Filmmaker Ben Masters joins us to talk about documenting the wilderness from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico that could one day be cut in two by the border wall.
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From The Church To The Capital: #MeToo In Texas
Cheryl Allison joins us to profile North Texas women who have led the fight against sexual harassment – including former Texas Senator Wendy Davis, who also joins the conversation.
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Reclaiming The Economy For The People
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz joins us to talk about fundamental changes that will push markets to work for the people instead of the other way around.
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Cities, Not Sprawl: The Future Of Urban Development
Architect and urban planner Peter Calthorpe joins us to talk about how urban planners are thinking through how to handle large populations living in close quarters.
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Should We Stop Taking Your Huddled Masses?
David Frum joins us to walk through the many complicated issues at play with immigration like the question that divides us– how much is too much?
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Does Trade Really Prevent War?
Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at Tufts University, joins us to talk about how the current breakdown of international trade agreements eerily resembles the run-up to the First World War.
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Defending The New York Times In Court
David E. McCraw is deputy general counsel for The New York Times, and he joins us to talk about the delicate line between protecting the paper’s voice while also guarding it from legal trouble.
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Redefining Black Protest
Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin join us to talk about the many ways black Americans resist the forces against them every day. Their collection of interviews is called, “How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance.”
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Reproductive Care: The Third Rail Of Health Policy
New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg joins us to talk about how the Supreme Court shifting right could lead to the overturn of Roe V. Wade – and about how state legislatures have worked to neutralize the law ever since the court’s 1973 decision.
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The Price Of Uncontrolled Diabetes
Sophie Novack joins us to talk about how diabetes hits poor communities in Texas and elsewhere particularly hard, which she writes about for the Texas Observer.
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How Unqualified Men Get Hired Over Qualified Women
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor at University College, London, joins us to discuss how qualities that land people leadership roles – overconfidence, narcissism – are often the same qualities that stand in the way of leadership.
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Could You Be Friends With A Robot?
Tech journalist James Vlahos joins us to talk about the many ways these chatbots will affect business, privacy and even our understanding of consciousness. His new book is called “Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think.”
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