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1701
What Next: Does Proof Matter at the Supreme Court?
There's evidence a death row inmate is innocent. The justices are condemning him to die.
22 min
1702
A Word: Black to the Future Online
Podcaster Bridget Todd is ensuring that Black and LGBTQ online activists and creators get their flowers now.
22 min
1703
Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade, Episode 1
In 1971, Shirley Wheeler became the public face of the fight for abortion rights.
52 min
1704
The Waves: Abortion on the Ballot
Working through the best way to fight back against the end of Roe.
30 min
1705
What Next: How Gun-Makers Are Arming the Cultur...
Manufacturers follow a set playbook for when their products are used in mass shootings.
27 min
1706
What Next: How Soccer's Best Women Finally Got ...
The US Women’s National Soccer team fought for six years to secure equal pay for equal work.
25 min
1707
What Next: Reporting on Guns from Texas
The view from a state that doesn’t “have that many restrictions left to loosen up”—and just had a mass shooting.
23 min
1708
Amicus: When a Shooter Comes to Your School
A rebroadcast of Dahlia Lithwick speaking with three educators about when gun violence came to their schools—and the return to the classroom after.
29 min
1709
A Word: Debtor Nation Strikes Back
Is canceling college debt a racial justice issue?
23 min
1710
The Waves: Protecting Abortion Is Vital For The...
In ending the right to an abortion, women’s ability to make a living is at stake
25 min
1711
What Next: A Sandy Hook Parent Speaks
An interview that makes us feel something like hope.
26 min
1712
What Next: The End of Ending the Pandemic
How treatments for addiction and HIV prevention can inform this moment—and the next—in the fight against COVID.
18 min
1713
What Next: New York State’s Redistricting Mess
The ongoing battle over New York State’s political map has national implications.
21 min
1714
What Next: Biden’s Student Loan Ambivalence
If only looking at debt made it disappear.
23 min
1715
What Next TBD: North Korea's Hacking Army
Can North Korea's army of cyber-criminals be stopped?
20 min
1716
A Word: Reparations for Racist Violence?
While the nation focuses on the deadly Buffalo shooting, survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are still fighting for justice.
34 min
1717
The Waves: What Reality TV Says About Us
Are we watching for the right reasons?
26 min
1718
What Next TBD: How Buffalo Could Transform Soci...
Can the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism effectively moderate extremist content?
19 min
1719
What Next: China’s Zero-COVID Policy
How did a virus prevention strategy turn into punishment?
23 min
1720
What Next: No Lone Wolves
Why the mass shooting in Buffalo is part of a bigger movement.
25 min
1721
What Next: How Corporations Are Taking Advantag...
Consumers are paying the price as some companies use inflation as a cover for price hikes.
25 min
1722
What Next: The Evolution of Pro-Choice Messaging
How should supporters of reproductive rights talk about abortion now?
27 min
1723
What Next TBD: Inside Trump’s Twitter Clone
Can Truth Social survive without Trump?
17 min
1724
A Word: Is Big Tech Pro-Choice?
Tech companies fell short on “racial reckoning” promises. Are abortion rights next?
22 min
1725
The Waves: How the Fall of Bitch Media is a Sig...
The feminist outlet going under could not have come at a worse time.
24 min