Episodes
This week, host Sarah Jones is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas, to breakdown the challenges facing undocumented citizens.
Published 10/30/24
This week, host Sarah Jones is joined by Janai Nelson, the President and Director Council of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, to break down Project 2025’s threat to Black communities.
Published 10/23/24
Published 10/23/24
This week on #AmericaWhoHurtYou, author and climate policy expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (@ayanaeliza ) is ringing the alarm about the climate crisis, but in a way that offers real solutions.
Published 10/15/24
This week, host Sarah Jones talks to activist and organizer Shannon Watts about the often overlooked power white women hold in politics and why it’s so consistently leveraged against their own interests.
Published 10/09/24
This week, host Sarah Jones talks with Liz Plank about the murky waters dividing men and women, and how to bridge across them in time to save democracy.
Published 10/02/24
This week, host Sarah Jones talks to Sheena Meade, the director of the Clean Slate Initiative, about the barriers Americans face when they’re no longer behind bars.
Published 09/25/24
On this episode, host Sarah Jones talks with actress and activist Jameela Jamil about true wellness, “It’s affection. It's time with loved ones…It is not waiting to rest when you are dead.
Published 09/11/24
This week, Sarah Jones asks Academy Award winner and activist Jane Fonda how she’s still standing after a career spanning decades of activism that has seen its share of successes and setbacks.
Published 09/04/24
Rosalynn Carter once said, “There are only four kinds of people in the world, people who are caregivers, or will be caregivers, people who need care or will need care.” This week, host Sarah Jones is joined by Ai-jen Poo, an award-winning organizer, author, the executive director of Caring Across Generations and president of the National Domestic Workers’ Alliance. Sarah and Ai-jen dive into the “care economy” and how we’re all part of it, even if we don’t know what it is. Whether the subject...
Published 08/28/24
In this episode, Sarah talks with Maurice Mitchell, the national director of The Working Families Party, about how to build a robust third party without ignoring the very real math problem third party candidates can pose in America’s intensely polarized elections.
Published 08/21/24
In this episode, Sarah is joined by Jonathan Metzl, a researcher who investigates the impact of right-wing health care and gun control policies on their white supporters.
Published 08/14/24
Sarah Jones is joined by actress and activist Laverne Cox to discuss the misinformation that media uses to fearmonger about what exactly trans rights mean for all of us, regardless of how we identify.
Published 08/07/24
Sarah Jones is joined by comedian, author, and “political provocateur” W. Kamau Bell to talk about the struggles and contradictions of living in America, especially as a Black man.
Published 07/31/24
It's very crowded inside the Tony-winning brain of Sarah Jones.
Published 07/24/24
Sarah Jones talks with "On Being" host Krista Tippett about her own religious journey, her “hellfire and brimstone” grandfather, and the past, present, and uncertain future of religion and politics.
Published 07/24/24
Coming July 24th: Our country has always been a hot mess. But now, between political rage, climate crises and social-media polarization, it’s quite literally on fire.
Published 07/10/24