Current Events

The Wild West Of Deep-Sea Mining

January 27, 2020 Current Events, Economics, Science and Technology

Journalist Wil S. Hylton joins us to talk about the dangerous and unregulated push to pull resources from the depths of the Earth.

How A Murderer Found His Soul – And Voice – In Prison

January 20, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity

Author and criminal justice advocate, Shaka Senghor joins us to talk about how he worked through his own pain of hurting people and now helps communities heal theirs.

Latinos And The Invention Of The Cool, Walk-able Neighborhood

January 17, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Race/Identity

A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, director of the Latina/o Studies Program and associate professor of history at Penn State University, joins us to talk about how Latinos have influenced cities across the country.

Mental Gymnastics: New Insights Into The Brain

January 16, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

This hour, experts on brain science join us to separate fact from fiction – and to better understand what we know about gender, creativity and how our brain is programmed to lead us home.

The Hitmen Of The Dark Web

January 15, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Science and Technology

Technology writer Brian Merchant joins us to talk about the surprising and shadowy world of crowd-sourced contract killers.

An Autopsy Of The Great Recession

January 14, 2020 Current Events, Economics

Reveal journalist Aaron Glantz joins us to talk about how “mortgage products” let so many Americans down.

Finding E.T. Won’t Be Cheap

January 14, 2020 Current Events, Science and Technology

Science journalist Adam Mann joins us to talk about the renewed push and excitement to fund the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, despite skepticism and pushback.

Battlefield Medicine Needs To Change Right Now

January 13, 2020 Current Events, Global Issues, Health, Science and Technology

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood joins us to talk about current experiments and crucial advances taking place in battlefield medicine that could push the chances of survival well beyond a one-hour window.

How Obama Led To Trump

January 13, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Politics

Michael Kirk joins us to talk about the factors that got us to this point in American politics and what the future could hold for our democracy.

How Will Iran Punch Back?

January 9, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Global Issues, Politics

Ilan Goldenberg, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about what might happen next between Iran and the U.S. – and about if a face-saving option exists.

A More Nuanced Approach To Pain Management

January 9, 2020 Current Events, Global Issues, Health, Science and Technology

Science writer Yudhijit Bhattacharjee joins us to talk about how researchers are developing a more nuanced understanding of pain and how that’s informing treatment.

The Challenges Of Texas’ Population Boom

January 8, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity

Former Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings is president and CEO of Texas 2036, and she talks to us about how the nonprofit organization is taking a nonpartisan approach to assessing state data to prepare for the next 16 years and beyond.