Oct 15, 2021
This week I spoke with Anita Hill thirty years after she first testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her. She discussed what we can do to address sexual assault in her new book, “Believing: Our...
Oct 8, 2021
This week I spoke with author Minda Harts about the moment she made a difficult decision to leave a racist work environment and prioritize her mental health. Journalist Adam Serwer shared why he felt it was important to write about the Trump Presidency, even if he...
Oct 1, 2021
This week, I celebrated the show’s first anniversary with a conversation on Black homeownership and the importance of housing policy with 2021 MacArthur fellow and historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. The data scientists at the GenForward survey dissected the anxiety...
Sep 24, 2021
Our Body Politic turns a year old this week, when episode 54 drops this coming Friday. Episode 53 was particularly intense and moving for me, as I talk to award-winning reporter Chris Jones, the Report for America fellow at 100 Days in Appalachia. We both go to cover...
Sep 18, 2021
This week I spoke with Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington about her decision to have an abortion years ago, and her experience of the January 6th insurrection. Our Body Politic’s new economics analyst Jamila Michener of Cornell University discussed important...
Sep 10, 2021
At Our Body Politic, we’re developing curriculum for certain podcast episodes. Here is a template and sample for Episode 34. Our Body Politic: Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story This episode explores how over time societal perception and/or judgment...
Sep 3, 2021
This week, I spoke with Dr. Leana Wen about how public health can save lives, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, and about her book “Lifelines.” Lydia X.Z. Brown explained how important it is to have a safe learning environment, especially with the return to...
Aug 28, 2021
This week, I spoke with Nadia Hashimi, an Afghan-American pediatrician and novelist who advocates for Afghan women, about what she’s heard from people on the ground there now. Tech contributor Mutale Nkonde explained how average social media users are being pulled...
Aug 20, 2021
This week, I spoke with with journalist Dana Coester (pictured above) about her extensive reporting on how extremists recruit rural youth online. Carol Alvarado of the Texas Senate shared what it took to stage a 15-hour filibuster of a state law that would make it...
Aug 13, 2021
This week, I spoke with legal expert Sherrilyn Ifill (pictured above) of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund about the history of voting rights, to fully understand why our democracy is under threat today. Representative Bee Nguyen of the Georgia General Assembly shared why...
