Ankush Khardori, a lawyer and former federal prosecutor who specialized in financial fraud and white-collar crime, joins us to discuss internet crime, why it’s gotten worse during the pandemic, and the persistent problems facing the Justice Department.
Read moreHow Facebook A.I. Enables Misinformation
Karen Hao, senior artificial intelligence reporter with MIT Technology Review, joins us to talk about her profile of Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, who built Facebook’s wildly successful AI platform only to later struggle with the reality that he can’t tame the monster he created.
Read moreA Conversation With Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Senator Tammy Duckworth joins us to talk about her thoughts as an Asian American woman in the wake of the recent Atlanta murders – and her ideas as a senator following two high-profile mass shootings.
Read moreWas Closing Schools The Right Move For American Teens?
Alec MacGillis covers politics and government for ProPublica, and he joins us to tell the stories of teenagers in two small towns, one in New Mexico and one in Texas, where governors took very different approaches to public safety.
Read moreDallas Fed Chair Talks Post-Pandemic Economy
Robert Kaplan, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, joins us to talk about how increased rates of vaccination and the rollback of COVID restrictions will affect the state’s economy the rest of the year.
Read moreA 50-Year Look At American Immigration
Sarah R. Coleman, assistant professor of history at Texas State University, joins us to work through near-term policy options and to talk about ideas for improving the conditions in the countries migrants are fleeing.
Read moreNew To America? Here’s Where To Start
Roya Hakakian joins us talk about her instruction manual for newcomers to this country, acting as tour operator for all the wonder of American sights and sounds.
Read moreWhat Would We Do If There Were No More Nurses?
Theresa Brown is a nurse and author, and she joins us to talk about the nurses charged with healing despite a lack of support and how, even as the demand for care skyrockets, the nation faces a severe nursing shortage.
Read moreThe Problem With Creating Our Own Truth
University of Connecticut philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch joins us to talk about how people come to believe what they think they know, and why shared foundations of knowledge are crucial to the health of a democracy.
Read moreYour Ancestors Were Not Helicopter Parents
Michaeleen Doucleff, correspondent for NPR’s Science Desk, joins us to discuss her journeys with her daughter, from the Arctic to the Yucatan, to understand parenting best practices around the world and why American parents may be getting it all wrong.
Read moreWhat It Means To Be Asexual
Journalist and writer Angela Chen joins us to discuss her book – part-reporting, part-memoir – on the spectrum of human sexuality and the categories that often go ignored.
Read moreMaking Sense Of The World As A Black Queer Kid
Hari Ziyad, the editor-in-chief of the website RaceBaitr and a 2021 Lambda Literary Fellow, joins us to discuss their personal history of a queer and Black childhood, and about breaking down structures of institutionalized racism and violence.
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