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  • Revisiting the fight over the Lakota language as Trump targets "divisive narratives"

    Revisiting the fight over the Lakota language as Trump targets "divisive narratives"
    2025/04/16
    As the Trump administration targets the Smithsonian Institute for "divisive narratives" and "improper ideology," it got us thinking about how we preserve our history and everything that builds it, like language. So we're revisiting an episode from last year from the Lakota Nation in South Dakota over language — who preserves it, who has the right to the stories told in it, and who (literally) owns it.

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    42 分
  • Why Trump is sending Venezuelans to El Salvador

    Why Trump is sending Venezuelans to El Salvador
    2025/04/09
    One of President Trump's main campaign promises was carrying out mass deportations. We look at how the Trump administration is testing the U.S. legal system to make good on its promise, starting with the story of one family trying to find their 18-year-old son after immigration agents showed up at their doorstep.

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    38 分
  • What's lost in Trump's DEI ban?

    What's lost in Trump's DEI ban?
    2025/04/02
    President Trump has put diversity, equity, and inclusion in his crosshairs — but there's no consensus on what DEI even means. Some say that that fuzziness is the point, and that the current anti-DEI push is part of a larger plan to undo the gains made by the Civil Rights Movement.

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    32 分
  • With measles on the rise, what we can learn from past epidemics

    With measles on the rise, what we can learn from past epidemics
    2025/03/26
    As the U.S. health system grapples with new outbreaks and the risk of old diseases making a comeback, we're looking to the past to inform how people in marginalized communities can prepare themselves for how the current administration might handle an epidemic. On this episode, a conversation with historian and author Edna Bonhomme, about her latest book A History of the World in Six Plagues.

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    30 分
  • What Mahmoud Khalil's arrest means for ... everyone

    What Mahmoud Khalil's arrest means for ... everyone
    2025/03/19
    Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident and Columbia alum, was detained by ICE for his role in leading pro-Palestinian protests at his former university last year. As Khalil's case has captured the nation's attention, free speech advocates see it as a test of the First Amendment. Meanwhile, the Trump administration argues they have the right to deport Khalil without charging him with a crime. On this episode, why Khalil's arrest should worry all of us.

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    37 分
  • This Palestinian-American's debut novel may not be political — but her existence is

    This Palestinian-American's debut novel may not be political — but her existence is
    2025/03/12
    To be a Palestinian-American writer right now can lead to a lot of expectation to focus on identity and devastation, but in her debut novel, Too Soon, Betty Shamieh shares the story of three generations of Palestinian women trying to find love, purpose and liberation.

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    32 分
  • A look at the human toll of the construction of the Panama Canal

    A look at the human toll of the construction of the Panama Canal
    2025/03/05
    The Panama Canal's impact on the geopolitical stage far outreaches its roughly 51-mile stretch of land and water. This week, we're trying to understand the canal's murky future - from climate change to President Trump's threat to take it for the U.S. - by looking at its turbulent, cataclysmic birth.

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    32 分
  • Black audiences see themselves centered in a brand new soap opera

    Black audiences see themselves centered in a brand new soap opera
    2025/02/26
    B.A. Parker digs into the historical connection between Black Americans and soap operas with the launching of "Beyond the Gates," the first ever soap focused primarily on a Black family.

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    36 分