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Episode List:
How can communal endeavors survive a pandemic?
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, March 27, 2020
Dissecting how outbreak narratives infected our worldview
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, March 20, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis was preventable—if only we’d listened to the epidemiologists sounding the alarm
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, March 13, 2020
How we can combine peer pressure and public policy to make the world a better place
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, March 06, 2020
How housing became the foremost symbol of inequality, and what we can do about it
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, February 28, 2020
How violence, exploitation, and religion have ruled Latin America’s history—and might portend its future
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, February 21, 2020
Going beyond its glossy lifestyle image to the existentialism at its heart
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, February 14, 2020
What happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard?
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, December 13, 2019
Carmen Maria Machado on her meta-memoir of a harrowing relationship
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, December 06, 2019
