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How the pandemic makes us re-imagine American education, and takeaways from two very different party conventions. (episode)
The Republicans and Democrats took two very different approaches to their virtual party conventions.
How financial realities have driven colleges and universities across the country to reopen despite the public health risk — and what might happen next.
How a shift to online education could offer accessibility to some marginalized students.
This past weekend, more than 200 cities saw modest events organized by believers in the dangerous conspiracy theory. (episode)
Post office reporting and misreporting, the roots of the latest "birther" lie, and fringe future of the GOP. (episode)
Decay at the USPS is the result of decades of intentional neglect. Why do the media frame its downfall as inevitable?
The information, misinformation, and disinformation of the Post Office scandal.
All roads lead to the Claremont Institute.
Learning from mistakes made during the Obama presidency.
QAnon candidates and a self-described "Islamophobe" are Republican nominees to congress this fall. Is this where the party is headed?
How Facebook is helping health misinformation go viral. (episode)
Science fiction has always been an outlet for our greatest anxieties. How the genre is exploring the reality of climate change. Plus: new words to describe the indescribable. (episode)
Author Jeff VanderMeer has been called the "weird Thoreau" for his nature-inspired science fiction. But what's sci-fi when the future of the planet is unpredictable?
In a novel by Claire Vaye Watkins, a growing sand dune is threatening the Southwest. What can we learn from it?
How we're currently "living in a science fiction story we're writing together."
The distress caused by environmental change needs its own term, and so do other new phenomena in the Anthropocene.
Will our world become a ruin for archaeologists to dig up and explore? (episode)
A special hour with lessons on truth, conspiracy, history & the battle over the future. (episode)
Since 2014, a far-right nationalist party has been in power in Poland. How a conspiracy theory helped it get there.
A right-wing nationalist party comes to power. Its first takeover? The museums.
When the state controls the story, how can you tell a different one?
The YouTube star ContraPoints on her own cancellations. (episode)