In our Season Three finale, co-hosts Celeste Headlee and John Biewen talk about where American culture goes from here, sexism-wise. And we hear from scholar Melvin Konner, who argues that we are in fact witnessing—and…
Host John Biewen dips into the world of sports talk radio, where guys talk not just about sports but also about how to be a man in twenty-first-century America. What John finds is more complicated…
Writer Ben James and his wife Oona are raising their sons in a progressive and “queer-friendly” New England town. They actively encourage the boys to be themselves, never mind those traditional gender norms around “masculinity”…
Lewis Wallace, female-assigned at birth, wanted to transition in the direction of maleness—in some ways. He shifted his pronouns, had surgery, starting taking testosterone. None of that meant he wanted to embrace everything that our…
American history—law, economics, culture—has built different notions of masculinity (and femininity) for people of varying races and ethnicities. A trip through a century of pop culture and the stereotyped images that white supremacy has manufactured…
Several years after Janey was sexually assaulted by her former boyfriend, Mathew, she told some of her closest friends, and her mother, what Mathew had done. Janey was so troubled by her loved ones’ responses,…
Do nations fight wars because men are naturally violent? Or do societies condition men to embrace violence so they’ll fight the nation’s wars? Along with co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee, this episode features reporting…
The #MeToo Movement has shed a harsh light on sexual harassment in the workplace. Just how bad, and how pervasive, is sexism on the job in the U.S., from day-to-day expressions of disrespect all the…
The struggles against sexism and racism come together in the bodies, and the lives, of black women. Co-hosts Celeste Headlee and John Biewen look at the intersections between male dominance and white supremacy in the…
A few hundred years ago, the great thinkers of the Enlightenment began to declare that “all men are created equal.” Some of them said that notion should include women, too. Why did those feminists—most of them…
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This disturbs me. Doesn’t it disturb you? Google Calendar users no longer see default entries for events like Pride, Black History Month
The losing candidate for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court is seeking to overturn the electoral win by a current court member, Justice Allison Riggs. His strategy: invalidate more than 60,000 legally cast votes.
The U.S. solar energy industry has officially built enough factories to meet the country’s demand for solar panels.
Will Trump derail the thriving industry?
The media refuses to cover it, but JD Vance is deeply networked with openly antisemitic and racist neo-Nazis on Twitter. He follows them, talks to them, and responds to them. These are people who openly praise Hitler and freely admit to being white nationalists.
Stunningly reckless and callous -- cutting off, overnight, funding of treatments and trials for malaria, HIV, Ebola, cholera... "The stop-work order on USAID-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to care."