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About Niala Boodhoo: Niala Boodhoo is the host of 1 big thing and previously hosted Axios Today She was the founding Host and Executive Producer of the award-winning news program The 21st. An alum of Reuters, The Miami Herald and WBEZ/Chicago, Niala was a 2019-2020 Knight-Wallace fellow.
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Phil Cousineau: Turning travel into pilgrimage (00:30:29)
Niala Boodhoo walked nearly 80 miles along the Camino de Santiago this summer, an ancient Christian pilgrimage that's been meaningful for millions. A growing number of Americans—including non-Christia...
Barak Ravid: Israel and Hamas closer to perpetual war than a ceasefire (00:23:12)
Hundreds of thousands have been taking to the streets in Israel, ever since the bodies of six murdered Israeli hostages were found last week in a tunnel in Gaza. It marked an escalation by Hamas, Axio...
Karthick Ramakrishnan: AAPI voters could tip the scales (00:22:42)
Before Vice President Harris became the Democratic nominee, Asian American voters were unenthusiastic about then-candidate Biden. But Harris has since energized the fastest-growing voter group in the ...
Shawn Fain: The fight against corporate greed (00:26:08)
UAW President Shawn Fain got a coveted spot speaking opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to share his message of fighting against corporate greed. With one million active an...
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Defiant storytellers and scholars of memory (00:21:42)
Growing up an immigrant in the U.S., writer Viet Thanh Nguyen tried to make sense of the Vietnamese story. "There were these two very different versions of history and memory that were going around, a...
Tim Heaphy and Sen. Eric Schmitt: Balancing safety and free speech in the public square (00:21:45)
The last school year saw the First Amendment tested across college campuses. Protests over Israel's treatment of Gaza dominated headlines and disrupted commencements, while antisemitic and anti-Muslim...
Kaitlyn Schiess: America's Bible-haunted history and the way ahead (00:21:45)
Americans have long used the Bible to justify their politics. That's in part why today, younger Christians are rethinking their relationship to their faith, and the Bible's place in American political...
Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei: A brand new presidential race (00:20:42)
"Nothing, nothing, can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes personal ambition." President Biden explained his move to the American people in an address Wednesday night. Now, a new ra...
Alex Thompson: A newly unified GOP (00:20:03)
Based on this week's Republican National Convention, the assassination attempt on former President Trump seems to have unified the GOP. Alex Thompson is national political correspondent for Axios, and...
Noah Feldman: What it means to be a Jew today (00:21:13)
The October 7th Hamas terrorist attack and Israel's ensuing war in Gaza have made Jews around the world look closer at the core of their faith and the role of Israel. Legal and religious scholar Noah ...
Jeff Rosen: SCOTUS's dramatic vision of judicial supremacy (00:21:15)
As we celebrate 248 years of being a democracy, has the U.S. Supreme Court become the most powerful branch of government? We put that to Jeff Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Cent...
Maha Jweied: Businesses must lead on second chance hiring (00:21:45)
One in every three adults in the U.S. has some kind of criminal record. That makes finding a job much harder, and has consequences not just for individuals and communities, but also takes a major econ...
Climate change, inflation, and unreliable supply chains are just some of the challenges small-scale farmers globally are facing today. Alloysius Attah grew up on a farm in Ghana and has seen it all fi...
Reshma Saujani: Using AI to put moms first (00:19:16)
Reshma Saujani, founder of Girl Who Code, saw the pandemic push women out of the workforce and make existing workplace inequalities worse. "We have not made the workforce work for moms," she says. Wit...
Rich Buery: Fighting poverty with AI (00:19:22)
Some 38 million people live in poverty in this country – nearly 12 percent of the population. The problem remains especially bad in New York City, where the poverty level among kids alone has jumped 6...
Sec. Jena Griswold: Protecting elections officials from violent threats (00:21:08)
Elections officials have faced violent threats since the 2020 presidential election, and five months out from the next vote, Secretaries of State are on the front lines. Colorado's Democratic Secretar...
Ed Yong: Birding for a fulfilled life (00:21:45)
Interest in birdwatching has been booming, and Ed Yong is one of the millions who have fallen hard. Yong is a Pulitzer-prize winning science writer previously of the Atlantic, where he was one of the ...
Steve Young: What private equity could do for the NFL (00:20:52)
In his more than 15 years in pro football, NFL quarterback Steve Young made his name on the field as one of the most efficient passers of all time. But after his retirement, he turned his career to pr...
Fei-Fei Li: AI's new possibilities for robots (00:20:44)
Fei-Fei Li is widely known as the godmother of AI, thanks to her groundbreaking research in the field. You can draw a straight line from her early work to the generative AI of today. Now, she's at the...
Rep. Miller-Meeks: The GOP can lead on climate change (00:21:23)
Republican lawmakers have come a long way on climate change since the days of tossing snowballs in the U.S. Senate a decade ago. Today, an 80+ member Conservative Climate Caucus wants to elevate Repub...
Sue Bird: "Society finally caught up" with women's basketball (00:16:54)
Retired WNBA legend Sue Bird knows just how far women's basketball has come. Arguably the greatest WNBA player in history, she was also part of negotiating a major collective bargaining agreement in 2...
Avril Benoît: Is ignoring humanitarian law the new norm? (00:21:02)
Hospitals are supposed to be safe havens in a war. But Avril Benoît, the U.S. executive director for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says that's not the case in places including Sudan, where this week m...
Duncan McIntyre: Electrifying school bus fleets (00:19:43)
The majority of U.S. school buses today are diesel, emitting pollutants harmful to the environment and to kids. Highland Electric Fleets is behind the largest electric school bus project in America, a...
Anna Hehir: Banning the most dangerous autonomous weapons (00:21:04)
Autonomous weapons are no longer science fiction - and they're becoming a top priority for major military powers. Anna Hehir of the Future of Life Institute says we need an international treaty to ban...
Alondra Nelson: AI chatbots get elections info wrong (00:21:13)
Recent elections have shown us the power of bad actors using AI. But what about AI itself that's just...flawed? Dr. Alondra Nelson has investigated this, with surprising results. Nelson was involved i...
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