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The Open Mind is a thoughtful excursion into the world of ideas across media, politics, technology, the arts and all realms of civic life.
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Jan 29 2025
Compassion and Renewal
The Omowale Project leader Emani Davis discusses healing system-impacted people.
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Jan 29 2025
Compassion and Renewal
The Omowale Project leader Emani Davis discusses healing system-impacted people.
Jan 21 2025
Regressive and Inhumane
Illinois Prison Project Jennifer Soble discusses opportunities for back-end justice reform.
Jan 14 2025
Clemency for America
Legal scholar Mark Osler discusses the justice solution of clemency.
Jan 6 2025
The Public Defense
Civil rights attorney Scott Hechinger discusses the state of public defenders in America.
Dec 30 2024
A Parole to Possibility Pipeline
Louisiana Parole Project founder Andrew Hundley discusses his personal journey in the justice system.
Dec 23 2024
State Constitutional Imperatives
State Law Research Initiative director Kyle Barry discusses state constitutions.
Dec 16 2024
Ending Mass Incarceration on the Back End
Sentencing Project research director Nazgol Ghandnoosh discusses mass incarceration data.
Dec 9 2024
Tree Policy
Scientist Lauren Oakes discusses environmental conservation.
Dec 2 2024
The State of American Justice
Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson discusses his prescriptions for reform.
Nov 25 2024
What’s Next for America?
“The West Wing” actress Melissa Fitzgerald discusses President Bartlet-inspired activism.
Nov 19 2024
Generation Refrigerant
Gastropod host Nicola Twilley discusses her new book “Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves.”
Nov 12 2024
Wikipedia's Survival and Resilience
Wikimedia leader Rebecca MacKinnon discusses the future of the encyclopedia platform.
Nov 4 2024
Peace Policies
Win Without War director Sara Haghdoosti discusses strategies for counterproliferation.
Oct 28 2024
The Great Buildup
Carnegie Endowment fellow Tong Zhao discusses central and rogue nuclear powers of Asia.
Oct 21 2024
Unwinding the Doomsday Clock
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists CEO Rachel Bronson discusses a potential nuclear event.
Oct 15 2024
Counterproliferation and De-escalation in the Middle East
Arms Control Association nonproliferation policy director Kelsey Davenport discusses Iran.
Oct 4 2024
The Reverend Senator
In his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, Senator Raphael Warnock and Alexander break bread over chicken and waffles (and crab cake benedict); then visit his childhood home.
Oct 3 2024
In the Land of Eisenhower
In Hays, Kansas, Senator Jerry Moran and Alexander break bread over chili and milkshakes; then visit the local library.
Oct 2 2024
Dreams of Aloha
At her favorite local restaurant, Senator Mazie Hirono and Alexander break bread over Japanese fare; then visit the Honolulu high school from which she graduated.
Sep 30 2024
Fiesta in Pueblo
At the first-ever food hall in Pueblo, Colorado, Governor Jared Polis and Alexander break bread over a smorgasbord of hot chicken, roast beef, and ramen.