The American Presidency, Redefined
Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Jon Meacham talks with Dave Davies about Trump's impact on democracy. Meacham's latest book, ‘American Struggle,’ is a collection of speeches, letters and...
16 Feb 44min
Best Of: Mixed Marriage Project / How Racism Costs Everyone
Dorothy Roberts’ father was a white anthropologist who studied interracial marriages and her mother was a Black woman from Jamaica. She always assumed her parents' relationship inspired her father’s s...
14 Feb 48min
‘Sinners’ Songwriter Raphael Saadiq
Singer, songwriter, and producer Raphael Saadiq is known for his work as a member of Tony! Toni! Toné!, as a solo artist, and for his work producing and writing for artists like Solange, D’Angelo, Bey...
13 Feb 46min
Fela Kuti and the music of political resistance
Considered the father of Afrobeat, Nigerian musician Fela Kuti used his music in the 1970s to combat colonial values and brutal dictatorship. Former Radiolab host Jad Abumrad tells his story in the po...
12 Feb 44min
Excavating the Epstein files
British journalist Vicky Ward first profiled sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 for Vanity Fair. The experience was so alarming and stressful that she went into labor with her twins at 30 weeks, two...
11 Feb 45min
Love, Race & the ‘Mixed Marriage Project’
Almost a decade after her father's death, legal scholar Dorothy Roberts had to confront the 25 boxes of his research collecting dust in her office. Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black...
10 Feb 43min
The Ruby Ridge siege & conspiracy-laced politics in America
We look back at the 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge in Idaho, where gunfire left two civilians and a deputy U.S. Marshal dead. Chris Jennings’ new book explores the apocalyptic religious beliefs that led Ran...
9 Feb 45min
Best Of: Fighting for free press in Russia / ‘Fear and Fury’
Julia Loktev’s latest documentary, ‘My Undesirable Friends - Part 1: Last Air in Moscow,’ follows independent Russian journalists in the months leading up to, and just after, Russia’s full-scale invas...
7 Feb 47min
