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1826
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
1827
The Waves: Abortion on the Ballot
Working through the best way to fight back against the end of Roe.
30 min
1828
Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade, Episode 1
In 1971, Shirley Wheeler became the public face of the fight for abortion rights.
52 min
1829
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
1830
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
1831
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
1832
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
1833
A Word: Debtor Nation Strikes Back
Is canceling college debt a racial justice issue?
23 min
1834
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
1835
What Next: A Sandy Hook Parent Speaks
An interview that makes us feel something like hope.
26 min
1836
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
1837
What Next: New York State’s Redistricting Mess
The ongoing battle over New York State’s political map has national implications.
21 min
1838
What Next: Biden’s Student Loan Ambivalence
If only looking at debt made it disappear.
23 min
1839
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
1840
What Next TBD: North Korea's Hacking Army
Can North Korea's army of cyber-criminals be stopped?
20 min
1841
The Waves: What Reality TV Says About Us
Are we watching for the right reasons?
26 min
1842
What Next TBD: How Buffalo Could Transform Soci...
Can the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism effectively moderate extremist content?
19 min
1843
What Next: China’s Zero-COVID Policy
How did a virus prevention strategy turn into punishment?
23 min
1844
What Next: No Lone Wolves
Why the mass shooting in Buffalo is part of a bigger movement.
25 min
1845
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
1846
What Next: The Evolution of Pro-Choice Messaging
How should supporters of reproductive rights talk about abortion now?
27 min
1847
What Next TBD: Inside Trump’s Twitter Clone
Can Truth Social survive without Trump?
17 min
1848
A Word: Is Big Tech Pro-Choice?
Tech companies fell short on “racial reckoning” promises. Are abortion rights next?
22 min
1849
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
1850
What Next TBD: Can A.I. Know What You're Feeling?
A.I. that can read emotion is the next frontier in machine learning.
16 min