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How Can We Build Wealth for Everyone?

The global Covid-19 pandemic has worsened inequality. Oxfam International found that while billionaire fortunes returned to pre-pandemic highs in just nine months, a recovery for the world’s poorest people could take over a decade.

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Podcast

12.21.2021
The Brain

Psychedelics for the Win

In the 1950s and 60s, mental health providers used psychedelics to help patients open up about difficult memories. Then, the drugs were banned. Now there’s a resurgence.

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Podcast

12.14.2021
Science

We're in a science moment. What will come out of it?

The Covid-19 vaccine was developed at an unusually rapid pace, and now the public's expectations are high for what science can deliver.

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Podcast

11.30.2021
Food Access

Mark Bittman on Reimagining America's Food System

Longtime food journalist Mark Bittman says America's food system needs to be reimagined so land is used fairly and well and people have access to food that promotes health, not illness.

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Podcast

11.18.2021
National Security

Why Our Partisan Differences Are Threatening National Security

It's clear the United States isn't united right now. A Pew Research poll done before the 2020 election showed about 9 in 10 voters worried a victory by the other party would lead to lasting harm for the country.

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Podcast

11.09.2021
Free Speech and Religion

Bad Things Do Happen to Good People

We try our whole lives to avoid pain and suffering and when it does show up, we try to solve it. In her new book, "No Cure for Being Human," religious scholar Kate Bowler says we try to out-eat, out-learn, and out-perform our humanness.

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Podcast

11.04.2021
Media

Journalism's norms are changing. Here's why you should care.

Norms in newsrooms across the United States are being upended thanks to deep polarization, a racial reckoning, and the pandemic. Hallmark journalistic traits like neutrality and objectivity are being redefined.

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Podcast

10.27.2021
US Economy

Will this Anti-Poverty Measure Stick?

US Senator Michael Bennet speaks with Etsy CEO Josh Silverman about the role of the Federal Government and the private sector in assisting today's families.

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Podcast

10.20.2021
Technology

Whose Job Is It to Protect Your Online Data?

When you tick a box on an online privacy notice, just how much personal information are you giving away? Is the tradeoff worthwhile?

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Podcast

10.12.2021
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