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#151. The Successful Struggle to Organize the First Union at Starbucks
Season 1 Episode 151
Jaz Brisack is a experienced union organizer, starting with the United Autoworkers campaign at the Nissan factory in Canton, MS and volunteering as a…
1 year, 2 months ago
#150. Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom
Season 1 Episode 150
James Danckert is a cognitive scientist at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, focusing on the neuroscience of attention and the consequen…
1 year, 2 months ago
#149. A Mother and Five Children, Upwardly Striving and Homeless
Season 1 Episode 149
Jeff Hobbs is the author of five books, including a novel, The Tourists, and four books that apply a novelist writing style to the struggles of indiv…
1 year, 2 months ago
#148. Nearly Dying While Giving Birth, Followed by Seven Years of Recovery
Season 1 Episode 148
Samina Ali teaches fiction writing at Stanford University and is an award-winning author, whose debut novel, Madras on Rainy Days, published in 2004,…
1 year, 2 months ago
#147. Fraud in Alzheimer's Research that Underpins the Dominant Model of the Disease
Season 1 Episode 147
Charles Piller is an award-winning investigative journalist for Science magazine, reporting on such topics as public health, biological warfare, and …
1 year, 3 months ago
#146. The History of Antisemitism in the Arab World
Season 1 Episode 146
Omar Mohammed was the previously anonymous blogger who courageously reported on the atrocities he witnessed that were perpetrated by the Islamic Stat…
1 year, 3 months ago
#145. The Case for Government Supported Housing
Season 1 Episode 145
Jonathan Tarleton is a writer, urban planner, and oral historian. He previously served as the chief researcher for Nonstop Metropolis: A New York Cit…
1 year, 3 months ago
#144. Native Alaskan Resistance to Russian Expansion into North America
Season 1 Episode 144
Gerald Easter and Mara Vorhees are co-authors of two books, The Tsarina's Lost Treasure: Catherine the Great, a Golden Age Masterpiece, and a Legend…
1 year, 4 months ago
#143. How American Capitalists Harnessed the American Work Ethic
Season 1 Episode 143
Erik Baker is a historian, writer, and teacher based in Boston, a lecturer in the History of Science department at Harvard University and associate e…
1 year, 4 months ago
#142. The South's Long War on Black Literacy
Season 1 Episode 142
Derek W. Black is a Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina, where he directs the Constitutional Law Center. He is one of the nation’s f…
1 year, 5 months ago