Why Has American Classical Music Ignored Its Black Past?

And the immigrant composer who predicted a different future

Fashion Kills

How our hunger for more clothes is killing the environment and exploiting workers

The Next Menu

What will our dinner tables look like 30 years into the climate crisis?

One Job Should Be Enough

How workers’ voices were silenced in America—and how they’re fighting back

Bloodsuckers

How the mosquito changed human history—for better and for worse

Junk Science

How belief in biological racial difference pollutes the world of science, from eugenics to genetics

A Delicate Elephant Balance

Could human partnership be the secret to saving this Asian giant?

You Never Step Into the Same Internet Twice

Linguist Gretchen McCulloch on the new rules of language

Aida’s Story

What one woman’s life between two countries can teach us about the humanitarian crisis at the border

How a Language Dies

Chronicling the disappearance of a remote Papua New Guinean tongue—and everything else that goes with it

Something New in the West

Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front

Family/History

David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

Overconsumed

Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard

Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

American Horror Story

Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear

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