Haitian migrants fled a violent dictatorship and built a new community in Miami’s Little Haiti, far from the coast and on land that luxury developers didn’t want. But with demand for up-market apartments surging, their neighborhood is suddenly

There Goes the Neighborhood: Miami, Part 2

Nov 6th, 2019 21m 22s

Valencia Gunder used to dismiss her grandfather’s warnings: “They’re gonna steal our communities because it don't flood.” She thought, Who would want this place? But Valencia’s grandfather knew something she didn’t: People in black Miami have s

There Goes the Neighborhood: Miami, Part 1

Nov 5th, 2019 23m 32s

process that may intensify the affordability crisis in cities all over the country.Little Haiti sits on high ground, in a city that’s facing increasing pressure from rising sea levels and monster storms. For years, researchers at Harvard Unive

The Next Debt Crisis That No One's Talking About

Oct 29th, 2019 28m 28s

An ambitious young immigrant needs a car and ends up with a loan he can’t afford. His lender, Credit Acceptance, specializes in subprime car loans -- lending to people with poor credit at exorbitant interest rates. Reporter Anjali Kamat tells t

Denial at the Trump Hotel

Sep 18th, 2019 28m 36s

It's becoming harder and harder to deny that the Earth is warming. But climate change skeptics not only have a plan for how to keep the public arguing about the validity of the science, they also have the ear of the most powerful person on the

White Like Me

Sep 3rd, 2019 23m 26s

Whiteness, as an idea and as an identity, is not as fixed as many people believe. Over the centuries, Western societies have defined and redefined it. But always, it has served to delineate who gets access to rights and privileges, and who does

A History of Persuasion: Part 3

Aug 13th, 2019 31m 49s

Silicon Valley’s so-called “millionaire maker” is a behavioral scientist who foresaw the power of putting persuasion at the heart of the tech world’s business model. But behind the curtain of the industry’s behemoth companies is a cadre of engi

A History of Persuasion: Part 2

Aug 8th, 2019 26m 20s

Ted Kaczynski had been a boy genius. Then he became the Unabomber. After years of searching for him, the FBI finally caught him in his remote Montana cabin, along with thousands of pages of his writing. Those pages revealed Kaczynski's hatred t

A History of Persuasion: Part 1

Jul 30th, 2019 21m 7s

Infinite scrolling. Push notifications. Autoplay. Our devices and apps were designed to keep us engaged and looking for as long as possible. Now, we’ve woken up from years on social media and our phones to discover we've been manipulated by una

The Invention of 'Sexual Harassment'

Jul 16th, 2019 24m 49s

If you want to change the law, you have to name the problem. That's why, in 1975, five to eight women in a room in Ithaca, New York came up with two words that changed the law, and the workplace, forever. But as you'll hear, victory really has

Editing Thomas Jefferson

Jul 2nd, 2019 35m 46s

The Declaration of Independence was America’s first act of social design. The men who drafted America’s founding document recognized the tension between their ideals of liberty and the realities of the nation's slave economy. But they couldn’t

The Abortion Clinic That Won't Go Quietly

Jun 18th, 2019 27m 1s

Host of The Stakes Kai Wright visits the Alabama Women's Center, one of three remaining abortion providers in the state—and the sole provider within 150 miles. Alabama passed the nation's most restrictive abortion law in May—a law that would ma

We’re Here. We’re Fluid. Get Used To It.

Jun 4th, 2019 25m 17s

In honor of Stonewall’s 50th anniversary, it’s time for an intergenerational queer conversation. Kristin Tomlinson is a gender fluid, pansexual 21-year-old. She takes Kai into her very fluid online and IRL world of cartoon cats in crop tops, In

To Be Young, Conscious and Rap

1 May 21st, 2019 24m 5s

Drug wars, recessions and record violence in the 1980s had US cities in crisis. Hip hop artists responded by shifting from party music to a new style called "conscious rap." Artists like Public Enemy and Digable Planets championed a sound that

Giving Birth While Black

May 7th, 2019 23m 37s

A black woman in America is three to four times more likely to die than a white woman during pregnancy, childbirth, and in the year after the baby's born, according to the Centers for Disease Control. As more and more black women share their ne

A Conversation with Eric Holder, Jr.

1 Apr 30th, 2019 26m

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Former US Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. told us that that only happens when people put their hands on that arc and pull on it. He joins h

The People vs. Dutch Boy Lead

1 Apr 23rd, 2019 29m 24s

One of the longest-running public health epidemics in American history involves a handful of baby teeth, a creepy cartoon character and The Young Lords. This is a story about a fight for accountability.Hosted by Kai Wright. Reported by Christo

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The System is Broken. But That Means We Can Fix it.

Apr 3rd, 2019 1m 48s

Coming up on The Stakes podcast, host Kai Wright and team identify what's not working about our society and imagine ways to fix it. From healthcare to climate change, from the music we consume to the food that we eat, everything we experience i