The End of the World as We Know It? Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Rates our Climate Future
The floods, the hurricanes, the wildfires…if you feel like you’re living through a climate apocalypse, you’re not wrong. But it’s not all hellfire, says marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson—th...
13 Okt 202238min
“You Can’t Win if You Don’t Start”: Rep. Cori Bush on Running for Office—and Making a Difference
Congresswoman Cori Bush doesn’t have the usual political resume: no Ivy League alma mater, no law degree, no generational wealth––but she’s an organizer, a mother, a pastor and a survivor, and she’s b...
6 Okt 202232min
Derecka Purnell On Living (and Loving) Outside the Police State
What do Stranger Things, social media and sexual violence all have in common? They all figure into Derecka Purnell’s brilliant world philosophy about abolition—the effort to move beyond police, and th...
29 Sep 202241min
The Queen Died. Now What? Three Brilliant Women on Colonialism and the Future
The funeral is over. The pomp has died down. But the conversations—not just around the monarchy, but around the legacy of imperialism—continue around the world. So host Brittany Packnett Cunningham si...
22 Sep 202251min
The Hidden Latinx Stories We Don’t Hear, with Julissa Natzely Arce Raya
It’s Hispanic Heritage Month! And Julissa Natzely Arce Raya has complicated feelings. The author of You Sound Like a White Girl sits down with host Brittany Packnett Cunningham to talk about why some ...
15 Sep 202244min
The Kids Are All Right. The Adults Are F***ing Up!
It’s all about the young folk this week: We’ve got Gen Z protestors disrupting anti-abortion galas…a student reporter holding colleges to task…and clever TikTokers lobbying for debt relief. And that’s...
1 Sep 202242min
Will We Be Smarter About the Next Epidemic? Two Experts Break it Down
COVID taught us a lot of lessons—or did it? With MPV (aka monkeypox) here in its wake, host Brittany Packnett Cunningham sits down with Dr. Monica Gandhi and Dr. David Johns to talk about what we’re g...
25 Aug 202245min
A Future Without Police? Andrea Ritchie on Crime and Abolition
The headlines say crime is up. And our politicians say more police are the answer. What’s the truth? And what happened to all those abolitionist promises made in the summer of 2020? Host Brittany Pack...
18 Aug 202244min
