40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation
What good are piecemeal reparations? From Georgetown University, where school leadership once sold enslaved people, to Evanston, Illinois, w...
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20 of 34 episodes40 Acres: The old Jim Crow
Why slavery? Marxist scholar Adolph Reed argues that Jim Crow — not enslavement — is the defining experience for Black Americans today. Reed...
40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules
Paying the price. One of the typical questions asked during conversations about reparations is how to pay for them. Fabiola talks with econo...
40 Acres: The original promise
Fabiola Cineas talks with Nkechi Taifa, the founder and director of the Reparation Education Project, about the history of the fight for rep...
The Toll
In this bonus, chat episode of The Impact, Jillian is joined by Vox's Matt Yglesias and Course Correction's Nelufar Hedayat to talk about ho...
Where the US already has a border wall
Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, are known as “Ambos Nogales” — “both Nogaleses.” The city straddles the border of Arizona and Sonora,...
Free tuition is not enough
Free college tuition seems like a solution to so many problems. After all, the price of tuition is the No. 1 reason students give for leavin...
Family Dollar(s)
Natasha Razouk wants to give her 7-year-old the best possible life. She buys big boxes of fresh tomatoes at Costco, and she gets her daughte...
Saving Private Health Care
Janet Feldman has been paying for private insurance for years. She does so even though Australia has a robust public insurance option. But w...
How Taiwan got Medicare-for-All
In the early 1990s, the government of Taiwan decided to try an experiment. In just nine months, they completely revolutionized their health...
Green New Germany
Two decades ago, Hans-Josef Fell quietly started a revolution in his home country, with a law that looks a lot like part of the Green New De...
After conviction, a second chance
President Gerald Ford took office during one of the most difficult times in the country’s history. In August 1974, the US had just lived thr...
How to stop an epidemic
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is running for president with a plan to fight the opioid epidemic. Her legislation would dramatically expand access to...
The Impact of 2020
In this season preview, Vox’s Jillian Weinberger calls a fellow native Ohioan to discuss the perils of Swing State pride during presidential...
New season, new host
Sarah Kliff returns for a farewell and a handoff to The Impact's new host, Jillian Weinberger, who has a preview of what's to come in our ne...
Denmark’s paternity leave problem
Denmark gives new parents nearly a year off work after they have a baby. Most of that time can be taken by either parent — but dads take bar...
The incredible shrinking city
For decades, Memphis grew by bringing its suburbs into the city limits. City officials thought this suburb-gobbling policy would be an econo...
Leaving Baltimore behind
Baltimore is running a unique housing experiment that gives longtime residents vouchers to leave the city’s poorest, most violent neighborho...
What schools look like when we fund them fairly
All across the country, it seems like a given: places with more expensive houses have nicer schools because they can pay higher taxes. That’...
Food fight!
22% of New Yorkers are obese. In Chicago it is more than a quarter of the city. Obesity puts people at risk of diabetes, heart disease, even...