Journalist Wil S. Hylton joins us to talk about the dangerous and unregulated push to pull resources from the depths of the Earth.
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Paul Krugman Explains the Economy
New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman joins us to talk about disproven ideas that have been resurrected by politics and fear – and about how to argue for common sense.
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Latinos And The Invention Of The Cool, Walk-able Neighborhood
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, director of the Latina/o Studies Program and associate professor of history at Penn State University, joins us to talk about how Latinos have influenced cities across the country.
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An Autopsy Of The Great Recession
Reveal journalist Aaron Glantz joins us to talk about how “mortgage products” let so many Americans down.
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How Will Iran Punch Back?
Ilan Goldenberg, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about what might happen next between Iran and the U.S. – and about if a face-saving option exists.
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Can Moms Who Stay Home Catch Up On Careers?
Pamela Stone, professor of sociology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, joins us to talk about the struggles of highly-educated, well-connected women with resume gaps.
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How Economists Can Save The World
MIT economics professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo join us to talk about building a more humane world through rethinking the exchange of goods and services.
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Junk: The Billion Dollar Industry
Adam Minter joins us to talk about people who find treasure in our trash — and why, with all our stuff, we continue to buy new things.
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Melinda Gates On Empowering Women
Melinda Gates joins us to make the case that providing opportunities to women is the key to bettering society as a whole.
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How Reading And Writing Saved A Lost Girl
Jaquira Diaz joins us to talk about overcoming her struggles with sexual assault and depression, growing up in Puerto Rican housing projects, and more.
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What Brexit’s Really About
Fintan O’Toole joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the English worldview after the empire collapsed and why that’s key to the fractured policies of today.
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Frauds And Fakers And Counterfeit Makers
Lydia Pyne, visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about the value of the right kind of fakes and which ones still take us for a ride.
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