Veteran and writer Elliot Ackerman joins us to talk about the people he met upon returning to the Middle East after previous military tours.
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Getting To Know China One Cab Ride At A Time
NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt joins us to talk about what he learned as a taxi driver in China.
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Trained Monkeys: The Cruelty of Wildlife Tourism
Natasha Daly joins us to talk about the wildlife tourism business– and how it often harms the natural world and creatures we want to see.
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Can We Trust Generic Drugs?
Katherine Eban joins us to talk about how companies frequently ignore safe manufacturing practices in order to maximize the profits of generic drugs.
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The Foreign and the Familiar: A Novel of the Border
Oscar Cásares joins host us to talk about putting a fictional – though very human – face on life at the U.S.-Mexico border, the subject of his latest novel.
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Mass Shootings Often Start As Domestic Violence
Rachel Louise Snyder joins us to debunk myths about domestic violence, and to talk about what it will take to truly address the problem that the World Health Organization deems a global epidemic.
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A Doctor On The Difference Between Health And Healthcare
Dr. Sandro Galea talks about how we should rethink our understanding of what it means to be healthy – and how that shift will guide our approach to healthcare.
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The Reality Of Ransomware
ProPublica technology reporter Renee Dudley explains how these attacks work, how firms can sometimes recover the stolen data, and how sometimes the solution is just to pay up.
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Why Societies Recover– or Don’t– from Crises
Pulitzer Prize-winner Jared Diamond joins host us to talk about his latest effort on the topic, which looks specifically at why some countries recover from trauma while others don’t.
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Why We’ve Got The Suburbs Wrong
Amanda Kolson Hurley joins us to talk about planned communities that have bucked conventional thinking of suburbs – from a tiny-house anarchist neighborhood in New Jersey to a Modernist enclave in Massachusetts.
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Cities, Not Sprawl: The Future Of Urban Development
Architect and urban planner Peter Calthorpe joins us to talk about how urban planners are thinking through how to handle large populations living in close quarters.
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Should We Stop Taking Your Huddled Masses?
David Frum joins us to walk through the many complicated issues at play with immigration like the question that divides us– how much is too much?
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