What Could Go Wrong? Everything (And It’s Ok)

What Could Go Wrong? Everything (And It’s Ok)

What zombie movies can teach us about our era of perpetual crisis, and other lessons from a disaster management specialist.

Former Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security under President Obama, and current professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Juliette Kayyem joins host Kai Wright to help us make sense of our current age of constant disasters. Learn what tools we have at our disposal based on her new book, The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters.

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The Wolf Pack of White Nationalism (5/23/2022)There are no “lone wolves” in the terrorist violence of white identity politics. So what’s that mean for white people who want to confront it?

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