Marie Mutsuki Mockett, a fiction and nonfiction teacher at Rainier Writing Workshop and visiting writer in the MFA program at Saint Mary’s College, joins us to talk about her exploration of her family’s heritage in rural Nebraska to understand a more conservative way of life
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Stephanie Kelton, professor of economics and public policy at Stony Brook University and former Chief Economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, talks to us about using the national debt as a tool in service of a higher standard of living for all Americans.
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Seth W. Stoughton, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and a former Tallahassee Police Department officer, joins us to talk about his research into why he believes the current playbook for police training is too focused on force rather than community.
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Omar Wasow, assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton and co-founder of BlackPlanet.com, joins us to talk about protest tactics that work and why.
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David Reynolds, professor of international history at Christ’s College, Cambridge and fellow of the British Academy, joins us to talk about Brexit in this historical context.
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Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, joins us to talk about looking inward to combat racism.
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Jared Cohen, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins us to talk about the vice-presidents who rose to the occasion when the president they served under died – and the ones who didn’t.
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Journalist Ed Yong joins us to talk about the unique challenges of addressing the coronavirus – and about the urgency for local, state and federal governments to figure out ways to coordinate their plans.
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Peniel E. Joseph, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about how these protests resemble demonstrations of the Civil Rights era – and how social media and video footage have changed how people protest.
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Gene Sperling, Chief Economic Advisor to Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, joins us to talk about reimagining contemporary capitalism.
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Adam Rogers, senior correspondent for Wired, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the actuarial models that determine the dollar value of a life and how that information guides public and business policies.
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Adrienne LaFrance, executive editor of The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to talk specifically about QAnon, whose adherents believe in a “deep state” plot against President Trump.
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