Ep. 10 - Bringing a New Life Into a Strange New World (Season 1)
For most parents, giving birth is a stressful and anxiety-inducing undertaking. Navigating a complicated health care system and the unrealistic expectations of friends and relatives can be challenging...
30 Kesä 202027min
Ep. 9 - What We Lose When Small Businesses Close (Season 1)
Running a small businesses is already rife with difficulties. But since the coronavirus pandemic arrived and governments placed restrictions on gatherings and commerce to help stave off an influx of i...
23 Kesä 202024min
Ep 8 - Caring for the Dead in a Pandemic (Season 1)
Over the last three months, Americans have made drastic changes to almost every aspect of their lives to limit the spread of the coronavirus. They have transformed the way they work, the way they rela...
10 Kesä 202026min
Ep. 7 - Vote-by-Mail Is the Future — and It’s Already Here (Season 1)
When President Donald Trump focused his ire on mail-in ballots late last month, Twitter did something unusual. It fact-checked him. His claims that moving away from in-person voting during the pandemi...
3 Kesä 202027min
Ep. 6 - How Much Need Can Our Safety Net Hold? (Season 1)
The novel coronavirus pandemic has brought with it a host of new problems, but it has also taken some longstanding problems and made them considerably worse. Homelessness was already considered an eme...
26 Touko 202027min
Ep 5 - How Coronavirus Is Upending the Arts and Inspiring New Work (Season 1)
When the coronavirus came to Washington, almost every working artist saw their plans evaporate. Theater, dance and musical performances were canceled, while galleries and bookshops were temporarily sh...
6 Touko 202028min
Ep. 4 - Keeping Faith While Keeping a Safe Distance (Season 1)
Community is at the core of almost every organized religion the world over. So what happens to the faithful and their leaders when gathering is potentially deadly and forbidden by government? As all t...
29 Huhti 202029min
Ep. 3 - What the 1918 Flu Can Tell Us About Life After COVID-19 (Season 1)
As the world grapples with the spread of the novel coronavirus, another event from history has been invoked again and again: the so-called Spanish flu of 1918-19. While that pandemic, which killed an ...
22 Huhti 202027min
