Best of 2021: Are We Getting COVID Testing All Wrong?
This episode originally aired in September.In the U.S., the PCR test is the gold standard for COVID testing. Common knowledge would have it that the test is more accurate—and therefore more effective ...
24 Des 202126min
Best of 2021 | When the Culture War Comes For Your Job
We’re re-running some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode originally aired in July 2021.Brittany Hogan worked in diversity and inclusion for the Rockwood School District for eigh...
23 Des 202129min
Best of 2021 | One Woman’s Year Protecting George Floyd Square
We’re re-running some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode originally aired in May 2021.A year after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, residents near the intersection of ...
22 Des 202134min
Best of 2021 | The Plight of the Delivery Worker
In the last few years, New York City’s delivery workers have become a key part of the food industry’s infrastructure, allowing restaurants to do business with customers who are too stressed to leave t...
21 Des 202128min
Joe Biden's Putin Problem
What does a massing of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border mean? And could this conflict be defused yet by diplomacy?Guest: Slate’s Fred Kaplan, author of The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Se...
20 Des 202122min
The Carbon Capture Fantasy
Using experimental technology to pull gigatons of carbon out of the air and bury it deep beneath the Earth sounds like a bad sci-fi plot point. If things don’t change soon, it also might be one of our...
17 Des 202123min
What Mark Meadows Knew
After initially cooperating with the select committee investigating the events of January 6, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows reversed course, deciding instead to assert executive privil...
16 Des 202122min
Why Didn’t Maryland Democrats Go For the Jugular?
Maryland Democrats had a shot at an 8-0 gerrymander this redistricting cycle. To the frustration of the national Democratic party, they stopped just shy of that number. Should Maryland Democrats have ...
15 Des 202122min
