Robin on national emergencies, Cardinal McCarrick, "embryo adoption," and why the North Pole is moving, plus Part 3 of "Women’s Suffrage(s)." Guest: Leta Hong Fincher on her book "Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China."
Robin on Rosalind Franklin, the Nevada state legislature, and how a "walking fish" could save us all, plus Part 2 of "Women's Suffrage(s)." Guest: biologist and social scientist Dr. Renate Klein on her book, "Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation."
Robin on racism, sexism, and Virginia; Congresswomen wearing white; a mysterious sticky island; Trump’s “executive time;” and why women’s suffrage should be women’s suffrages. Guest: Lisa Borders, President and CEO of Time’s Up! workplace revo
Robin on climate vs. weather, Queen Elizabeth II and Brexit, negotiations with the Taliban, bias about addressing pain, and bouncing chicken nuggets. Guest: philosopher Dr. Mariana Alessandri on the gender politics of fasting.
Robin on how Nancy Pelosi flummoxed Donald Trump, the women behind MLK Jr. Day, “phantom words,” justice in Pakistan, and baby whales. Guest: Autumn Miles, domestic abuse survivor who challenges other evangelicals to face this truth about themselves.
Robin on strategists Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth I (Tudor), Iowa’s Steve King, Opus Dei, and “First Partners.” Guest: Award-winning journalist and author Helen Zia on immigrants, the Chinese diaspora, and her major new book, Last Boat Out of Shanghai.
Robin on NASA’s Ultima Thule flyby, Trump’s televangelist con, R. Kelly, the APA, Mormons in slacks, and praise for older women. Guest: Investigative journalist Sylvia A. Harvey on her major exposé about COIP (Children of Incarcerated Parents).
Special end-of-year program, featuring poetry. Also, Robin on Nancy Pelosi, Angela Merkel, Voyagers 1 and 2 entering interstellar space, Rwandan women seizing the fishing industry, South Korean women smashing make up—and termite engineers.
Robin on Trumper erosion of sexual-offense-survivor rights, Sudan’s new rape tragedy, an unprecedented push-back from Roman Catholic nuns, and women’s migraines. Guest: Sisonke Msimang, South African author born in exile, who found her global voice.
On Tuesday, in the run-up to the opening of the Indian legislature’s winter session on December 11, women’s groups came together to express frustration and outrage that the Women’s Reservation Bill, which aims to ensure Indian women’s equal representation in elected office, has not yet been passed.
Robin on Sheryl Sandberg and the fall of Facebook, bionic Swedes, the new U.S. serial killer, child-friendly refurnishings of Congress, and making the Census "sexy." Guest: Linda Kay Klein, on escaping from and exposing evangelical "purity" culture.
Robin on the Girl Scouts, "menstrual equity," post-midterms exhaustion and celebration, Earth's most massive organism—and sexualized violence as a hate crime. Guest: Cecile Richards—leaving Planned Parenthood to make even more (beautiful) trouble!
Robin on the overlooked glory of the election and the Everywoman who made it real, plus toxic sunscreens and Rupert Murdoch. Guest: Jessica Ladd, founder and CEO of Callisto, which puts powerful technology at the service of sexual assault survivors.
Robin on Saudi women fugitives, Trump's "executive time," microplastics, supremacists at large, and November 7. Guest: Rebecca Traister on her new best-seller, "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger." Plus, "A Thought Experiment."
Robin on the Caravan, right-wing terrorist bombs, Elizabeth Warren, and the Puerto Rican rainforest. Guest: Michigan Democratic Congresswoman-to-be Rashida Tlaib, running unopposed, who will become the first Muslim-American woman in Congress.
Robin on anti-feminist women, Russian trolls' new targets, Iowa's corn-fed sex crimes, and the 6th Mass Extinction. Guests: Neha Madhira and Haley Stack, teenage Texas journalists who fought to free their high school newspaper from censorship.
Robin on women and climate change, murdered journalists, and male "rites of passage." Guests: Investigative journalist Susan Antilla on #MeToo vs. Wall St.; investigative journalist Kathryn Joyce on the religious adoption industry and migrant kids.
Robin’s Open Letter to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, plus new statistics on women, an update on rape and the Nobel Prize, Kuwait's banned books, and pet fish. Guest: Ana Maria Archila, on trapping Sen. Jeff Flake in the elevator and changing history.
Robin on GOP suicide, MeToo's span from China to Antarctica, Cosby in handcuffs, and the rising of a global political force. Guest: Soraya Chemaly, on reclaiming social media and on her timely new book, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger.
Robin on Dr. Ford v. Kavanaugh, lesbiphobia in retirement homes, Somalia's FGM deaths, and how the Koch Brothers miscalculated. Guests: Erica Gonzalez on Puerto Rico's hurricane anniversary; Maya Dusenbery on Doing Harm, her exposé of medicine today.
Season Premiere! Robin on Serena Williams, the mid-term elections, the Pennsylvania Catholic diocese coverup, killer whales—and two funerals. Guest AURN White House Correspondent April Ryan on her new book, Under Fire. Expanded Surrealism Corner!
Season Finale: Robin on "everyday courage," lesbian moms, more climate-change impact, hereditary peers, and water on Mars. Guest: Emmy and Peabody winning filmmaker Deeyah Khan on her new documentary about neo-Nazis, "White Right: Meeting the Enemy."
Robin on the long-term impact of sexual harassment, "ghost particles," older women and poverty, and a newly unearthed "Henge." Guest: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples, on losses (and wins!) for Indigenous women.
Robin on how to protect your vote from hacking and other violations, Trump's War on Babies, and a new low in domestic abuse. Guests: Julia Rybak's unionizing of hotel workers; Rachel Devlin on how girls really desegregated America's schools.
Robin on the murder of journalists, the Supreme Court decisions, and Justice Kennedy's departure—with an extended Fighting Words on how to survive. Guest: Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States.
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