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Special Re-Release: Zamaan Qureshi On How to Make Social Media Safer
Season 7
This week the Senate pressed chief executives of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap and Discord over what lawmakers are calling “a crisis in America” -- accusing …
2 years, 7 months ago
Special Re-Release: Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer, producer and director Ann Druyan
Season 7
Tanya talks to Ann Druyan about space, love, facts, and voting. Plus, how to come back when people laugh at you for being smart and curious.
2 years, 7 months ago
Maryam Keshavarz On Telling American Stories and Her New Film, The Persian Version
Season 6
Tanya talks to the filmmaker about her latest film, reclaiming the narrative of what it means to be an American, and why hope always must win.
2 years, 8 months ago
Special Re-Release: Overcoming Miseducation and Illiteracy (with Oliver James)
Season 6
For 35 years Oliver James was functionally illiterate - even though he had a high school diploma. Listen to what happened when he decided to stop mim…
2 years, 8 months ago
Talking Invisible Beauty with Bethann Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng
Season 6
Tanya talks to the directors of the film Invisible Beauty, which tells the life story of the groundbreaking Bethann Hardison. From emulating the stre…
2 years, 8 months ago
Holding Social Media Companies Accountable - Between Classes
Season 6
Tanya talks to Zamaan Qureshi, a college student co-founder of Design It For Us, about the campaign to make social media safer for young people, and …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Art that Makes You Happy!
Season 6
Tanya talks to artist, illustrator and entrepreneur Angie Quintanilla Coates about the art of keeping us on the bright side.
(Original air date: April…
2 years, 9 months ago
A Timely Conversation with Congressman Ro Khanna
Season 6
This week Tanya talks to Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) about the war in Ukraine, our relationship with China, the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas and the r…
2 years, 9 months ago
People Lie. When to Make them Pay. When to Move On.
Season 6
Tanya talks to the lawyers who helped Dominion Voting Systems achieve a $787 million settlement in its defamation case against Fox News over false cl…
2 years, 9 months ago
Tanya Talks to Justice Kyra Harris Bolden of the Michigan Supreme Court
Season 6
Tanya talks to the history-making justice about the family tragedy that led her to the bench, and busting through other people’s assumptions to do wh…
2 years, 9 months ago