What Next - Why College Professors Have Had It
As the fall semester begins at U.S. universities, faculty and staff and institutions of higher education are at a breaking point. Widespread feelings of burnout were laid bare by the coronavirus pande...
14 Sep 202118min
What Next - Empty Shelves Everywhere
The coronavirus pandemic has left no part of the world untouched, including global manufacturing supply chains. The complex system that keeps goods moving throughout the world has struggled to catch u...
13 Sep 202121min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Legal Repercussions of the War on Terror
This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11, and as the withdrawal from Afghanistan dominates the headlines, so does the conversation about the forever war and its implications. Dahlia Lithwick is...
11 Sep 202152min
Slate Money - Shutdown
Historian and author Adam Tooze joins Felix Salmon and Emily Peck to talk about his new book Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy and his Substack piece on the sanctions on Afghanistan. In th...
11 Sep 202146min
What Next - TBD | Can This River Be Saved?
The Colorado River Basin is experiencing its 22nd year of drought. Its reservoirs are at their lowest-ever levels. The water stored in the system is at just 40 percent of its capacity. How did the sit...
10 Sep 202117min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Can This River Be Saved?
The Colorado River Basin is experiencing its 22nd year of drought. Its reservoirs are at their lowest-ever levels. The water stored in the system is at just 40 percent of its capacity. How did the sit...
10 Sep 202117min
Political Gabfest - 20 Years Since 9/11
Emily, John and David reflect on 9/11; the fight for the infrastructure agenda, and declining college enrollment among men.Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Garrett M. Graff for...
9 Sep 20211h 4min
What Next - What 9/11 Did to My Life
For Muslim Americans, the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks marks a full generation of routine Islamophobia. In the years that followed, the war on terror wounded the nation’s M...
9 Sep 202134min
