What Do We Really Know About the Maternal-Mortality Crisis?
From 1999 and 2019, researchers found that the maternal-mortality rate in the U.S. more than doubled. Over the years, these findings filtered their way through academic journals and the news media to ...
6 Elo 202439min
Why Is Texas Beating California on Wind and Solar?
If Democrats care more about climate change than Republicans, then why is Texas the nation’s leader in renewable energy? Host Jerusalem Demsas talks to Jesse Jenkins, an assistant professor at Prince...
30 Heinä 202452min
Can Religion Make You Happier?
America is in a “loneliness epidemic.” But is turning to religion the answer? Host Jerusalem Demsas talks to Arthur Brooks, a professor at the Harvard Business School who teaches classes on leadershi...
23 Heinä 202436min
A Remarkable School-Choice Experiment
School choice is usually about providing parents an option outside the traditional public school system. Between 2010 and 2021, public charter school enrollment in the U.S. more than doubled. But LAU...
16 Heinä 202444min
Are We Talking About Therapy Too Much?
Does everyone really need therapy? The destigmatization of mental health problems—and the normalization that many people do struggle with severe mental illnesses—has been one of the great cultural tra...
9 Heinä 202450min
The Coming Labor Shortage Is Not Good News
Does an aging workforce mean greater worker power? One of the takeaways from pro-worker advocates during the pandemic financial crisis was that employees saw fantastic gain. As demand for workers skyr...
2 Heinä 202442min
Are Young Men Becoming More Sexist?
Are young men becoming radicalized? Could they be further to the right than even their fathers and grandfathers? These are big questions that have yet to be answered definitively, but in some countrie...
25 Kesä 202450min
Who Really Protests, and Why?
In 2020, two major protest movements defined our political landscape: the racial justice protests after the murder of George Floyd and the anti-lockdown protests pushing against COVID-19 restrictions....
18 Kesä 202439min
