Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq from 2016-19, Douglas A. Silliman joins us to talk about U.S. strategy in the region – and about what it will take to improve relations with Iran.
Read moreHow A Murderer Found His Soul – And Voice – In Prison
Author and criminal justice advocate, Shaka Senghor joins us to talk about how he worked through his own pain of hurting people and now helps communities heal theirs.
Read moreLatinos And The Invention Of The Cool, Walk-able Neighborhood
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, director of the Latina/o Studies Program and associate professor of history at Penn State University, joins us to talk about how Latinos have influenced cities across the country.
Read moreMental Gymnastics: New Insights Into The Brain
This hour, experts on brain science join us to separate fact from fiction – and to better understand what we know about gender, creativity and how our brain is programmed to lead us home.
Read moreThe Hitmen Of The Dark Web
Technology writer Brian Merchant joins us to talk about the surprising and shadowy world of crowd-sourced contract killers.
Read moreAn Autopsy Of The Great Recession
Reveal journalist Aaron Glantz joins us to talk about how “mortgage products” let so many Americans down.
Read moreFinding E.T. Won’t Be Cheap
Science journalist Adam Mann joins us to talk about the renewed push and excitement to fund the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, despite skepticism and pushback.
Read moreBattlefield Medicine Needs To Change Right Now
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood joins us to talk about current experiments and crucial advances taking place in battlefield medicine that could push the chances of survival well beyond a one-hour window.
Read moreHow Obama Led To Trump
Michael Kirk joins us to talk about the factors that got us to this point in American politics and what the future could hold for our democracy.
Read moreHow Will Iran Punch Back?
Ilan Goldenberg, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about what might happen next between Iran and the U.S. – and about if a face-saving option exists.
Read moreA More Nuanced Approach To Pain Management
Science writer Yudhijit Bhattacharjee joins us to talk about how researchers are developing a more nuanced understanding of pain and how that’s informing treatment.
Read moreThe Challenges Of Texas’ Population Boom
Former Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings is president and CEO of Texas 2036, and she talks to us about how the nonprofit organization is taking a nonpartisan approach to assessing state data to prepare for the next 16 years and beyond.
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