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We The People: Free Speech
Episode 301
The First Amendment. Book bans, disinformation, the wild world of the internet. Free speech debates are all around us. What were the Founding Fathers…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Creeping Coup
Episode 300
Sudan has been at the center of a deadly and brutal war for over a year. It's the site of the world's largest hunger crisis, and the world's largest …
1 year, 10 months ago
The Roots of Poverty in America
Episode 299
The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet over 10 percent of people – nearly 40 million – live in poverty. It's somethin…
1 year, 10 months ago
Road to Rickwood: The Holy Grail of Baseball
Birmingham, Alabama was one of the fiercest battlegrounds of the Civil Rights Movement. And in order to understand the struggle, you don't have to lo…
1 year, 10 months ago
Pop Music's First Black Stars
Today, the U.S. popular music industry is worth billions of dollars. And some of its deepest roots are in blackface minstrelsy and other racist genre…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Lavender Scare (Throwback)
Episode 297
One day in late April 1958, a young economist named Madeleine Tress was approached by two men in suits at her office at the U.S. Department of Commer…
1 year, 11 months ago
A History of Zionism
Episode 296
Since October 7th, the term Zionism has been everywhere in the news. It's been used to support Israel in what it calls its war against Hamas: a refra…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Whiteness Myth (Throwback)
Episode 295
In 1923, an Indian American man named Bhagat Singh Thind told the U.S. Supreme Court that he was white, and therefore eligible to become a naturalize…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Rules of War
Episode 294
International courts investigating alleged war crimes have made headlines often in recent months. An arrest warrant has been issued for Russian Presi…
2 years ago
Mythos and Melodrama in the Philippines (Throwback)
Episode 293
Welcome to the "Epic of Marcos." In this tale of a family that's larger than life, Ferdinand Marcos, the former dictator of the Philippines, is at th…
2 years ago