Ohio State professor Douglas B. Downey joins us to explain why academics are approaching closing equity gaps for student achievement all wrong.
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Big Tech Doesn’t Care About Your Safety
Soraya Chemaly, executive director of The Representation Project and co-founder of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, joins us to talk about big tech’s moral failings that put profit ahead of safe spaces.
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The Modern Day Hunt For Buried Treasure
Benjamin Wallace joins us to talk about the people who endlessly try to decode puzzles to solve where someone has buried the loot — sometimes upending their lives to find it.
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How Cable News Came To Be
Lisa Napoli joins us to talk about how the cable news network transformed how our modern world consumes current events.
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The Women Hunters Of Instagram
Rachel Levin joins us to talk about a fast-growing subculture that has found a home online: women who like to hunt.
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A Better Way To Spend Those Education Dollars
Brandon L. Wright, editorial director of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, joins us to talk about public education funding challenges and how in the aftermath of the pandemic we must find smarter ways to spend those dollars.
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The Invention Of Altruism
Michael McCullough, professor of psychology at the University of California San Diego, joins us to talk about how our collective experiences have taught us to care for one another.
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Barry Corbin On Bringing Texas To Tinseltown
Barry Corbin joins guest host John McCaa to talk about his storied Hollywood career.
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The Female Abolitionists Of San Francisco’s Chinatown
Julia Flynn Siler joins guest host John McCaa to tell the story of a group of female abolitionists who dedicated their lives to rescuing slaves in San Francisco.
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She Escaped To Nature — But Racism Followed
Latria Graham joins us to talk about how our public parklands are still full of reminders of American racism – and about what she has to say to those who feel unsafe when they explore the backcountry.
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Tearing Down Racist Statues Doesn’t Mean We’ve Torn Down Racism
Connor Towne O’Neill, journalist, producer on the NPR podcast White Lies, teacher at Auburn University and with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project, joins us to talk about how the battle over monuments reveals racism is baked into the very mold of America.
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The Wisdom Of Dolly Parton
Sarah Smarsh joins host Krys Boyd to explore the creative genius of the Dolly Parton — a prolific songwriter of more than 3,000 songs — and a pioneer for exploring class and gender issues in America.
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