Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson joins us to talk about how COVID-19 is changing our relationship with the businesses in which we spend our disposable income – and about how that shift affects the places we live.
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One Woman’s Quest To Tame Her Depression
Anna Mehler Paperny she joins us to talk about investigating the complex world of depression treatment in order to save herself.
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Fear Is Natural–But It Can Be Controlled
Eva Holland, correspondent for Outside magazine, joins us to talk about her own battle with fear and the methods she employed to overcome it.
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Tips For Parenting In A Pandemic
KJ Dell’Antonia, former lead editor of The New York Times Motherlode blog, joins us to provide strategies for moms and dads who must now be both parent and teacher.
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Lawrence Wright Predicted This Would Happen
Lawrence Wright joins us to talk about his fiction focused on a pandemic upending the world, written months and months before our current crisis.
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When Every Day Is Groundhog Day
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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