Bassem Youssef’s TV satire had a weekly audience of 30 million before the Egyptian government forced him into exile. ‘The John Stewart of the Middle East’ talks about his lastest book The Magical Reality of Nadia and his take on being an immigrant.
Read MoreIf you feel a bit of burning down there, Dr. Ina Park is definitely the STD specialist you want poking around. Her book Strange Bedfellows will have you laughing about syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, condoms, and what you can catch from toilet seats.
Read MoreIn Come Fly the World travel journalist Julia Cooke tells the story of an exclusive cadre of adventurers who entered a profession that opened up the world in a way few women had ever previously experienced.
Read MoreJournalist Ross Benes grew up in a small Nebraska town then moved to Brooklyn. His old friends and his new ones think differently about everything. But he gets it because, as he explains, their environments define their politics.
Read MorePBS NewsHour’s Heatlh Care expert Phil Moeller tells us how to get the best medical care at the right price; how to find the best docs; and why Walmart, not Washington, may be paving the way to a fair and equitable system of US health care.
Read MoreFrom the gross corruption of public officials to the demise of hyper-masculine white guys, The Sopranos was spot on about our culture. Writer Nick Braccia deconstructs his favorite murders, scams, locations and pasta dishes then tells us if Tony really was whacked in the last episode.
Read MoreIn his latest book Animal, Vegetable, Junk iconic food writer Mark Bittman warns us about the super profitable business of industrialized food: how it’s killing us and destroying the earth.
Read MoreNY Times reporter Kennth R. Rosen, himself a victim of the tough love industry, talks about the cruelties of unregulated, for-profit, adolescent treatment programs.
Read MoreJournalist Talia Lavin, author of The Culture Warlords, reports on the soul-wrecking year she spent undercover to expose neo-Nazis, Incels, and white-supremacists on the dark web.
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