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23 Episodes 2022 - 2022
Episode 1
Mon, Jul 4, 2022 30 mins
A conversation with Prof. Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. about food intersecting with class and race.
Episode 2
Mon, Jul 11, 2022 30 mins
Infectious diseases have shaped the course of human history. Health-journalist Vidya Krishnan gives context to the struggle with coronavirus pandemic as she explores the anti-science rhetoric and politics behind the fight for a tuberculosis cure in her book, "The Phantom Plague."
Episode 3
Sun, Jul 17, 2022 30 mins
Dave Iverson shares his moving account of caring for his 95-year-old mother with dementia while living with Parkinson's disease himself.
Episode 4
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 30 mins
Something is broken in America. The nation with a motto of "from many, one," seems to be devolving into "many, from one." New York University Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt traces the problem back to the rise of social media.
Episode 5
Mon, Aug 1, 2022 30 mins
Dr. Elena Conis offers a more complex view of the role of science in public life.
Episode 6
Mon, Aug 8, 2022 30 mins
Author and activist Winnie M Li discusses her books, including her latest "Complicit," a timely thriller that examines the power dynamics within the film industry, as well as the tension between privilege and justice.
Episode 7
Mon, Aug 15, 2022 30 mins
Michael Fine, M.D. warns of lasting public health challenges facing Russia's neighbor, and the enduring impacts the war may have on its people.
Episode 8
Mon, Aug 22, 2022 30 mins
Linda Villarosa lays bare the forces in the American health-care system and in American society that cause Black people to "live sicker and die quicker" compared to their white counterparts.
Episode 9
Mon, Aug 29, 2022 30 mins
Native American artist Cannupa Hanska Luger brings a ground-breaking perspective to his multidisciplinary art as he contextualizes the Indigenous experience in the 21st century.
Episode 10
Mon, Sep 5, 2022 30 mins
Linda Villarosa is spotlighted
Episode 11
Mon, Sep 12, 2022 30 mins
National security analyst Javed Ali of the University of Michigan. For most of the last 20 years, the conversation about American national security has been focused on the threats posed by extremists. With the death of al Qaeda Leader Ayman al Zwahiri, Russia's war in Ukraine, and rising tensions with China, that conversation may be swinging back to great-power competition.
Episode 12
Mon, Sep 19, 2022 30 mins
Modern advances in fertility treatment are a medical marvel, but Ade Osinubi notes the inequality that pervades maternal health in the United States.
Episode 13
Sun, Apr 4, 2021 30 mins
A spotlight on former chief speechwriter of the White House, Cody Keenan.
Episode 14
Wed, Oct 12, 2022 30 mins
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Mark Johnson argues empathy and climate change are connected and says fiction writing can be a powerful tool to sway minds.
Episode 15
Sun, Apr 25, 2021 30 mins
Texas political reporter Jeremy Wallace says what the 2022 midterm election could hold for Texas and the United States as a whole.
Episode 16
Wed, Oct 26, 2022 30 mins
Episode 17
Wed, Nov 2, 2022 30 mins
Marc Morial reflects on how the threats to American democracy seem to grow and how the citizens might resist them.
Episode 18
Sun, Nov 13, 2022 30 mins
Episode 19
Sun, Nov 20, 2022 30 mins
Andy Kroll explores the power of conspiracy and disinformation on today's political landscape as he tells the story of Seth Rich's murder case.
Episode 20
Sun, Nov 27, 2022 30 mins
Ruth Glenn, CEO and President of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, issues a call to action as she demystifies domestic violence and its root causes, while reflecting on its personal impacts.
Episode 21
Mon, Dec 5, 2022 30 mins
Author Casey Parks says some mysteries can shed a light on profound questions of gender and identity, and basic questions about how we treat each other as humans.
Episode 22
Mon, Dec 12, 2022 30 mins
As 2022 comes to a close, Evelyn Farkas of the McCain Institute helps look back at the big stories that shaped public life in the United States and around the world while naming the "Story of the Year."
Episode 23
Mon, Dec 19, 2022 30 mins
America's veneration of the Civil War continues in popular culture, in the millions who visit Civil War battle sites, and in the way one talks about divisive issues in America to this day. Ty Seidule was raised to revere Robert E. Lee and the myth of the "Lost Cause," but now says he was wrong to do so.