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A Word: Get Facts, Get Free: The Emancipator
American media has messed up race coverage for decades. Can The Emancipator change that?
24 min
2202
The Waves: “It Was and Is Horrible”
Christina Cauterucci, Marcia Chatelain, and Nicole Perkins reconvene to unpack the last two years.
47 min
2203
What Next: Best of 2021 | When Your Town Burns ...
Greenville, California was a microcosm of America: full of heart and bedeviled by bitter arguments over how to face the long-term threat of climate change.
27 min
2204
What Next: Best of 2021 | Will the NFL Finally ...
Standing behind Carl Nassib is going to take more than a tweet.
31 min
2205
What Next: Best of 2021 | How Should We Remembe...
Untangling the former general’s complicated legacy.
28 min
2206
What Next: Best of 2021 | God Doesn’t Want Me V...
Examining the religious claims of the COVID vaccine’s conscientious objectors.
25 min
2207
The Waves: A Very Waves Reunion
June Thomas, Noreen Malone, and Hanna Rosin are back!
47 min
2208
A Word: Black Christmas Movie Bonanza
Streaming services are bringing new audiences to Black holiday classics.
18 min
2209
What Next: Best of 2021 | When the Culture War ...
It started with a Facebook group and ended with violent threats.
29 min
2210
What Next: Best of 2021 | One Woman’s Year Prot...
Why activists held onto the block where George Floyd was murdered.
34 min
2211
What Next: Best of 2021 | The Plight of the Del...
New York City depends on food carriers. So why are they struggling to survive?
28 min
2212
What Next: Joe Biden's Putin Problem
The west still has a way to keep Russia from pushing further into Ukraine.
22 min
2213
A Word: Black and Missing: Finding Our Own
An HBO documentary highlights the racial disparities in how missing persons cases are handled, and how the Black and Missing Foundation is making a difference.
22 min
2214
The Waves: The Case Against Ghislaine Maxwell
Why Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime girlfriend probably won’t testify.
43 min
2215
What Next TBD: The Carbon Capture Fantasy
The IPCC says we may need to pull carbon out of the atmosphere to keep the planet from overheating. That won’t be easy.
23 min
2216
What Next: What Mark Meadows Knew
The former White House chief of staff is being held in contempt of Congress for the things he won’t say about January 6.
22 min
2217
What Next: Why Didn’t Maryland Democrats Go For...
All is fair in love and elections?
22 min
2218
What Next: Abrams vs. Kemp vs. Perdue
Georgia’s gubernatorial race is now a three-way showdown.
23 min
2219
What Next: When Your Book Gets Banned By the Sc...
How did Ashley Pérez’s novel Out of Darkness get blackballed from schools across the country?
27 min
2220
A Word: Abbott Elementary’s Top Teacher
Comedian Quinta Brunson gives lessons in laughs on ABC’s Abbott Elementary.
22 min
2221
The Waves: The Fight Over Abortion Is About to ...
This week on the Waves, the Nation’s abortion access correspondent weighs in on what’s happening outside of the Supreme Court.
39 min
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What Next TBD: Who Online Justice Leaves Behind
The courts’ arrival in the modern era came with some unexpected tradeoffs.
15 min
2223
What Next: The School Shooting Down the Street
Republicans have blocked nearly all consideration of gun laws in Michigan. After the latest tragedy, Democrats are trying to revive the debate
25 min
2224
What Next: What Peng Shuai Started
The tennis player unraveled China’s carefully-curated image.
24 min
2225
What Next: House Democrats’ Long-Shot Plan to D...
An interview with the guy in charge of making it happen.
22 min