Stigmatizing Obesity, The Pipe Dream of Free College Tuition

Senior enterprise reporter and co-host of the podcast You're Wrong About..., Michael Hobbes, joins us to talk about his recent story in Huffpost Highline, “Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong,” which looks at how the medical community has ignored evidence on obesity and has worked to stigmatize it. The article also details how some of the worst health effects obese people face come from stigma. Corissa Enneking, featured in the story and owner of the business Fat Girl Flow, will also join us.

New York Public Radio’s director of archives, Andy Lanset, joins us for this week’s “Andy in the Archives.”

Adam Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic covering education, joins us to discuss his article, “America Wakes Up From Its Dream of Free College.” He looks at the many state and local programs that were created to cover college tuition and why the prospect of making college affordable seemed to evaporate after President Trump’s election.