Monkeypox! with Prof. Anne Rimoin
A global monkeypox outbreak has infected over a thousand people worldwide. Monkeypox is nowhere as transmissible as COVID, but the choices our public health system makes now could shape how many peopl...
14 Kesä 202244min
The mental health impact of anti-LGBT policies with Heather Zayde
It’s pride month – a moment when LGBTQ+ Americans ought to feel out and proud. And yet that is becoming harder to do in an America where politicians are attacking the community through discriminatory ...
7 Kesä 202234min
How many more kids have to die? with Dr. Joe Sakran
Not even two weeks since the white supremacist murder spree in Buffalo that took 10 lives at a grocery store, another gunman entered an elementary school and killed 19 kids and two teachers. It’s true...
31 Touko 202238min
The Generational Dread of the Climate Crisis with Varshini Prakash
Mental health among young people is worse than it’s ever been. Millennials and Generation Z are the first generation whose financial outlook looks worse than the generations before it. But that’s not ...
24 Touko 202236min
Abortion is Healthcare with Dr. Heather Irobunda
Anti-abortion activists always try to depersonalize abortion, as if its some abstract issue that doesn’t involve real people. With the impending fall of Roe v. Wade, Abdul re-personalizes it. He speak...
17 Touko 202237min
Throughline wants you to understand the “Everlasting Problem”
America’s healthcare system is broken — not because someone broke it, but because it was built haphazardly to begin with. But why was it built that way? A recent episode of NPR’s “Throughline” podcast...
10 Touko 202249min
Insulinated From the Price of It with T1International
Millions of people with diabetes simply can’t live without insulin. Discovered over a century ago, it’s patent was sold for $1. But today, pharmaceutical corporations have arbitrarily raised insulin p...
3 Touko 202248min
Ai-Jen Poo Needs us to Care about Carers
Millions of Americans work inside our homes–as carers and cleaners–taking care of the people and places we value most. Though they do the most important work in our lives, work that we would only entr...
26 Huhti 202248min
