1500 Stories

1500 Stories take a break from the gloom and doom of class and economic inequality in the U.S. to share the stories of people who are twins, in this sweet and entertaining bonus episode written and ed...

22 Heinä 202134min

This episode is the second of a two-parter about the housing crisis in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area.  It focuses on stories at both end of the housing crisis--home owners and the unho...

10 Kesä 202148min

This episode is the first of a two-parter about the housing crisis in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area.  It explores stories of how expensive it is to live here, how overcrowded housing g...

27 Touko 202136min

Agrarian realities today look a lot more like industrial realities, thanks to the rise and dominance of commercial agriculture. And like all industrial realities, farmwork is shaped by the indignities...

13 Touko 202128min

Those first two episodes in this mini-series about farm work and the agrarian myth asked us to move beyond our images of red barns and silos to understand with more nuance the challenging realities of...

22 Huhti 202131min

This episode looks behind Americans imaginings and stereotypes about rural life--what scholars call the agrarian myth--to see the realities underneath.  The realities of rural life turn out to be a lo...

8 Huhti 202143min

In the first of a four episode mini-series exploring the myths and realities of farm work in the U.S., we go beneath the surface of what social scientists refer to as the agrarian myth to share the mo...

25 Maalis 202122min

In this third and final episode of a mini-series about middle-classness in the U.S., we explore the curious contradiction that while many Americans prefer to identify as middle class, many also questi...

11 Maalis 202133min