Travis Rieder joins us to talk about how his addiction to pain medication taught him about how we address the current opioid crisis.
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Look Up: You’re Being Watched
Arthur Holland Michel joins us to talk about balancing surveillance technology’s ability to save lives with its potential for significant intrusion.
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How Tech Companies Are Reading Our Minds
Avi Bar-Zeev joins us to talk about how eye tracking technology offers companies an opportunity to monitor our thoughts.
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Tiny Nations, Giant Impact: The Politics of Climate Change
Time’s Justin Worland joins us to talk about how Fiji and other tiny countries are leading the charge to address climate change.
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How Millennials Make Work Work
S. Craig Watkins, Ernest S. Sharpe Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about how the reality of the gig economy has turned this generation into a resourceful, creative workforce.
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Your Political Party Is Outdated (And So Is The Other One)
Frank DiStefano joins us to talk about the defunct parties that once ruled American politics and how our climate of animosity is a landscape for a political reset.
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The Foreign and the Familiar: A Novel of the Border
Oscar Cásares joins host us to talk about putting a fictional – though very human – face on life at the U.S.-Mexico border, the subject of his latest novel.
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Scott Pelley’s Search For Meaning
Scott Pelley joins us to talk about what he’s learned from everyone firefighters to soldiers to sitting presidents spanning four decades.
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Millennials Can’t Move In Because Boomers Won’t Move Out
Patrick Sisson joins us to talk about how policy, shifting demographics and market forces have combined to bring us to the current situation, which he writes about for the website Curbed.
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Mass Shootings Often Start As Domestic Violence
Rachel Louise Snyder joins us to debunk myths about domestic violence, and to talk about what it will take to truly address the problem that the World Health Organization deems a global epidemic.
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Overhauling The V.A.
Isaac Arnsdorf joins us to talk about whether or not Trump has held up his campaign promise to improve the care veterans receive through the V.A. which he writes about for ProPublica.
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How To Fix The Catholic Church
As child abuse cases and alleged cover-ups across the world continue to haunt the Catholic Church, James Carroll joins us to argue that the church’s clerical hierarchy is to blame.
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