Benjamin Lorr joins us to talk about his investigations into the highly-guarded inner-workings of how our food goes from field, to truck, to shelf.
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What It Will Take For Texas To Survive COVID
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank president and CEO Robert Kaplan and Joe Straus, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, join host Krys Boyd to discuss the pandemic’s impact on the state in terms of dollars, jobs, and the health of Texans.
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The World’s Top Entrepreneurs Explain How They Made It
Guy Raz joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his collection of interviews with 200 highly-successful entrepreneurs discussing their rise to success.
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To Survive And Thrive, America Needs A Lot More Americans
Mathew Yglesias, co-founder and senior correspondent for Vox, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his vision for making America economically competitive again and how declining birthrates, empty Rust Belt cities, and immigration backlogs hamper future prospects.
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How The Pandemic Has Set Women Back Decades
This hour, guest host Courtney Collins talks about how the pandemic has created a female recession, how disparities in who receives healthcare have widened, and how the feminist movement often leaves behind women of color.
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It All Starts With Algae
Ruth Kassinger joins us to talk about how algae might just be the key to creating a more sustainable future.
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Nobody’s Trying to Abolish the Suburbs
Kriston Capps, Staff writer at Bloomberg CityLab, joins us to talk about Trump’s take on federal fair housing—his thoughts on who’s allowed to live where— and why he hopes some voters hear his call.
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James Baker: American Power Broker
Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, joins us to talk about Baker’s close and competitive friendship with George H.W. Bush – and about his diplomatic work that reshaped the world in the last quarter of the 20th Century.
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The Deterioration Of US-China Relations
Mary Gallagher, director of the International Institute at the University of Michigan, joins us to discuss the current state of U.S.-China relations and what it would take for the relationship to improve.
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For Big Political Donors, Strings Are Definitely Attached
Sarah Kleiner, a politics reporter with the Center for Public Integrity, joins us to discuss her reporting into how wealthy North Texas Republican donors use their money to call the shots on Capitol Hill.
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A Meritocracy Leaves Many Unfairly Behind
Harvard government professor Michael J. Sandel joins us to talk about how many of America’s problems can be traced to a lack of concern over what’s best for society.
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The Invention Of Money
Jacob Goldstein, co-host of NPR’s “Planet Money,” joins us to talk about how our world goes ‘round in large part because we’ve all swallowed hard and agreed to not ask too much about the real value of currency.
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