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The 2nd Amendment Doesn’t Cause Gun Violence

January 6, 2021 Culture, Current Events, Economics, History, Politics

University of Alabama law professor Fredrick E. Vars joins us to discuss his 10 ideas for state-level policy to promote public safety while protecting gun ownership.

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How Textiles Stitched The World Together

December 16, 2020 Culture, Economics, History

Virginia Postrel joins us to talk about the international commerce built around silk, cotton, dyes and other materials that tied together people across the globe.

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How Work Has Changed During the Pandemic

December 11, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Health

Even if who’ve been fortunate enough to not contract COVID-19, the pandemic has affected in some way each of our home lives and careers. This hour, we’ll talk about how work has changed during the pandemic.

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What If Sugar Had All The Sweetness Without The Calories?

December 8, 2020 Economics, Environment, Science and Technology

Journalist Nicola Twilley joins us to talk about the food science that focused not on sugar replacements but instead on actually making sugar better.

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Education Inequality Starts Outside The Classroom

December 4, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Education, History, Politics

Ohio State professor Douglas B. Downey joins us to explain why academics are approaching closing equity gaps for student achievement all wrong.

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A Better Way To Spend Those Education Dollars

December 1, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Education, History

Brandon L. Wright, editorial director of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, joins us to talk about public education funding challenges and how in the aftermath of the pandemic we must find smarter ways to spend those dollars.

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Grocery Shopping As Status Symbol

November 26, 2020 Current Events, Economics, Health

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

November 19, 2020 Current Events, Economics, Global Issues, Health

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

November 16, 2020 Economics

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

November 16, 2020 Economics, Global Issues

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

November 13, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Education, Race/Identity

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

November 12, 2020 Economics, Environment, Science and Technology

Ruth Kassinger joins us to talk about how algae might just be the key to creating a more sustainable future.

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