Peter S. Goodman, global economics correspondent for The New York Times, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how the supply chain changed after WWII, how labor practices and shipping routes revealed deep-seeded problems in the system, and what needs to happen to ensure economic certainty during the next global disaster.
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Emily Monosson discusses how fungi are threatening both animals vital to our ecosystem and crops that feed the planet’s 8 billion people.
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Writer David Quammen talks about what we know about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and how it spread so quickly in the human population.
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Jessica Winter from The New Yorker discusses why pediatric endocrinologists saw a surge during the pandemic for referrals for girls developing early and which demographic populations are being hit most often.
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Harvard economist Kenneth S. Rogoff talks about the politics that have seeped into the Federal Reserve’s role since the crash of 2008 and why that might make stifling inflation this time around a problem.
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Author Anne Helen Petersen discusses how families, especially moms, are emerging from life under Covid with new fortitude and tools for resilience.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Ed Yong discusses the still-evolving science on what causes brain fog, and what doctors are trying to grasp about long Covid.
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Professor William MacAskill discusses why we must make long-term thinking a priority if we truly care about the descendants we’ll never meet.
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Bonnie Bertram joins us to discuss why eviction protections vary from state to state, and how the judicial system is tough to navigate for those who are most in need.
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Michelle Drouin explains why we’re increasingly isolated physically, emotionally and intellectually from one another and how we might reestablish that connection.
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Emily McCombs discusses her own weight gain over the course of the pandemic and why she says no one is allowed to be “fat in peace.”
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Judith Warner explains the complex issue of child and adolescent mental health, and why the problem has been mounting for years before the pandemic.
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