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Stories about the ins, outs, and whathaveyous of what keeps us safe. Hosted by Laicie Heeley.
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MAGA, Mahmoud Khalil, and the War for Free Speech on Campus
Mar 31 • 34m
Hit Print for War
Mar 17 • 38m
It’s All an Illusion
Mar 3 • 27m
A Walkman and a Wire
Feb 17 • 32m
Pardon Me? Pardon You
Feb 3 • 30m
The Militias Next Door
Jan 20 • 29m
What a Tipping Point Looks Like
Jan 6 • 35m
Season 10: Coming Soon!
Dec 30, 2024 • 1m
Monologues (The War Horse Sessions): The Reason Why Soldiers’ Christmas Care Packages Wind Up in the Trash
Dec 23, 2024 • 8m
Monologues (The War Horse Sessions): One Step From Nuclear War, and I Didn’t Even Know It
Dec 16, 2024 • 10m
Monologues (The War Horse Sessions): What Poetry Taught Me About Moving Past War
Dec 9, 2024 • 12m
Bringing it Home
Jun 24, 2024 • 33m
Where Are the Women, Really?
Jun 10, 2024 • 24m
Is Anybody Listening?
May 27, 2024 • 33m
The End of the World as We Know It
May 13, 2024 • 21m
Inside Poland’s Abortion Crossroads
Apr 29, 2024 • 27m
The War at Home
Apr 15, 2024 • 34m
Fika and Feminism: Part 2
Apr 1, 2024 • 23m
Fika and Feminism: Part 1
Mar 18, 2024 • 28m
Season 9: The F-Word
Mar 4, 2024 • 2m
Things That Go Boom Introduces: Click Here
Dec 4, 2023 • 19m
Well, What Do You Know?
Oct 30, 2023 • 33m
Least Cost Paths
Oct 16, 2023 • 28m
Tobacco, Trust, and the Artist Formerly Known as Twitter
Oct 2, 2023 • 31m
Will the Internet Suck Us Dry?
Sep 18, 2023 • 28m
Who Gets To Shut It All Down?
Sep 4, 2023 • 25m
How to Break a Fish
Aug 21, 2023 • 28m
Lost in Translation
Aug 7, 2023 • 25m
Can You Hack a Nuke?
Jul 24, 2023 • 31m
The Internet Is at the Bottom of the Sea
Jul 10, 2023 • 39m
Coming Soon: Troubleshooting
Jun 26, 2023 • 2m
How a US Reporter Was Imprisoned in Putin’s Russia
Jun 9, 2023 • 25m
Getting L-A-O-D
Mar 20, 2023 • 34m
Mr. Fonio
Mar 6, 2023 • 28m
What’s Next for Brazil After Bolsonaro?
Feb 20, 2023 • 27m
Can Cluster Bombs Show Us How To Stop a Nuclear War?
Feb 6, 2023 • 27m
How Xi Jinping Plans to Fill China’s ‘Rice Bowl’
Jan 23, 2023 • 35m
Reissue: Navigating the Strait
Jan 9, 2023 • 25m
Reissue: Take This Job and Shove It
Dec 26, 2022 • 31m
Are Military Families Really Going Hungry?
Dec 12, 2022 • 30m
Samin Nosrat on War, Appropriation, and the Power of Food
Nov 28, 2022 • 28m
What Our Nuclear History Means for Indigenous Food
Nov 14, 2022 • 29m
Food, War, and the Conspiracy Supply Chain
Oct 31, 2022 • 32m
Season 7: Food Fight
Oct 17, 2022 • 1m
Cold Front: Tromsø
Aug 8, 2022 • 24m
Cold Front: Beijing
Jul 25, 2022 • 26m
Cold Front: Yellowknife
Jul 11, 2022 • 24m
Move Slow and Fix Things
May 16, 2022 • 24m
This Really Happened
May 2, 2022 • 34m
To Appropriations and Beyond!
Apr 18, 2022 • 26m
Of Militias and Mercedes-Benzes
Apr 4, 2022 • 30m
You Get a Sanction, and You, and You
Mar 21, 2022 • 26m
'Praying to Black Jesus' in Kyiv
Mar 5, 2022 • 24m
Border-aucracy
Feb 21, 2022 • 30m
Why Buy the Cow?
Feb 7, 2022 • 27m
S6 Trailer
Jan 31, 2022 • 2m
Downwind
Jan 17, 2022 • 27m
What’s Next for Progressive Foreign Policy?
Dec 20, 2021 • 23m
S5 Bonus - And You Thought Thanksgiving Dinner Was Intense?
Sep 20, 2021 • 31m
S5 E7 - Navigating the Strait
Sep 13, 2021 • 25m
S5 E6 - Take This Job and Shove It
Aug 30, 2021 • 31m
S5 E5 - You Say Gatorade, I Say Bacon
Aug 16, 2021 • 28m
S5 E4 - Amtrak and the End of the Free World
Aug 2, 2021 • 25m
S5 E3 - Alright Dom, What's Next?
Jul 19, 2021 • 29m
S5 E2 - Out From Under the Leaking Roof and Into the Rain
Jul 5, 2021 • 24m
S5 E1 - Cheers to the American Middle Class
Jun 21, 2021 • 28m
S5 Trailer
Jun 14, 2021 • 3m
S4 Bonus - A Very Hokey 100 Days
May 3, 2021 • 20m
S4 E9 - Baby Nukes: When a Little Boom Is All You Need
Mar 1, 2021 • 25m
S4 E8 - Aliens Among Us
Feb 15, 2021 • 24m
S4 E7 - Why One Congresswoman Wore Tennis Shoes on Jan. 6
Feb 1, 2021 • 25m
S4 E6 - Saving the World With 50-Year-Old IT
Jan 18, 2021 • 23m
S4 E5 - Duluth, Not as Cold as You Think!
Jan 4, 2021 • 26m
Reissue: The Slog
Dec 21, 2020 • 29m
S4 E3 - A Forward-Looking Foreign Policy
Dec 7, 2020 • 25m
S4 E2 - The Blob
Nov 23, 2020 • 28m
S4 E1 - Fee-fi-fo-fear
Nov 9, 2020 • 23m
S4 Trailer
Oct 26, 2020 • 1m
Do you feel safe?
Oct 12, 2020 • 51s
S3 E8 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - After the Apocalypse
Aug 24, 2020 • 31m
S3 E7 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - Future Wars
Aug 10, 2020 • 26m
S3 E6 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - Inner Decay
Jul 27, 2020 • 28m
S3 E5 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - Democracy! (Yawn)
Jul 13, 2020 • 26m
S3 E4 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - This Is Not a Drill
Jun 29, 2020 • 31m
S3 E3 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - So You Want Your Own Army?
Jun 15, 2020 • 25m
S3 E2 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - While We Were Sleeping
Jun 1, 2020 • 25m
S3 E1 (The Wrong Apocalypse) - World War C
May 18, 2020 • 22m
S3 Trailer (The Wrong Apocalypse)
May 4, 2020 • 2m
S2 Bonus - Our Closet Bunker Broadcast on Iran
Jan 8, 2020 • 20m
S2 Bonus - Amb. William Burns
Jul 8, 2019 • 21m
S2 E7 (Fallout) - Collateral Damage
Jun 24, 2019 • 28m
S2 E6 (Fallout) - No Cheese, Extra Pickles
Jun 17, 2019 • 25m
S2 E5 (Fallout) - I Want Money
Jun 10, 2019 • 26m
S2 E4 (Fallout) - Bad Blood
Jun 3, 2019 • 33m
S2 E3 (Fallout) - The Slog
May 27, 2019 • 29m
S2 E2 (Fallout) - The Worst Deal Ever
May 20, 2019 • 34m
S2 E1 (Fallout) - Nothing Good Happens After Midnight
May 13, 2019 • 21m
S2 Trailer (Fallout)
May 6, 2019 • 3m
S1 E4 - What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About PTSD
Feb 12, 2018 • 27m
S1 E3 - What Happens When the Military Thinks Outside the Box?
Feb 5, 2018 • 28m
S1 E2 - Home Security
Jan 29, 2018 • 22m
S1 E1 - The Bear
Jan 22, 2018 • 23m
S1 Trailer
Dec 11, 2017 • 2m
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