Journalist Mike Thompson joins us to talk about one bright spot in the Syrian Civil War: a secret world of books that offered normality and refuge.
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Melinda Gates On Empowering Women
Melinda Gates joins us to make the case that providing opportunities to women is the key to bettering society as a whole.
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Lindy West Takes On The Patriarchy
The New York Times columnist Lindy West joins us about to talk about her book “The Witches Are Coming,” which looks the deep ways that misogyny and male privilege are baked into American society.
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New Strategies For Preventing Gun Violence
Robyn Thomas and Peter Ambler, from the Giffords Law Center and Giffords, join us to talk about strategies for decreasing gun violence while balancing gun owners’ 2nd Amendment rights.
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What Happened To All Those Migrant Children?
Frontline investigative producer and correspondent Daffodil Altan joins us to talk about what happens to migrant children once they’re in federal custody.
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Do Red Flag Laws Actually Work?
Jacob Sullum of Reason magazine joins us to talk about his view that “great idea on paper” is simply a license to prevent gun ownership.
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What Brexit’s Really About
Fintan O’Toole joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the English worldview after the empire collapsed and why that’s key to the fractured policies of today.
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When To Blow The Whistle
Tom Mueller joins us to talk about the calculations that whistleblowers go through when they decide to raise an issue – and about what’s ahead for the person who called foul on the President.
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The Evolution of City Mouse And Country Mouse
Brendan Koerner joins us to talk about the burgeoning study of urban evolution.
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Meet The Man Trying To Primary Trump
Two-time governor of Massachusetts William Weld joins us to talk about his strategy for challenging the president in the Republican primary.
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Why Money Is The Problem – And Solution – For Honduras
Sonia Nazario joins us to talk about how the combination of violence and corruption has everyday Hondurans fleeing in record numbers – and why cutting U.S. aid makes the situation worse.
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How Abusers Stalk Through The Courts
Journalist Jessica Klein joins us to talk about the little known trauma of “paper abuse”.
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