Holiday Best: McKay Coppins; Sandro Galea; Anne Helen Petersen; 'Great Resignation' Calls

Enjoy catching up with these recent conversations:

• McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House (Little Brown, 2015), discusses the venture capital fund that's buying up local newspapers and driving them into bankruptcy and how the loss of local media is contributing to the polarizing political climate.
• Sandro Galea, physician and epidemiologist, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, and the author of The Contagion Next Time (Oxford University Press, 2021), argues that the problems in U.S. public health systems, including racial disparities, predated the pandemic and need to be repaired before the next crisis.
• Anne Helen Petersen, culture writer and the co-author with Charlie Warzel of Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home (Knopf, 2021), talks about what starting a career during the pandemic has been like for remote workers.
• Listeners who have taken part in the 'great resignation' talk about their decision to quit and what life has been like since.

These interviews were lightly edited to fit the format; the original web versions are available here:

Who Is Really Behind the Decline of Local News? (Nov. 23, 2021)

Fixing Public Health Inequities...Before Next Time (Nov. 1, 2021)

The Challenges of Starting a (Remote) Career (Nov. 29, 2021)

You Quit. Now What? (Nov. 16, 2021)