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111 - Coming Soon: Living in the Emergency

Stories about the ins, outs, and whathaveyous of what keeps us safe. Hosted by Laicie Heeley.

111 - Coming Soon: Living in the Emergency

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Stories about the ins, outs, and whathaveyous of what keeps us safe. Hosted by Laicie Heeley.

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Things That Go Boom

Episodes

Coming Soon: Living in the Emergency

Converting the War Economy

Inside the Campaign to Block Israel’s War Ships

Fighterland, USA

Under the Bridge, Over the Line

Gabriel Sanchez on Georgia, Tex-Mex, and Representing a District Built on Defense Jobs

Taser Town

Big Promises, Small Print

Trailer: MIC Drop

MAGA, Mahmoud Khalil, and the War for Free Speech on Campus

Hit Print for War

It’s All an Illusion

A Walkman and a Wire

Pardon Me? Pardon You

The Militias Next Door

What a Tipping Point Looks Like

Season 10: Coming Soon!

Monologues (The War Horse Sessions): The Reason Why Soldiers’ Christmas Care Packages Wind Up in the Trash

Monologues (The War Horse Sessions): One Step From Nuclear War, and I Didn’t Even Know It

Monologues (The War Horse Sessions): What Poetry Taught Me About Moving Past War

Bringing it Home

Where Are the Women, Really?

Is Anybody Listening?

The End of the World as We Know It

Inside Poland’s Abortion Crossroads

The War at Home

Fika and Feminism: Part 2

Fika and Feminism: Part 1

Season 9: The F-Word

Things That Go Boom Introduces: Click Here

Well, What Do You Know?

Least Cost Paths

Tobacco, Trust, and the Artist Formerly Known as Twitter

Will the Internet Suck Us Dry?

Who Gets To Shut It All Down?

How to Break a Fish

Lost in Translation

Can You Hack a Nuke?

The Internet Is at the Bottom of the Sea

Coming Soon: Troubleshooting

How a US Reporter Was Imprisoned in Putin’s Russia

Getting L-A-O-D

Mr. Fonio

What’s Next for Brazil After Bolsonaro?

Can Cluster Bombs Show Us How To Stop a Nuclear War?

How Xi Jinping Plans to Fill China’s ‘Rice Bowl’

Reissue: Navigating the Strait

Reissue: Take This Job and Shove It

Are Military Families Really Going Hungry?

Samin Nosrat on War, Appropriation, and the Power of Food

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