Notes from America with Kai Wright

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 Feb 6, 2023

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 May 4, 2021
Balanced, thoughtful, and smart stories that help make some sense out of what's happening in the US today.


 Mar 4, 2020

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A well-researched looked into what makes America America.

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Notes from America with Kai Wright is a show about the unfinished business of our history, and its grip on our future.

Episode Date
Writer Hisham Matar on James Baldwin’s Patience
Nov 23, 2024
Presenting This is Uncomfortable: Writer Hanif Abdurraqib on what it Means to “Make it”
Nov 21, 2024
It’s Trump’s Policy, But Both Parties Set the Stage for Mass Deportations
Nov 18, 2024
Nikki Giovanni on James Baldwin's Anger
Nov 16, 2024
A Majority of Voters Have Endorsed Cruelty. So Now What?
Nov 12, 2024
Author Colm Toibin on James Baldwin’s Interiority
Nov 09, 2024
The Real Reason Why the Lies and Violent Rhetoric Won’t Stop On Election Day
Nov 04, 2024
Biographer David Leeming on James Baldwin’s Teaching
Nov 02, 2024
In Michigan, Arab Americans Weigh the Power of a Vote
Oct 31, 2024
Live From Atlanta: GA Politics, a Growing Gender Gap and Scenes From Spelhouse Homecoming's Tailgate
Oct 28, 2024
Author and Playwright Caryl Phillips on James Baldwin’s Friendship
Oct 26, 2024
How Important is College to a Successful Career?
Oct 21, 2024
Novelist Elif Shafak on James Baldwin’s Compassion
Oct 19, 2024
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Journey to the Supreme Court Has Been a ‘Lovely One’
Oct 14, 2024
Writer Darryl Pinckney on James Baldwin’s Love
Oct 12, 2024
‘Imperfect Allies’: Processing a Year of War Across Communities
Oct 07, 2024
Writer Siri Hustvedt on James Baldwin’s Complexity
Oct 05, 2024
Gen Z’s Political Priorities Feel Both Fresh and Familiar
Sep 30, 2024
Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on James Baldwin’s Courage
Sep 28, 2024
The Way Candidates Have Historically Approached the Latino Vote Won’t Fly in 2024
Sep 23, 2024
Ta-Nehisi Coates on James Baldwin's Words
Sep 21, 2024
A Flood of Claims From Rikers Island Amplify the Pervasive Problem of Sexual Assault in Jails
Sep 19, 2024
How Spanish Language Radio Became a Platform for Spreading Misinformation and Disinformation
Sep 16, 2024
Presenting: ‘Notes on a Native Son,’ A Celebration of James Baldwin at 100
Sep 14, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Debate Style Was a Master Class in Rhetoric for the Trump Era
Sep 12, 2024
Why Climate Change Isn’t a Top Ticket Issue in 2024
Sep 10, 2024
What the Next U.S. President Must Face in Gaza
Sep 05, 2024
The Gifts of Mortality and Movement, According To Dance Legend Bill T. Jones
Sep 02, 2024
The Next Insurrection Could Be Led By Extremists in the U.S. Military. Are We Ready?
Aug 29, 2024
Everything Is Too Damn High: Facts vs Feelings on Harris and Trump's Economic Plans
Aug 26, 2024
Who’s Winning the Swing States? Let’s Check the Polls.
Aug 22, 2024
How Greek Life and HBCUs shaped Kamala Harris and a Generation of Black Students
Aug 19, 2024
Gaza Is Kamala Harris’s Moral Challenge, and Also Her Opportunity
Aug 15, 2024
Megan Thee Stallion, Kid Rock, and the Musical Politics of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
Aug 12, 2024
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Caught the Vibe of 2024. What Will That Change?
Aug 08, 2024
The Juxtaposition of Sonya Massey's Killing and Kamala Harris' Presidential Run
Aug 05, 2024
James Baldwin's Words Continue to Challenge us 100 Years After His Birth
Aug 03, 2024
Kamala Harris Is a ‘Supreme Court Realist.’ So Will She Reform It?
Aug 01, 2024
A History of the Palestinian Solidarity Movement Through One Activist's Life Story
Jul 29, 2024
Did 44,000 Black Women Just Close Dems' 'Enthusiasm Gap' in One Zoom Call?
Jul 25, 2024
Biden Was Their Candidate. How Are Americans Feeling Now That Kamala Harris Is Poised To Replace Him?
Jul 22, 2024
Trump Assassination Attempt Exposes Security Concerns, Conspiracy Theories and a Democracy In Danger
Jul 15, 2024
What 100 Years Of Audio Can Tell Us About Black Americans and Belonging
Jul 08, 2024
Biden's Struggles, Trump's Lies and What Your Post-Debate Depression Means for November
Jul 01, 2024
Can American democracy ever be truly democratic?
Jun 24, 2024
How Black People Built American Democracy: A Juneteenth Celebration
Jun 17, 2024
Message Received: Listener Questions About Trump, What ‘The Wiz’ Means and Stories About Summer
Jun 13, 2024
Tony-Nominated Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on Using Theater to Make Sense of Nonsense
Jun 10, 2024
Still In Recovery From Being Shot, Hisham Awartani Commits To a Summer of Activism
Jun 06, 2024
Is Donald Trump's Historic Felony Conviction Just a Part of Our New Political Normal?
Jun 03, 2024
What Does It Mean To Be Free?
May 27, 2024
Class Of 2024 Grads Reflect On Being Expected to Change the World
May 20, 2024
Why Divestment Is At the Core of Student Protests
May 13, 2024
What ‘The Wiz’ Was And Is to Black Culture
May 06, 2024
Tonya Mosley Reckons with a Dark Family Story and Holds Tight to Hope in the Podcast She Has a Name
Apr 29, 2024
How This Passover Feels Different For Many Jewish Americans
Apr 22, 2024
An Investigative Journalist Is Rocked By the ‘Inconceivable Truth’ Of His Own Identity
Apr 19, 2024
Amber Ruffin Talks ‘The Wiz’ Revival, Writing for ‘Late Night,’ and Representation in Comedy
Apr 15, 2024
Voter Vibe Check: Why Trump Has More Support from Black Voters Than Ever
Apr 08, 2024
Comedian Bassem Youssef’s Honest Reflection on Fame, the Pressure of Representation, and What it Means to be American
Apr 01, 2024
David Alan Grier Is Still Hitting Career Highs, More Than 40 Years After His Debut
Mar 25, 2024
Voter Vibe Check: Democratic Voters Are Torn Over Biden’s Gaza Policy
Mar 18, 2024
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 5: What If I Could Have Grown Old With My Brother?
Mar 15, 2024
How Actor Danielle Brooks 'Already Won' Before The Oscars
Mar 11, 2024
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 4: Respectability Politics and the AIDS Crisis
Mar 08, 2024
Are We Really Having a 'Migrant Crisis?' Depends Who You Ask.
Mar 04, 2024
We Could End AIDS. So Why Are People Still Dying?
Mar 01, 2024
Leading with Love: Care and Compassion in the Early Days of AIDS
Feb 25, 2024
It's Giving ‘Hell No’ — Danielle Brooks On Becoming ‘The Color Purple’s’ Sofia
Feb 23, 2024
A Palestinian-American Victim of American Gun Violence Becomes A Reluctant Poster Child
Feb 19, 2024
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 3: ‘Women Don’t Get AIDS, They Just Die From It’
Feb 16, 2024
Intercultural Relationships Are More Common, But Are They Less Taboo?
Feb 12, 2024
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 2: If I Didn’t Have HIV, I Wouldn’t Have Met You
Feb 09, 2024
Voter Vibe Check: Anti-Trump Conservatives On Republican Party Politics In 2024
Feb 05, 2024
Kai Wright Presents Blindspot Episode 1: Mourning In America
Feb 02, 2024
What A Segregated Mental Asylum Can Tell Us About Health Care in the US Today
Jan 29, 2024
Kai Wright Hosts Blindspot: The Plague In The Shadows
Jan 26, 2024
Doom. Denial. ‘Hopium.’ What About Climate Action?
Jan 22, 2024
Reclaiming Woke: Celebrating The Legacy Of Martin Luther King Jr. Live At The Apollo
Jan 15, 2024
What the Ozempic Craze Means for Our Personal Health
Jan 08, 2024
Raoul Peck Fights for Justice With His Movies
Jan 01, 2024
I Was A Child of Dread
Dec 25, 2023
Why NYC’s Move to Privatize Public Housing Could Impact the Rest of the Country
Dec 18, 2023
Remembering Rapper Prodigy As A Cure For Sickle Cell Emerges
Dec 13, 2023
What the New Cure for Sickle Cell Disease Really Means
Dec 11, 2023
Bias in A.I. and the Risks of Continued Development, with Dr. Joy Buolamwini
Dec 04, 2023
Out of hope? Maybe stop for a sandwich and a song.
Nov 27, 2023
How Boston’s Big Dig built our expectations of American infrastructure
Nov 20, 2023
Nikki Giovanni and Kimberly McGlonn on space travel, sustainable fashion and Black liberation
Nov 13, 2023
Black Lives Matter, 10 years later
Nov 06, 2023
‘It’s Worse Than Ever’
Oct 30, 2023
Imminent Danger Ep 3: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women
Oct 26, 2023
Can Osage Citizens Revive Fairfax?
Oct 23, 2023
We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 3
Oct 19, 2023
The View From Gaza
Oct 16, 2023
We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 2
Oct 12, 2023
I Was A Child of Dread
Oct 09, 2023
We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 1
Oct 05, 2023
Is Capitalism Working for You?
Oct 02, 2023
Silicon Valley’s History of Fumbles with Capitalism
Sep 28, 2023
What Does It Mean to be Free?
Sep 25, 2023
Eating Elk Kabobs in Idaho
Sep 21, 2023
The Birth of Climate Denial
Sep 18, 2023
When Chicago Closed 50 Public Schools at Once
Sep 14, 2023
Public School’s Failing Prospects
Sep 11, 2023
When Hip Hop Tried to Fight the Power, and Lost
Sep 07, 2023
The Blurry Line Between Appropriation And Appreciation
Sep 04, 2023
Republican Debate No. 1: How Do You Limit Demagogues?
Aug 31, 2023
Trump’s Indictment: Georgia’s Crucial Voters Respond
Aug 28, 2023
The Music of Your Diaspora
Aug 24, 2023
Doom. Denial. ‘Hopium.’ What About Climate Action?
Aug 21, 2023
The Planet Sent a Bill. Here’s What We Owe.
Aug 17, 2023
The Radical Roots of Plant-Based Eating
Aug 14, 2023
If You Go After Me, I'm Coming After You!
Aug 10, 2023
Critical Race Theory: What It Actually Means
Aug 07, 2023
When Barbie Stopped Being White
Aug 03, 2023
The Misunderstood Era of Crack Cocaine
Jul 31, 2023
A Punk Rock Guide to Making a Scene
Jul 27, 2023
A Song to “Define the Most African Moment of My Life”
Jul 24, 2023
The Case for 29 Supreme Court Justices
Jul 20, 2023
Lessons from Mom at a Magic Mike Show in Vegas
Jul 17, 2023
Affirmative Action is About More Than Acceptance Letters
Jul 13, 2023
What Does “Color-Blind” Really Mean?
Jul 10, 2023
Black Life Resuscitated from the Ocean Floor
Jul 06, 2023
Why It’s So Hard to Sound “American”
Jul 03, 2023
The Coolest Music Parties You Didn’t Know Were Happening
Jun 29, 2023
Why the Indian Child Welfare Act is the Gold Standard in Family Law
Jun 26, 2023
95 Unmarked Graves
Jun 22, 2023
Juneteenth Is an Act of Bravery
Jun 19, 2023
Comedian Sam Jay Isn’t Afraid of Getting Canceled
Jun 15, 2023
Billy Porter Doesn’t Need a Month to Celebrate Pride
Jun 12, 2023
Trust the Media? Yeah, Right.
Jun 08, 2023
January 6th Was Not a Secret Attack
Jun 05, 2023
Padma Lakshmi’s Low-Key Subversive Food Show
Jun 01, 2023
No, We Can’t Stop Saying Their Names
May 29, 2023
How the Supreme Court Got So Supreme
May 25, 2023
Clarence Thomas and his Hotep Supreme Court
May 22, 2023
Who’s Responsible for Jordan Neely’s Death?
May 18, 2023
Homelessness Hides in Plain Sight. So Does Its Fix.
May 15, 2023
Joy Harjo and Native Stories
May 11, 2023
Indian Boarding Schools Are Not Ancient History
May 08, 2023
Money Shame, and How To Overcome It Through Financial Literacy
May 04, 2023
How Assata Shakur Became One of America’s Most Wanted
May 01, 2023
Tucker Carlson, Rupert Murdoch, and the Future of Fox News
Apr 27, 2023
Why Ralph Yarl Was Shot
Apr 24, 2023
The Joy and Pain of Little Richard
Apr 20, 2023
Tell Me Your Politics–But Do It In Verse
Apr 17, 2023
The Week That Changed America’s Cities
Apr 13, 2023
How a Young, Black Progressive Won in Chicago
Apr 10, 2023
Grieving Loss From Gun Violence
Apr 06, 2023
Of Tech Moguls and Gold Miners: A Capitalist History
Apr 03, 2023
Trump, the GOP, and a New Confederacy
Mar 30, 2023
Ramadan: A Month About Much More Than Fasting
Mar 27, 2023
The Truth Behind the Religious Right
Mar 23, 2023
The History Behind New Waves of Anti-Trans Legislation
Mar 20, 2023
The Rocky Statue: A Famous Monument to a Fictitious Hero
Mar 16, 2023
Revising History, One Monument at a Time
Mar 13, 2023
Preserving Untold Oral Histories
Mar 09, 2023
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Hollywood
Mar 06, 2023
Celebrating Terrance McKnight’s ‘Every Voice’ Podcast
Mar 02, 2023
How Respectability Politics Erased Young Women From History
Feb 27, 2023
Black History Is Now: How Misty Copeland Went From Different to Special
Feb 23, 2023
The Battle Over Black Studies
Feb 21, 2023
How Black People Remade Mississippi
Feb 16, 2023
A First Date Immigrant Story
Feb 13, 2023
American Political Myths Have Consequences For Us All
Feb 09, 2023
Black Music’s Most Memorable Moments With Emil Wilbekin
Feb 06, 2023
Putting An End To Toxic Cop Culture
Feb 02, 2023
History On Repeat: The Killing Of Tyre Nichols
Jan 30, 2023
Monterey Park: The Making of America’s First Suburban Chinatown
Jan 26, 2023
Living With And Learning From Estrangement
Jan 23, 2023
The Not-So-Sunny Side of Louis Armstrong’s Legacy
Jan 19, 2023
The Legacy of MLK Jr. Is To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Jan 16, 2023
New Congress, New Consequences
Jan 12, 2023
The Future of Work As We Know It
Jan 09, 2023
Faith Ringgold Creates Space for Black Americans
Jan 05, 2023
How Afrofuturism Redefines Our Past
Jan 02, 2023
Rediscovering Myself Through Rebuilding A Relationship With My Dad
Dec 29, 2022
YA Literature Chose Jason Reynolds
Dec 26, 2022
How Singer Marian Anderson Dominated the Global Stage
Dec 22, 2022
Billy Porter on Bringing Blackness, Queerness and Fullness to Art
Dec 19, 2022
Your Happy Holiday Hits
Dec 15, 2022
Idina Menzel Talks Broadway, Balance and Her Dream Gig
Dec 12, 2022
Many #Twitter Users Are Riding Out The Controversy
Dec 08, 2022
Crime, Panic and The Case Of The Exonerated Five
Dec 05, 2022
We’ve Always Been A Divided United States
Dec 01, 2022
How You’re Dealing With Digital And Political Life
Nov 28, 2022
Actor Omar Epps Imagines Life After The Climate Crisis
Nov 24, 2022
The Climate Crisis Needs a New Gospel
Nov 21, 2022
The Right Wing Media Empire Hiding in Plain Sight
Nov 17, 2022
Notes From Our Exit Poll Episode
Nov 14, 2022
The Morning After: A Midterm Breakdown
Nov 10, 2022
What Arizona Teaches Us About The ‘Latino Vote’
Nov 08, 2022
The Conservative ‘Swing’ Vote: Explained
Nov 07, 2022
Who Gets to Be Beautiful in America?
Nov 03, 2022
What Keeps You Voting?
Oct 31, 2022
What's at Stake for You This Midterm Election?
Oct 27, 2022
The Higher Cost of Higher Ed for Americans of Color
Oct 24, 2022
Black Georgians Are Leading the Charge to the Polls
Oct 17, 2022
Women. Life. Freedom.
Oct 13, 2022
Church, State and the Soul of Our Nation
Oct 10, 2022
The Black Playwright Who Transformed Theater
Oct 05, 2022
The Obamas' Lonely Walk on the High Road
Oct 03, 2022
‘The Woman King’ Isn’t a Biopic. So What?
Sep 28, 2022
Everything’s Changed. But Have You?
Sep 26, 2022
Your Summer Jams…One Last Time
Sep 21, 2022
Introducing 'Notes From America': New Name, Same Show
Sep 20, 2022
A Pre-Midterms Vibe Check
Sep 19, 2022
The Art of Remembrance
Sep 14, 2022
Your Vote Matters
Sep 12, 2022
Revisiting Tara Roberts on Diving for Sunken Slave Ships
Sep 07, 2022
Revisiting A Conservative View of the Vigilante Right
Sep 05, 2022
Half of My Parents, All of Me
Aug 31, 2022
The Prison of Manhood Can’t Hold Shaka Senghor
Aug 29, 2022
Which Election Did You Care About The Most?
Aug 26, 2022
Digital Life Is a Moral Mess
Aug 22, 2022
Let’s Hear It For The Summer Playlist
Aug 19, 2022
Monkeypox: The Making of an Outbreak
Aug 15, 2022
Michael Calvert’s Good, Too Short Life
Aug 12, 2022
What Could Go Wrong? Everything (And It’s Ok)
Aug 08, 2022
Michael Tubbs Has A Message for All Of US
Aug 05, 2022
How to Start Saving the World
Aug 01, 2022
How Are We Grieving?
Jul 28, 2022
The Culture of Gun Violence
Jul 25, 2022
Let Us Take You on an Pop Escapade
Jul 21, 2022
Jason Reynolds Needs to Be Useful
Jul 18, 2022
The Promise and Failure of Cryptocurrency
Jul 11, 2022
The Line Between Independence and Insurrection
Jul 04, 2022
Keeping Score: Part 4
Jun 30, 2022
Roe Is Gone. What Now?
Jun 27, 2022
Keeping Score: Part 3
Jun 23, 2022
Why Juneteenth? Let’s Ask Black Texas
Jun 20, 2022
Keeping Score: Part 2
Jun 16, 2022
Why We Can't (and Shouldn't) Move On From Jan. 6
Jun 13, 2022
Keeping Score: Part 1
Jun 09, 2022
Schools Had a Tough Year. What’d We Learn?
Jun 06, 2022
Alice Walker Is Very Happy, A Lot of the Time
May 30, 2022
The Wolf Pack of White Nationalism
May 23, 2022
Somebody, Sing a Black Girl’s Song
May 16, 2022
Justice Alito Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
May 09, 2022
The Abortion Clinic That Won't Go Quietly
May 05, 2022
Voters to Democrats: Get a Spine!
May 02, 2022
Kai Wright Introduces Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery
Apr 29, 2022
They Dumped Trump for Biden. Now What?
Apr 25, 2022
A Historian's Guide to the 2022 Midterm Elections
Apr 18, 2022
The Dangerous Cycle of Fear
Apr 11, 2022
The End of Institutions: Hollywood Edition
Apr 04, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Black Patriotism
Mar 28, 2022
How "Bich" Became “Beth” – An American Tale
Mar 21, 2022
People Feel Unsafe–and It’s More Than Crime
Mar 14, 2022
Why the ‘Reagan Regime’ Endures
Mar 07, 2022
Brian Lehrer on Productive Discourse
Feb 28, 2022
Why So Many Are Stuck in the “Other” Box
Feb 21, 2022
Black People Are From Outer Space
Feb 14, 2022
David Byrne on Musical Democracy
Feb 10, 2022
How to Avoid the ‘Affirmative Action’ Ploy
Feb 07, 2022
Revisiting Nothing You Do Alone Will Save the Climate
Jan 31, 2022
A Conservative View of the Vigilante Right
Jan 24, 2022
A History of Voter Suppression
Jan 20, 2022
Is Love the Most Transformative Political Act?
Jan 18, 2022
How to Spot the End of Democracy
Jan 10, 2022
Lynn Nottage: Unexpected Optimist
Jan 03, 2022
What Does Black Ambition Sound Like?
Dec 27, 2021
Face the Darkness, Welcome the Light
Dec 20, 2021
Talking About Racism Is an Act of Love
Dec 16, 2021
A Year of Performing Humanity, Reviewed
Dec 13, 2021
The Supreme Court v. Our Rights
Dec 06, 2021
An Anti-Racism Refresher
Nov 29, 2021
The Myth of a ‘United’ States
Nov 22, 2021
Promises to Help the Climate Keep Breaking
Nov 15, 2021
Fired at 59: Lessons on Job Insecurity in the U.S.
Nov 08, 2021
How the Dead Still Speak to Us
Nov 01, 2021
Making it in New York: The Eric Adams Story
Oct 25, 2021
What’s Wrong With the NFL?
Oct 18, 2021
The True Story of Critical Race Theory
Oct 11, 2021
Hear No Evil: Asylum Policy in America
Oct 04, 2021
Art That Matters
Sep 27, 2021
Nothing You Do Alone Will Save the Climate
Sep 20, 2021
A 9/12 Story: ‘I Forgot I Was a Muslim Kid’
Sep 13, 2021
The Legacy of Abu Ghraib
Sep 10, 2021
Maybe We Just Want Less ‘Work’
Sep 07, 2021
How Zillow Explains Education Inequity
Aug 30, 2021
The Man, the Myth, the Manipulation
Aug 25, 2021
Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Haiti and International Aid
Aug 23, 2021
Affirmative Action: Truths and Lies
Aug 16, 2021
What the Olympics Taught Us About Us
Aug 09, 2021
‘Ethical People Can Be Effective’
Aug 02, 2021
To Protect and Observe: A History
Jul 26, 2021
The American Story, in Half a Year
Jul 19, 2021
The Short Life and Early Death of Voting Rights
Jul 12, 2021
Can America Be Redeemed?
Jul 05, 2021
How the Right’s Anti-Trans Hate Machine Works
Jun 28, 2021
Why We Must Vote
Jun 21, 2021
David Dinkins vs. the NYPD
Jun 14, 2021
The Dawn of ‘Anti-Racist’ America
Jun 07, 2021
The ‘Big Bang’ in Jazz History
May 31, 2021
How NYPD ‘Kettled’ the Spirit of Reform
May 24, 2021
F*&% Robert Moses. Let’s Start Over
May 17, 2021
Ma’Khia Bryant’s Story Is Too Familiar
May 13, 2021
No More ‘Selfless’ Moms
May 10, 2021
The Method to Tucker Carlson’s Madness
May 03, 2021
Do We Need the Police at All?
Apr 26, 2021
Why Cops Don’t Change
Apr 19, 2021
Government: A Love-Hate Story
Apr 12, 2021
Desegregation By Any Means Necessary
Apr 05, 2021
How to End the Dominion of Men
Mar 29, 2021
The Missing History of Asian America
Mar 22, 2021
Collective Loss, Collective Care
Mar 15, 2021
Capitalism vs. Time
Mar 08, 2021
Actor Daniel Kaluuya’s Road to Revolutionary
Mar 04, 2021
The Secret Tapes of a Suburban Drug War
Mar 01, 2021
Blackness (Un)interrupted
Feb 22, 2021
The Case Against Those ‘Tubman $20s’
Feb 18, 2021
Impeachment: Catharsis and Impunity
Feb 15, 2021
The ‘Beautiful Experiments’ Left Out of Black History
Feb 08, 2021
The Origin Story of Black History Month
Feb 01, 2021
New Hopes, Old Fears
Jan 25, 2021
Life After Fascism: A Brief History
Jan 21, 2021
How Martin Luther King, Jr., Changed American Christianity
Jan 18, 2021
The American Story, in a Single Day
Jan 11, 2021
The (Un)Making of a ‘Model Minority’
Jan 04, 2021
Lessons From a Year in Isolation
Dec 28, 2020
The Racist History of Georgia’s Runoff
Dec 21, 2020
Tell It To Me Straight, Doc
Dec 14, 2020
ACT UP, Fight Covid
Dec 07, 2020
One Family’s Land of Opportunity
Nov 30, 2020
MAGA, the New Confederate Lost Cause
Nov 16, 2020
Meditations on a Bittersweet Election
Nov 09, 2020
An Invitation To Dream
Nov 02, 2020
Who Matters in America 2020?
Oct 29, 2020
They’ve Never Wanted You to Vote
Oct 26, 2020
A Zombie Political Party
Oct 19, 2020
Inside the Pandemic's First Days
Oct 12, 2020
How to Steal an Election
Oct 05, 2020
A Historian's Guide to the 2020 Election
Sep 28, 2020
A Court On The Edge
Sep 21, 2020
Dissent, Dissent, Dissent
Sep 20, 2020
Serving Up Social Justice
Sep 14, 2020
The Necessary Work
Sep 07, 2020
Scared in the Suburbs
Aug 31, 2020
What Do You Have to Lose?
Aug 26, 2020
“It’s My Party”
Aug 24, 2020
What Do You Want from the Democrats?
Aug 17, 2020
Revisiting Caught: 'You Just Sit There and Wait for the Next Day to Come'
Aug 13, 2020
Revisiting Caught: 'They Look at Me Like a Menace'
Aug 06, 2020
Revisiting Caught: 'I Just Want You to Come Home'
Jul 30, 2020
The Laws of Soil and Blood
Jul 17, 2020
Zoned for Resistance
Jul 10, 2020
Juneteenth, an Unfinished Business
Jun 26, 2020
Rage, Grief, Joy
Jun 18, 2020
'Community' Is a Verb. And It’s Hard
Jun 12, 2020
Keeping Released Prisoners Safe and Sane
Jun 04, 2020
'I Did Not Watch the Video'
May 21, 2020
The Life and Work of Ida B. Wells
May 08, 2020
Inside the Prison Pandemic
May 01, 2020
Why Covid-19 Is Killing Black People
Apr 24, 2020
Questions to Ask While Waiting
Apr 13, 2020
A History of Style in a Pandemic
Apr 08, 2020
Dispatches from People Stranded in Place
Apr 03, 2020
Keep Calm and Check Your Bias
Mar 26, 2020
Last Chance at Justice
Mar 19, 2020
Alone Together During COVID-19: Live Call-in
Mar 13, 2020
Black Power at the Polls
Mar 12, 2020
Keeping White Power at the Polls
Mar 05, 2020
A Secret Meeting in South Bend
Feb 27, 2020
Fragility in Liberty
Feb 20, 2020
Paralysis at the Crossroads
Feb 13, 2020
Two Schools in Marin County
Feb 06, 2020
40 Acres in Mississippi
Jan 30, 2020
Can We Finally Build a Multiracial Democracy in 2020?
Jan 16, 2020
Welcome to 'The Stakes'
Apr 23, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand's Path to Power
Nov 15, 2018
¡Sí Se Puede!
Nov 09, 2018
What Does the Right Kind of Woman Sound Like?
Nov 05, 2018
The Right Kind of Woman
Oct 31, 2018
The Women of Texas's Secret Resistance
Oct 25, 2018
Ida B. Wells
Oct 18, 2018
The Original Nasty Woman
Oct 10, 2018
The 'Indoor Man' and His Playmates
Oct 02, 2018
The Pedestal
Sep 25, 2018
We've Been Here Before
Sep 18, 2018
The Dream Was Not Mine
Sep 17, 2018
The United States of Anxiety Season Three: There's an Election Coming
Sep 14, 2018
The US of Anxiety Wants to Hear from You
Aug 09, 2018
Introducing ‘Caught’: Our New Podcast
Mar 20, 2018
How Ivanka Trump And Donald Trump, Jr., Avoided a Criminal Indictment
Oct 10, 2017
The Counter-Jihad Movement & the Making of a President
Sep 11, 2017
Help Us Map the Confederate Flag
Aug 23, 2017
America's Fourth: Beyond Pie and BBQs
Jul 04, 2017
The Drug War
Jul 03, 2017
Nixon's Enemies
Jun 23, 2017
These 'Witches' Are Empowering the Next Generation
Jun 20, 2017
In Jesus' Name... We Legislate
Jun 13, 2017
The New, Old White Supremacist Movement
Jun 06, 2017
How Politics Turns Violent
May 30, 2017
Music, McCarthy, and the Sound of Americana
May 23, 2017
America's Allergy to Intellect — Why It Keeps Flaring Up
May 16, 2017
The Birth of Climate Denial
May 11, 2017
Whose Kansas Is it Anyway?
May 09, 2017
Welcome to The United States of Anxiety: Culture Wars
May 03, 2017
Call-In Special: Across the Aisle
Nov 22, 2016
Call-In Special: Culture Shock
Nov 21, 2016
Call-In Special: Pass the Politics
Nov 18, 2016
Call-In Special: An Electoral Industrial Revolution
Nov 17, 2016
Call-In Special: Where Technology Takes Us
Nov 16, 2016
Call-In Special: Examining the 'Women's Vote'
Nov 15, 2016
Call-In Special: Hopes and Fears for the Next Four Years
Nov 14, 2016
Episode 9: Where Are We Now?
Nov 10, 2016
Episode 8: What Is This Election Doing to Us?
Nov 04, 2016
Episode 7: This Is Your Brain on Politics
Nov 03, 2016
Episode 6: The Kids Are Not Alright
Oct 27, 2016
Episode 5: White Like Me
Oct 20, 2016
Episode 4: Down the Rabbit Hole
Oct 13, 2016
Episode 3: This Land Is My Land, That Land Is Your Land
Oct 06, 2016
Episode 2: Who Owns the Deed to the American Dream?
Sep 29, 2016
Episode 1: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?
Sep 22, 2016
Welcome to The United States of Anxiety
Sep 19, 2016