Amythyst Kiah Sings Her Truth
On her intimate new album Wary + Strange, Amythyst Kiah sings her heart out about losing her mom to suicide, and what it’s like being the only black person in…
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Maya’s Slight Change of Plans
Host Maya Shankar recently experienced a heartbreaking change in her personal life. Two days after it happened, she felt the need to process it out loud, like so many of…
How The Obamas Talk About Race
In the weeks after the groundbreaking of the Obama Presidential Library, Khalil and Ben revisit the Obama memoirs, Becoming and A Promised Land: Volume I, on how the Obamas talked…
How The Obamas Talk About Race
In the weeks after the groundbreaking of the Obama Presidential Library, Khalil and Ben revisit the Obama memoirs, Becoming and A Promised Land: Volume I, on how the Obamas talked…
Government Policy is Solvable (with Behavioral Science)
Dr. Maya Shankar is the founder of the White House’s Behavioral Science Team. She served as a senior advisor during the Obama administration and in 2016, Shankar was the first…
E4: Polly the “Prostitute”
Standing over the corpse of Polly Nichols, police officers decided that in life she had been a prostitute. Thereâs no evidence Polly ever sold sex, so why did the authorities…
Scarface: The Reunion
Houston rapper Scarface is one of the most recognizable, respected voices in hip-hop. When he was just 17 years-old, Scarface was recruited to join Bushwick Bill and Willie D in…
Opening Pandora’s Box
Susan Messing and Michael McCarthy were a beloved couple in the Chicago comedy scene. Michael passed away from cancer in 2020. As part of Susan’s grieving process, she began to…
Laurie Gets a Fun-tervention (Part Two: Beach Party)
Dr. Laurie Santos doesn’t have so much fun these days – which is really bad for her health and wellbeing. So Catherine Price (author of The Power of Fun: How…
Introducing Backstage Pass with Eric Vetro
There’s one special thing the most famous singers in the world have in common: his name is Eric Vetro.From Ariana Grande to Shawn Mendes to John Legend, vocal coach Eric…
Polly Walks Out
Polly Nichols had a husband, a young family and lived in a brand new home built by a philanthropic millionaire. Then she walked out on it all. Why?Surviving without a…
Tennis Lessons
Still basking in the glow of the 2021 US Open, Ben and Khalil take a trip down memory lane to talk about what it was like growing up on South…