With our Capitalism season and the election behind us, now what? Can we find hope and a way forward? In... more

Host John Biewen is joined by Celeste Headlee, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Ellen McGirt, and Amy Westervelt, co-hosts of Scene on Radio's... more

In our season finale, we visit with people on two continents who are turning core structures of capitalism on their... more

The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether?... more

In the first of two episodes looking at responses to capitalism’s failings, we explore reforms aimed at making the current... more

A visit to West Africa and Western Europe to look at the cocoa trade. Did the colonial side of early... more

In 1972, a team of young scientists at MIT published a study exploring what would happen to human civilization if... more

S7 E8: The People’s Pushback  Over several decades, a growing number of people in the United States and elsewhere – especially... more

S7 E7: Gilded Age 2.0 After 40 years of neoliberalism, most Americans of every political stripe agree that the economy is... more

How the balance of power shifted, for a time, in the decades after World War II, and led to a... more

An age of invention and mass production, propelled by a new mechanism – the corporate research lab – leads to... more

Economic change happens in a cultural context. We trace the tectonic shifts in the Western mind that made capitalism thinkable... more

From the voyages of Columbus and Vasco da Gama to colonial conquest and the Atlantic Slave Trade, to the privatization... more

To fully grasp capitalism, it helps to understand the system it replaced – and the most meaningful differences between feudalism... more

Introduction to our 7th season: Capitalism. The world’s dominant economic system is on trial as it hasn’t been for at... more

Welcome to Season 7: Capitalism. The world's dominant economic system is on trial as it hasn't been for at least... more

As we get ready to launch our Season 7, a bonus episode from another podcast we think our listeners will... more

What would it take, and what would it even mean, to heal from a wound like the Wilmington massacre and... more

After the massacre and coup of November 10, 1898, white supremacists in North Carolina soon finished the job of disenfranchising... more

On November 1898, North Carolina Democrats won a sweeping victory at the polls – confirming the success of their campaign... more