Too Much Plastic, Too Little (Actual) Recycling

• How often do you buy an item from the store that’s packaged in a plastic container or wrapped in plastic? Daily decisions like these add up and are feeding into the global plastic crisis. Scientists estimate that there’s anywhere between 9 to 16 million tons of plastic on the sea floor, polluting the environment, harming species and releasing harmful microplastics into every corner of the planet and into our bodies. Two experts on plastic join us this week to shed some light on the problem and how we can each make a difference by changing our consumption habits and demanding improved policies that crack down on single-use plastics.

Relearning How To Be Friends As An Adult

• Making friends as an adult is harder than it looks, with so many of us trying to juggle busy, demanding schedules, living in new places and dealing with a culture that discourages vulnerability. We unpack why so many people feel disconnected and how you can put yourself out there and foster new and genuine friendships.

Viewpoints Explained: The Dessert Trend That Refuses To Fade

• Once a sweet treat mainly found at grocery stores, this dessert has quietly moved into the mainstream, showing as stand-alone chains across the country. We look at why it’s stuck around longer than past food fads.

Culture Crash: Why We Can’t Let Go Of The ’90S

• A look at why the 1990s still loom so large in our collective memory and what our fixation on that decade reveals about the draw of nostalgia. 

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Host: Gary Price.

Producer: Amirah Zaveri.

Guests: Jennie Romer, attorney, author, Can I Recycle This? A Guide to Better Recycling and How to Reduce Single-Use Plastics; Kate Melges, plastics project leader, Greenpeace USA

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Acclaimed Mexican filmmaker and director Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited “Frankenstein” arrives at last. We review the new film now streaming on Netflix.

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Viewpoints Explained: A Global Threat That’s Slowly Fading

• We focus on highlighting more positive news, we cover how one global problem is moving in the right direction and how this positive change didn’t happen by accident but required global cooperation.  

Host: Ebony McMorris.  

Producer: Amirah Zaveri 

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The Hidden Labor Gap In Modern Families

• Even as dual-income households become more of the norm across America, women often still shoulder more of the work at home. We explore why this imbalance persists and what real equity moving forward could look like.

Host: Gary Price 

Producer: Amirah Zaveri 

Guest: Kate Mangino, gender expert, author of Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home.

Locked Out Of Work: Women, Criminal Records & The Will To Rebuild

• A criminal record can follow someone for years, or even decades, by chronically limiting job options and career paths at every turn. As Illinois moves forward with a new Clean Slate law, we examine how these barriers shape lives nationwide, disproportionately affect formerly incarcerated women and what record-clearing policies could change for the tens of millions of Americans stuck in limbo.  

Host: Marty Peterson

Producer: Amirah Zaveri 

Guests: Chanell Burnette, writer, advocate, former prisoner; Marlon Chamberlain, founder, executive director, Illinois Coalition to End Permanent Punishments, former prisoner; Colette Payne, director, Reclamation Project, Women’s Justice Institute, former prisoner.  

Viewpoints Explained: A Global Threat That’s Slowly Fading

• We focus on highlighting more positive news, we cover how one global problem is moving in the right direction and how this positive change didn’t happen by accident but required global cooperation.  

Host: Ebony McMorris.  

Producer: Amirah Zaveri  

Culture Crash: Guillermo Del Toro Finally Meets “Frankenstein”

• Acclaimed Mexican filmmaker and director Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited “Frankenstein” arrives at last. We review the new film now streaming on Netflix.  

Host:  Evan Rook

Producer: Evan Rook

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Locked Out Of Work: Women, Criminal Records & The Will To Rebuild

• A criminal record can follow someone for years, or even decades, by chronically limiting job options and career paths at every turn. As Illinois moves forward with a new Clean Slate law, we examine how these barriers shape lives nationwide, disproportionately affect formerly incarcerated women and what record-clearing policies could change for the tens of millions of Americans stuck in limbo.  

Host: Marty Peterson.  

Producer: Amirah Zaveri.  

Guests: Chanell Burnette, writer, advocate, former prisoner; Marlon Chamberlain, founder, executive director, Illinois Coalition to End Permanent Punishments, former prisoner; Colette Payne, director, Reclamation Project, Women’s Justice Institute, former prisoner. 

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 The Hidden Labor Gap In Modern Families

• Even as dual-income households become more of the norm across America, women often still shoulder more of the work at home. We explore why this imbalance persists and what real equity moving forward could look like.

Host: Gary Price

Producer: Amirah Zaveri

Guest: Kate Mangino, gender expert, author of Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home.

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The One-Hunded Year Anniversary Of Mount Rushmore

• It’s one of the most photographed landmarks in America, but behind the four stone faces lies a story of abandoned visions, a sculptor with a controversial legacy and a mountain long sacred to Native Americans. A century after the project was approved, we have a conversation about the landmark’s lesser-known history and who gets to shape the story of America.

The Human Cost Of Inflation: One Mother’s View From The Financial Edge

• Christina Kuhn’s life is a daily race against rising prices, stagnant wages and the constant fear that one unexpected expense could cause her family to lose everything. In this intimate portrait of a Michigan family stretched to their limit, we explore what it really feels like to live without a safety net in today’s economy.

Viewpoints Explained: The Holiday Leftover Mistakes Many Of Us Make

• Holiday food safety can feel like a guessing game. Everyone has an opinion, and most of us are just hoping we’re making the right call. We break down the simple rules that can keep your fridge (and your family) out of the danger zone during this busy time of year.

Culture Crash: Is King Sorrow Worth Reading? Inside Joe Hill’s Newest Novel

• With King Sorrow, Joe Hill turns a simple mistake into a decades-long nightmare. Here’s why his newest horror title might be his most gripping yet.

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Christina Kuhn’s life is a daily race against rising prices, stagnant wages and the constant fear that one unexpected expense could cause her family to lose everything. In this intimate portrait of a Michigan family stretched to their limit, we explore what it really feels like to live without a safety net in today’s economy.

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It’s one of the most photographed landmarks in America, but behind the four stone faces lies a story of abandoned visions, a sculptor with a controversial legacy and a mountain long sacred to Native Americans. A century after the project was approved, we have a conversation about the landmark’s lesser-known history and who gets to shape the story of America.

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