Journalist Neena Satija joins us in Austin to discuss how Texas’ approach to public defense is failing low-income citizens.
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The Inequality Of Urban Design
Tamika L. Butler, director of planning for California, joins us to talk about an overlooked problem in urban design and why it’s time to start paying attention.
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What Does The SAT Really Measure?
Journalist Paul Tough joins us to talk about the hurdles low-income students face to attend college.
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The Struggles Of Low-Income College Students Go Beyond Tuition
Harvard education professor Anthony Jack joins us to talk about students who are book smart but don’t have the social skills or class knowledge to succeed on campus
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Are We Going To War With Iran?
Jim Krane, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute, joins us for a primer on why tensions are escalating quickly in the Middle East, what it means for worldwide energy supply and if it could lead to a U.S.-backed war.
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After Hurricanes, We All Pay To Bail Out The Beach
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gilbert M. Gaul joins us to talk about major flaws in the government’s approach to flood insurance.
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The $300 Band-Aid: Surprises In Medical Bills
Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon and professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins University, joins us to talk about the medical debt that consumes one in five Americans.
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The Deadly Cost of Amazon’s One-Day Delivery
Buzzfeed News reporter Caroline O’Donahue joins us to talk about the safety, labor, and human costs that are very much a part of our consumer demands when it comes to delivery services.
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Who’s Looking After Home Health Care Workers?
Reporter Alexia Fernández Campbell joins us to talk about the harsh realities of a job asked to provide comfort when supplying very little of its own.
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The Case For Single Payer Healthcare
Healthcare activist Timothy Faust joins us to discuss why, he says, it’s more dangerous to get sick in the U.S. than anywhere in the world.
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Why Female Vets Have It Harder
Director of Women’s Health Sciences Division National Center for PTSD and director of WoVen (the Women’s Veterans Network), Tara Galovski joins us to talk about the research paving the way for healthy re-entry for female veterans.
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A Better Place In A Warming World
Southern Methodist University professor Klaus Desmet talks about the importance of strategizing long-term solutions for commerce and conservation in the era of climate change.
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