Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, professor of urban policy and health at The New School, joins us to talk about how physical spaces are turned into communities, from her research in 178 cities across 14 countries.
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A Look At The Past And Present Of Illness In The White House
Jeffrey Engel is the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. He joins us to talk about how previous administrations have communicated with the public about the health of the president.
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In Politics, The Loneliest Place Is The Middle
P.J. O’Rourke is a contributing editor at the Weekly Standard, a Cato Institute fellow and editor-in-chief of the web magazine American Consequences. He joins us to talk about how before we return to civility, we first must return to sanity.
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How We Might Fix Election Security
Journalist Benjamin Wofford joins us to talk about Texas election administrator Dana DeBeauvoir, who partnered with the tech world to build a safer election system.
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His Dad Was Kidnapped – And That Was Just The Beginning
Filmmaker Miles Hargrove joins us to tell his own story — the story he captured on a Video8 camcorder — of his family’s dramatic and harrowing struggle to get their patriarch home.
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A Meritocracy Leaves Many Unfairly Behind
Harvard government professor Michael J. Sandel joins us to talk about how many of America’s problems can be traced to a lack of concern over what’s best for society.
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The Origins Of The Satanic Panic
Journalist Jen Gerson joins us to discuss how and why the daycare “satanic panic” of the 1990s set the stage for the bizarre child abuse stories seen today.
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The Night 5 Officers Died In Dallas
Jamie Thompson, a contributing editor for D Magazine, joins us to talk about the viewpoints of bystanders and key players to offer a 360-degree view of events.
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America Has A Caste System, Too
Isabel Wilkerson is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Humanities Medal and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and she joins us to talk about the categories Americans are born into that rank us and grade us through no action of our own.
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A 40-Year Look at Racism In North Texas
Bob Ray Sanders, a former reporter and editor with both the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and KERA, joins us to talk about the documentary “At the Crossroads … Again,” which looks back at four decades of North Texas race relations and how these stories are covered in the media.
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RBG: The Great Dissenter
Linda Hirshman joins host Krys Boyd to talk about Ginsburg’s legacy – and about what an opening on the court could mean for the presidential election.
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The Dumbest Ideas In Intelligence History
Historian and curator of the International Spy Museum, Vince Houghton joins us to talk about how intelligence service ideas that never came to fruition.
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