Journalist Lauren Markham joins us to discuss “assisted species migration,” or moving tree populations to save them from extinction.
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To Survive And Thrive, America Needs A Lot More Americans
Mathew Yglesias, co-founder and senior correspondent for Vox, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his vision for making America economically competitive again and how declining birthrates, empty Rust Belt cities, and immigration backlogs hamper future prospects.
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By the Numbers: Census 2020
NPR national correspondent Hansi Lo Wang joins us to talk about the politics behind the 2020 census.
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The Environmental State Of Texas
This hour, we’ll talk about how Texas can best cope with the environmental impact of a growing population with David Todd and Jonathan Ogren, co-authors of “The Texas Landscape Project: Nature and People.”
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Building More Livable Cities
This hour, we’ll talk about how redesigned crosswalks, bike lanes and parks are making urban centers more livable with the author of “Street-Fight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution.”
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Food: The Old-Fashioned Way
This hour, we’ll talk about the benefits of returning to ancient diets with biological anthropologist Stephen Le, author of “100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today.”
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The Melting Pot
We’ll look at the lasting impact of the Immigration and Nationality Act through the lens of one Virginia county with NPR’s Tom Gjelten, author of “A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story.”
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Down And Out
This hour, we’ll talk about why LGBTQ teens are prone to homelessness – and about how little is being done to help them – with the author of No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions.
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The Future Of Texas
Hour 2: This hour we’ll discuss what Texas’ population will look like in the 21st Century with Steve Murdock, co-author of Changing Texas: Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge.
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