The United States' Pre-Existing Conditions
How was the the richest and most powerful country in the world laid low by a virus only nanometers in size? Ed Yong, a science reporter for The Atlantic, says it's the inequities that have been with u...
26 Aug 202023min
Keep Your Friends Closer
As part of our Ask Code Switch series, we're tackling your toughest questions about race and friendship. We help our listeners understand how race and and its evil play cousin, racism, affect how we m...
19 Aug 202049min
Kamala, Joe, And The Fissures In The Base
Black voters are the Democrats' most reliable and influential voting bloc. But this election has underscored the tensions between those Black voters, along generational and ideological lines — which c...
12 Aug 202043min
Bonus Episode: Katrina, 15 Years Later
It's hurricane season, so this week, we're bringing you a bonus episode, from the Atlantic's Floodlines podcast. On this episode, "Through the Looking Glass," host Vann R. Newkirk II looks at the way ...
8 Aug 202029min
The Long, Bloody Strike For Ethnic Studies
The largest public university system in the country, the Cal State system, just announced a new graduation requirement: students must take an ethnic studies or social justice course. But ethnic studie...
5 Aug 202037min
One Korean American's Reckoning
At a Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles, a young Korean American man named Edmond Hong decided to grab a megaphone. Addressing other Asian Americans in the crowd, he described the need to stop ...
29 Jul 202025min
Un-HolyLand? An Arab Muslim Reckoning With Racism
After his daughter's racist and anti-LGBTQ social media posts became public, an Arab-Muslim entrepreneur is fighting to keep his once-burgeoning business alive in the middle of a national — and person...
22 Jul 202041min
Remembering The 'Divine Diahann Carroll'
On what would have been Diahann Carroll's 85th birthday, we're celebrating the legacy of the actress, model and singer. Reporter Sonari Glinton went to her estate sale and took a tour of some of the o...
17 Jul 202017min
