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The Experiment Podcast: Is ‘Evangelical’ a Political Identity?
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- The Experiment Podcast: Is ‘Evangelical’ a Political Identity?
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- 38:59
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- This episode was originally published on May 13, 2021.
These days, everyone assumes that this is just a fact of life: Evangelicals are Republicans, and Republicans are evangelicals. The powerful alliance culminated in the 2016 election of Donald Trump, tying the reputation of Christianity in America to the Trump brand—maybe permanently.
It wasn’t always like this. One man—a political operative from Georgia named Ralph Reed—devised a plan to harness the energy of young Christians and turn them into America’s most powerful voting bloc, one church mailing list at a time. Decades later, when Donald Trump came on the political scene, Reed knew he would be big—and convinced his fellow evangelicals that they should give him a shot.
Trump’s election was everything Reed spent his entire career fighting for: a president who was anti–abortion rights, listened to evangelical leaders, and advocated for Christians who felt pushed out of the publ...
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- Reimagining Justice Reform: A Conversation With Former Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms
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- 45:29
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- How can we reimagine criminal-justice reform? Join The Atlantic’s Ronald Brownstein and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms for a discussion on the role of policing, eliminating racial disparities within the justice system, and the stakeholders needed to help rethink public safety.
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- The Experiment Podcast: The Global History of SPAM Canned Meat
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- 26:07
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- During World War II, wherever American troops spread democracy, they left the canned meat known as SPAM in its wake. When American GIs landed overseas, they often tossed cans of SPAM out of trucks to the hungry people they sought to liberate. That’s how producer Gabrielle Berbey’s grandfather first came to know and love SPAM as a kid in the Philippines. But 80 years later, SPAM no longer feels American. It is now a staple Filipino food: a beloved emblem of Filipino identity. Gabrielle sets out on a journey to understand how SPAM made its way into the hearts of generations of Pacific Islanders, and ends up opening a SPAM can of worms.
This episode is the first in a new three-part miniseries from The Experiment—“SPAM: How the American Dream Got Canned.” Listen to Part 2: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2022/02/spam-1985-hormel-labor-strike/622037/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=podcast
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- The Experiment Podcast: How One Woman Unveiled Myths About the Female Orgasm
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- 28:41
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This episode was originally published on May 27, 2021.
Katharine Smyth is 39 years old and has never, to her knowledge, had an orgasm. This fact didn’t worry her very much until her 30s, when a divorce and a series of dates with frustrated men made her think she might never find love again. So she embarked on a quest—diving deep into an industry designed to solve her problem, searching for a feeling that’s been a fixation of science, pseudoscience, politics, and philosophy for centuries.
“The metaphor that came to me is that it’s kind of like a Rorschach test, where it’s this abstraction that all of these doctors and scientists are projecting their own worldview upon. And it’s almost always to the benefit of men.”
In this episode of The Experiment: A personal quest for sexual fulfillment reveals centuries of mythmaking about female pleasure.
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- Introducing SPAM: How the American Dream Got Canned
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- America, shall I compare thee to a can of SPAM? Thou art more decadent, salty and sweet, container of even greater mystery. In this three-part series, some of the meatiest questions the United States faces about how we work for the food we eat play out in the story of special processed American meat. The Experiment embarks on a remarkable journey to the heart of SPAM—from remote Philippine provinces, where American GIs disseminated the American dream through cans of SPAM, to Austin, Minnesota, SPAMtown U.S.A., where SPAM employed generations of meatpackers, and tore the town apart. SPAM inspired aspirations and opened wounds in the American worker’s psyche that we still yearn for and ache from today.
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- Cinema Cafe: Dakota Johnson & Keke Palmer with Hannah Giorgis
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- 1:02:42
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Dakota Johnson and Keke Palmer join The Atlantic’s Hannah Georgis to discuss their films, “Alice,” about a woman in the antebellum South who escapes slavery only to learn it’s 1973, and “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” about a bar mitzvah party host who befriends a young mother and daughter.
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- The Experiment Podcast: Why the Right to Vote Depends on a Voting Rights Amendment
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- 28:32
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This episode was originally published on February 11, 2021.
Nineteen sixty-four. Freedom Summer. Marylin Thurman Newkirk was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, in a county where just about 250 Black adults out of more than 13,000 were registered to vote. She would grow up as part of the first generation of Americans who lived in a true democracy, according to her son Vann R. Newkirk II.
That has a lot to do with a law enacted a year after her birth, in 1965. That’s when Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, which ended Jim Crow laws preventing Black people from voting in many states.
But the protections enacted in 1965 didn’t last, and today they’re hanging by a thread. Now, in the aftermath of his mother’s death at 56, Newkirk argues that the best way to ensure that democracy lasts is a constitutional amendment.
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- Regina Hall’s Movie ‘Master’ Was an Exercise in Creative Connection | Sundance Film Festival
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- 21:57
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The Atlantic’s Hannah Giorgis sits down with “Nine Perfect Strangers” actress Regina Hall to discuss her storied career in Hollywood and her latest dramatic thriller premiering at Sundance, “Master,” which was shot during the coronavirus pandemic.
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- Elizabeth Banks and the ‘Call Jane’ Cast on ’60s Feminism and Roe v. Wade | Sundance Film Festival
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- 40:19
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The filmmakers and cast of “Call Jane”—actors Elizabeth Banks, Wunmi Mosaku, and Sigourney Weaver, director Phyllis Nagy, and producer Robbie Brenner—sit down with The Atlantic’s Shirley Li to discuss the film’s focus on women’s rights in the 1960s.
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- ‘892’ Filmmakers on Casting John Boyega and Depicting Veteran Trauma | Sundance Film Festival
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- 32:25
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The Atlantic’s David Sims discusses the upcoming film “892,” starring John Boyega and Michael K. Williams, with Abi Damaris Corbin (director and screenwriter), and Kwame Kwei-Armah (screenwriter). The film, based on the life of former Marine Brian Brown-Easley, explores the mental and emotional health of veterans returning to civilian life.
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- Claiming Space for Women in Film (With Eva Longoria Bastón, Chloe Okuno, and Krystin Ver Linden)
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- 28:37
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The Atlantic’s Shirley Li interviews first-time film directors Eva Longoria Bastón (“La Guerra Civil”), Chloe Okuno (“Watcher”), and Krystin Ver Linden (“Alice”) to discuss their highly anticipated films and explore ongoing efforts to increase opportunities for women in the film industry.
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- Julie Ha, Eugene Yi, and Sebastian Yoon Talk ‘Free Chol Soo Lee’ | Sundance Film Festival
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- 30:02
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The Atlantic’s Shirley Li discusses the upcoming film “Free Chol Soo Lee” with Julie Ha and Eugene Yi (co-directors and co-producers) and Sebastian Yoon (activist and film narrator). The project examines the rollercoaster life story of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean immigrant wrongfully convicted of murder who inspired a movement to free him.
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- The Experiment Podcast: Is It Our Right to Use Drugs?
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- 29:03
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This episode was originally published on June 17, 2021.
The Columbia professor Carl Hart spent his career studying the effects of drugs, and uses heroin himself. In his book Drug Use for Grown-Ups, he argues that not only can drug use be safer, but that it’s our right.
In this episode of The Experiment: how villainizing drug use interferes with our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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- The Experiment Podcast: Why Did Americans Receive Seed Packages From China?
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- 35:06
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This episode was originally published on July 15, 2021.
In summer 2020, an unexplained phenomenon gripped nightly newscasts and Facebook groups across America: Unsolicited deliveries of obscurely labeled seed packages, seemingly from China, were being sent to Americans’ homes. Recipients reported the packages to local police, news stations, and agriculture departments; searched message boards for explanations; and theorized about conspiracies including election interference and biowarfare. Despite large-scale USDA testing of the packages, the mystery remained: Who sent the seeds and why?
In this episode of The Experiment, the host Julia Longoria speaks with the writer Chris Heath about his investigation of mystery seeds for The Atlantic, the byzantine world of international e-commerce, and the dangers of both panic and reason.
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- The Hate-Crime Conundrum—The Experiment Podcast
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- 41:25
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This episode was originally published on July 22, 2021.
Hate crimes in the United States have reached their highest levels in more than a decade, prompting bipartisan support for legislation to combat them and increased resources for law enforcement. But the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act has spurred resistance from an unexpected source: activist groups that represent the people these laws are meant to protect.
In this episode of The Experiment, our correspondent, Tracie Hunte, investigates the 150-year history of legislating against racist violence in the U.S. and asks: Have we been policing hate all wrong?
This episode’s guests include Jami Floyd, WNYC’s senior editor for race and justice; Saida Grundy, an assistant professor of sociology and African American studies at Boston University; Jason Wu, a co-chair of the LGBTQ advocacy group GAPIMNY; Jeannine Bell, a professor of law at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law; and Sunayana Dumala, ...
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- How Student Athletes Shattered the Amateurism Myth—The Experiment Podcast
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- 39:18
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This episode was originally published on July 29, 2021.
In June, the Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling on college sports: Student athletes will now be able to receive educational benefits such as free laptops and paid internships. The decision may have seemed relatively small, but in this episode of the Experiment podcast, the Atlantic staff writer Adam Harris explains how it could change the way we think about college athletes.
College sports rake in billions of dollars a year for schools. But athletes themselves have historically been barred from making money by the NCAA in order to preserve their amateur status. “Amateurism” has long been a central idea of college athletics: Student athletes play for the love of the game and an education, never for compensation. The myth (and marketing) of the “student athlete” has grown over the past century, but starting in 2010, a scandal gradually shifted how the country saw college sports.
In th...
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- The Gray Area Between Pro-life and Pro-choice—The Experiment Podcast
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- 37:54
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Rebecca Shrader had always thought that abortion was morally wrong. As a devout Baptist Christian, she volunteered at a clinic designed to discourage women from getting abortions. And when she got pregnant for the first time, she knew she would carry the baby to term, no matter what.
But when Rebecca’s pregnancy didn’t go as planned, she started to question everything she had always believed about abortions, and about the people who choose to have them.
This episode of The Experiment was reported by Emma Green in collaboration with This American Life, and originally aired as a part of This American Life’s episode “But I Did Everything Right.”
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- What Really Happened at the Alamo?—The Experiment Podcast
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- 29:19
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This episode was originally published on August 5, 2021.
The epic, oft-told origin story of Texas centers on the Lone Star State’s most infamous battle: the Battle of the Alamo, where American heroes such as Davy Crockett fought to the death against the Mexican army to secure Texas’s independence. The only problem, according to the writer and journalist Bryan Burrough, is that this founding legend isn’t all true. In June, Burrough and two other Texan writers set out to debunk the myth of the Alamo, only to find themselves in an unexpected battle with Texans still trying to protect their state’s revered origin story.
“The Anglo power structure here, which still dominates politics and the media,” Burrough says, “can clearly see that if the myth melts away, other things could begin to melt away as well.”
In this episode of The Experiment: how a history book ignited a ferocious debate over Texas’s founding legend, and how this battle...
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- The Big Story: Threats to Democracy
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- 1:02:57
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Donald Trump could subvert the next election—and, in fact, his second coup attempt has already begun, Barton Gellman warns in our latest cover story.
Join Gellman along with staff writer Anne Applebaum and Atlantic executive editor Adrienne LaFrance for a live virtual conversation about the threats to American democracy.
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- Protecting the Capitol One Year After January 6—The Experiment Podcast
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- 33:46
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- On January 6, 2021, William J. Walker was head of the D.C. National Guard. He had buses full of guardsmen in riot gear ready to deploy in case Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally turned dangerous. But when rioters violently stormed the Capitol building, the Guard was nowhere to be found. Walker says he was forced to wait for three hours before his superiors allowed him to send in his troops. “My soldiers were asking me, ‘Sir, what the hell is going on?’” Walker says. “‘Are they watching the news? Are they watching what’s going on at the Capitol?’ And I had no answer. I don’t recall ever being in that position, where I did not have an answer for my soldiers.”
Now, almost one year later, Walker is the sergeant-at-arms of the U.S. House of Representatives—the first Black man to ever hold that office. The Experiment’s correspondent Tracie Hunte and producer Peter Bresnan visit Walker in his new office at the Capitol to ask him about what happene...
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- Why a Former Gymnast Supported Simone Biles’s Withdrawal From the Olympics—The Experiment Podcast
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- 31:41
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This episode was originally published on August 12, 2021.
Ever since Kerri Strug and the Magnificent Seven won Olympic gold in 1996, the U.S. women’s gymnastics team has been a point of pride for many Americans. But over the past five years, athletes have been coming forward with allegations of widespread abuse in the sport. Former gymnasts say they were forced to train and compete with broken bones and that they were denied food. And dozens of women have testified that they were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar, the former doctor who worked with the U.S. national team.
USA Gymnastics, the governing body for elite gymnastics in the United States, has said it’s working hard to change the sport’s culture, but many former gymnasts say it hasn’t done enough.
“We have coaches and institutions and organizations and a country, frankly, that prioritize money and medals over the bodies and souls of people,” says Rachael Denhollander, a former...
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- Is There Justice in Felony Murder?—The Experiment Podcast
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- 43:07
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- This episode was originally published on April 29, 2021 and re-aired on December 2, 2021.
This week, The Experiment takes a look at the charge that sent Anissa Jordan to prison for a crime she didn’t even know had been committed. We consider how the felony-murder rule disproportionately punishes youth of color and women, and the debate over whether the same rule is key to holding police officers responsible in the killings of civilians.
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- Progress Report: The State of the Latino Community
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- 2:01:22
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The Latino community has had to fight misrepresentation and barriers to educational and economic opportunities for centuries. The coronavirus pandemic has heightened existing challenges and inequities.
Join The Atlantic as we bring together economists, scholars, policy makers, and activists for a virtual live event—Progress Report: The State of the Latino Community.
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8:20 - Leaning Into Our Identity: What It Means To Be Latino Today
38:52 - Is College The Solution to Upward Mobility?
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- A Uyghur Teen’s Life After Escaping Genocide—The Experiment Podcast
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- 47:29
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This episode was originally published on August 19, 2021.
Here in the United States, 19-year-old Aséna Tahir Izgil feels as though she’s a “grandma.” Aséna is Uyghur, an ethnic minority being imprisoned in labor camps by the Chinese government. The pain she witnessed before escaping in 2017 has aged her beyond her years, she says, making it hard to relate to American teenagers.
“They talk about … TikToks … clothing, malls, games, movies, and stuff,” she says. “And then the things I think about [are] genocide, Uyghurs, international policies … all the annoying adult facts.”
For years, the Chinese government has been persecuting her people, but few have escaped to bear witness. In this episode of The Experiment: Aséna shares her family’s story of fleeing to the U.S. to escape genocide, adjusting to newfound freedom, and trying to deal with the grief and guilt of being a refugee.
This episode’s guests include A...
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- How Netflix’s ‘Passing’ Upends a Hollywood Genre—The Experiment Podcast
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- 31:47
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Hollywood has a long history of “passing movies”—films in which Black characters pass for white—usually starring white actors. Even as these films have attempted to depict the devastating effect of racism in America, they have trafficked in tired tropes about Blackness. But a new movie from actor-writer-director Rebecca Hall takes the problematic conventions of this uniquely American genre and turns them on their head. Hall tells the story of how her movie came to life, and how making the film helped her grapple with her own family’s secrets around race and identity.
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- One Family’s Grief Two Decades After 9/11—The Experiment Podcast
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- 44:43
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This episode of The Experiment was originally published on September 9, 2021.
On September 11, 2001, Bobby McIlvaine was killed, along with nearly 3,000 other Americans. In the 20 years since, his parents and brother have searched for ways to live through, and with, their grief.
The writer Jennifer Senior’s brother was Bobby’s roommate when he died, and in the cover story for The Atlantic’s September issue, she visited with each member of the family to understand their personal journey through the aftermath of national tragedy.
“The McIlvaines very early on saw a grief counselor,” Senior tells The Experiment’s host, Julia Longoria, “who said to them: ‘Here’s how you have to think about this. You are all at the top of a mountain, and you all have a broken leg, and you all have to get down to the bottom of the mountain. But because you all have broken legs, you just have to take care of your own self and figure out how to get down....
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- How a Management Professor Became A Spiritual Counselor on Death Row—The Experiment Podcast
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- 28:04
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This episode of The Experiment was originally published on March 18, 2021 and re-aired on November 11, 2021.
Was anybody willing to be a spiritual adviser to a Muslim man on death row? That’s the question that went out by email to a local group of interfaith leaders in Indiana. Nobody answered.
After a week without responses, the management professor Yusuf Ahmed Nur stepped forward. A Somali immigrant who volunteered at his local mosque, Nur would counsel Orlando Hall in the weeks leading up to his execution. But Nur didn’t expect he’d end up standing beside Hall in the execution chamber as he was put to death.
“That’s when it hit me,” Nur says. “You feel like you’re complicit, that you are cooperating with the system. They assign you a role to play in this execution.”
In this episode of The Experiment: One man finds himself at the center of our legal system, and witnesses what gets sacrificed in the pursuit of just...
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- How to Live When You’re in Pain—How to Build a Happy Life, Ep. 6, with B.J. Miller
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- 47:25
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- As we wind down this series, a paradox remains in our pursuit of happiness: Joy comes to those who have known pain. In order to overcome struggle—breakups, illness, even death—we must first accept and acknowledge its inevitability. Exploring the darkness of our suffering may seem counterintuitive, but often it’s the only way to see the light.
In this week’s episode, Arthur C. Brooks sits down with BJ Miller, a palliative-care physician, to uncover how we can face our deepest fears, why we should accept our natural limitations as human beings, and how to make peace with the ebb and flow of joy and suffering in human life—an experience we all share.
This episode was produced by Rebecca Rashid and is hosted by Arthur C. Brooks. Editing by A.C. Valdez. Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Sound design by Michael Raphael.
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- Why Did Black TV Disappear?—The Experiment Podcast
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- 35:07
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- This episode was originally published on September 16, 2021.
The Atlantic staff writer Hannah Giorgis grew up in the ’90s, watching dozens of Black characters on TV. Living Single, Sister, Sister, Moesha, and Smart Guy were just a few of the shows led by Black casts. But at some point in the 2000s, those story lines and some of the Black writers behind them seemed to disappear. In a cover story for The Atlantic, Giorgis traces the cyclical, uneven history of Black representation on television.
One writer whose career encompasses much of that history is Susan Fales-Hill. She got her start as an apprentice on The Cosby Show, wrote for A Different World, and now is an executive producer of BET’s Twenties. In this episode of The Experiment, Fales-Hill and Giorgis talk about how power dynamics behind the scenes have shaped what we watch, what we talk about, and how we understand ourselves.
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- How to Find the Secret to Meaningful Work—How to Build a Happy Life, Ep. 5, With Jenn Lim
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- 38:55
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The road to purposeful work is paved with good intentions, but for many, happiness at work can feel like a hopeless cause. What if the secret to happiness at work has less to do with our extrinsic motivations (money, rewards, and personal gain) and more to do with intrinsic motivations—the meaningful relationships we build, and the ability to be in service to people who need it?
In this episode of How to Build a Happy Life, we’ll explore workplace practices to live out purpose-driven principles. We’ll also talk about why authenticity is vital to strong leadership and “walking the talk,” and how to factor emotional needs into our workplaces. A conversation with the chief happiness officer and CEO of Delivering Happiness, Jenn Lim, helps us tackle one big question at work: Why do I do this every day?
This episode was produced by Rebecca Rashid and hosted by Arthur Brooks. Editing by A.C. Valdez. Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Sound design by Michael Rapha...
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- A Pastor’s Battle Over Vaccine Mandates—The Experiment Podcast
- Runtime
- 37:37
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- This episode was originally published on March 25, 2021 and re-aired on September 23, 2021.
Last week, President Joe Biden rolled out a large-scale federal mandate requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for two-thirds of the American workforce, impacting more than 100 million people across the public and private sectors. Some lawmakers have already called the mandate unconstitutional, and Arizona is the first state to sue to block it. This week on The Experiment: As the struggle between individual liberty and public safety rages, we revisit the story of the first Supreme Court battle over vaccines, waged more than 100 years ago.
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- What Does It Mean to Give Away Our DNA?—The Experiment Podcast
- Runtime
- 31:28
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Just as the Navajo researcher Rene Begay started to fall in love with the field of genetics, she learned that the Navajo Nation had banned all genetic testing on tribal land. Now she is struggling to figure out what the future of genetics might look like, and whether the Navajo and other Indigenous communities should be a part of it.
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- Bernard-Henri Lévy and Jeffrey Goldberg on “The Will to See”
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- 51:33
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg is joined by philosopher, filmmaker, activist, and author Bernard-Henri Lévy to discuss The Will to See, a documentary he co-directed with Marc Roussel.
A journey to Nigeria, Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan, Ukraine, Somalia, Bangladesh, Greece, Libya, and Afghanistan, Lévy’s film is an unflinching look at the world’s most unreachable hotspots and urgent humanitarian crises throughout the pandemic.
This event was presented as part of the Embassy of France in the United States’s French Series, in partnership with The Atlantic
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- How to Live in the Moment—How to Build a Happy Life, Ep. 4, with Dr. Ellen Langer
- Runtime
- 35:16
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- If there’s one thing we might regret at the end of life, it’s that we missed out on moments that mattered—not because we weren’t physically there, but because our mind wandered off to some unknown place.
In this episode of How to Build a Happy Life, we explore why it’s uniquely challenging to “live in the moment,” how we limit our own curiosity by assuming that we know best, and why the illusion of stability pulls us from living every day fully, and in the moment. A conversation with the Harvard University psychology professor Dr. Ellen Langer helps us think through a daily struggle: How do I stay present?
This episode was produced by Rebecca Rashid and hosted by Arthur Brooks. Editing by A. C. Valdez. Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Sound design by Michael Raphael.
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Music by Trevor Kowalski (“Lion’s ...
- Title
- Education Summit
- Runtime
- 2:09:01
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Access to good job opportunities starts in high school. But the pandemic has altered the course for many students, and highlighted substantial gaps in educational equity.
Join U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and other leaders in secondary and higher education for conversations about the changing education system and finding success in this new landscape.
Jump to:
9:06 - Reimagining the Future of Education with U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona
31:59 - Solutions for Learning Loss
1:21:32 - The Future of Admissions
1:42:54 - Creating Pathways for Success
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- How Not to Be Your Own Worst Enemy—How to Build a Happy Life Ep. 3, featuring Dr. Shefali
- Runtime
- 32:25
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- In the social-media age, we curate images of our lives on a screen—making it especially easy to translate images of perfection as the image of oneself. But the pressure to pretend we are perfect is exactly the thing holding us back from experiencing the happiness we seek—and limiting our ability to be our whole, authentic selves.
In this week’s episode of How to Build a Happy Life, we’ll define what we mean by “authenticity” and explore the psychological underpinnings of our ego-driven identities. A conversation with the clinical psychologist and mindfulness expert Dr. Shefali helps us work through one of the most challenging questions of all: Who am I?
Try this week’s live interactive exercise, “The Chipping-Away Exercise,” and apply these lessons to your own life: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2021/10/howto-arthurbrooks-happiness-identity-drshefali-mindfulness-meaning-2021/620282/ Tag us on social media with #thechippingawaye...
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- The True Cost of a Prison Phone Call—The Experiment Podcast
- Runtime
- 28:27
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- This episode was originally published on October 7, 2021.
Ashley C. Ford was just a baby when her father was sentenced to 30 years behind bars. Prison phone calls—a $1.4 billion industry in the United States—were often prohibitively expensive for her family, so Ford maintained a fragmentary relationship with him through handwritten letters and short visits, while her loved ones tried to shield her from her father’s past. With limited contact and unanswered questions, Ford filled in the blanks with fantasies of her father as the perfect man. This week on "The Experiment," the Atlantic staff writer Clint Smith speaks with Ford about what children lose when a parent is in prison—and what happened when she discovered the truth of her father’s crime.
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- The Babylon Bee Doesn’t Care If You Think It’s Funny—The Experiment Podcast
- Runtime
- 24:50
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The satire site The Babylon Bee, a conservative Christian answer to The Onion, stirred controversy when some readers mistook its headlines for misinformation. In this episode, The Atlantic’s religion reporter Emma Green sits down with The Bee’s editor in chief, Kyle Mann, to talk about where he draws the line between making a joke and doing harm, and to understand what humor can reveal about American politics.
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- How to Know You’re Lonely—How to Build a Happy Life, Ep. 2, with Dr. Vivek Murthy and Arthur Brooks
- Runtime
- 38:32
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The irony in loneliness is that we all share in the experience of it. In this episode of How to Build a Happy Life, we sit down to discuss isolated living and Americans’ collective struggle to create a relationship-centric life. As we continue along our journey to happiness, we ask: How can I build my life around people?
This episode features Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general.
This episode was produced by Rebecca Rashid and hosted by Arthur Brooks. Editing by A. C. Valdez. Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Sound design by Michael Raphael.
Music by Trevor Kowalski (“Lion’s Drift,” “This Valley of Ours,” “Una Noche De Luces”), Stationary Sign (“Loose in the Park”), and Spectacles Wallet and Watch (“Last Pieces”).
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- How to Be Self-Aware - How To Build a Happy Life, Ep. 1, with Dan Harris
- Runtime
- 34:48
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Only when we admit we have a problem can we begin to find solutions. In the first episode of "How to Build a Happy Life," we explore the neuroscience of emotional management, practices that help us befriend our inner monologue, and challenges to getting in touch with our feelings. Our journey to happier living starts with the question: How do I feel right now?
This episode of "How to Build a Happy Life" features Dan Harris, the former ABC News anchor, meditation expert, and founder of Ten Percent Happier.
This episode was produced by Rebecca Rashid and hosted by Arthur Brooks. Editing by A.C. Valdez, Katherine Wells, and Gillian White. Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Sound design by Michael Raphael.
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🎥: Mary Stachyra Lopez
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- Title
- A Conversation About the Feature Film “Mass”
- Runtime
- 24:44
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The actors Ann Dowd and Jason Isaacs, along with the writer and director Fran Kranz, sit down with Shirley Li, a staff writer at The Atlantic, to discuss the new film “Mass.” “Mass” is a raw drama that follows the story of the parents of a mass-shooting victim meeting the parents of the shooter.
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- Title
- The Atlantic Festival Ideas Stage - Day Four
- Runtime
- 2:21:41
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The Atlantic Festival’s Ideas Stage is the destination for back-to-back interviews with luminaries across business, politics, culture, and more.
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- The NAACP’s Sherrilyn Ifill on Why American Voting Rights Are in Danger | The Atlantic Festival
- Runtime
- 18:44
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The Atlantic’s senior editor Vann R. Newkirk II talks about voting rights and voter suppression with Sherrilyn Ifill, the president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
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- Title
- David Chase on Why ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ Isn’t a Tony Soprano Origin Story
- Runtime
- 24:06
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Filmmaker David Chase discusses “The Many Saints of Newark,” a prequel to the HBO series “The Sopranos,” with The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.
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- Title
- COVID Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future
- Runtime
- 4:26
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Ed Yong, a staff writer at The Atlantic, addresses the struggles of COVID “long-haulers,” people who have suffered from COVID-19 symptoms for weeks or even months.
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- Title
- The Future of the GOP With Senator Marco Rubio
- Runtime
- 20:56
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Senator Marco Rubio sits down with the NBC News White House correspondent Kelly O’Donnell to discuss the debt ceiling, U.S. General Mark Milley, and the future of the Republican Party.
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- Title
- A Conversation With Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Runtime
- 28:54
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton sits down with Jennifer Senior, a staff writer at The Atlantic, to discuss the current states of American politics, abolishing the filibuster, President Joe Biden’s agenda, and the future of the United States.
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- Title
- The Broadway Sinfonietta
- Runtime
- 6:49
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Orchestrator and music director Macy Schmidt introduces the Broadway Sinfonietta, an all-female-identifying, majority-women-of-color orchestral collective.
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- Title
- Lauren Groff on Writing ‘Matrix,’ Female Power, and the Bechdel Test | The Atlantic Festival
- Runtime
- 15:33
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Novelist Lauren Groff (“Arcadia,” “Fates and Furies”) discusses her new novel, “Matrix,” a work of historical fiction that follows the life of a radical 12th-century nun, with The Atlantic’s staff writer Sophie Gilbert.
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- Title
- The Atlantic Festival Ideas Stage - Day Three
- Runtime
- 2:06:28
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The Atlantic Festival’s Ideas Stage is the destination for back-to-back interviews with luminaries across business, politics, culture, and more.
