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In this episode, we explore the sharp increase in fentanyl deaths across the country, including in San Francisco and the Bay Area, which had thus f...
- Added: Jul 06, 2022
- Length: 29:30
This week, we hear stories from people seeking refuge, and how war and immigration policy impact people on the ground.
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- Added: Apr 07, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
This week, we speak with Peter Lee who has led Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act health benefit exchange, for a decade. As he pre...
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 18:08
In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 22:47
This week, we cover carceral non-profits in an interview with Drs. Zhandarka Kurti, a professor of criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola Unive...
- Added: Dec 11, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In this episode, we discuss the disparity in attention in the U.S., when it comes to missing people of color.
My guest is Derrica Wilson, co-found...
- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Journalist Ioan Grillo, and author of Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels, helps us analyze Mexico’s unprecedented lawsuit against ...
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- Added: Sep 01, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
This week, we’re looking at Colombia, its increasingly tenuous peace process, and how US intervention has shaped the country, for better or for worse.
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- Added: Aug 12, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
In this week’s episode of the podcast we revisit a program about Syria’s war. We explore what was accomplished after 10 years of bloodshed and what...
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- Added: Jul 01, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
In this episode, we look at the lasting effects of the pandemic on education around the world.
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- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
In this episode, we explore the parameters and jurisdiction of the First Amendment, as well as how we can better navigate issues and challenges inv...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore the impacts of News Deserts and Ghost Newspapers - parts of the U.S. where there’s either no local paper, or where the ...
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- Added: May 28, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore the importance of precision in language - in particular for journalists and other content creators seeking to inform an...
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- Added: May 21, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Life gets back to almost normal in the UK, but has Britain opened up too quickly? Tensions between Morocco and Spain lead ...
- Added: May 20, 2021
- Length: 59:00
In this episode, we take a deeper look at California’s fire outlook in 2021 and moving forward.
Over the past few years, massive wildfires tore ac...
- Added: May 14, 2021
- Length: 29:30
In this segment of EPIDEMIC, Dr. Celine Gounder looks at disinformation during the pandemic. Specifically, we’re going to look at how the Russian g...
- Added: Apr 29, 2021
- Length: 04:06
Our guests on Season 2, Episode 4 are two of the most informed writers on this topic: Adam Jentleston, former Deputy Chief of Staff to Democratic M...
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 37:40
In this episode, we explore how journalists experience trauma and manage - or fail to manage - the stressors that are inherent to the job. My guest...
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 29:30
We’re looking at the variant that emerged in South Africa: 501Y.V2. This variant is not only more transmissible, but has demonstrated the troubling...
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 04:00
This week on the show: As countries all over the world start vaccinating their populations against the novel coronavirus, will there be enough fo...
- Added: Jan 22, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: In late January 2020, a doctor in Munich made a startling discovery about COVID-19 with major implications. It ended up be...
- Added: Jan 01, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Growing resistance to a second lockdown in England.
Slovakia rolls out mass coronavirus testing. Police investigate terror ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2020
- Length: 59:00
It’s the government on your doorstep — the only Executive Branch agency that visits every home in the country on a regular basis. So how does the U...
- Added: Sep 28, 2020
- Length: 23:52
In this episode, we explore California’s dynamic and shifting climate, which impacts so much across the Bay area, region, and state, including our ...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2020
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we talk about the post office with Dr. Richard R. John, Professor of History & Communications in the Columbia Journalism School at...
- Added: Aug 20, 2020
- Length: 29:30
