Maia Szalavitz joins us to discuss a new approach to drug treatment created by drug users and public health experts ready to think outside the box.
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Maia Szalavitz joins us to discuss a new approach to drug treatment created by drug users and public health experts ready to think outside the box.
Read moreAl Tompkins of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies joins us to discuss ethics in an ever-polarized media landscape.
Read moreKatelina Eccleston is a producer of the Spotify podcast “Loud,” and she joins us to tell the story of reggaeton’s humble origins and how it spread from Panama to Puerto Rico, Jamaica and now the U.S.
Read moreDr. Scott Gottlieb joins us to discuss what he calls a system-wide failure of government to control Covid-19, and what needs to happen to prepare for the next global health emergency.
Read moreSMU sociologist Andrea Laurent-Simpson joins us to talk about how our pets became our “fur babies” and what that tells us about the dynamics of what it is to be a modern family.
Read moreDr. Paul A. Offit joins us to talk about the risks medical researchers must take to develop the lifesaving therapies we rely on.
Read moreWall Street Journal reporter Douglas Belkin joins us to discuss the widening gap between men and women in higher education.
Read moreCasey Schwartz joins us to talk about her experience of once being addicted to drugs that promised her better thinking, and about the pluses and minuses of distraction.
Read moreEssayist Wyatt Williams joins us to discuss his journey to Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska, to join a community’s traditions of eating whale, and what it signifies for food culture for the rest of us.
Read moreRae Nudson joins us to discuss the power of the powders and creams with which we adorn our skin, and how they’ve created the powerful beauty standards currently being challenged.
Read moreStephen Ives joins us to tell the story of William Randolph Hearst – the subject of a new American Experience documentary.
Read moreAlfredo Corchado is a correspondent for The Dallas Morning News who covers the border, and he joins us to talk about the situation – and the realities of immigration and life along the border amid ever-shifting policies.
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