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Episode summary: Why do social movements organizing online that spawn huge protests so rarely create radical change like movements of the past? Gal Beckerman argues that it’s all about The Quiet Before, a sustained discourse where activists can organize and deliberate about how to enact the change t...
Episode summary: Powerful stories linked to this beautiful and stirring Ukrainian folk song which inspired Pink Floyd to reform so they could release their own version, ‘Hey Hey Rise Up’, alongside Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Boombox. Chervona Kalyna is a clarion call with roots stretching back to 17th cent...
Episode summary: Raynor Winn’s new memoir Landlines is a story that begins in fear but ends in hope. As the health of Moth, Raynor’s husband, declines, the couple set out to walk the gruelling, remote and stunningly beautiful terrain of Scotland’s Cape Wrath Trail, reflecting on community and the en...
Episode summary: How the Dormant Commerce Clause tries to stop states from passing laws that put an undue burden on interstate commerce. Plus, what’s going on with student debt relief: who filed a lawsuit against it and why.
Episode summary: One of our heroes Barbara Ehrenreich passed away earlier this year. She was one of America’s best undercover journalists. We once spoke with her about her book Bright Sided, her journey into the heart of American darkness: the positive thinking industry. Also we hear from an ex clan...
Episode summary: There is a subset of real life superheroes who are more focused on things like picking up trash and taking on civic issues than catching criminals in alleys
Episode summary: Liev Schreiber on BlueCheck and Aid to Ukraine
Episode summary: Simon Støvring returns to talk about how much automation has changed and what his favourite new features are.
Episode summary: On September 29, 1982, Adam Janus suddenly collapsed in his home outside of Chicago. He died within hours. Later that same day, in the same house, his brother also collapsed — then his sister-in-law. All three of them had been healthy. Nobody could figure out what was going on. Stac...