Stanford Professors Take On Silicon Valley
We speak to the authors of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong, and How We Can Reboot. The trio of Stanford professors use a cross-disciplinary ap...
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Broadway’s Break: A Deep Breath For The Industry?
Broadway has returned after closing eighteen months ago. We speak to actors, writers and directors about what the break meant for their lives and work...
Tackling Erasures with a 'Radical Archive'
In light of troubling events in Afghanistan, we speak to collaborating artists Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani on threats to the country's archives, th...
Invisible by Default: What You Won't See on GoFundMe
For Nora Kenworthy, GoFundMe is “the research topic that I can't escape.” She recently studied 175,000 GoFundMe campaigns from the COVID era and disco...
The Women Forgotten in the Wars We Started
Are women and girls forgotten in crises and conflicts in Myanmar, Ethiopia and Afghanistan? We speak to women's rights activists about what drives the...
'Missing and Maligned' No More, Muslims Push For Better Roles
The Pillars fund, run by young Muslim philanthropists, has teamed up with academics and Hollywood actors to gather data proving what they’ve long susp...
Let’s Talk About Sex, Sexism and Health Equity
We speak to Dr. Sophia Yen, entrepreneur and outspoken advocate for women’s reproductive health and empowerment. Dr. Yen founded a birth control start...
The Wealth Defense Industry - or How Billionaires Hide Their Assets
In his new book The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions, Chuck Collins unmasks how billionaires protect their wealth, pow...
Power and Consent: Reconsidering Oral History
Half a century ago, billionaire philanthropist Doris Duke funded universities to record Native American oral histories. Today, her foundation is suppo...
The Culinary Artist Putting Liberation on the Menu
The People's Kitchen Collective uses food and art to address racial and social justice issues. Co-founder Jocelyn Jackson talks to us about their larg...