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American Castle, a Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary C. Shanklin reveals a century of controversy, politics, and lifestyles of the super-rich and powerful after Mar-a-Lago became a part-time residence and party place upon Post’s divorce from Hutton over mutual adultery.

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Marjorie Kelly is Distinguished Senior Fellow with The Democracy Collaborative, and the author of - Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises (Berrett-Kohler, September 2023) talks today with Leonard on Leonard Lopate at large.

Today Leonard talks with Brian H. Williams, MD, the author of

The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal. Author Brian H. Williams, MD

Industrial hygienist Monona Rossol brings valuable insights of occupational health and safety, which is a crucial aspect of many industries. Whether it's discussing Covid, workplace hazards, air quality, exposure assessments, or safety measures, as an expert in the industrial hygiene Monona provides important information and tips.

For more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the “father of modern gynecology.” He founded a hospital in New York City and had a profitable career treating gentry and royalty in Europe, becoming one of the world’s first celebrity surgeons. Statues were built in his honor, but he wasn’t the hero he had made himself appear to be.

Sims’s greatest medical claim was the result of several years of experimental surgeries—without anesthesia—on a young enslaved woman known as Anarcha; his so-called cure for obstetric fistula forever altered the path of women’s health.

Join us when author J. C. Hallman Sexcavates history, deconstructing the biographical smoke screen of a surgeon who has falsely been enshrined as a medical pioneer and bringing forth a heroic Black woman to her rightful place at the center of the creation story of modern women’s health care.

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) is one of the most cherished and reviled laws ever passed. It mandates protection and preservation of all the nation’s species and biodiversity, whatever the cost. It has been a lightning rod for controversy and conflicts between industry/business and environmentalists.

Lowell E. Baier’s intellectual curiosity during his 60-year career has taken him from a practicing attorney, to an entrepreneur, a tireless advocate for natural resources and wildlife conservation, and a legal and environmental historian and author.

Join us when Lowell E. Baier explores the history of the ESA and it's increasing impact, complexity, and controversy on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

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In these stories of struggle and hope, as one volunteer said, “you see the American story.” For some families, minor mistakes create catastrophes—food stamps cut off, educational opportunities missed, benefits lost. Other families, with the help of volunteers and social supports, escape these traps and take steps toward reaching their dreams. Engaging and eye-opening, We Thought It Would Be Heaven brings readers into the daily lives of Congolese refugees and offers guidance for how activists, workers, and policymakers can help refugee families thrive.

Join us when authors Blair Sackett and Annette Lareau dive into stories of resettled refugees in America and the daunting obstacles they face on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

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DAVID SCHENCK is the former Director of the Ethics Program, Medical University of South Carolina, and was on the faculty of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

A leader on ethics in healthcare and a long-time hospice volunteer, David Schenck is familiar with feeling overwhelmed and helpless while trying to help others. Spurred by the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontline workers, he set out to reframe common ideas about caregiver burnout. The result, Into the Field of Suffering: Finding the Other Side of Burnout.

Drawing on hundreds of conversations with healthcare workers and caregivers, patients and families, Schenck offers a radically different perspective on caregiving. Join us when David Schenck offers simple practices, caregivers can use to develop awareness and skills to avoid burnout and find renewal on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

A “problem of twelve” arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation.

According to Harvard law professor John Coates, the Big Four index funds of Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, and BlackRock control more than twenty percent of the votes of S&P 500 companies—a concentration of power that’s unprecedented in America. Then there’s the rise of private equity funds such as the Big Four of Apollo, Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR, which has amassed $2.7 trillion of assets, and are eroding the legitimacy and accountability of American capitalism, not by controlling public companies, but by taking them over entirely, and removing them from public discourse and public scrutiny.

Join us as author John Coates examines the last few decades of transformation in the American economy — and calls our attention to what is sure to be one of the major political and economic issues of our time on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.