Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchShould Schools Ban Phones?
Episode 113
What happens when you take away a kid’s phone during school hours? In a word: drama. Some schools around the country are trying to completely remove …
1 year, 7 months ago
Corruption or “Just Politics”: Sen Menendez on Trial
Episode 112
A mere 500 feet away from the site of People of New York v. Trump, another political legacy is on the line in a courtroom. Democrat Senator Bob Menen…
1 year, 7 months ago
How Social Media Amplified the Drake-Kendrick Rap Beef
Episode 111
What can we learn from the first great rap battle of the streaming age? Like the ones that came before, the recent rap beef between Kendrick Lamar an…
1 year, 8 months ago
How Kamala Harris is Finding Her Voice
Episode 110
Vice President Kamala Harris thinks about everything as a lawyer first. That's an observation CNN Senior Reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere has made after …
1 year, 8 months ago
The Power and Promise of Psychedelics in Therapy
Episode 109
Bad trips, anti-drug PSAs, and the crackdown under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 helped stigmatize psychedelics in the U.S. But now, there’s …
1 year, 8 months ago
How Speaker Mike Johnson Has Survived So Far
Episode 108
When Mike Johnson worked with Democrats to pass Ukraine war funding, he knew it would enrage the extreme right-wing and threaten his speakership. So …
1 year, 8 months ago
How Do We Talk About Campus Protests?
Episode 107
Pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses have been met with suspensions, expulsions, and arrests. This week, Audie talks with two people in the m…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett of Pod Save America
Episode 106
Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett were speechwriters in the Obama White House who, along with Tommy Vietor, decided to venture into media with a podcast now…
1 year, 8 months ago
Does Beyoncé Need Country?
Episode 105
And does Country need Beyoncé? The likely answer to both of those questions is no. But the discussion Beyoncé sparked seems to be the larger point of…
1 year, 8 months ago
Why Trump Would Rather Be at The Supreme Court
Episode 104
While the political world fixates on Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial, the Supreme Court is weighing two decisions that could re-define the No…
1 year, 8 months ago