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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 171 days 16 hours 49 minutes
Pooping Unicorns, Pimple Poppers and Brain Goo
Elizabeth Sweet, assistant professor in the department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at San Jose State University, and Jackie Breyer, editorial director of The Toy Insider, talk about the latest toy trends and how they play into the
Trump Entertains More Civil Rights Policy Rollbacks
Andre Perry, columnist for the Hechinger Report and Brookings Institute fellow, and Eve Hill, deputy assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, and partner at Brown Goldstein Levy, talk about the change of direct
Chain Stores Are in Decline, Time to #ShopListener
Jonathan Bowles, executive director of the Center for an Urban Future, discusses the latest annual CUF report on chain stores in NYC which found their numbers have declined for the first time, we'll hear from mom-and-pop retailers on their businesses who
The Latest on Syria and Yemen
President Trump has said the war against ISIS is over, and all U.S. troops will leave Syria within a month. Nader Hashemi, director of the Center for Middle East Studies and an associate professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the University of
Community Development And A New President At Pratt
As incoming president Frances Bronet finishes her first year as president of Brooklyn's Pratt Institute, she and Adam Friedman, director of the Pratt Center for Community Development, talk about the work of the art and design school with a focus on socia
A Year in Emergency Room Bills
From cities to remote country towns, emergency medical bills usually come as a big surprise for patients. Sarah Kliff, Vox senior policy correspondent covering healthcare and host of The Impact podcast, talks about what she found during a year-long inves
Who Will Amazon Hire?
Arva Rice, president and CEO of the New York Urban League, discusses concerns among civil rights leaders over hiring practices at Amazon’s planned campus in Queens. @arvarice says tech companies look too much for sameness, whether applicant is "Google-y"
Flynn Sentencing Unexpectedly Delayed
The sentencing for President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn has been postponed until 2019 after a judge threatened jail time. Josh Gerstein, senior legal affairs contributor for Politico, details Flynn's dramatic day in cou
Making Reparations and 'Reknitting' Our Communities
Lara Bazelon, associate professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she is the director of its Criminal Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinics, and the author of Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Convicti
Amazon's Other Hub
WAMU’s Martin Austermuhle, Washington reporter, and Kojo Nnamdi, host of the Kojo Nnamdi Show, talk about the Amazon hub planned for Arlington, Virginia, and compare it to the proposed Long Island City campus. "It’s been fascinating to watch the outrage