her time and attention she could earn enough m…
1 week ago
‘You Don’t Become a Witch, You Remember That You Are One’
Rebecca Auman is a witch. That’s not an insult — it literally says “head witch” on her LinkedIn profile. Rebecca has been able to read people and pic…
2 weeks ago
The Healing Power Of Horror
Black horror writer Tananarive Due fell in love with the spectacle of horror when she was a little kid. But it was only after she was well into her h…
3 weeks ago
A Practical Guide To Poop
Nearly 40% of Americans say digestive troubles disrupt their daily lives. As the daughter of a gastroenterologist, that’s a statistic Anita can’t ign…
1 month ago
‘I’ve Got The Same Thing You Do’: Ehlers-Danlos Across Generations
Soph Myers-Kelley and his mom, René Myers, have always been close. As of five years ago, they also share a diagnosis: the connective tissue disorder …
1 month, 1 week ago
Why Is Good Food So Sexy?
Food and sex have been deeply intertwined in our cultural imagination for millennia. Anita talks with a cultural historian who has combed through cen…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Tallying The Costs Of Being Undocumented
After more than a decade living in the U.S. without permanent legal status, Alix Dick calculated the cost of her survival: $1.9 million. That figure …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Lessons Learned From Loving Birds
J. Drew Lanham’s life has been defined by birds. He grew up in rural South Carolina learning mystical stories about birds from his grandmother, emula…
1 month, 3 weeks ago