Anthropologist Anita Hannig spent the last five years learning everything she could about medically assisted death in the United States. She talked to doctors, patients, caregivers and lawmakers. She stood with families as they said goodbye to their loved ones. She learned about the medications used to hasten death and the ways laws were structured to build in safeguards against abuses. She joins Diane to discuss her new book, "The Day I Die.”

Diane talks to Washington Post health reporter Dan Diamond about the scope of the monkeypox outbreak, just how dangerous the virus is, and the government's botched effort to stop the spread.

Diane talks to historian Elisabeth Griffith about the fight for women's equality in the U.S., including battles won and lost, and the struggle to create an inclusive path toward fair treatment for all.

Inflation is high. The GDP has shrunk. But the job market has never been better. The Washington Post's Damian Paletta helps make sense of the U.S. economy today.

From high mortgage rates to shortages that have spread coast to coast, New York Times reporter Emily Badger explains the roots -- and consequences of our country's broken housing system.

Fifty years after the Tuskegee study, Diane talks to Harvard's Evelynn Hammonds about the intersection of race and medicine in the United States, and the lessons from history that can help us understand health inequities today.

Pills, the right to travel and fetal personhood laws -- Diane talks to Temple University Law School's Rachel Rebouché about what's next in the fight over abortion in the U.S.

What's happened to groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys post-January 6, and the ongoing threat of far-right extremism in this country. Diane talks to Sam Jackson, author of "Oath Keepers: Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Antigovernment Group"

For centuries science described male animals as aggressive, promiscuous, and dominant, and females as pretty much the opposite. Author Lucy Cooke says we got it wrong and updates our understanding of the queens of the animal kingdom.