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English
United States
79 episodes
since June 12, 2023
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What happens when the fight over reproductive freedom becomes a fight over women's place in society? My guest, Erin Matson, has spent more than two decades confronting that question. As the co-founder, president, and CEO of Reproaction, she's witnessed how political movements build power, how wome…

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Before the headlines, before the Taliban, before decades of war, there was another Afghanistan. In this extraordinary conversation, two generations of Afghan women come together to tell the story of what has been lost, what has endured, and why the struggle for human dignity in Afghanistan is ulti…
What happens when a lie looks indistinguishable from the truth—and the truth itself can be dismissed as a lie? We're entering dangerous territory where artificial intelligence, disinformation, and the deliberate manipulation of evidence are changing far more than what we see online. They're changi…
When did caring about another human being become a political statement? In this episode, I examine what happens when empathy becomes tangled up with political allegiance—when expressing concern for Palestinians, Israelis, immigrants, women in Afghanistan, or people suffering halfway around the wor…
What does it actually mean to have moral conviction? It’s easy to know what we believe when those beliefs remain safely inside of us. But something changes when we give them a voice, put our name next to them, and say: This is where I stand. In this solo episode, I explore what I've learned from …
What does it take to turn private grief into national change? In this deeply human and unflinching conversation, I sit down with Kristen Christy — a national leader in suicide prevention, military spouse, and the originator of what became the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Kristen’s story is …
Do we truly see one another — or do we reduce each other to labels? In this powerful conversation, Gabrielle Claiborne — author, TEDx speaker, leadership strategist, and advocate — shares what it means to live authentically as a trans woman in a world where identity is debated in headlines and pol…
What happens when a government begins to see its universities not as places of learning, but as threats? Mayda Hocevar watched that transformation happen in Venezuela. She began her career as a professor of law and legal philosophy at the University of Los Andes, never imagining that one day she …
What happens when the thing that once kept you safe begins costing you something deeper? Dr. Lubna Omar learned early that survival sometimes meant knowing what not to say. Growing up Palestinian in Syria under the Assad regime, silence wasn't simply caution. It was something you learned, absorbed…
What if one of our most fundamental assumptions about land is wrong? For centuries, land in the United States has been tied to wealth, power, race, and who gets to belong. But for farmer, food justice activist, and author Leah Penniman, the very idea that land is something we can own demands a dee…
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