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Should Incarcerated People Be Allowed To Vote?

March 31, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Politics, Race/Identity

Daniel A. Gross of The New Yorker joins us to talk about why we deny prisoners the right to vote and if we should restore that privilege.

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In A Time Of Oversharing, Money Is Still Off Limits

March 30, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Race/Identity

Joe Pinsker, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to talk about one of the last American taboos: asking about what’s in someone’s bank account.

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Why Do We Still Have The Electoral College?

March 30, 2020 Current Events, History, Politics

Jesse Wegman, a member of the New York Times editorial board, joins us to talk about how the power behind millions of individual votes can disappear with the decision of a single elector.

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Why We Accentuate The Negative

March 27, 2020 Culture, Current Events

John Tierney joins us to talk about searching for the half-full glass when it seems the world wants to smash it altogether.

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The Function (And Dysfunction) Of Fear

March 25, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Global Issues, Science and Technology

Chapman University sociology professor Christopher Bader joins us to talk about the anxiety we’re feeling and how social ties are severed when we fear too much.

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How VR Connects Us To Real Feelings

March 24, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Science and Technology

Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips joins us to talk about how we should think about using social media – and about the pluses and minuses of substituting in-person connections for virtual ones.

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Life On The Front Lines Of Covid-19

March 23, 2020 Current Events, Economics, Global Issues, Health

Dr. Robert J. Hancock, president-elect of the Texas College of Emergency Physicians, joins us to talk about how hospitals are planning ahead.

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Why We Fail to Understand the Working Class

March 19, 2020 Current Events, Race/Identity

New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and author Sheryl WuDunn join us to talk about the burdens that 10 million working class Americans face every day and why the rest of society doesn’t seem to notice.

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How to Deal with Your COVID-19 Anxiety

March 18, 2020 Current Events, Global Issues, Health

Dr. Ahmad Raza, professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern’s joins us to talk about COVID-19 anxiety and how we can both calm ourselves and care for others.

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Why America Seems Like Such a Mess

March 18, 2020 Current Events, Global Issues, Politics

George Friedman, geopolitical forecaster and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, joins us to give us a bird’s-eye view of global politics, why the current political vitriol has long-lasting effects, and his predictions for how diplomacy moves forward in a divisive age.

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Pandemics: Then And Now

March 17, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Global Issues, Health, Science and Technology

Frank M. Snowden, the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University, joins us to talk about how infectious outbreaks — both terrifying and romanticized — have shaped our world.

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Coronavirus is Attacking the Economy

March 16, 2020 Current Events, Economics, Global Issues

David Wilcox, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, joins us for a conversation about the alarming dive to a bear market and how the nation might weather this growing storm.  

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