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Decriminalization in Spain
This week we’re talking all things substance-related with psychologist and Columbia professor Carl L. Hart. In his new book, Drug Use for Grown-Ups:...
The BREATHE Act
America’s “justice” system is broken. If the events of the last year haven’t cemented that notion in your head yet, our latest episode...
The Fall of Enron
This week we’re delving into the shadowy world of white-collar crime with lawyer Jennifer Taub, so we thought it was only fitting to...
A Primer on Sexual Harassment
We often conflate sexual assault and sexual harassment, but they’re quite different things and we should understand the difference. So, when celebrated philosopher...
How the U.S. Still Enslaves People
According to conventional wisdom, every history textbook in America, and any speech remotely about Abraham Lincoln, America no longer enslaves people. Further, with...
Towards the End of Child Poverty
If you’re living in poverty in America, it almost certainly isn’t your fault. Instead, argues our latest guest Mark Rank, you’re a victim...
Israel's Oasis of Peace
As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raged this week, our latest interview with seasoned peacebuilder Séverine Autesserre gained an urgent new edge. Autesserre spoke to...
Fracking and the Tragedy of the Commons
Fracking is a complicated issue in shale-rich communities of the country, which start with American property rights. They are unique almost the entire...
How to Change Other People’s Minds
This week on Future Hindsight, we teach you to change other people’s minds! …Sort of. Actually, Andy Norman, renowned philosopher, professor, and author...
Missouri, The Bellwether
It’s 2021, and America’s oldest political party is busy dismantling the norms and institutions that allowed them to exist in the first place,...
Can Alaska's Permanent Fund Pave for More Social Welfare Funding?
We’re back this week with a brand-new season, which means new blog posts to go with it! For our first episode of Season...
3 Ways to Raise Anti-Racist Kids
We live in a society stratified—among other things— by race. Although we’re finally beginning to address the centuries of white supremacy blanketing America’s...
Want More Equitable Healthcare? Start by Expanding Medicaid
We are not all experiencing the same pandemic. According to Georges C. Benjamin MD, the Executive Director of the American Public Health Association,...
Why Social Mobility Matters
Social mobility is a vital part of the generalized American Dream—the act of creating a brighter future for yourself and your family by...
Implicit Bias and Preschool Expulsion
As we continue our season focusing on systemic racism lurking in unlikely places, Yale researcher and professor Dr. Walter Gilliam provided us with...
Education and Title VI
The United States has a long and unpleasant history when it comes to Native Americans and education. The long-standing boarding school program severely...
A Brief History of Family Separations at the Southern Border
The Trump Administration oversaw many malicious, destructive policies, but few rankled as much as immigrant child separation. The program began in 2018 as...
Whole-Worker Organizing
Unions have long been a bastion of the middle-class and are a vital part of American labor. They help raise wages, improve working...
How the New Deal Segregated America
We often think of segregation as a bad policy that ended long ago—a shameful part of our history put far behind us. In...
Why Does the Right Hate Critical Race Theory?
This week we had the distinct honor of interviewing Mari Matsuda, a co-founder of Critical Race Theory (CRT). In her enlightening conversation with...