Here are the podcasts I recommend listening to from the past week.
Code Switch – “No Words”
This extra podcast reflects on the horrible week of atrocity and death in Baton Rouge, St. Paul, and Dallas.
ProPublica – “How New Jersey Has Embraced ‘State-Sanctioned Loan Sharking’ to Students”
The title really says it all, but it’s really shocking to hear how one state’s student loan program is so exploitative.
Life of the Law – “Bail or Bust”
“There really are two systems of justice. There’s one for people who can make bail, and one for people who can’t.” So begins another story of how the incarceral state is rigged against the least privileged in America.
Ben Franklin’s World – “Age of American Revolutions”
Revolutions broke out across North and South America in the late 1700s and early 1800s. These are their stories, and how the United States – itself a revolutionary republic – responded or didn’t to their fellow seekers of independence.
Song Exploder – “Kill V. Maim by Grimes”
The amazingly talented Claire Boucher, who records as Grimes, breaks down the creation of one of her latest songs.
Panorama of the Mountains 