Is California Jump-Starting the Electric Vehicle Revolution?
As California watches the impact of rising temperatures devastate its environment with brutal heat waves and raging fires, the state is taking increasingly far-reaching steps to combat climate change....
8 Sep 202233min
A Nuclear Power Plant on Ukraine’s Front Lines
A counteroffensive by Ukrainian forces to try to drive Russian troops out of southern Ukraine has placed the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, directly in the path of the fighti...
7 Sep 202223min
Introducing: 'The Run-Up'
In November, Americans will head to the polls for the first nationwide election since the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. But what happens this fall won’t just be about who wins and who loses. On the fi...
6 Sep 202214min
A User's Guide to the Midterm Elections
Today marks the unofficial start of the campaign for the midterm elections. This year’s midterms will be the first major referendum on the Biden era of government — and a test of how much voters want ...
6 Sep 202242min
Vancouver’s Unconventional Approach to Its Fentanyl Crisis
An influx of Fentanyl, a highly lethal synthetic narcotic, has aggravated the opioid crisis in the United States and prompted communities to scramble for ways to lower the skyrocketing rates of overdo...
2 Sep 202233min
How Gorbachev Changed the World
Few leaders have had as profound an effect on their time as Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, who died this week at 91.It was not Mr. Gorbachev’s intention to liquidate the So...
1 Sep 202241min
The Parkland Students, Four Years Later
This episode contains detailed descriptions of a mass shooting that some listeners may find disturbing.A trial is underway in Parkland, Fla., to determine the fate of the gunman who killed 17 people a...
31 Aug 202227min
Inside the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis
This episode contains discussions about suicide, self-harm and mental health issues.In decades past, the public health risks teenagers in the United States faced were different. They were externalized...
30 Aug 202229min
