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Dec 15, 2019

End-of-Year Special! Robin looks back at 2019, celebrates the impeachment proceedings, and thinks ahead to the Senate trial—plus a special surprise gift from Robin to her listeners.


Dec 8, 2019

Robin on citizen activists, impeachment witnesses, mountain lions, fantastic grandmothers, tiny motorists, and language legacies of Toni Morrison and Ursula K. Le Guin. Guest: Celeste Watkins-Hayes on her surprising research into women with HIV/AIDS.


Nov 17, 2019

Robin on real witch hunts, tax-free tampons, the Kung-Fu nuns of Nepal, neurological "connectomes," and coked-up wild boars. Guests: NY Times investigative reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly on their new book, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh.


Nov 10, 2019

Robin on having predicted the Gangster in Chief; married priests; women gamers; Royal Brits, MPs, and sisterhood; Georgia O’Keeffe; and tampons. Guest: Valerie Plame.


Nov 3, 2019

Robin on California's fires, dashing up Mt. Everest, workplace menopause policy, slut-shaming of a Congresswoman, and women in (yes) media. Guest: Joy Harjo, poet, musician, feminist, and the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States.