"Once you're done with football, you're done with football."

2020 was supposed to be the year Mitch Horacek made his major league baseball debut. Instead, he ended up throwing baseballs into a net by himself, and learning to code.

The journalist talks about building up her confidence in the world of media, and reaching a breaking point in her marriage that led her to reevaluate her priorities.

Bill Army was acting on Broadway until March 12. Since then, he's been taking care of his two daughters—and bringing the world indoors to them—while his wife works in a Queens ER. 

Guest host Sonia Manzano talks with Justice Sotomayor about leaving their childhood homes in the Bronx, facing their insecurities and coming to understand the power of the written word. 

"I have to keep coming until we've exhausted everything, and we definitely have to shut the door."

The writer and artist talks with me about their childhood in Nigeria, their brief stint in veterinary school, and how, these days, they've deemed themself "worthy of extravagance."

As the USPS finds itself at the center of a political divide, we check in with a mail carrier who wrote to us about being an essential worker at the height of the pandemic. 

A story about what Alan Simpson, an expert on the federal deficit, taught me about love—and how it changed everything.