Understanding Today’s Puzzling U.S. Economy
Inflation is high. The GDP has shrunk. But the job market has never been better. The Washington Post's Damian Paletta helps make sense of the U.S. economy today.
Students at Community High School in Richmond, VA. participated in the National Walkout on March 14 honoring the student who died in Parkland, Florida.
Student-led protests are planned across the country this weekend under the banner “The March for Our Lives.” The teens are calling for safer schools and restricting access to guns. But can this reform effort succeed where others have failed?
Daniel Green is a high school senior from Washington D.C., one of the many students inspired to join the youth movement created in the wake of the Parkland shooting. He tells us why he has hope the students will be heard.
And for a broader look at the protests and what school violence in America really looks like, Diane talked to John Woodward Cox and Wesley Lowery of The Washington Post.
Then, about a decade ago Lisa Genova self-published the book “still Alice” about a woman struggling with early onset Alzheimer’s. It went on to become a best-seller and an Oscar-winning film. Since then, Genova has written four books, each exploring a different neurological disease or disorder. Her latest is called “Every Note Played” and tells the story of a man recently diagnosed with ALS.
Inflation is high. The GDP has shrunk. But the job market has never been better. The Washington Post's Damian Paletta helps make sense of the U.S. economy today.
From high mortgage rates to shortages that have spread coast to coast, New York Times reporter Emily Badger explains the roots -- and consequences of our country's broken housing system.
Fifty years after the Tuskegee study, Diane talks to Harvard's Evelynn Hammonds about the intersection of race and medicine in the United States, and the lessons from history that can help us understand health inequities today.
Pills, the right to travel and fetal personhood laws -- Diane talks to Temple University Law School's Rachel Rebouché about what's next in the fight over abortion in the U.S.
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