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Follow Mike Birbiglia from Providence, R.I. to Washington, D.C. as he builds jokes based on personal truths, mixing comedy with revelations and...
Good One: A Show About Jokes
In 1973, Eunice Johnson, the founder of Ebony and Jet, launched the first national cosmetics brand created exclusively for Black women. This film...
The Beauty of Blackness
An offensive lineman who, after seeing a career-ending injury cut his professional football dreams short, finds unexpected fame and fortune in the...
Thicc
"How Los Angeles destroyed a community and built a ballpark on top of it" (Vox).
The dark legacy of this iconic baseball stadium
"What Donald Trump’s win means for abortion, immigration, foreign policy, and more. "Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States,...
How Trump’s second term will be different
"How our digital lives are impacting our climate goals" (Vox).
Can clean energy handle the AI boom?
"The post-covid pop-up boom, explained."
Why "pop-up" restaurants are everywhere now
"America grew from a colony to a superpower in 200 years. "With over 800 military bases around the globe, the US is easily the most powerful nation...
How America became a superpower
"There’s a reason so many of us don’t have enough retirement savings."
Why it’s hard for Americans to retire
"Why we’re all paying so much more for Netflix, and what we can do about it."
Why the era of cheap streaming is over
" There’s no denying that Americans rely heavily on Social Security benefits. Estimates from the Social Security Administration found that 97%...
Is the US running out of Social Security?
"The (bad) options for Americans facing an emergency expense."
You need $500. How should you get it?
Why the US has so many undocumented immigrants.
The law that broke US immigration
"Lawns aren’t natural. Why do so many Americans have them?" (Vox).
Why do we have grass lawns?
"If high inflation hurts just about everyone, why can’t we have no inflation?"
Why can’t prices just stay the same?
"And the study that offers a glimpse into a post-Roe v. Wade future" (Vox).
How abortion bans make inequality worse
"She’s Barbie. He’s just Jaws. "The summer of 2023 was the summer of Barbie. Everywhere you looked there was marketing — posters,...
Why Jaws and Barbie were such blockbusters
"But they’re right that something has changed in American cities."
Most Americans are wrong about crime
