Episode summary: David and Helen talk this week with Amy Maxmen, senior reporter at Nature. Amy has covered the Ebola epidemic in Western Africa and now COVID-19 in the US. Does she see comparisons between the two? What explains the failures of the US response? Can the WHO still make a difference? P...

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Episode summary: Credit card companies are making billions of dollars off of people who don’t understand the rules of the money game. Can a good coach help level the playing field? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode summary: Lines are drawn, as Wayne LaPierre’s supremacy is tested, and the rift spills out into public.

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Episode summary: With much of the world’s population staying indoors, there are fewer cars on the roads, planes in the skies and workplaces and factories open. Will this have an impact on climate change? Plus as the streets become quieter, is it just us, or have the birds begun to sing much more lou...

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Episode summary: “The question becomes, when is enough enough?” Today, we’re talking about forgiveness. Martha Minow’s latest book is When Should Law Forgive. Listen to our other shows, This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. If you haven’t already...

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Episode summary: “America” and “empire.” Do those words go together? If so, what kind of imperialism does the U.S. practice, and how has American empire changed over time? By host and producer John Biewen, with series collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews with Nikhil Singh and Daniel Immerwah...

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Episode summary: Against the Rules Presents: Gangster Capitalism. In this season of Gangster Capitalism, the NRA is in the crosshairs. This past year has rocked the country’s most powerful special interest organization like none other. Internal power struggles have exposed the group’s questionable,...

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Episode summary: There have been over 200,000 deaths as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. All have been tragic, but there are two people in particular we’ve lost due to COVID that were part of the world of architecture and design that we want to honor with a couple of stories today. First, we ar...

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Episode summary: We talk with David Miliband, head of the International Rescue Committee, about the impact of the pandemic on the world’s poorest countries. What happens in places where social distancing is not possible? Plus we discuss the long-term implications of the crisis for the future global...

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