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Director James Burrows: Man of a Thousand Stories
It would be difficult to overstate the influence on American television of director James Burrows. Co-creator of Cheers, he also directed 237 of the …
3 years, 5 months ago
Max Fisher: Social Media and the Havoc on Our Minds
Do we really understand the reach and impact that social media has on our lives? We all have a vague sense that social media can be bad for our minds…
3 years, 5 months ago
Jann Wenner: The Rolling Stone Generation
Jann Wenner has had an outsized impact on Bay Area history, music, popular culture and the world of magazines.
In 1967, with the founding of Rolling S…
3 years, 5 months ago
Michelle Wilde Anderson: Reimagining Wealth Equity in America
Decades of cuts to local government amidst rising concentrations of poverty have wreaked havoc on communities left behind by the modern economy. Some…
3 years, 5 months ago
Peter Baker and Susan Glasser: The Donald Trump White House Years
From its chaotic beginning to the violent finale, the Trump presidency was filled with moments ranging from the unthinkable to the deadly serious. Th…
3 years, 5 months ago
Who Is Cleopatra?
From 41BC to September 2022, the persona of Cleopatra has been modeled as an archetype of female power and beauty. Yet—as with most tellings of histo…
3 years, 5 months ago
CLIMATE ONE: Risky Business: Underinsured Against Climate Disaster
In recent years, hundreds of thousands of people in high-risk disaster areas across the US have been dropped from their insurance policies, leaving t…
3 years, 5 months ago
Sean Carroll: Understanding Space, Time and Motion
Physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe that many find mysterious, complex and confusing.
Theoretical physicist and "Mindscape"…
3 years, 5 months ago
Mark Bergen with Shishir Mehrotra and Emily Chang: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination
What’s the last video you watched on YouTube? Across the world, people view more than a billion hours of video on YouTube every day. This digital pla…
3 years, 5 months ago
Iuliia Mendel: President Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the Rest of the World
When Iuliia Mendel got the call telling her she had been hired to work for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she had no idea what was to come.…
3 years, 5 months ago