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How Gun Violence Affects American Children (Rebroadcast)

Sunday, May 29, 2022

Millions of kids are impacted by gun violence every year. But their voices are hardly ever heard.

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Water In The Colorado River Is Disappearing. Here’s How The Government Is Trying To Divide Up

Monday, September 20, 2021

Last month the government officially declared a shortage on the Colorado River, which will force states to cut their water use.

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How Singer-Songwriter Joy Oladokun Is Defending Her Own Happiness

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Her soulful, honest lyrics are finding their way into popular TV shows like "Grey’s Anatomy" and "This Is Us."

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A Novel Anniversary: 20 Years Of 9/11 Fiction

Wednesday, September 08, 2021

We speak with three authors to reflect on their works of 9/11 fiction and the last 20 years of reality.

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Back To School: Getting The Okay For K-12 Students

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

How should we be thinking about where our students are? How do we know where they should be anyway?

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Kids And Covid: Your Questions Answered

Monday, August 09, 2021

Teens older than 12 are eligible for a vaccine, mask mandates are all over the place, and students are looking forward to a return to the classroom.

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What It Really Means For Companies To Be Carbon Neutral

Tuesday, August 03, 2021

How can we be sure a company really is doing right by the environment?

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Vaccination Nation: Stopping The Global Spread Of Delta

Thursday, July 29, 2021

More people around the world died of Covid-19 in the first six months of this year than in all of 2020.

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Baby Bust: Explaining The Declining U.S. Birth Rate

Monday, July 26, 2021

Researchers are still trying to figure out exactly why people want fewer children. Others are finding that even if they wanted more children, a rise in infertility might make making them a lot harder.

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How Taxes Keep American Wealth White (Rebroadcast)

Friday, July 02, 2021

As recently as 2016, the median wealth of a white household was $171,000 dollars. For Black households? Just $17,000.

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Uncovering The ‘Unspoken Traumas’ Of Native American Boarding Schools

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Last week, the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school, just one month after more than 200 unmarked graves were found at another school in British Columbia.  

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How One Reporter Wants To Change The Way We Pay For Health Care

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Last year, Credit Karma found that nearly 20 million of its members in the U.S. have $45 million in medical debt collections.

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Fall Of The Wild: Zoos, Conservation, And The Moral Cost Of Captivity

Thursday, June 17, 2021

Emma Marris, the author of the new book "Wild Souls,"  wants people to rethink the moral costs of captivity.

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‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ Comes Back For Another Round

Tuesday, June 08, 2021

The show just finished its second season and HBO announced late last month it would be coming back for more.

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Paula Stone Williams On ‘Power, Sex, And The Patriarchy’

Wednesday, June 02, 2021

In 2013, she came out as a transgender woman. Now she fights for gender equity and LGBTQ rights.

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Behind The Scenes: U.S. Diplomacy In The Middle East

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

"Sometimes diplomacy needs to happen behind the scenes, it needs to be quiet.”

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Why Is Everyone Talking About Newsletters?

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Newsletter platforms' direct-to-consumer model is luring high-profile personalities away from traditional media organizations.

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Why The U.S. Housing Market Is Booming

Monday, May 10, 2021

What’s behind this historically weird housing market?

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Fat Acceptance

Monday, May 03, 2021

America's average weight is going up. And so too is the frequency of anti-fat bias.

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Pest Control: Mutant Mosquitoes Come To Florida

Monday, April 26, 2021

Sometimes to get rid of mosquitos, you have to bring in... more mosquitoes?

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