We’re Taking Your Assignments: Drug Shortages and Ageism

We’re Taking Your Assignments: Drug Shortages and Ageism

How does ageism impact all of us? What is causing the chemotherapy drug shortage? These questions come from you, our listeners, who call in week after week with ideas for our next assignment. This week Audie speaks with CNN Health reporter Jacqueline Howard and Gerontologist Dr. Tracey Gendron about the future of ongoing pharmaceutical drug shortages and the impact ageism could have on the 2024 presidential election. If you have an assignment you’d like us to look into, leave us a voicemail at 202-854-8802 and you might just hear your voice on an upcoming episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Why We Believe Crazy S**t —And What We Can Do About It

Why We Believe Crazy S**t —And What We Can Do About It

Conspiracy theories are not new. They’re as old as time itself. But if you feel like they’re everywhere right now, you’re not alone. So, what do you do when somebody you love has fallen down a rabbit ...

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Catholicism Is So Hot Right Now. Why?

Catholicism Is So Hot Right Now. Why?

Catholicism is having a moment. The election of a new pope set social media buzzing with silly songs and comedy sketches, fantasy pope drafts and power rankings, and last year’s Oscar-winner ‘Conclave...

8 Mai 202534min

Why Does Dating Feel So Hard Right Now?

Why Does Dating Feel So Hard Right Now?

It’s been called a ‘romantic recession.’ Has love and dating always been this hard? Orna Guralnik, a psychoanalyst and star of Showtime’s Couples Therapy, says she’s seeing political polarization take...

1 Mai 202530min

Who’s Laughing in Trump’s Second Term?

Who’s Laughing in Trump’s Second Term?

The White House Correspondents Dinner takes place this weekend with at least one notable absence: comedy. Standup comic W. Kamau Bell visits Audie to talk about the tough decisions facing artists in t...

24 Apr 202533min

A Wonk-Free Conversation About Tariffs

A Wonk-Free Conversation About Tariffs

The fallout continues from the president’s so-called “Liberation Day,” with the on-again off-again global tariffs and the rising tensions with China. This all has the financial markets bouncing like a...

17 Apr 202528min

Can We Trust AI, or the People Building It?

Can We Trust AI, or the People Building It?

Artificial Intelligence can be difficult to understand, but a few things are certain: it's here, it's reshaping entire industries, and it's making a lot of people nervous. Audie sits down with Mustafa...

10 Apr 202538min

College Arrests: “A Kind of Policy That Ends Democracies”

College Arrests: “A Kind of Policy That Ends Democracies”

Detaining foreign students over their activism is the “kind of policy that ends democracies.” That’s what Jameel Jaffer tells Audie this week. He’s a law professor and Executive Director of the Knight...

3 Apr 202539min

 Is the Windy City Charting a Course for the Left?

Is the Windy City Charting a Course for the Left?

What’s the way out of the political wilderness for Democrats? The mayor of Chicago says look to his city “leading the way in this moment around the value system that the people of America want to see ...

27 Mar 202530min

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