Matteo Wong is a staff writer for The Atlantic, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the looming extinction of some 7,000 languages since A.I. is only using about 10 to learn from.
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Is ‘less than lethal’ force by police actually safe?
Serginho Roosblad, video producer for the Associated Press’ Global Investigations team, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss an investigation into why “nonlethal” techniques still led to more than a thousand deaths over a 10-year period.
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How rich is too rich?
Christine Emba, staff writer for The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how extreme wealth buys influence while not necessarily providing innovation.
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You might have to move because of climate change
Abrahm Lustgarten, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss where people might eventually resettle and the cities that could capitalize on that forced migration.
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Climate change and its new ethical dilemmas
Travis Rieder, faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss our everyday challenges and the moral quandaries they put us in, and how to do the decent thing in a global and complex world.
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From foster care to fostering hope
David Ambroz joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his life’s work of fighting for child welfare, the subject of his new memoir.
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Why Evan Gershkovich remains in Russian jail
Wall Street Journal assistant editor Paul Beckett joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what is known about Gershkovich’s condition in prison, the efforts to free him, and what journalism looks like in Putin’s Russia now.
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Inside the siege of Mariupol
Frontline producer and editor Michelle Mizner joins host Krys Boyd to discuss Mstyslav Chernov’s first-person account of life under siege, the horrors of a bombed maternity hospital and, ultimately, the power of the press.
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You won’t believe how much plastic you eat
Lauren F. Friedman, an editor at Consumer Reports, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss CR’s rigorous testing of fast foods and supermarket products to find the harmful chemicals that enter our bodies.
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A just world starts with imagination
Ruha Benjamin, a professor at Princeton University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why we are failing at imagining a better world and how thinking big is the path to unlocking good.
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Xi Jinping is in trouble
Simone Gao is a journalist and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how China’s economic woes affect the larger global economy, and why the Chinese populace might be losing patience with its leader.
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How big a deal is the Vatican’s decision to bless same-sex couples?
Host Krys Boyd talks with Francis X. Rocca and Eder Díaz Santillan about how the new ruling is being put into practice worldwide and about how gay Catholics are receiving the news.
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