Native American History with Philip Deloria

Ep 523 | Original Air Date July 1, 2019 The British colonies in the New World, and later the United States, were built on land taken from native populations. Philip Deloria explores the interplay of Native Americans and the development of America’s national identity. Deloria is the first tenured …

Technology and Relationships with Helen Schulman

Ep 522 | Original Air Date June 24, 2019 It is almost taken for granted that technology is changing America.  Whether we’re talking about job losses, election meddling, or the role of big-data in healthcare, technology is everywhere.  Helen Schulman, through her remarkable fiction, warns that tech…

Ep 521 | Original Air Date June 17, 2019

Mikhail Gorbachev is one of the most important figures of the 20th century.  A child of the Soviet Union, and a fast rising star in the Communist Party, Gorbachev was also a democratizer whose reforms led to the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.  William Taubman has authored…

Immigration and America's Dairy Farms with Julie Keller

Ep 520 | Original Air Date June 10, 2019 The super-heated rhetoric over immigration and border security in the United States today is part of a long tradition of anti-immigration hysteria.  Julie Keller puts our recent panic in a sociological context—exploring changes in who works on American dair…

Local Journalism with Alexandra Watts

Ep 519 | Original Air Date June 3, 2019 Local journalism is one of the key-stones of American democracy. There’s no substitute for an experienced, local reporter—not just to get a story, but to share it with the insight and perspective that only comes from living in the community in which they rep…

Environmental Justice with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha

Ep 518 | Original Air Date May 27, 2019 In April 2014, officials in Flint, Michigan, switched the source of the city’s water from the Detroit water supply to the Flint, River.  It was a cost-saving move, but it touched the lives of citizens across that city.  Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha helped blow the…

The American Press and the War in Afghanistan with Katherine Brown

Ep 517 | Original Air Date May 20, 2019 America’s war in Afghanistan is the longest war in the history of the United States.  Katherine A. Brown served on the staff of the U.S. ambassador there in the years after 9/11 and she argues now that the role of the American press in Afghanistan is essenti…

Decision Making in the Run-up to the Iraq War with Michael Mazarr

Ep 516 | Original Air Date May 13, 2019 In 2003, the United States military unleashed a campaign the press had pre-christened “Shock and Awe,” the dominant and overwhelming application of American military power against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and its military.  Within weeks, U.S. forces controlled …

Disability Rights with Peter Blanck

Ep 515 | Original Air Date May 6, 2019 Sixty-one million Americans—that’s 26% of the population—live with some kind of disability. These are our neighbors, our friends, our co-workers, and our family members. While the Americans with Disabilities Act has improved the lives of many since it became …

The World is not Falling Apart with Michael Cohen and Micah Zenko

Ep 514 | Original Air Date April 29, 2019 It’s easy to be convinced by talk show hosts, editorial writers, and politicians that American security hangs on the razor’s edge and that the world is more dangerous, now, than it has ever been. Michael Cohen and Micah Zenko remind us that the facts simpl…