Throughline :: The Electoral College
The history of why the United States has a backwards system of electing Presidents and how it has been used to promote slaveholding and racism throughout history.
Planet Money :: Caste Comes to Silicon Valley
The constitution of India officially outlawed the ancient caste system in 1947, but discrimination against people based on caste persists in India and has followed Indian immigrants to the US.
Code Switch :: Let’s Talk About Kamala Harris
Evaluating Kamala Harris’ record on criminal justice as a prosecutor and California attorney general.
The War on Cars :: America’s Love Affair With Cars
Efforts to fight the deleterious effects of the automobile are often countered with the statement that Americans have a love affair with their cars. This podcast traces the origin of this term in an industry promotional program starring Groucho Marx and questions the validity of the “love affair.”
RUNNING TALLY OF PODCAST OF THE WEEK APPEARANCES
- AirSpace – 1
- Afropop Worldwide – 3
- All Songs Considered – 3
- And Nothing Less – Entire series
- The Anthropocene Reviewed – 1
- BackStory – 4
- Brattle Film Podcast – 2
- Best of the Left – 2
- Coronavirus Daily/Consider This – 5
- Code Switch – 4
- Decoder Ring – 5
- Fresh Air – 9
- Futility Closet – 3
- Have You Heard – 3
- Here & Now – 1
- Hidden Brain – 3
- Hit Parade – 3
- Hub History – 1
- The Last Archive – 4
- LeVar Burton Reads – 1
- Memory Palace – 4
- More Than Enough – 4
- Mortified – 1
- The Moth – 1
- Nice White Parents – entire series
- 99% Invisible – 10
- 60-Second Science – 4
- Planet Money – 6
- The Politics of Everything – 2
- Radio Boston – 3
- Radiolab – 8
- Retro Disney World – 1
- Risk! – 1
- Science Talk – 2
- Smithsonian Sidedoor – 4
- Snap Judgment – 1
- Sound Opinions – 1
- The Thirty20Eight – 1
- This American Life – 2
- This Day in Esoteric Public History – 1
- Throughline – 12
- The Tomorrow Society – 1
- The Truth – 1
- Twenty Thousand Hertz – 7
- The War on Cars – 1
- Wedway Radio – 1
- What Next – 11
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