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31 episodes featuring Kentucky Public Radio
Up First from NPR
Cockpit attack, Trump’s midterm strategy and Hegseth’s military overhaul
The episode connects a dramatic aviation emergency with two tests of political power: Trump’s effort to shape the midterms and Hegseth’s effort to remake military leadership.
Oct 1, 2026 · 14 min
This American Life
A mother confronts the cost of school integration
The episode examines what happens when a family’s commitment to challenging educational inequality collides with a child’s need for rigorous preparation and safety.
Sep 26, 2026 · 1h 5m
Short Wave
AI safety fears move from theory to real-world incidents
The episode connects speculative takeover scenarios with current chatbot harms and asks whether industry or governments can slow a dangerous race.
Sep 18, 2026 · 15 min
The Indicator from Planet Money
War, sulfur and AI reshape the cost of living
The episode connects geopolitical disruption to higher fuel and fertilizer costs while examining why OpenAI may hesitate before pursuing a public listing.
Sep 18, 2026 · 9 min
The NPR Politics Podcast
Anti-Muslim rhetoric returns to Republican campaign ads
The episode examines how fear-based messaging about Muslim candidates and communities is reshaping political campaigns, alongside a debate over artists’ political speech.
Sep 18, 2026 · 29 min
The Indicator from Planet Money
A fragile oil workaround meets a strategic chokepoint
The episode shows how uncertainty around one narrow waterway can raise costs and disrupt energy, commodities, and geopolitical strategy worldwide.
Sep 17, 2026 · 9 min
Consider This from NPR
ChatGPT’s crisis feature may be hardest to use in a crisis
Trusted Contact could connect people at risk with human support, but its hidden setup, limited availability, and uncertain effectiveness expose the limits of chatbot safety tools.
Sep 17, 2026 · 9 min
The NPR Politics Podcast
Midterm bellwethers test Democrats’ path to a majority
The episode shows how a handful of races, rural districts, and election-administration fights could reveal whether the national environment is shifting.
Sep 17, 2026 · 21 min
Short Wave
Cheaper batteries push renewable power beyond the sunset
Falling battery costs are changing when renewable electricity can be used, while new chemistries could determine whether storage lasts hours or days.
Sep 16, 2026 · 14 min
Tempestology
El Niño reshapes weather, food security and wildfire risk
Understanding Pacific Ocean cycles helps explain why climate hazards cascade across regions and hit communities with unequal capacity to prepare and recover.
Sep 16, 2026 · 1h 4m
The Indicator from Planet Money
Big Tech’s AI borrowing tests the bond market
The debt financing the data-center boom could expose investors to risks that outlast today’s enthusiasm for artificial intelligence.
Sep 16, 2026 · 9 min
Planet Money
Easy market access is turning investing into a riskier bet
Record margin borrowing and sports-betting habits show how financial access can blur the line between investing and gambling, especially for younger adults.
Sep 16, 2026 · 18 min
The Matt Walsh Show
Walsh argues secularism now favors Islam over Christianity
The episode frames public religious accommodation as evidence that secular institutions have replaced Christian influence with progressive ideology and preferential treatment for Muslim identity.
Sep 16, 2026 · 40 min
The NPR Politics Podcast
AI regulation collides with the race for technological advantage
The debate is no longer only about AI safety, but whether economic and national-security pressure will prevent meaningful safeguards.
Sep 16, 2026 · 18 min
Consider This from NPR
The Fed’s inflation fight raises costs and political stakes
The rate increase aims to cool inflation but may deepen financial pressure on households while shaping voters’ views before the midterms.
Sep 16, 2026 · 8 min
Short Wave
Why doctors miss diagnoses—and how they can improve
Diagnostic errors can reshape patients’ lives, but better listening, case review, accountability, and trauma-informed care offer ways to make medicine safer.
Sep 15, 2026 · 13 min
Life Kit
Rewriting painful memories may change how safety feels
Emotionally charged memories can quietly shape self-worth, relationships and perceptions of the world, while this exercise offers a way to revisit them with care.
Sep 15, 2026 · 18 min
The Indicator from Planet Money
Flock cameras show gains—and serious surveillance risks
The episode weighs measurable reductions in vehicle theft against incomplete coverage, false matches, broad data sharing, and potential misuse.
Sep 15, 2026 · 10 min
The NPR Politics Podcast
Michigan voters turn economic despair into a midterm warning
Michigan swing voters’ anger over prices and a fading middle-class promise could reshape a competitive Senate race while testing both parties’ populist appeals.
Sep 15, 2026 · 19 min
Consider This from NPR
Bill Gates urges governments to catch up with AI
The episode tests whether societies can capture AI’s benefits while limiting risks that markets and companies may not manage alone.
Sep 15, 2026 · 11 min
Life Kit
Quitting can be a disciplined decision, not a failure
The episode offers a practical way to distinguish wise persistence from costly inertia before more time, money, or opportunity is lost.
Sep 14, 2026 · 17 min
Short Wave
BMI’s universal rules miss unequal diabetes risk
The episode weighs whether race-specific BMI thresholds could catch metabolic risk earlier without entrenching race as a medical shortcut.
Sep 14, 2026 · 14 min
The Indicator from Planet Money
A quiz tests the economics behind everyday headlines
The episode turns policy, prices, trade, technology, and social media business models into a compact test of economic literacy.
Sep 14, 2026 · 10 min
Louder with Crowder
A viral Texas crowd image opens a fight over immigration and identity
The discussion connects one football-game image to larger disputes over assimilation, H-1B visas, demographic change, media power, and censorship.
Sep 14, 2026 · 1h 10m
Consider This from NPR
AI safety collides with Washington’s political limits
The episode examines whether government safeguards can reduce catastrophic AI risks without shielding dominant companies or weakening the U.S. position against China.
Sep 14, 2026 · 13 min
Consider This from NPR
AI leaders urge a pause as lawmakers weigh safety rules
The episode tests whether warnings about frontier AI can produce enforceable safeguards before development outpaces oversight.
Sep 13, 2026 · 6 min
The NPR Politics Podcast
Post-9/11 security delivered gains at a steep democratic cost
The panel revisits whether the architecture built after September 11 made the country safer without sacrificing law, privacy, oversight, and moral authority.
Sep 12, 2026 · 60 min
The NPR Politics Podcast
How 9/11 remade American power and public trust
The episode traces how emergency measures adopted after 9/11 became a lasting architecture of war, surveillance, secrecy, and domestic suspicion.
Sep 11, 2026 · 36 min
Planet Money
Baltimore’s foreclosure wave exposes risks in fast-growing investor loans
The collapse shows how lightly regulated housing credit can connect distant investors, institutional money, and neighborhood-level damage.
Sep 11, 2026 · 29 min
Consider This from NPR
A 2028 trial date tests Guantanamo’s unfinished justice
The delayed 9/11 case shows how military commissions, torture-tainted evidence, and unresolved detention policies continue to shape accountability.
Sep 11, 2026 · 11 min
Up First from NPR
Silica dust drives a new wave of black lung
Younger Appalachian miners are developing severe, incurable disease as regulators delay stronger protections against silica exposure.
Aug 9, 2026 · 41 min