Shayla Love, a senior staff writer at Vice, joins us to talk about the psychology of why we’re all a little disoriented since our 9-to-5 routine disappeared.
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Joe Biden’s Fight For America’s Attention
Amy K. Dacey, executive director of the Sine Institute of Policy & Politics at American University, joins us host to analyze Joe Biden’s presumptive nomination, what leadership and campaigning during the pandemic will look like, and strategies he’ll use to reach voters.
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The Comforts Of Pop Culture
Roy Wood Jr., Nate Sloan, Charlie Harding, and Linda Holmes, join us to talk about how pop culture can at least provide a respite in a world of bad news.
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Finding Our Way To The New Normal
Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong joins us to explain why instead of asking “when will life get back to normal?”, we should focus our energies on incremental steps to a more livable future.
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Director Barry Sonnenfeld On How To Build A Blockbuster
Barry Sonnenfeld joins us to talk about his winding road to success that eventually led to making the “Men in Black” franchise and other blockbusters.
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The Influence Of Instagram
Bloomberg News technology reporter Sarah Frier joins us to talk about the fierce Silicon Valley competition to create a dominant social media platform and the ways Instagram has changed our lives in an unexpected way.
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How Can A Worker Be Both Essential And Low Paid?
Bama Athreya joins us to talk about laborers who don’t have the luxury of working from home – and about how the pandemic has severely affected the gig economy.
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What We Can Learn From The First U.S. Coronavirus Hotspot
Miles O’Brien joins us to talk about his coast-to-coast reporting on the people affected by the coronavirus – and about how inaction by elected officials contributed to the outbreak.
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An Astronaut’s Guide To Sheltering In Place
Mike Massimino, a NASA astronaut, joins us to talk about how he learned to adapt to a confined space while in space.
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Our 100-Year Battle With Pandemics
Medical historian Mark Honigsbaum joins us to talk about why bacterial and viral disasters continue to take us by surprise.
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In a Crisis, Listen to Your Elders
Dr. Karl Pillemer, professor of gerontology in medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, joins us to look at our current crisis through the eyes of people who can say from experience that “this, too, shall pass.”
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Vaccine Science, Race And Mathematical Modeling
On today’s show, experts explain some of the more mysterious elements of the coronavirus, including what it will take to develop a vaccine, how epidemiological models work and why black and Latino patients are disproportionately affected.
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