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1401
What Next: The Right Wing War on Vaccines
From hesitancy to hostility.
27 min
1402
What Next: The Unhoused Don’t Want to “Go Back ...
How NYC is going backwards on housing.
25 min
1403
A Word: Cuba’s Color Revolution
Many Afro-Cubans are leading calls for change. Who’s listening?
22 min
1404
The Waves: Did Gossip Girl Lose Its Bite?
The reboot focuses too much on representation and not enough on what made the show great.
31 min
1405
What Next TBD: It's Hot. It's Flooding. Is This...
A climate scientist on why it’s not too late to turn things around.
19 min
1406
What Next: When the Culture War Comes for Your Job
It started with a Facebook group and ended with violent threats.
28 min
1407
What Next: Texas Democrats' Last Stand?
This walkout might be more delaying tactic than strategy.
25 min
1408
What Next: How Exxon Gets Its Way
Inside the oil giant’s lobbying practices.
22 min
1409
What Next: Drugs and the Olympics
Who is served by the current anti-doping system if it knocks out an athlete like Sha’Carri Richardson?
25 min
1410
A Word: The Cruelty Was the Point. Is It Still?
Adam Serwer on how Donald Trump’s weaponized cruelty outlasted his presidency.
22 min
1411
The Waves: Amy Coney Barrett Is Following in th...
The newest Supreme Court justice wants to be seen as a deeply academic thinker, but her shadow docket rulings reveal her long game.
35 min
1412
The Waves: Kyrsten Sinema Doesn't Care What You...
The Arizona senator has a lot of flashy outfits. Does she have a coherent message?
36 min
1413
A Word: Is Critical Race Theory Getting Canceled?
Ibram Kendi explains critical race theory, so even a racist can understand.
19 min
1414
A Word: No Whites Allowed?
Chicago’s mayor sparks fury by giving anniversary interviews only to reporters of color.
20 min
1415
After Trump Episode Six: Getting It Done
25 min
1416
What Next: The Palestinian Perspective
29 min
1417
After Trump Episode Five: Prosecuting a President
35 min
1418
After Trump Episode Four: Prosecuting a President
35 min
1419
What Next: Inside India’s COVID Wards
The country's hospitals are so overrun that people are turning to Twitter for emergency medicine.
28 min
1420
Amicus: The Verdict, the Video, and the Unreaso...
George Floyd’s murder and the history of bearing witness while Black in America.
64 min
1421
After Trump Episode Three: Obstruction & Pardons
32 min
1422
After Trump Episode Two: Enemy of the People
41 min
1423
Introducing: After Trump
Episode 1: Follow the Money
42 min
1424
What Next: The Bizarre Origin Story of the Gaet...
27 min
1425
A Word: Battling Georgia’s Backlash Against Bla...
Black voters matter in Georgia. That’s why Republicans want to stop them.
24 min