Music journalist Kathy Iandoli joins us to talk about the contributions of Queen Latifah, Salt-N-Pepa and other woman artists – and why the contributions of women in rap are so often overlooked.
Read more
Keeping Paroled Offenders Out of Trouble
Jason Hardy was once a probation and parole officer and is now a special agent for the FBI, and he joins us to talk about the often-ignored world of post-incarceration and his ideas for true system reform.
Read more
The Fast Moving Story of the Coronavirus
Dr. James Hamblin is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a lecturer at Yale School of Public, and he joins us to talk about preparing for coronavirus on a national and individual level.
Read more
Refugees Revived This Dying Town
Cynthia Anderson, journalist and teacher of writing at Boston University, joins us to talk about Lewiston, Maine — a city that has transformed itself through the arrival of African Muslim refugees.
Read more
Why We Judge Working Mothers and How That Stunts Their Careers
Robin J. Ely, Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, joins us to talk about the real reasons businesses have a tendency to stall female advancement.
Read more
Goodbye, Super Tuesday: The Wrap-Up
David Barker, Director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University, and Niambi Carter, assistant professor of political science at Howard University, join us to talk about if the race for the Democratic nomination for president is clearer or cloudier.
Read more
Can Millennials Save the World?
Charlotte Alter, national correspondent for Time magazine, joins us to talk about the emerging national leadership of this oft-maligned generation.
Read more
The Countdown to Super Tuesday
In the public radio special “Countdown to Super Tuesday,” we’ll hear from journalists, experts and voters from those states, receive updates from NPR’s election team and key party strategists, and tackle the major storylines developing ahead of March 3, 2020.
Read more
Is Solitary Confinement Torture?
Texas Observer staff writer Michael Barajas joins us to talk about solitary confinement.
Read more
The Wild West Of Deep-Sea Mining
Journalist Wil S. Hylton joins us to talk about the dangerous and unregulated push to pull resources from the depths of the Earth.
Read more
Who Decides What’s Really a National Emergency?
Robert L. Tsai, professor of law at American University, joins us to talk about his research into how exaggerated situations and distorted facts whittle away at democracy.
Read more
What You Need to Know About Coronavirus
Dr. Seema Yasmin joins us to talk about what we know – and are still learning – about the coronavirus.
Read more