Evicted During the Pandemic
For years there has been an evictions crisis in the United States. The pandemic has made it more acute.On today’s episode, our conversations with a single mother of two from Georgia over several month...
18 Dec 202031min
Should Facebook Be Broken Up?
This episode contains strong language.When the photo-sharing app Instagram started to grow in popularity in the 2010s, the chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, had two options: build somethin...
17 Dec 202027min
Hacked, Again
Undetected for months, sophisticated hackers working on behalf of a foreign government were able to breach computer networks across a number of U.S. government agencies. It’s believed to be the handiw...
16 Dec 202026min
America’s First Coronavirus Vaccinations
North Dakota and New Orleans have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus.On today’s episode, we speak to health care workers in both places as they become some of the first to receive and admin...
15 Dec 202026min
The U.S. Approves a Vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use on Friday, clearing the way for millions of highly vulnerable people to begin receiving the vaccine within days....
14 Dec 202031min
The Sunday Read: 'Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited'
Amid the death and desperation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, two inmates, David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer, found love.On today’s episode, the story of how they found each other — first within th...
13 Dec 202026min
A Guide to Georgia’s Senate Runoffs
In three weeks, an election will take place that could be as important as the presidential vote in determining the course of the next four years.The Jan. 5 runoff elections in Georgia will determine w...
11 Dec 202033min
Why Did the U.S. Turn Down Vaccine Doses?
From the start of the pandemic, the Trump administration said it was committed to ordering and stockpiling enough potential vaccine doses to end the outbreak in the United States as quickly as possibl...
10 Dec 202025min
