Liz Phair’s Soberish
Liz Phair helped lay the foundation for a generation of fierce, independent artists on her gritty 1993 debut album, Exile In Guyville. Early in her career, she pushed for freedom…
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Do NOT Pass GO!
Lizzie J. Magie (played by Helena Bonham Carter) should be celebrated as the inventor of what would become Monopoly – but her role in creating the smash hit board game…
Bonus: Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Grant
Whenever Malcolm and Adam Grant cross paths on the book tour circuit, it’s always a good time. Here are pieces of two conversations from Clubhouse: one about Malcolm’s The Bomber…
Season 1 bonus: “The Eyewitness”
On the night that Tristan Beaudette was killed in Malibu Creek State Park, Stacey Sebourn was in a tent with her eight-year-old daughter and her daughter’s best friend just across…
Tiffany Haddish Discovers Her Superpower
After her mom’s car accident throws Tiffany Haddish’s childhood into chaos, a social worker gives her an ultimatum that changes her life.
Remote Control
This photograph is courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, specifically the NASA History Office and the NASA JSC Media Services Center.In 1961, President Kennedy announced that the United…
Is This A Breaking Point for Palestinian Israelis?
Palestinain Israeli human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah explains why violence erupted in Israel this month and what it might mean for the future of Palestinian Israelis.
Cultural Asymmetry in Music Technology is Solvable
A lot of popular music is dominated by the western musical constructions of scale and time but when it comes to creative work — why be so limited? Khyam Allami…
Rhiannon Giddens Comes Home
Rhiannon Giddens is a brilliant fiddle and banjo player who’s one of the few musicians alive today trained in the centuries-old black string band tradition. Giddens is a North Carolina…
Judges Judy & Jerry Sheindlin
She’s a nonstop dynamo, he’s a mensch, and they’ve been married not once but twice — to each other! With a year apart, and many lessons learned, Judy and Jerry…
Wrong Tools Cost Lives
The British Government promised to create a “world-beating” system to track deadly Covid 19 infections – but it included an outdated version of the off-the-shelf spreadsheet software Microsoft. The result…
A Black Musician Takes on the KKK
When a Black jazz musician meets a Klansman at a bar, his life takes a sudden turn. He ends up inspiring hundreds of people to leave white supremacist groups.