Podcast Episodes

A Baby Adopted, A Family Divided

In 2017, David Leavitt drove to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana to adopt a baby girl. A few years later, during an interview with a documentary filmmaker, Leavitt, a wealthy Utah politic…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Why Conservatives Are Trying to Kill the Voting Rights Act

More To The Story: The Voting Rights Act turned 60 years old this month. The landmark piece of legislation is considered one of the most effective laws protecting the right to vote for racial minorit…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

What Police Weren’t Told About Tasers

Kansas City police Officer Matt Masters first used a Taser in the early 2000s. He said it worked well for taking people down; it was safe and effective. 

“At the end of the day, if you have to put you…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump’s Homelessness Crackdown Has Been Tried Before. It Didn’t Work.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration is removing homeless encampments from around Washington, DC. The announcement illustrated how the federal government’s appr…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad. Child Services Took Her Baby.

Pregnant with her fifth child, Susan Horton had a lot of confidence in her parenting abilities. Then she ate a salad from Costco: an “everything” chopped salad kit with poppy seeds. When she went to …

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Gazans Are Starving. It’s a Manmade Catastrophe.

In the last few months, widespread starvation has gripped the Gaza Strip. United Nations-backed food security experts say the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in Gaza, home to…

Published on 5 months ago

They Followed Doctors’ Orders. The State Took Their Babies.

Jade Dass was taking medication to treat her addiction to opioids before she became pregnant. Scientific studies and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say this leads to the best outcomes…

Published on 5 months ago

The Bible Says So…or Does It?

Dan McClellan has spent much of his life learning—and relearning—what the Bible and its authors were trying to tell us. But his years in graduate school also taught him that the way scholars talk abo…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Trump’s New World (Dis)order

During his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump talked a lot about pulling America out of international treaties and disentangling from military operations abroad.

Once in office, he started talk…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Ibram X. Kendi vs. America’s “Antiracism Backlash”

Just a few years ago, historian and activist Dr. Ibram X. Kendi seemed to be everywhere. At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, Kendi became one of the leading voices on racism in America—…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago