How Denée Benton conquered Hollywood, TV, and Broadway
Denée Benton is having a very good year. She’s currently starring in season four of the hit television show ‘The Gilded Age’ while starring...
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Does a high IQ make you smart?
Why IQ still matters to people - even if it's biased. President Trump and Silicon Valley tech bros are obsessed with IQ, but the history of...
Why is divorce financially harder on women?
Divorce can be liberating. And expensive. When author and science journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer separated from her ex-husband, her social...
Bringing a chatbot to the polls
How do you decide who to vote for? Some people are turning to AI chatbots to craft bespoke voter guides, while others are leaning on the wis...
Our money dysmorphia is real
Are we in an economic crisis? It’s a question that prompted Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi to pitch her...
There's nothing scarier than private equity in food
Does private equity turn restaurants into zombified husks of their former selves? From the Crumbl and Insomnia cookie empires, to some of ou...
How will Gen Z independents shape the midterms?
Has Gen Z changed how we think about independents? It's no secret that Americans are politically divided, as faith in political parties erod...
A chatbot a day keeps the doctor away
Who do you trust to help you make decisions about your sexual health? In the absence of widespread public health campaigns and high-profile...
How artists conquer Tiny Desk
What makes a great Tiny Desk concert? For NPR’s Tiny Desk Creative Director Bobby Carter, success means making space for an artist's creativ...
The sport of online harassment
Non-consensually posted intimate images can devastate women – and beget male bonding. The burner accounts on X loosely grouped into the “bur...
Who gets to keep the lights on?
As our climate crisis continues to unfold, who gets to keep the lights on? On August 11th, a derecho hit northwest Indiana, and the predomin...
The high flying girls who desegregated America
She's America's sweetheart, but she just might be America's superhero as well. The American cheerleader has become one of the nation's most...
Nowadays, celebrity is a state of mind
We’re in an era where everyone can be a celebrity. And that’s okay! For the past ten years, Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber, hosts of the pod...
The proposal to know less about America
Census data about race can be incredibly important – but we might lose it. The Trump administration has proposed to stop asking people in th...
The Palestinians telling their own stories
Palestinians are challenging the narrative one story at a time. Editor-in-Chief of The Key , Sara Yasin , wants us to rethink what she calls...
The secret pain of your high school bully
Some of life's hardest lessons are learned in high school. In Jocelyn Bioh's Broadway play, School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play ,...
Is loving your mother worth the pain?
Author Mary H.K. Choi is obsessed with her mom. New York Times bestselling author, Mary H.K Choi , is known for her young adult novels Emerg...
When did it become OK to blast TikToks in public?
There are deep roots behind the latest entry into public noise. It’s a now-common scenario: you’re using public transit, or waiting at the a...
So you wanna be a critic...
Social media has made it easy for everyone to give their opinion...so why do people hate critics? To answer that question Brittany is joined...
Bacteria is taking over the food pyramid
How do you know what's safe to eat? You don't. And after a summer full of food recalls from lettuce to blueberries and even jalapeños, a reg...