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Podcasts:
Terrorism expert and Georgia State University professor Mia Bloom discusses QAnon and contemporary U.S. domestic fundamentalism.
Labor journalist Sarah Jaffe discusses the pandemic’s exacerbation of an exploited and exhausted workforce and prescriptions to improve the well-being of workers.
Diplomat Severine Autesserre discusses her new book “The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World” and the process of peacemaking from Congo tribal wars to U.S. gun violence.
Wall Street Journal bestselling "Unspoken Rules" author Gorick Ng discusses the first generation American workforce and job market.
Bioethicist Nir Eyal discusses the ethics of research for vaccines and therapeutics and how equity should be applied to the future of medicine.
Saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings discusses his newest visionary album, racial justice, and the cosmos of music.
Power Coalition CEO Ashley Shelton discusses grassroots organizing in Louisiana in the current pandemic and political landscape.
New York Times COVID-19 correspondent Emma Goldberg discusses the experience of Millennial doctors reported in her new book “Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic.”
University of Alabama professor and US Attorney (retired) Joyce Vance discusses the Department of Justice and protecting democratic norms in the Biden era.
Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab Resident Fellow Jared Holt discusses Facebook's ban on Donald Trump and the post-Insurrection domestic terrorism climate.
Investigative reporter Katherine Eban discusses her documentation of the factual basis for evaluating COVID-19 lab leak pandemic origin.
Gun safety advocate and "Find the Helpers" author Fred Guttenberg discusses his mission to prevent more American murders.
Author Shane Burley discusses his new book "Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse."
Mississippi Today managing editor Kayleigh Skinner discusses the contemporary political and cultural climate in Mississippi in 2021.
Virologist Angela Rasmussen discusses the CDC's new guidance and breakthrough infections.
