In this collaboration between Think and The Texas Newsroom, we’ll explore why Congress has been unwilling to create legislation that addresses DACA, share the stories of DACA recipients as they go about their lives unable to plan for their futures, and talk to Janet Napolitano, who initiated the program as President Obama’s Homeland Security secretary.
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Ian Bogost, contributing writer at The Atlantic and the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology, joins us to talk about ditching the urban core for peace — and distance.
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Katherine M. Gehl, founder of the Institute for Political Innovation, joins us to talk about lessons from the business world that could fix our political system.
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Diana Greene Foster is the director of research at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH). She joins us to talk about her book “The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion.”
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Writer, director, and producer Michelle Ferrari joins us to talk about the passage of the 19th Amendment and the brave women who pushed that movement to success.
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Patrick Sharkey, professor of sociology and public affairs at New York University and founder of AmericanViolence.org, joins us to talk about strategies for offloading elements that stand in the way of effective policing.
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Anthony M. Townsend joins us to talk about the down-the-line changes that will come with autonomous vehicles – everything from privatized roads to mobility monopolies.
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Monica Bell of the Yale School of Law joins us to argue that “segregation rots community life at the root” and that police reform is empty until we examine how people live in proximity to one another.
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Georgetown University professor Cal Newport joins us to talk about face-to-face communication vs. computer interfacing and how we can master working from home.
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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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Washington Post humorist and columnist Alexandra Petri joins us to add her brand of humor to the discord and irony to our current events.
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Seth W. Stoughton, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and a former Tallahassee Police Department officer, joins us to talk about his research into why he believes the current playbook for police training is too focused on force rather than community.
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