Famed journalist Stephen Kinzer reads an excerpt from his new book, The True Flag, and discusses American imperialism today and yesterday.

You can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gBKqT08UF-5BgdXbu1puaYaxzOEBG4xS/view?usp=sharing]

What will be the fate of Obamacare in the age of Trump? Two health policy experts review the benefits and costs of the Affordable Care Act, and what its repeal could mean for Americans.

You can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a1NiXG5u3tJt4am9mv9CIYpxzuBrre86/view?usp=sharing]

Upward mobility: it's the American dream. But over the past 50 years, the prospects of children earning more than their parents has dropped to 50 percent. What has led to this decline, and what can be done to reverse it? Three economists are using big data to understand the role that college plays in leveling the playing field and giving kids the opportunity to climb the income ladder.

You can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/16vHNwjE4z-kipBx870gBWAnsVIIxCrqG/view?usp=sharing]

Conservative columnist Ramesh Ponnuru discusses politics, policy, and the Trump presidency.

You can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wyZ_0yn3ai9Lba3P2wfY7tLtWtAf3e6f/view?usp=sharing]

Postdoctoral Fellow M. Ali Kadivar discusses the impact President Trump's executive order on immigration has had on his work as a scholar.

You can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lClJ-jPz_R98Ravfeb1cEGvtCSIwAvZX/view?usp=sharing]

Anthropologist and filmmaker Narges Bajoghli reads the words of a former Iranian soldier who, after being severely injured by chemical weapons used by the Iraqi army, finds solace in music.

You can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vN5CHmVwr0y9TDupUjABlnuSzPnhj99a/view?usp=sharing]

Edward Steinfeld, director of the Watson Institute, queries political scientist Margaret Weir and political economist and director of the Rhodes Center [https://watson.brown.edu/rhodes] Mark Blyth about the rise of illiberalism across the globe.

You can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zHr9Ym4ZfjOo0BME1yCwVgazb5ZO-5Yy/view?usp=sharing]

Elias Muhanna, an expert in classical Arabic literature at the Watson Institute's Middle East Studies program, remembers a childhood road trip in Lebanon and what it taught him about war and hope.

You can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-zbt8Ew3oQ-eFb8Wb7AlArzWx3YGye6y/view?usp=sharing]

Sex workers' rights activist Bella Robinson and sociologist and Watson postdoctoral fellow Elena Shih discuss the "trafficking" and "rescue" narratives muddying the reality of what sex work is--and what sex workers really need.

You can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xWbuFAYDX7EbhKxBMAFZjlOvhAo2ycw0/view?usp=sharing]

Smart Relief: Bridging the academic and humanitarian divide.

Tony Bogues, Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies, and Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University, is a historian of Haiti.

Adam Levine, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Brown University Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship, is an expert in disaster medicine.

Together they discuss how to provide the best humanitarian response to the current cholera outbreak.

You can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rSmApE6jaQH_i3wQKGtSM9e9mfeCPsQg/view?usp=sharing]