Most of our efforts to fight climate change, from electric cars to wind turbines, are about pumping fewer greenhouse gases... more

Climate scientist Kimberly Nicholas co-led a study that showed the single most effective thing an individual can do to decrease... more

In an ideal world, cutting carbon emissions would be enough to stop global warming. But after dithering for decades, the... more

Unexplainable is a new podcast from Vox about everything we don’t know. Each week, the team looks at the most... more

How can we convince people to change their relationship with meat? Melanie Joy has been grappling with this question for a... more

Beef cattle take a huge toll on the environment. In Brazil, a huge chunk of greenhouse gas emissions comes from... more

What if the next pandemic comes, not from wet markets overseas, but from our own factory farms? Martha Nelson, who... more

Right now, we can fight off a wide range of bacterial infections using antibiotics. But those antibiotics are becoming increasingly... more

Workers in meatpacking plants already process our pigs and beef and chickens extremely fast, but recently, there’s been a push... more

In 1992, Craig Watts got into growing chickens for Perdue Farms because he was told he could turn a good... more

In the US, we spend billions of dollars a year pampering our pets. We have laws to protect them from... more

North Carolina is home to around 9 million pigs. Many of those pigs live in big factory farms, and all... more

The meat we eat affects us all. It affects non-human animals, but also the farmers and factory workers who raise... more

Dylan Matthews sits down with housing policy experts and advocates Leonora Camner and Annie Fryman to discuss California’s housing crisis,... more

Co-host Sean Illing talks to Peniel Joseph, a University of Texas at Austin historian of Black Power movements Relevant resources:  The Sword... more

Co-host Sigal Samuel talks to Nikki Mirghafori, a Buddhist meditation teacher and AI researcher, about how to practice mindfulness of... more

Co-host Sean Illing talks to Sister Ilia Delio, a Franciscan nun and Catholic theologian, about the power of love and... more

Co-host Sigal Samuel talks to Cornel West, professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard, about Black liberation theology,... more

Co-host Sean Illing talks to Robert Zaretsky, professor of French history at the University of Houston, about Albert Camus’s novel... more

Co-host Sigal Samuel talks to Omid Safi, professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University, about the benefits of solitude and... more

Co-host Sean Illing talks to David Wolpe, senior rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, about God and how to... more

Co-host Sigal Samuel talks to Valerie Brown, a mindfulness teacher with a racial justice lens, about how to use Buddhist... more

We’re living through challenging times: a pandemic, a historic economic collapse, racial injustice, and social unrest. But it would be... more

Fifty years ago this summer, Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Now, NASA’s talking about going back. But is it worth it? We... more

Big philanthropists can threaten democracy. But so can small ones, like you and me. One big example? Parent-teacher associations. We... more

When Mark Zuckerberg gave $100 million to Newark’s schools, he raised a big question: Who will decide where this money... more

Most charity is focused on the near term. So what happens when you try to only give to charities that... more

Billions of dollars are donated every year from the fortunes of people who’ve died but are using their wills to... more

Diane Hendricks is the richest self-made woman in America, and she has used her fortune to remake the city of... more

In the 1950s and ’60s, Western foundations like Ford and Rockefeller pushed hard to control India's population by sterilizing its... more