Karen Frillmann

The fear of mass displacement isn’t paranoia for black people in Liberty City. It’s family history.

The sea level is rising -- and so is the rent. It’s the first episode in our three part series on “climate gentrification.”

The sea level is rising -- and so is the rent. It’s the first episode in our three part series on “climate gentrification.”

An ambitious young immigrant is scammed into a buying a used car he can’t afford. But selling people unaffordable loans is big business and more consumers than ever can’t pay them back.

Climate change skeptics are finding it harder to deny the Earth is warming. So what's their plan now?

One family’s generational journey into whiteness, and the shifting roles white identity politics have played in American elections.

Silicon Valley’s “millionaire maker” is a behavioral scientist who harnessed the power of persuasion in a booming tech industry. But it might not be too big to rein in.

Ted Kaczynski had been a boy genius. James McConnell’s ideas about psychology sparked almost as much anxiety as Facebook does today. Here’s how their paths crossed.

A once-famous psychologist... and how the Unabomber tried to kill him. It's the first episode in our three-part series examining the science of persuasion, technology, and its backlash.

A group of women in upstate New York forced a new idea into the mainstream at the end of the 1970s. Their story offers a playbook for social change--and its limitations.

The nation's founders didn't want to deal with American society's fundamental contradictions. So they just wrote around it.

A broken democracy. A Supreme Court showdown. And a group of Alabama women who continue to provide care despite it all.

For Stonewall’s 50th anniversary, an intergenerational queer conversation with a gender fluid, pansexual 21-year-old who takes us through her online and IRL world.

Hip hop schooled a generation to be unapologetically black and proud, until commercialism changed the rap game.

Over on the new WNYC podcast The Stakes, Christopher M. Johnson joins host Kai Wright to investigate the origins of conscious rap... and who killed it.

Black women and their babies are dying at shockingly high rates during and after child birth. One big reason is the implicit bias of doctors. So what do we do about it?

Former Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. told us that Dr. King’s long arc of the moral universe only bends towards justice when people put their hands on it and pull it.

What do a handful of baby teeth, a creepy cartoon character and The Young Lords have in common? This is the story of one of our worst public health epidemics.

Coming up on The Stakes podcast, host Kai Wright and team identify what's not working about our society and imagine ways to do it better. 

As we head towards 2020, what can Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's rise within the Democratic Party tell us about the relationship between gender and power in American politics?