Juliana Horowitz joins us to talk about how Americans’ views on race break down across racial lines, which she researched for the Race in America 2019 survey from the Pew Research Center.
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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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The American Work Ethic Doesn’t Apply To Everyone
Bryce Covert writes about working life in America, and she joins us to talk about the disconnect in how the American work ethic applies to workers based on the tax bracket they occupy.
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Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?
Edward Zwick joins us to talk about the new film he directed “Trial By Fire,” highlighting the controversial suppression of evidence in the arson case against Cameron Todd Willingham.
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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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Bobbie Wygant On 70 Years In TV
Bobbie Wygant joins us to talk about everything from covering the Kennedy assassination to interviewing the Beatles, which she chronicles in her new book, “Talking to the Stars: Bobbie Wygant’s Seventy Years in Television.”
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How We Put A Man On The Moon
Rice University history professor Douglas Brinkley joins us to chart how Neil Armstrong made JFK’s dream of landing on the moon a reality.
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Living In Society Is Making Us Better People
Nicholas A. Christakis, director of the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, joins us to explain how for thousands of years we’ve actually evolved to co-exist in greater harmony.
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Reproductive Care: The Third Rail Of Health Policy
New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg joins us to talk about how the Supreme Court shifting right could lead to the overturn of Roe V. Wade – and about how state legislatures have worked to neutralize the law ever since the court’s 1973 decision.
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Terrorism Is The Least Of Our Problems
Political scientist Micah Zenko joins us to talk about why – relative to other time periods – we’ve never had less to worry about. His new book, written with Michael A. Cohen, is called “Clear & Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans.”
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White Women Weren’t Bystanders To Slavery
UC-Berkeley history professor Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers joins us to talk about how wealth drove white women’s participation in the slave market.
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The Crazy Ideas With Potential To Change The World
Physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall joins host Krys Boyd to talk about strategies for breaking through the conventional group think to turn bold ideas into reality.
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