Yesterday
David Ost, "Red Pill Politics: Demystifying Today's Far Right" (New Press, 2026)
Around the globe, far-right political parties and movements are on the march, winning popular support, legislative seats, and presidencies--and stoking widespread fears of the revival of fascism. What to make of this terrifying drift? In this timely, deeply researched, and deftly ... Show More
39m 27s
Mar 28
Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education. On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to address complaints about its libraries. Like so many districts in Texas and across the country, Denton had been responding to accusatio ... Show More
29m 17s
Mar 27
Sarah James, "The Politics of Failed Policies" (Oxford UP, 2025)
The Politics of Failed Policies (Oxford UP, 2025) examines how the interplay of politics and data affects when failed policies get recognized. It shows how compelling data and analysis is an important political tool for highlighting failure. Importantly, the research demonstrates ... Show More
28m 14s
May 2025
A New Front Line for Abortion Rights
<p>After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortions in the United States actually went up, in part because of a novel legal strategy that pitted blue states against red states.</p><p>Pam Belluck, who covers health and science for The Times, discusses that strategy and ex ... Show More
25m 21s
Mar 2024
Blue State Barriers and the Messy Map of Abortion Access
<p>As blue states try to shore up access to abortion and reproductive care, some are facing a threat they didn’t see coming: Catholic health care mergers.</p>
<p>In the first segment, Reveal’s Nina Martin takes us to New Mexico, a blue state that’s been working hard since the U. ... Show More
50m 36s
Aug 2022
What’s It Like to Be a Red-State Abortion Doctor Post-Roe?
The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the precedents set by Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which established the right to abortion in the U.S., has created a chaotic legal situation as conservative states rush to ban the procedure. On this week’s show, Vanessa ... Show More
29m 1s
Jun 2025
Carole Joffe and David Cohen on their book After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but not Abortion
<p>Immediately after the <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization </em>Supreme Court<em> </em>case<em> </em>that overturned<em> Roe v. Wade,</em>shock, sadness, and anger were predominant. But even still, abortion providers, abortion fund workers, and other advocates and ... Show More
46m 20s
Sep 2024
The Midwest U.S.: Piecing Together Abortion Care and Access
<p>The Midwest is a patchwork of different abortion laws—while some states like Michigan and Minnesota have protected access, others have completely banned care, like Indiana and Missouri. <b>Garnet Henderson</b>, Senior Multiplatform Reporter at Rewire News Group and host and pr ... Show More
37m 47s
Nov 2024
11/03/2024: Election Truth, Unintended Consequences, The Land of Novo
Days before America elects its 60th president of the United States, all eyes are on Georgia after it was a center of the scheme to overthrow the 2020 election. In this year’s high-stakes race, correspondent Scott Pelley reports on how Georgia officials plan to ensure public trust ... Show More
48m 10s
In From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 (U Nebraska Press, 2020), Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the faults in California’s anti-abortion statute throughout the twentieth century. Focused on the patients who ... Show More
<p>With abortion on the Nov. 5 ballot, we look back at Steve Levitt’s controversial research about an unintended consequence of <i>Roe v. Wade</i>.</p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>SOURCES:</strong><ul><li><a href="https://law.stanford.edu/directory/john-j-donohue-iii/">John Donohue</a ... Show More
