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Tannen Maury / Getty The Experiment Podcast: A Friend in the Execution Room
The Experiment revisits our March conversation with Yusuf Ahmed Nur, a Somali immigrant and business professor who volunteered to witness the U.S. government execute someone.
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The Experiment Podcast: What Does It Mean to Give Away Our DNA?
As excitement about genetic testing grows, one Navajo geneticist considers the future of the field and whether her people should be a part of it.
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Mitch Boyer The Experiment Podcast: Justice, Interrupted
The highest court in America isn’t safe from mansplaining. A new set of rules for oral argument may change things.
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Courtesy of The Babylon Bee The Experiment Podcast: Liberals Don’t Get The Babylon Bee. Neither Do Conservatives.
The Atlantic’s Emma Green sits down with the editor in chief of the Christian satire site to talk about mockery and the line between making fun and doing harm.
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Rafael Cosquiere The Experiment Podcast: $5 for a 15-Minute Call
For millions of incarcerated people in America, calls are vital lines of connection to their loved ones. But for many, such communication is obstructed by exorbitant fees, and their children pay the price.
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National Museum of American History The Experiment Podcast: The Original Anti-vaxxer
Where does our bodily autonomy end and our duty to others begin? In March, The Experiment considered one answer, which lies in the story of a 1905 Supreme Court case about government-mandated vaccines.
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Sven Scheuermeier The Experiment Podcast: The Unwritten Rules of Black TV
The short, uneven history of Black representation on television—from Julia to The Cosby Show to today’s “renaissance”
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Danna Singer for The Atlantic The Experiment Podcast: Mourning Bobby McIlvaine
Grief, conspiracy theories, and a family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11
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Photo courtesy of Aséna Tahir Izgil The Experiment Podcast: A Uyghur Teen’s Life After Escaping Genocide
The Uyghur refugee Aséna Tahir Izgil escaped the genocide of her people in China. Now she’s trying to be a teenager in America.
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Fernando Frazão / Agência Brasil The Experiment Podcast: Is It Ethical to Watch Gymnastics Anymore?
USA Gymnastics has been undergoing a reckoning over widespread abuse. A former gymnast speaks out about whether the sport can shake off that legacy.
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Jose Gil / Pexels The Experiment Podcast: Why Can't We Just Forget the Alamo?
How did a history book set off a fierce battle over Texas’s founding legend? The Texan writer Bryan Burrough set out to debunk his state’s myth of the Alamo, only to find himself clashing with other Texans still trying to protect it.
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Steve Cheng The Experiment Podcast: The NCAA Sold Fans a Multibillion-Dollar Story. It May Finally Be Coming Apart.
Why have some student athletes gone hungry while their schools have earned millions? The Atlantic staff writer and former college athlete Adam Harris explains.
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Lawrence Jackson The Experiment Podcast: Who Is Protected by Hate-Crime Laws?
After 50 years of hate-crime legislation in the U.S., hate-motivated violence is once again on the rise. So where did we go wrong?
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USDA The Experiment Podcast: The Great Seed Panic of 2020
Americans kept getting seeds in the mail from China. We finally know why.
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Mae Mu / Upsplash The Experiment Podcast: America Has a Drinking Problem
Alcohol has been humanity’s social lubricant since 10,000 B.C., but its use as a coping mechanism is distinctly American.
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Rachel Murray / Getty The Experiment Podcast: Getting Down and Moving On With Dr. Ruth
After the pandemic, how do we learn to get close to one another again? We ask the renowned sex therapist Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer.
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Pascal Meier / Unsplash The Experiment Podcast: Doing Drugs as a Human Right
The Columbia professor Carl Hart believes that villainizing drug use interferes with our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Chris Harwood / Shutterstock The Experiment Podcast: Female Pleasure in the Age of the Enlightened Male
On an intimate journey for her own sexual pleasure, Katharine Smyth found herself navigating a female-orgasm industrial complex long defined by myths about women’s bodies.
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Karsten Winegeart / Unsplash The Experiment Podcast: How the Evangelical World Turned on Itself
Lecrae Moore, a major Christian rapper, belonged to a culture where faith and politics were tightly tied. When he realized he couldn’t live with that anymore, the consequences were devastating.
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Michael Ciaglo / Getty The Experiment Podcast: ‘Evangelical’ Is Not a Religious Identity. It’s a Political One.
White evangelicals have succeeded in becoming the most powerful voting bloc in America, one church mailing list at a time. But is the cost of victory too high?
