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Back to SearchLesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky" (Haymarket, 2020)
Episode 79
Using the narratives of women who use(d) drugs, this account challenges popular understandings of Appalachia spread by such pundits as JD Vance by do…
8 months ago
Matteo Gatti, "Corporate Power and the Politics of Change" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 2058
In Corporate Power and the Politics of Change (Cambridge UP, 2025), Matteo Gatti examines how corporations have taken on roles traditionally reserved…
8 months ago
Nick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
Episode 175
Winners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed: a provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing the pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy.
Confr…
8 months ago
Hanna Garth, "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement" (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 2056
Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite their …
8 months ago
Democracy and Its Inter-Connections
Episode 2055
Former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla joins us for a conversation on global democratic backsliding, the role of the international community, …
8 months ago
How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?
Episode 52
Mark Parrino has been involved with the delivery of health care and treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) since 1974. As the president of the Ameri…
8 months, 1 week ago
A. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream" (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 2053
An expansive policy blueprint for meaningfully expanding the middle class for the first time in a century The US middle class was a product of state …
8 months, 1 week ago
Zeke Hernandez, "The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Episode 2052
Immigration is one of the most controversial topics in the United States―and everywhere else. Pundits, politicians, and the public usually depict imm…
8 months, 1 week ago
Jose Eos Trinidad, "Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 2050
In Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education (Oxford UP, 2025), Jose Eos Trinidad reveals how organizations outside schools have create…
8 months, 1 week ago
Jamie Rowen, "Worthy of Justice: The Politics of Veterans Treatment Courts in Practice" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Episode 2051
Over the past three decades, jurisdictions across the United States have developed alternatives to traditional criminal procedures and punishments fo…
8 months, 1 week ago