We’re Taking Your Assignments: Drug Shortages and Ageism

We’re Taking Your Assignments: Drug Shortages and Ageism

How does ageism impact all of us? What is causing the chemotherapy drug shortage? These questions come from you, our listeners, who call in week after week with ideas for our next assignment. This week Audie speaks with CNN Health reporter Jacqueline Howard and Gerontologist Dr. Tracey Gendron about the future of ongoing pharmaceutical drug shortages and the impact ageism could have on the 2024 presidential election. If you have an assignment you’d like us to look into, leave us a voicemail at 202-854-8802 and you might just hear your voice on an upcoming episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Are College Athletes Cashing In and Killing the Game?

Are College Athletes Cashing In and Killing the Game?

For decades, college athletes made millions for everyone but themselves. Now, the NCAA’s Name, Image, and Likeness policy, NIL, has changed the game. Audie dives into the chaos of NIL with former All-...

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How DOGE Cuts May Affect Your Summer Vacation

How DOGE Cuts May Affect Your Summer Vacation

Sweeping cuts are throwing America’s national parks and forests into uncertainty. With fewer rangers, trail crews, and wildfire fighters, the effects could be immediate — closed campgrounds, neglected...

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Where Did #MeToo Go?

Where Did #MeToo Go?

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned from office in 2021 amid a sexual harassment scandal. Now, he’s back and running for mayor of New York City. And he’s not the only one, other so-called “...

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Why Elon Musk Wants You to Have More Kids

Why Elon Musk Wants You to Have More Kids

A growing number of tech leaders, conservatives, and social influencers believe falling birthrates pose an existential threat to civilization, and this “pro-natalist” movement wants Americans to start...

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And the Oscar Goes to… the Best Campaign?

And the Oscar Goes to… the Best Campaign?

The Oscars aren’t just about the movies—they’re about politics, too. Audie talks with New Yorker staff writer Michael Schulman, author of Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears. ...

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Why Crunchy Conservatives Love RFK Jr.

Why Crunchy Conservatives Love RFK Jr.

Raw milk, seed oil skepticism, and...coffee enemas? The rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the conservative “Make America Healthy Again” movement is reclaiming what it means to be ‘crunchy’ -- a term p...

13 Feb 202532min

The United States of Elon

The United States of Elon

President Trump put Elon Musk in charge of government efficiency and the result has been nonstop chaos and trauma for civil servants. Audie talks with WIRED reporter Vittoria Elliot about how he is do...

6 Feb 202542min

A Pastor's Stand on Trump's ICE Raids

A Pastor's Stand on Trump's ICE Raids

In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration, Audie talks with Rev. Gabriel Salguero about how faith leaders are navigating the call to provide support and guidance to undocumented im...

30 Jan 202530min

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