Who Watches the Weight Watchers?
CW: Eating disorders, dieting. Aubrey Gordon, of Maintenance Phase and “Your Fat Friend,” joins to take us through the twisty history of Weight Watchers and its founder, Jean Nidtech. Stops on the tou...
19 Feb 202159min
The Sheraton Experiment
After the National Guard descended on Minneapolis to enforce an 8PM curfew on the streets, advocates for those living on the streets bought a block of rooms at a shuttered Sheraton to house them. The ...
12 Feb 202131min
The Berkeley Socialist Behind Mass Incarceration (with Heather Ann Thompson)
Robert Martinson was a radical anti-racist activist in the 1960s: He ran for mayor in Berkeley as a socialist. He was arrested in Mississippi for participating in Freedom Summer. And then he authored ...
5 Feb 202134min
“Hope Is a Strategy"
New York Magazine senior writer and Friend of the Pod Rebecca Traister joins to talk us through how Biden’s missteps around issues of gender and race made him the white guy who could win in 2020. L...
29 Jan 202140min
The Future Reminds You of Your Responsibility
The Atlantic's Adam Serwer comes on to talk about the inauguration and the future of this fragile democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
22 Jan 202141min
Mothers of Invention
We love to love mothers, except when we don’t — like when they’re Black, or queer, or too thin, or too fat, or want to end their pregnancy, or do it alone, or have a glass of wine. Friend of the pod L...
15 Jan 202151min
You Can’t Change the World If You Hate Yourself
“The only sustainable foundation for a changed world is internal transformation” — that’s the message of Sonya Renee Taylor, author of “The Body Is Not an Apology.” Her mission is to take us out of th...
8 Jan 202152min
When Denouncing White Nationalism Isn’t Enough (Encore)
Derek Black thought he was done with the white nationalist movement when he wrote a public letter renouncing the ideology he grew up in. Then he realized that white nationalism wasn’t just the racists...
1 Jan 202150min
