Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe unforgivable crime of being queer in Africa
Homosexuality is a crime in more than half of African countries — a crime punishable by prison sentences. Or in some cases: death. New laws in some s…
9 months, 1 week ago
Bringing child sex abusers out of the shadows
No one likes talking about child sex abuse. But prevention experts say we need to bring pedophilia out of the shadows if we ever want to end abuse. T…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Why our long term relationship with the U.S. is done
America is just not that into you anymore, says historian Marci Shore. It's not us — it's them. The Yale professor blames the U.S. for the failed rel…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Where did modern news culture come from? Think Shakespeare
It might seem like the vast, turbulent ocean of information we call news has always existed, but that's not the case. Theatrical plays in Elizabethan…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Champions of cormorants argue the water bird is unfairly vilified
It's not them, it's you. That's what fans of the cormorant argue, pointing out how people see the gangly aquatic bird all wrong. This common bird has…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The three ingredients in an autocrat's recipe for power
There are three components that could end constitutional democracy as we know it, says scholar Peter L. Biro — fear and its weaponization, habituatio…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
A pig was shot dead in 1859. It sparked a British-U.S. war
In 1859, an American shot a pig that belonged to the Hudson’s Bay Company. Suddenly, the U.S. and British Empire were on the brink of war once again.…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The trailblazing all-Black baseball team that made history
More than ninety years ago, led by “Boomer” Harding, “Flat” Chase, and King Terrell, the Chatham Coloured All-Stars became the first all-Black team t…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Russia’s constant craving for U.S. recognition
Historian Sergei Radchenko revisits the Cold War, focusing on what the idea of global power meant to the Soviet Kremlin. He argues that Soviet leader…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Her job is to find buried children at residential schools
Métis archeologist Kisha Supernant was sometimes called a 'grave robber' when she started her line of work. With an eye to restorative justice, she t…
9 months, 3 weeks ago