Jul 27, 2018
Have you ever wondered how many Americans are married to their cousin? How hairy the average woman of color is? Well! Data journalist Mona Chalabi has the answers to all your weirdest queries, often with whimsical and witty illustrations. Ahmed and Mona talk about how opinion polling has been used against...
Jul 20, 2018
In this week’s episode, special guest host Sara Yasin steps in to discuss the most burning questions we all have about the World Cup. Like: who do you root for when there’s only European nations left in the tourney? Can we use colonial injustices as a rubric to decide when the majority of the players are immigrants...
Jul 13, 2018
In this week's episode, Ahmed discusses how anti-Muslim propaganda
makes its way from Europe to the U.S. with Ishmael Daro of the
BuzzFeed News Debunking Team and BuzzFeed's VP Legal and Associate
General Counsel Nabiha Syed. They also go head-to-head in a game of
'Fake News or Not?'.
Read Ishmael's...
Jul 6, 2018
On a scale of 1-10, how much do you think our civil liberties have eroded this past month? These are the kind of things Ahmed worries about at night. So, he invited brother-in-law, ACLU lawyer, and real-life Supreme Court WINNER Nathan Freed Wessler and CUNY-CLEAR’s Tarek Ismail on the show to help make sense of...