Should Schools Ban Phones?
What happens when you take away a kid’s phone during school hours? In a word: drama. Some schools around the country are trying to completely remove smartphones from classrooms, requiring students to ...
23 Touko 202435min
Corruption or “Just Politics”: Sen Menendez on Trial
A mere 500 feet away from the site of People of New York v. Trump, another political legacy is on the line in a courtroom. Democrat Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, who sidestepped corruption charg...
20 Touko 202430min
How Social Media Amplified the Drake-Kendrick Rap Beef
What can we learn from the first great rap battle of the streaming age? Like the ones that came before, the recent rap beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake is defined by lyrical dexterity and sheer i...
16 Touko 202426min
How Kamala Harris is Finding Her Voice
Vice President Kamala Harris thinks about everything as a lawyer first. That's an observation CNN Senior Reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere has made after many interviews with the Veep. Audie talks with Dov...
13 Touko 202431min
The Power and Promise of Psychedelics in Therapy
Bad trips, anti-drug PSAs, and the crackdown under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 helped stigmatize psychedelics in the U.S. But now, there’s renewed clinical inquiry into whether these drugs c...
9 Touko 202438min
How Speaker Mike Johnson Has Survived So Far
When Mike Johnson worked with Democrats to pass Ukraine war funding, he knew it would enrage the extreme right-wing and threaten his speakership. So far, Johnson has survived the challenge to his job,...
6 Touko 202427min
How Do We Talk About Campus Protests?
Pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses have been met with suspensions, expulsions, and arrests. This week, Audie talks with two people in the middle of the story to understand how they view and ...
2 Touko 202444min
Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett of Pod Save America
Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett were speechwriters in the Obama White House who, along with Tommy Vietor, decided to venture into media with a podcast now called Pod Save America. The show became a hit, so...
29 Huhti 202430min
