Johns Hopkins University historian Martha S. Jones joins us to talk about the women who lead the charge for Black women’s suffrage, working to dismantle systemic racism and have their voices heard.
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Why We Actually Do Need Space Force
W.J. Hennigan covers the Pentagon and national security for Time Magazine, and he joins us to talk about the new military branch charged with defending American GPS, communications, weather and missile-warning systems – and why battling its critics is currently job number one.
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American Populism, Post Trump
MIT professor Daron Acemoglu joins us to make the case that the American political landscape is deeply fractured, and that the nation’s unequal social classes add fuel to that fire.
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Education Inequality Starts Outside The Classroom
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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Big Tech Doesn’t Care About Your Safety
Soraya Chemaly, executive director of The Representation Project and co-founder of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, joins us to talk about big tech’s moral failings that put profit ahead of safe spaces.
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How Cable News Came To Be
Lisa Napoli joins us to talk about how the cable news network transformed how our modern world consumes current events.
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How One White House Hands Off The Baton To The Next
Anita Kumar, White House correspondent and associate editor at Politico, joins us to discuss the complicated issues of presidential transitions, from national security to the COVID-19 pandemic, and what happens when they don’t run smoothly.
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Tearing Down Racist Statues Doesn’t Mean We’ve Torn Down Racism
Connor Towne O’Neill, journalist, producer on the NPR podcast White Lies, teacher at Auburn University and with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project, joins us to talk about how the battle over monuments reveals racism is baked into the very mold of America.
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Why Migrant Kids Are Spending Years In U.S. Custody
Aura Bogado, reporter for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, joins us to discuss the 1 in 10 migrant children stranded in U.S. custody for prolonged periods.
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How Debtors’ Prisons Never Really Went Away
Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman joins guest host Courtney Collins to talk about his call for a renewed focus on people below the poverty line.
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A Look Back At Election Night
University of Houston political science professor Brandon Rottinghaus and Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto from UT’s LBJ School of Public Affairs join us to analyze the election results and talk about what they say about the direction of the nation.
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Reconsidering Jimmy Carter
Jonathan Alter, MSNBC political analyst and former senior editor at Newsweek, joins us to discuss Carter’s moral message after Watergate and his governing skills that sought to bring peace to a divided country.
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