Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKids Under Fire in Gaza
When Dr. Mimi Syed returned from her first volunteer trip to Gaza in the summer of 2024, she started flipping through her notes and came to a shockin…
1 year ago
She Denied Mel Gibson a Gun—Then Trump’s DOJ Fired Her
When Liz Oyer was appointed US pardon attorney in 2022 by President Joe Biden, she’d landed her dream job. As a longtime public defender, Oyer was no…
1 year ago
Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother
In 2014, in the college town of Isla Vista, California, a 22-year-old man killed six people and injured 14 others before killing himself. He didn’t s…
1 year ago
Pet-Eating Lies to Deportation Fears: Haitians in Trump’s Crosshairs
Lindsay Aime remembers the moment his Haitian immigrant community came under a national spotlight. It was September 2024 when then-presidential candi…
1 year ago
Alabama’s Threats to Prosecute Abortion Helpers
In August 2022, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall made a guest appearance on a local conservative talk radio show. It was two months after the …
1 year ago
Nikole Hannah-Jones: Trump Is Erasing Black History
President Donald Trump’s second term has swung a wrecking ball at diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and programs throughout the country. Few …
1 year ago
In Fallujah, We Destroyed Parts of Ourselves
It’s been just over 20 years since the Battle of Fallujah, a bloody campaign in a destructive Iraq War that we now know was based on a lie.
But back …
1 year, 1 month ago
How Public Schools Became Ground Zero for America’s Culture Wars
Mike Hixenbaugh first knew things had changed when someone on a four-wheeler started ripping up his lawn after his wife placed a Black Lives Matter s…
1 year, 1 month ago
Teaching Kids to Read: How One School District Gets It Right
The schools in Steubenville, Ohio, are doing something unusual—in fact, it’s almost unheard of. In a country where nearly 40 percent of fourth grader…
1 year, 1 month ago
How Trump Exploits Working Class Pain
Sociologist Arlie Hochschild has spent years talking with people living in rural parts of the country who have been hit hard by the loss of manufactu…
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