The Experiment Podcast: Latinos Are a Huge, Diverse Group. Why Are They Lumped Together?
The answer involves Chicanos, the census, and Celia Cruz.
The Experiment Podcast: Confronting the Legacy of Robert E. Lee
What does it take to overcome one of the oldest disinformation campaigns in American history?
Podcast: Infections, Vaccinations, and Other Questions
James Hamblin answers questions from callers with mild COVID-19 cases.
The Experiment Podcast: 4 Percent of Nurses, 31.5 Percent of Deaths
Why Filipino nurses have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Podcast: ‘A Disaster for Feminism’
Why have the economic and psychological stresses of the pandemic hit women harder—and what can we do about it?
The Experiment Podcast: The Case for Sweatpants
What a polarizing garment says about America.
Podcast: A Forever Pandemic
Vaccines are a public good. Until the world regards them as such, the pandemic will not end.
The Experiment Podcast: The Case for a Voting-Rights Amendment
American democracy is younger, and more fragile, than we’ve been taught. One woman lived through the whole thing.
Podcast: Can You Get Reinfected?
The Brazil variant raises a scary question—and reminds us that herd immunity matters across borders.
The Experiment Podcast: Inside Yellowstone’s ‘Zone of Death’
In Yellowstone National Park, there’s a glitch in the U.S. Constitution.
Podcast: Have We Turned the Corner?
Or is it still risky to be optimistic?
Que Viva la Pepa: Introducing The Experiment
The United States started as an experiment. On this new show, we check in on how that’s going.
Podcast: Who Gets the Next Shot?
A bioethics expert on the moral questions facing our vaccine rollouts.
The Ticket: Jim Clyburn
The House majority whip from South Carolina gave President-elect Joe Biden the key endorsement of his candidacy. What does the civil-rights veteran want to see from his party—and the new president—in 2021?
Podcast: The Vaccine Is Here! What Now?
We’re very relieved, but now entering the strange time of vaccine purgatory.
Podcast: A 90 Percent Effective Vaccine
The lead principal investigator of the Pfizer vaccine trial explains the news that it’s 90 percent effective.
Podcast: The Virus Is Peaking, but Help Is Going Away
Americans now face a third wave of the coronavirus. New lockdowns may soon follow—this time, without economic support.
Listen: Is COVID-19 a Preexisting Condition?
What could happen if we lose the Affordable Care Act during the pandemic
Hillary Clinton Says She Was Right All Along
The biggest factors she blames for her loss—disinformation, Vladimir Putin, and America’s deep political divide—will still be problems even if Trump loses, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee warns.
Listen: The Bizarre, Inconsistent Story of Trump’s Illness
What did the president know and when did he know it?