In 'Chicano Frankenstein,' the undead are the new underpaid labor force
Daniel Olivas's novel puts a new spin on the age-old Frankenstein story. In this retelling, 12 million "reanimated" people provide a cheap workforce for the United States...and face a very familiar ty...
8 Maj 202433min
Exclusion, resilience and the Chinese American experience on 'Mott Street'
This week on the podcast, we're revisiting a conversation we had with Ava Chin about her book, Mott Street. Through decades of painstaking research, the fifth-generation New Yorker discovered the stor...
1 Maj 202431min
How Jewish Communities Are Divided Over Support of Israel
In the wake of October 7, and the bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli government, many American Jews have found themselves questioning something that had long felt like a given: that if you were Jewish...
24 Apr 202441min
The Rise and Fall of the Panama Canal
The Panama Canal has been dubbed the greatest engineering feat in human history. It's also (perhaps less favorably) been called the greatest liberty mankind has ever taken with Mother Nature. But due ...
17 Apr 202432min
Reflecting on the legacy of O.J. Simpson
With the news of O.J. Simpson's death on Thursday, we're revisiting our reporting from 2016, where we took a look into how Simpson went from being "too famous to be Black," to becoming a stand-in for ...
12 Apr 202417min
How Frederick Douglass launched generations of Black and Irish solidarity
What's a portrait of Frederick Douglass doing hanging in an Irish-themed pub in Washington, D.C.? To get to the answer, Parker and Gene dive deep into the long history of solidarity and exchange betwe...
10 Apr 202431min
WTF does race have to do with taxes?
It's that time of year again: time to file your taxes. And this week on the pod, we're revisiting our conversation with Dorothy A. Brown, a tax expert and author of The Whiteness Of Wealth: How The Ta...
3 Apr 202430min
Who does language belong to? A fight over the Lakota Language
Many Lakota people agree: It's imperative to revitalize the Lakota language. But how exactly to do that is a matter of broader debate. Should Lakota be codified and standardized to make learning it ea...
27 Mars 202439min
