The Experiment Podcast: The Crime of Refusing Vaccination
Where do our rights over our own bodies end and our duties to others begin? An answer lies in the story of a 1905 Supreme Court case about government-mandated vaccines.
A Witness to the State’s Power to Kill
What a spiritual adviser saw when the federal government executed a man on death row.
The Experiment Podcast: How Did This Professor End Up Witnessing an Execution?
Yusuf Ahmed Nur volunteered to counsel a man on death row. He never intended to witness the execution.
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.