Warren P. Strobel covers intelligence and security in the Journal’s Washington bureau, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the very tricky road ahead to secure Gershkovich’s release.
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Why rich investors are suddenly buying trailer parks
Filmmaker Sara Terry joins us to talk about how the land mobile homes sit on is being bought out from under the residents, who are being priced out of their homes.
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Making U.S. cities more pedestrian-friendly is an uphill battle
Reis Thebault from The Washington Post discusses the battles cities are waging to permanently ban cars in certain places in order to create public spaces for walkers and bicyclists.
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The jobs used to deny disability benefits are stuck in 1977
Lisa Rein from The Washington Post details how the Biden administration has spent $250 million to modernize its vocational services but still uses outdated market data to determine benefits for 15 million people.
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Is the state too quick to remove children from their families?
Journalist Roxanna Asgarian discusses the tragedy of a family that adopted six children from the foster system in Texas, and why checks and balances on child removal from birth families aren’t as thorough as they should be.
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Why an online community for exchanging free stuff became controversial
Wired contributing writer Vauhini Vara talks about The Buy Nothing Project, Inc, a movement with fervent followers who were mad when the platform went to an app backed by investors.
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The late Judith Heumann on her 50-year fight for disability rights
Judith Heumann joined us to discuss her life’s work, the lawsuits and sit-ins that changed history for people with disabilities, and what it means to rebel against entrenched norms and win.
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Why governments have such a hard time hiring
Daphne Duret, a staff writer for The Marshall Project, joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss why jobs from garbage collectors to first responders are falling out of favor, and what’s being done to boost numbers.
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The many flaws in Russia’s plans for Ukraine
Dara Massicot, senior policy researcher at the Rand Corporation, joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the errors Russia has made thus far, and how Ukraine has defied the odds with the help of its international allies.
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Chatbots say wild things, and they learn it from us
Washington Post reporter Gerrit De Vynck joins us to break down issues with this new tech tool.
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Is classical liberalism dead?
Francis Fukuyama joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the pushback against classical thoughts about individual rights, rule of law and equality, and what he sees as the decaying of American institutions.
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We’re closer to the end of the world than we’ve ever been
Rachel Bronson, the president and CEO of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, discusses the factors that have ticked us closer to disaster – from the war in Ukraine to Covid and climate change.
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