All Episodes

The Voting Hour

Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

Robert Reich on Democacry in America

Belief in Conspiracies: The Effect on Democracy

Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump – by Dan Partland

Susan Fowler – Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber

Conor Dougherty – Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America

Diane Ravitch: Slaying Goliath - The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools

Kelly MacGonigal: The Joy of Movement

David Talbot: Between Heaven and Hell, the Story of my Stroke

Steve Inskeep: Imperfect Union, Jesse and John Fremont

Tamim Ansary: The Invention of History

Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein: College Behind Bars

Charles Postel: Inequality, An American Dilemma

Cyrus Grace Dunham: A Year Without A Name

Lawrence Lanahan: The Quest To Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide

Richard Conn: How (and Why) to Raise Your Little Angels Without Religion

Mental Health Author Kelechi Ubozoh's New Book: We've Been Too Patient

Riane Eisler: Nurturing Our Humanity

Haben Girma: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard

Mark Schapiro: Seeds of Resistance; the fight to save our food supply

Richard A. Clarke – The Fifth Domain: Defending US Cyberspace

Ron Purser: McMindfulness

Dr. Louise Aronson on Elderhood

Shannon Watts: Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense In America

The War For Kindness: Building Empathy In A Fractured World

Wildlife in the City and Suburbs

Jenny Odell - How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Tony Horwitz on Frederick Law Olmsted: Spying on the South, An Odyssey Across the American Divide

The Future of Masculinity

Harriet Tubman: The Tubman Command, from writer Elizabeth Cobbs

Roz Chast and Patricia Marx

All About Cannabis, with David Downs and Danielle Ramo

Abortion Matters; the road ahead: with guests Monica McLemore and Amy Everett

Eddie Muller: The Czar of Noir

Makana: Guitarist-Activist on the Arms Race

Joel R. Paul and Hadar Aviram: Investigating The President

Jill Abramson: Merchants of Truth - News and Information in the Digital Age

H. Bruce Franklin: Good War to Forever War

Venture Capitalist Roger McNamee on Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

Don Reed: Stage, Screen and Beyond Stand-up

Joel Simon – The Committee To Protect Journalists

Wesley Yang – The Souls of Yellow Folk

John B. Judis on The Nationalist Revival

Congresswoman Jackie Speier: Undaunted

Lara Bazelon - Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice after Wrongful Conviction

Adam Hochschild: Lessons From A Dark Time

Randy Shaw - Generation Priced Out

Chris Taich and Dr. Ruchika Mishra: What Does A Good Death Look Like?

D.D. Guttenplan – The Next Republic: The Rise of the New Radical Majority

Eliza Griswold - Amity and Prosperity: Fracking Comes To Town

Soraya Chemaly – Rage Becomes Her: Transformative Anger

Francis Fukuyama – Identity and Democracy: the Pitfalls, the Solutions

Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland: Toward A Sustainable Planet

Joe Flower: The Future of Healthcare

Chris Hedges: America, The Farewell Tour

The Future of Meat in America

Edith Sheffer - Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

Steve Almond: Bad Stories

STAYIN’ ALIVE: Keeping the Arts Vibrant in a Digital and Divisive Age

Ken Jennings - Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture

James Hatch: Touching The Dragon

Ken Auletta - Frenemies: The Epic Destruction of the Advertising Industry (And Why This Matters)

John Carreyou: Bad Blood at Theranos

Jeff Chang: We Gon’ Be Alright

Cleve Jones: When We Rise

Jewelle Gomez: The Gilda Stories

Robert Sapolsky - Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Worst and Best

Brian Dear: Friendly Orange Glow

Sally Kohn: The Opposite of Hate

Megan Devine: It’s Ok That You’re Not OK

Morgan Jerkins: This Will Be My Undoing

Does Honesty Still Matter?

Clayton Nall – The Road to Inequality

Jennifer Berger, Executive Director, About Face

Jane Mayer, Dark Money

Dawn Mikkelson, Risking Light

Julie Lythcott-Haims, Real American

Dave Neiwert – Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump

Dan Knapp, Co-Founder of Urban Ore

Michael Shermer - Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia

Gary Ferguson, Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West

Justin Dillon: Made in a Free World

Al Gore: An Inconvenient Sequel

Mary Otto: Teeth, the Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America

George Lakey: Viking Economics

Jesse Eisinger – The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

Victoria Sweet – Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing

Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Cara Jones: Second Coming – My Departure from the Moonies

Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

Free Speech Rights: Classroom, Courtroom, Office, Public Square

Chike Nwhoffiah, Silicon Valley African Film Festival

John Nichols, Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America

Stephen Hinshaw, Another Kind of Madness

James Forman, Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Filmmaker Mark Decena: Not Without Us

Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age

Dave Callahan: The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age

Tabitha Soren, Photographer