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The agony and ecstasy of parenting with Hari Kondabolu

Being a new parent is exhausting at the best of times. There are diapers to change, bottles to fill, screaming sobs to quiet down. But beyond all the routine chores that come with parenting, there are the larger social questions of how to raise a kid in a complex, unjust, and ever-changing world. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

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  How Jewish Communities Are Divided Over Support of Israel

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  The Rise and Fall of the Panama Canal

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  Reflecting on the legacy of O.J. Simpson

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  How Frederick Douglass launched generations of Black and Irish solidarity

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  WTF does race have to do with taxes?

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  Who does language belong to? A fight over the Lakota Language

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  Getting let down by the 'Great Expectations' of electoral politics

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  In the world of medicine, race-based diagnoses are more than skin deep

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  This conspiracy theory about eating bugs is also about race

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  The musical legacy of Japanese American incarceration

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  Why menthol cigarettes have a chokehold on Black smokers

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  Before the apps, people used newspapers to find love

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  How college footballers led the fight against racism in 1969

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  What it's like to be a Black woman with bipolar disorder

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  Taylor Swift and the unbearable whiteness of girlhood

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  A former church girl's search for a new spiritual home