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What Remains Unanswered After The 2020 Election, with William Howell and Luigi Zingales
Nov 11, 2020It’s hard to think of a presidential election that has raised as many questions as 2020. What do these results tell us about the views and desires of the American public, what the polls got right and ...
When Governments Share Their Secrets—And When They Don't, with Austin Carson
Oct 29, 2020When should a government choose to reveal a secret—or conceal it? Your knee-jerk reaction may be to say they should never hide anything from the public. But political scientist Austin Carson of the Un...
How We Can Fix a Fractured Supreme Court, with Geoffrey Stone
Oct 15, 2020The Supreme Court today may be more politicized than any other time in U.S. history. With the expected confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump will have appointed three justices in le...
Correcting History: Native Americans Tell Their Own Stories
Oct 01, 2020Since their inception, natural history museums have struggled with how to represent Native Americans and their culture. People from these communities are often not included in the conversation, and th...
The Future of Voting And The 2020 Election, with Anthony Fowler
Sep 17, 2020The 2020 presidential election this November is happening amid an unprecedented pandemic. As states scramble to scale up mail-in voting, President Trump claims it will lead to widespread fraud. But wh...
Why The Quantum Internet Could Change Everything, with David Awschalom
Sep 03, 2020Imagine a new technology that could create unbreakable encryption, supercharge the development of AI, and radically expedite the development of drug treatments for everything from cancer to COVID-19. ...
How Loneliness and Isolation Affect Your Health, with Prof. Linda Waite
Aug 27, 2020The quarantine to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic has left many people trapped inside, alone. Loneliness and isolation were already a major health crisis in our country before COVID-19, and ...
The Way You Talk—And What It Says About You, with Prof. Katherine Kinzler
Aug 13, 2020The way we talk is probably not something most of us spend a lot of time thinking about, but when it comes to communicating, what we’re saying may only be as important as how we say it. That’s what P...
From LSD to Ecstasy, How Psychedelics Are Altering Therapy, with Prof. Harriet de Wit
Jul 30, 2020People have been taking psychoactive drugs since the beginning of human history, but there hasn’t been a lot of good scientific study of these substances. One person who has been trying to turn a scie...
How Can We Achieve Real Police Reform?
Jul 16, 2020What are we going to do about police misconduct? Many are calling for a total defunding of the police, while others are looking for systems to enhance accountability through reform. Many have pointed ...