Everybody’s Gotta Eat
Parents spend a lot of time refereeing. No, you can’t have hot fries and ice cream for dinner. Yes, please, have some more kale. We go to the dinner tables of “natural parents,” who left city life behind to bring kids closer to their food source.
Presidential Leadership
What makes a leader decide to go to war? We take a look at the beginning of United States imperialism as we consider why leaders do the things they do.
The Pandemic Election
This election has a lot of people worried about voting–how to do it and how to make it count.
COVID: The Threat is in the Air
COVID-19 brought the world to a halt. Now, everyone’s waiting on a vaccine.
REPLAY: How To Go Clubbing
Remember going out dancing in the pre-pandemic world? This week, With Good Reason takes you to a few fabulous spots for togetherness.
Predicting Hotspots
What if we could predict civil conflict 5 years in advance with machine learning? What might we do differently?
The Voyage of the USS Albatross
Many of us spent the summer fishing. But could overfishing be changing fish genetics?
Replay: Holocaust Memory
Everyone remembers things differently. WGR takes you from D.C. to Poland for the many ways of commemorating the Holocaust.
Working Through History
Jim Crow continues to impact the American labor market, and COVID-19 is making the workplace increasingly inequitable for women of all races.
Goodbye My Tribe
We tell ourselves stories in order to survive, says the great novelist Joan Didion. What stories sustain you? This week, we talk about belief.
Education Innovation
Education will never be the same. While no one has the answers, decisions are being made and teachers, professors and families are rapidly adapting.
Replay: New Virginians
There are many kinds of movement and migration, forced and otherwise. Arrival is a perpetual state of becoming for the people in transit and the nations where they arrive.
Featured
Voices of Vietnam
The Vietnam War pulled America apart, dividing our country into factions. And yet, memories of the Vietnam War unite us. In a new eight-part special series, With Good Reason explores the unresolved tensions in our understanding of the war and the perspectives and people it forever changed.
