James Fallows, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to talk about how President-Elect Biden’s administration might think about investigating – and possibly prosecuting – President Trump and members of his administration.
Read moreHow Science Skeptics Create Doubt
Sean B. Carroll, vice president for science education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, joins us to talk about how science deniers return to the same strategies over and over to create doubt around new discoveries.
Read moreHow Work Has Changed During the Pandemic
Even if who’ve been fortunate enough to not contract COVID-19, the pandemic has affected in some way each of our home lives and careers. This hour, we’ll talk about how work has changed during the pandemic.
Read moreThe Case For Hate
Berit Brogaard, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Brogaard Lab at the University of Miami, joins us to talk about the morality, psychology, science, and justifications for an emotion all of us feel, but no one likes to own up to.
Read moreWhy We Actually Do Need Space Force
W.J. Hennigan covers the Pentagon and national security for Time Magazine, and he joins us to talk about the new military branch charged with defending American GPS, communications, weather and missile-warning systems – and why battling its critics is currently job number one.
Read moreA Covid Vaccine Is Imminent. So Who Should Get It First?
Christopher Cox joins us to think through effective vaccine distribution and if the focus should be on vulnerable populations or super-spreaders.
Read moreAmerican Populism, Post Trump
MIT professor Daron Acemoglu joins us to make the case that the American political landscape is deeply fractured, and that the nation’s unequal social classes add fuel to that fire.
Read moreHow To Help Your LGBTQ Child Thrive
Caitlin Ryan is a clinical social worker and director of the Family Acceptance Project, and she joins us to talk about parental acceptance, how to deal with bullying, and understanding a child’s non-heteronormative identity.
Read moreEducation Inequality Starts Outside The Classroom
Ohio State professor Douglas B. Downey joins us to explain why academics are approaching closing equity gaps for student achievement all wrong.
Read moreBig Tech Doesn’t Care About Your Safety
Soraya Chemaly, executive director of The Representation Project and co-founder of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, joins us to talk about big tech’s moral failings that put profit ahead of safe spaces.
Read moreThe Modern Day Hunt For Buried Treasure
Benjamin Wallace joins us to talk about the people who endlessly try to decode puzzles to solve where someone has buried the loot — sometimes upending their lives to find it.
Read moreHow Cable News Came To Be
Lisa Napoli joins us to talk about how the cable news network transformed how our modern world consumes current events.
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