UMass-Boston sociology professor Katherine S. Newman joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the likely return of old-age poverty – and about how the country can renew its social contract with seniors.
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Why Your Friends Think Like You
Matthew O. Jackson, William D. Eberle professor of economics at Stanford, joins us to talk about how our social networks act as composites of ourselves – and how they often forecast the paths we’ll take.
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Your City Lost Out On Amazon? You May Have Dodged A Bullet
Pat Garofalo of the Center for American Progress joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how the economic promise of taxpayer subsidies from sports stadiums to movie productions often fails to materialize.
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Who’s The Master Of A.I.?
Amy Webb, professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business and founder of the Future Today Institute, joins us to talk about how nine tech companies first and foremost serve the corporations that created them. Her new book is called “The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity.”
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Where You Live Determines How You Live
Jan Shambaugh, director of the Hamilton Project and senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, joins us to talk about why some counties are championing income equality – and about what struggling countries can do to catch up.
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America Was Built By Black Labor
Joe William Trotter, Jr., director of the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University, joins us to trace the history of black employment, which he writes about in “Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America.”
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The Future Is Fiber – And The U.S. Is Falling Behind
Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford joins us to explain why we need to approach fiber with an increased urgency or risk falling behind other developed nations. Her new book is called “Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution – And Why America Might Miss It.”
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The IRS Has Bigger Problems Than Your Tax Returns
Reporter Paul Kiel joins us to discuss how the IRS has been withering away before our eyes for nearly a decade, which he writes about with Jesse Eisinger in their ProPublica article “How the IRS was Gutted.”
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Appalachia’s Silent Killer
Howard Berkes contributed to a joint Frontline-NPR investigation about how government regulators responded to toxic mine dust and joins us to share stories about miners dying from dirty lungs.
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Why America Should Still Lead
Jake Sullivan, former national security adviser for Vice President Joe Biden, joins us to make the case that American exceptionalism is alive and well, which he writes about for The Atlantic.
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The High Cost Of Misdemeanors
UC-Irvine law professor Alexandra Natapoff talks about her new book, “Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal.”
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How We’re Still Funding The Civil War
Brian Palmer of the Investigative Fund joins guest host John McCaa to talk about the millions of dollars tax payers spend each year to conserve memorials to the Confederacy.
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