The white woman tears of Elizabeth Holmes
The new documentary ‘You Can See Everything’ has left audiences wondering how the line between fact and fiction is drawn, and who gets to draw it. At ...
Julio Torres wants more time (and five clones)
Comedian Julio Torres has made a career out of seeing the whimsical in the mundane, from the hidden meanings of shapes, colors, to the bureaucracy of ...
Who gets to joke about Israel? (feat. Ilana Glazer & Gianmarco Soresi)
Being a Jewish comic who criticizes Israel right now means getting it from all sides. Ilana Glazer and Gianmarco Soresi talk to Gene about being calle...
Black voters could decide the midterms. Why are they being ignored?
Every election season, politicians remember Black voters exist, and then lecture them, pander to them or skip their doors entirely. MS NOW’s Eugene Da...
Weaponizing IQ: Who gets to be smart?
President Trump and Silicon Valley tech bros are obsessed with IQ, but the history of intelligence testing is full of bunk race science and eugenics. ...
What if men read more books
Are the men in your life reading? How do you convince people to check out more novels? This week, we turn to our play cousins at It's Been a Minute an...
How "defund the police" became radioactive
In 2020, “defund the police” was everywhere. Now, even politicians like AOC and Zohran Mamdani have turned around on it. But some proposals that fell ...
Why fascists love “fitness”
Right-wing ideology has crept into gyms across the country. Is this a new phenomenon, or is the very idea of "fitness" ripe for politicization? Is our...
How much reality do we want in our reality TV?
Why do Black contestants on reality TV keep getting voted out first? Like a lot of people, B.A. Parker watches reality TV to escape. But seeing contes...
How Hollywood stole the zombie from Haiti
Zombies have roots most fans have never heard of. In Haitian Vodou, being zombified meant being enslaved even in death. B.A. Parker talks to Maya Anni...