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How children are taught to read faces a reckoning
Huge numbers of kids are struggling to read. Why? Be...
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Dec 5 2022 47m
Essential trust: How to rebuild trust in America
Studies show a majority of Americans believe other A...
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Dec 2 2022 47m
Essential trust: How healthy skepticism builds trust
Trust is essential for survival, for relationships, ...
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Dec 1 2022 47m
Essential trust: Lessons from Brazil's trust crisis
Brazilians have low levels of institutional trust. T...
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Nov 30 2022 47m
Essential trust: The brain science of trust
What happens in our brains when we trust someone? Ne...
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Nov 29 2022 47m
Essential trust: Trust in the animal kingdom
Rebroadcast: Jane Goodall formed incredible bonds wi...
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Nov 28 2022 47m
Rebroadcast: How to save the endangered monarch butterfly
The fragile beauty of the monarch butterfly. Can the...
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Nov 25 2022 47m
First person: Faces of the 2020 'shecession' today
From February to May 2020, almost 12 million America...
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Nov 25 2022 19m
Rebroadcast: How a U.S. Marine and an Afghan interpreter forged a bond of friendship in Afghanistan
Zac Zaki and Tom Schueman join us to talk about the ...
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Nov 24 2022 47m
Rebroadcast: Journalist Putsata Reang shares an immigrant daughter's story in 'Ma and Me'
Journalist Putsata Reang has reported on many wars. ...
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Nov 23 2022 46m
What Ticketmaster's Taylor Swift debacle reveals about the music industry's monopoly problem
Congress has tried for years to reign in this ticket...
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Nov 22 2022 47m
The inventory glut and what it means for your holiday shopping
Last year at this time, retailers had high demand, b...
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Nov 21 2022 46m
Rebroadcast: An 'invisible epidemic': Survivors of domestic violence on living with traumatic brain injury
An 'invisible epidemic' is causing suffering in mill...
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Nov 18 2022 47m
The economic impact of the pandemic on women
A new word was coined to describe the economy in the...
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Nov 17 2022 47m
Split-ticket voters and their impact on the latest election
In a country that’s increasingly polarized – many vo...
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Nov 16 2022 47m
What Elon Musk's Twitter takeover means for the social media platform
Elon Musk borrowed billions to buy Twitter. Now he h...
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Nov 15 2022 47m
How to slow down and find some meaningful rest
In a world where we emphasize productivity and even ...
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Nov 14 2022 47m
Richard Reeves on why the modern male is struggling, and what to do about it
Are cultural and economic forces changing boyhood, m...
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Nov 11 2022 46m
RSV: What's behind the surge, and how to contain it
Children’s hospitals across the U.S. are being overw...
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Nov 10 2022 47m
What can we learn from the midterms?
The biggest test of U.S. democracy since Jan. 6, 202...
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Nov 9 2022 47m
Journalist David Wallace-Wells on climate change and climate hope
After a year of catastrophic weather events, nations...
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Nov 8 2022 47m
The growing threat to ballot initiatives
Important ballot measures are at play in the midterm...
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Nov 7 2022 47m
Colleges’ role in curbing the student debt crisis
The Biden Administration wants to make higher ed mor...
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Nov 4 2022 47m
Is customer service bad on purpose?
Press one. Press two. Try to find a human, but you c...
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Nov 3 2022 47m
The reality of the drug trade in San Francisco
An open-air drug market is thriving San Francisco’s ...
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Nov 2 2022 47m