Oct 3, 2021

Robin (vaccinated twice and awaiting her booster!) takes on vaccines: their scrupulous science, surprisingly feminist history, testing, and mandates. Plus resistance (racist misuse), and opposition anti-vaxxers, Trumpists, and religionists.

Sep 26, 2021

As Congress votes, Robin deconstructs “infrastructure”—and finds a surprise. Special Guest: novelist and poet Sandra Cisneros on her new book, Martita, I Remember You.

Sep 19, 2021

Season premiere! Robin reports on the summer and goes full frontal attack on the end in Afghanistan and the urgent threat to women’s reproductive rights in the U.S. Guest: Alida Brill on her book, Nobody’s Business, about privacy and abortion.

Jun 27, 2021

Season Finale! Robin plumbs parallels from the 1920s—from pandemic to pandemic, automobile to Harlem Renaissance, prohibition to evolution, women’s enfranchisement to The Great Migration. So how can we avoid repeating our mistakes this time?

Jun 20, 2021

Robin celebrates Juneteenth, Jubilee or Freedom Day, commemorating the end of enslavement in the United States. Special Guest: Dr. Janet Dewart Bell, social justice activist and author.