Linda Hirshman joins host Krys Boyd to talk about Ginsburg’s legacy – and about what an opening on the court could mean for the presidential election.
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White Parents Need To Talk To Their Kids About Race – Here’s How
Fordham University psychology professor Tiffany Yip joins us to talk about what an anti-racist conversation with children should sound like and why it’s not happening as often as it should.
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People With Dementia Are Still There
Lynn Casteel Harper is a chaplain and minister for older adults at The Riverside Church in New York City, and she joins us to talk about honoring the human when caring for someone with cognitive disease.
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The Invention Of Money
Jacob Goldstein, co-host of NPR’s “Planet Money,” joins us to talk about how our world goes ‘round in large part because we’ve all swallowed hard and agreed to not ask too much about the real value of currency.
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A Boy’s Senior Year Can Go So Many Ways
Jeff Hobbs joins us to talk about the Los Angeles boys he followed for 12 months to tell their stories of working toward their higher-education goals amid atmospheres of racism and privilege.
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How Slave Patrols Became Police Departments
Josie Duffy Rice is president of The Appeal, a news publication that covers the criminal justice system. She joins us to talk about why the idea of policing as we know it must be upended because it views “Black safety” as fundamentally separate from “white safety.”
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What If 17-Year-Old Boys Ran The State?
Filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine join us to talk about a national program for high school students to learn the nuts and bolts of U.S. government by creating it themselves, which they capture in their documentary.
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Bye, Bye Business Casual: The Pandemic And The Fashion Industry
Dana Thomas joins us to talk about how the pandemic is reshaping our shopping habits and forcing the fashion industry to figure out how to survive on selling baggy tees.
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Meet The Alien Hunters
Stephen Rodrick, senior writer for Rolling Stone, joins us to talk about the love of the chase to find aliens.
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Hating On Hillary: How That Became A Thing
Michael D’Antonio joins us to talk about his research into how one woman, identifiable by her first name only, became a symbolic cudgel for modern politics.
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How Trump And Biden Are Courting Your Vote
Washington Post’s national political reporter and Washington Week moderator Robert Costa joins us to talk about the Biden and Trump campaign strategies to woo voters ahead of Election Day.
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A History Of Tomboys
Journalist Lisa Selin Davis joins us to talk about how tomboys have pushed our ideas about gender conformity.
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