Education Week reporter Madeline Will joins us to talk about what it will take to safely welcome students back to school amid the pandemic.
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How The Economy Survived The 1918 Flu
Stanford professor Walter Scheidel joins us to talk about how the 1918 flu took many lives but in the end spared the economy.
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COVID-19 And The Future Of College
Paul Quinn College president Michael J. Sorrell joins us to talk about how COVID-19 complicates the way institutions of higher learning welcome back their students and staff.
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When The People We Elect Don’t Talk, This Is What We Get
Journalist Ed Yong joins us to talk about the unique challenges of addressing the coronavirus – and about the urgency for local, state and federal governments to figure out ways to coordinate their plans.
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How COVID Complicates Farm To Table
Yossi Sheffi, director of the M.I.T. Center for Transportation and Logistics, talks to us about how COVID-19 is impacting the U.S. food supply chain and what that means for your family’s shopping list.
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What Will Cities Look Like Post-Pandemic
Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson joins us to talk about how COVID-19 is changing our relationship with the businesses in which we spend our disposable income – and about how that shift affects the places we live.
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You’re More Resilient Than You Think
Noam Shpancer, a professor of psychology at Otterbein University, joins us to talk specifically about the roadblocks that stand in the way of developing resilience in anxious children – and how to overcome them.
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Tips For Parenting In A Pandemic
KJ Dell’Antonia, former lead editor of The New York Times Motherlode blog, joins us to provide strategies for moms and dads who must now be both parent and teacher.
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Lawrence Wright Predicted This Would Happen
Lawrence Wright joins us to talk about his fiction focused on a pandemic upending the world, written months and months before our current crisis.
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Finding Our Way To The New Normal
Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong joins us to explain why instead of asking “when will life get back to normal?”, we should focus our energies on incremental steps to a more livable future.
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What We Can Learn From The First U.S. Coronavirus Hotspot
Miles O’Brien joins us to talk about his coast-to-coast reporting on the people affected by the coronavirus – and about how inaction by elected officials contributed to the outbreak.
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Our 100-Year Battle With Pandemics
Medical historian Mark Honigsbaum joins us to talk about why bacterial and viral disasters continue to take us by surprise.
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