Schooling through a Pandemic
Around the country, students, parents, teachers, and staff of schools are being asked a seemingly impossible question: how many people are we willing ...
Context, Please
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Welcome to Context, Please, a podcast exploring the most pressing issues of our time and placing them within their historical context alongside searing analysis and light-hearted humor. It's a history class with nuance, depth, and fact; packaged in a podcast built to hold the attention of a middle schooler. In the age of fake news, perpetual breaking stories, and appeals to a past that never really existed, we could all use a little more context, please.
Season Two Trailer
Season Two starts tomorrow - and we've got a lot to cover. Catch up on past episodes and find out more about the podcast at our website, and be sure t...
The War(s) on Christmas
It was a recurring theme during the Obama presidency. Late, every November, we would hear of another episode in the War on Christmas. Far from a new...
A Statue and its Poem
Last Tuesday, Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, made waves when he said in an interview w...
Crime and Capital Punishment
Last Thursday, Attorney General William Barr announced that the Trump Administration was restarting the use of the death penalty at the federal level,...
Protests in Puerto Rico
On Monday half a million Puerto Ricans took to the streets to protest the Governor's percieved corruption and insensitivity. Far from the first time ...
Immigration and the Know Nothing Party
As Immigration and Customs Enforcements Agents threatened raids to deport thousands of undocumented families, the President sent out tweets calling fo...
The Census and Citizenship
In March of 2018, the Trump administration announced the addition of a citizenship question to United States Census. Last week the Supreme Court put a...
Biden and Busing
The most memorable exchange in last week's Democratic debates came in a tense moment between former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris...
Series Trailer
Welcome to Context, Please, a podcast at the intersection of history and politics. Think of it like your old history classes, except you actually care...