Dana Thomas joins us to talk about how the pandemic is reshaping our shopping habits and forcing the fashion industry to figure out how to survive on selling baggy tees.
Read more
How COVID Is Threatening Navajo Culture
Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi is a writing instructor at the University of New Mexico and a member of the Navajo Nation, and she joins us to talk about the fallout of stay-at-home orders on remote areas of Navajo lands.
Read more
Working Women: The Professional Casualties Of COVID-19
Chabeli Carrazana, economy reporter for The 19th News, joins us to talk about how women’s meager workplace gains since the 1970s are being wiped out by the pandemic – and how they’ll be tough to regain.
Read more
How COVID-19 Preys On The Marginalized
Ruqaiijah Yearby joins us to discuss how unemployment, lack of affordable housing and other factors lead to health inequities.
Read more
The Many Ways America Failed The COVID-19 Test
Ed Yong covers science as a staff writer for The Atlantic, and he joins us to talk about the current crisis and how it could’ve been avoided.
Read more
Does Personal Freedom Endanger Public Health?
Mark Rothstein joins us to talk about what to do when public health directives during a pandemic clash with our expectation of personal liberty.
Read more
The Covid Numbers You Should Care About
ProPublica health reporter Caroline Chen joins us to talk about how we should interpret the numbers to get a sense of where we’re headed.
Read more
What’s Standing In The Way Of A COVID Vaccine
Dr. Seema Yasmin joins us to talk about the latest research on COVID-19 antibodies, treatments, and the development of a vaccine.
Read more
Can We Safely Reopen Schools?
Education Week reporter Madeline Will joins us to talk about what it will take to safely welcome students back to school amid the pandemic.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
The Do’s And Don’t’s Of Debt
Atif Mian, John H. Laporte, Jr. Class of 1967 Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Finance at Princeton University and Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the Woodrow Wilson School, joins us to talk about the short and long-term ramifications of debt on nations and individuals.
Read more