Current Events

Three Ideas For Police Reform

October 2, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Politics, Upcoming

This hour, we’ll talk about the multiple ways we can think about policing in America.

How We Might Fix Election Security

October 1, 2020 Culture, Current Events, History, Politics, Science and Technology, Upcoming

Journalist Benjamin Wofford joins us to talk about Texas election administrator Dana DeBeauvoir, who partnered with the tech world to build a safer election system.

Traveling With A Migrant Caravan

September 30, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Global Issues, Upcoming

Filmmaker Nick Quested joins us to talk about embedding with Guatemalan immigrants bound for the U.S. border.

The Origins Of The Satanic Panic

September 29, 2020 Culture, Current Events, History, Upcoming

Journalist Jen Gerson joins us to discuss how and why the daycare “satanic panic” of the 1990s set the stage for the bizarre child abuse stories seen today.

One Attorney’s Crusade Against Rasicm In The Law

September 28, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Education, Politics, Race/Identity, Upcoming

Brittany K. Barnett is an attorney who helped win executive clemency from President Obama for seven of her clients and an entrepreneur focused on social impact investing. She joins us to talk about being the daughter of an incarcerated mother, her pro bono legal work, and her resolve to challenge the status quo.

The Night 5 Officers Died In Dallas

September 28, 2020 Culture, Current Events, History, Upcoming

Jamie Thompson, a contributing editor for D Magazine, joins us to talk about the viewpoints of bystanders and key players to offer a 360-degree view of events.

America Has A Caste System, Too

September 25, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Global Issues, History, Race/Identity

Isabel Wilkerson is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Humanities Medal and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and she joins us to talk about the categories Americans are born into that rank us and grade us through no action of our own.

A Conversation With Leslie Odom Jr.

September 23, 2020 Culture, Current Events

Grammy and Tony-winning singer, Leslie Odom Jr. joins us to talk about his extraordinary career – and his philosophy that mistakes lead to breakthroughs.

The Accidental Racism In Dermatology

September 23, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity

Dr. Jenna Lester is the founding director of the Skin of Color Program. She joins us to talk about the gap between skin cancer statistics — survival rates of melanoma are only 65 percent for Black people versus 91 percent for whites — and what needs to happen within the medical community to improve.