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Bonus: Ken Auletta on his new book and portraying the 'talented monster,' Harvey Weinstein Aug 03, 2022

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In 2002, journalist Ken Auletta tried to expose Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse of women in a New Yorker profile he was writing about the powerful film mogul, but his sources were unwilling to go on the record. It would take another 15 years for the full story to come to light through Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s reporting for the New York Times and Ronan Farrow’s for the New Yorker. For his new book, “Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence,” Auletta revisits the story that got away and offers up a fascinating portrayal of Weinstein’s life and career. And for this bonus episode, he talks with Katie about what exactly motivated Weinstein to commit such horrific acts, the culture of complicity that enabled him, and the current state of the #MeToo movement that his toppling set in motion.

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Bonus: Dr. Fauci answers your questions about COVID, Monkeypox, and more Jul 29, 2022

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On this mid-season bonus of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie shares an urgent conversation she had with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to the President. Katie has called on Dr. Fauci to help her and her listeners navigate all of the endless questions and concerns throughout the pandemic. For this latest episode, they dig into the recent covid surge, latest subvariant, and the emergence of yet another infectious disease outbreak – monkeypox.

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Abortion: The Body Politic - The Storytellers [Bonus] Jul 21, 2022

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Katie’s special series, Abortion: The Body Politic, has wrapped, but we wanted to give the very last word to a special group of people — people who have had abortions. These first-person stories reveal the lengths people have always had to go through to get an abortion — enduring unnecessary waiting periods, lengthy travel, parental consent needs, manipulative partners, unsupportive family members, shame, guilt, and more. These abortion stories span decades, cultures, race, faiths and gender. They reveal how common abortion is and yet how consistently stigmatized. This episode is dedicated to abortion storytellers everywhere whose voices and personal experience help normalize abortion for all. This episode includes stories from Busy Philipps, Gloria Steinem, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, and more.

More about the organizations mentioned in this podcast:

We Testify

Shout Your Abortion

Physicians for Reproductive Health

ReproAction

Action items:

How to find, contact, and donate to your local abortion fund

Learn about abortion laws in your state

How to get abortion pills in any state

How to share your abortion story [Also, We Testfy]

Support reproductive justice organizations, like Sister Song and Latina Institute for Reproductive Rights

Check out Vote Save America about how to take action at the ballot.

Follow all the organizations and people featured in this series!

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Next Question Bonus: Daisy Edgar-Jones Jul 15, 2022

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Two years ago, Daisy Edgar-Jones got everyone’s attention as Marianne in the hit BBC adaptation of the Sally Rooney novel, “Normal People.” The role earned her a Golden Globe nomination and, at 24, pegged her as one of the most exciting young actors working today. She now stars as Kya Clark, aka “the Marsh Girl” in another book to film adaptation, the much anticipated “Where the Crawdads Sing” based on the bestselling novel by Delia Owens. For this bonus episode of Next Question, she sits down with Katie to talk not only about how she transformed herself into Kya, but also about her early life growing up in London as an only child, her path to acting, and what she plans to do next.

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Abortion: The Body Politic, Part 6 Jul 14, 2022

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Abortion: The Body Politic started on the ground, visiting two abortion clinics 15 minutes away from each other in two very different states: Missouri and Illinois. On this last episode, we check back in with someone who works in those two clinics to understand the immediate impact the Supreme Court decision had on their patients. Then we consider, what now? Katie interviews Rep. Jayapal (D-WA) who has been a legislative leader in the fight for reproductive rights to understand what lawmakers can do to protect abortion now and in the future. Finally, we hear from a new generation of activists, actors (like Busy Phlipps), musicians (like MILCK and Amanda Shires), and TikTokers about how they are using their platforms, social media and art to not only normalize abortion but also share information (when that information could be criminalized), and, perhaps, change hearts and mind one person at a time.

More information on this episode’s guests and resources:

Action items:

How to find, contact, and donate to your local abortion fund
Learn about abortion laws in your state
How to get abortion pills in any state
How to share your abortion story [Also, We Testfy]
Support reproductive justice organizations, like Sister Song and Latina Institute for Reproductive Rights
Follow all the organizations and people featured in this podcast!

Books and more:

Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It’s Different Than You Think), by Reshma Saujani
It’s time for Republican women to speak up for reproductive rights, by Kathryn Kaufman, The Washington Post
This Will Only Hurt A Little, by Busy Philipps
Amanda Shires demands more artists stand up for abortion rights, Rolling Stone
Take It Like A Man, by Amanda Shires
We Won’t Go Back, by MILCK, BIIANCO, & Autumn Roe (feat. Ani DiFranco)

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Abortion: The Body Politic, Part 5 Jul 07, 2022

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In Part 5 of Abortion: The Body Politic, Katie looks abroad for models of progress — and regress — when it comes to reproductive rights and abortion access. What are the trends and how does the U.S. now compare? We check in with the Center for Reproductive Rights to find out. Perhaps no region has seen more progress than Latin America. Human Rights lawyer and one of the founders of the Green Wave movement, Paula Ávila-Guillén, shares her experiences on the front lines of the decades-long fight for reproductive justice and what Americans can learn from our sisters to the South. We also hear from an activist in Mexico who is helping people across the border access abortion care they can no longer get in the United States. And academic, Lina-Maria Murillo gives us context for the unique relationship the United States and Mexico share when it comes to abortion access. There’s no denying the fact that many of the countries we are highlighting are largely conservative and Catholic. What does the progress these Catholic countries have made say about our own complicated assumptions about religion and abortion. We hear from several leaders of faith from a Jewish Rabbi to a Baptist Reverend and leaders from organizations like, Catholics for Choice and SACRED, about how they have worked reproductive rights and abortion access into their faith practice.

More information on this episode’s guests and resources

Center for Reproductive Rights

Women’s Equality Center

Paula Ávila-Guillén

Las Libres

Lina-Maria Murillo

Physicians for Reproductive Health

Catholics for Choice

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

SACRED: A Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity

Sister Song

Books and more:

When Abortion Was a Crime, by Leslie J. Reagan
A Complicated Choice: Making Space for Grief and Healing in the Pro-Choice Movement, by Reverend Katey Zeh

Guests include:

Paula Ávila-Guillén, human rights lawyer, Green Wave activist

Veronica Cruz, founder of Las Libres

Leah Hoctor, senior regional director for Europe at the Center for Reproductive Rights

Lina-Maria Murillo, professor at Iowa focusing on reproductive rights along the borderlands

Jamie Manson, Catholics for Choice

Katey Zeh, ReligiousCoalition for Reproductive Choice
Rabbi Kelly Levy, Congregation Beth Israel, Austin, Texas
Kenyetta Chinwe, Sister Song, SACRED

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Abortion: The Body Politic, Part 4 Jun 30, 2022

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In Part 4 of Abortion: The Body Politic, Katie examines how abortion is explored and reflected in popular culture and Hollywood. Because whether we realize it or not, the movies we have loved and the TV shows we watch represent the collective imagination of our culture at particular moments in time. And for much of the past 50 years, that collective imagination was riddled with problematic abortion tropes that perpetuates stereotypes about the procedure and the people who seek it out. But the good news is that in the past decade, more showrunners and filmmakers — and even studios — telling more abortion stories and even taking some risks. Katie takes listeners to the front row of a new comedy show about abortion, aptly named, “Oh God A Show About Abortion,” from comedian Alison Leiby. Filmmakers Gillian Robespierre (“Obvious Child,” 2014), Rachel Lee Goldenberg (“Unpregnant,” 2020), and Dawn Porter (“Trapped,” 2016) share the origin stories of their narrative-busting movies and what more Hollywood and creatives need to do in the long fight toward reproductive rights.

More information on this episode’s guests and resources:

Abortion Onscreen study

Abortion Onscreen Database

Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health

We Testify

TV Shows, movies and more:

Stream Obvious Child on Prime and Hulu

Stream Unpregnant on HBO Max
Oh God, A Show About Abortion, by Alison Leiby

Unpregnant, by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan

Stream Trapped on Prime

Watch The Racial Politics of Abortion on YouTube
Planned Parenthood’s Secret Weapon (Washington Post)

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Abortion: The Body Politic, Part 3 Jun 23, 2022

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On Part 3 of Abortion: The Body Politic focuses on Roe and its unraveling. The last living Roe prosecutor, Linda Coffee, shares her recollections of that historic Supreme Court case and how she found out she had won. We learn of the immediate failings of Roe, especially for Black women, and the birth of the Reproductive Justice movement. Experts trace the politicization of abortion, the belated moral-issue grab by evangelicals, the violence that hit abortion doctors and clinics in the 1990s, and the anti-abortion strategy that forever altered American politics. We hear first-person experiences of long-time abortion doctors as well as fresh medical students who share why they felt inspired to join the cause. We also hear from two abortion storytellers about their experiences navigating a convoluted system that can be particularly apathetic to the needs of those seeking later abortions.

More information on this episode’s guests and resources:

Access Reproductive Justice

Boulder Abortion Clinic

The Bixby Center for Reproductive Health

Physicians for Reproductive Health

The Doula Project

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast

Books and more

Roe v. Wade’s secret heroine tells her story [Vanity Fair]

Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present, by Mary Ziegler

Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment, by Mary Zeilger

Reproductive Justice, by Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger
Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right, by Randall Balmer

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Abortion: The Body Politic, Part 2 Jun 16, 2022

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In Part 2 of Abortion: The Body Politic, we step into the past, long before Roe, and trace the roots of today's abortion's debate to understand — if abortions have always happened and the majority of Americans have always believed they should be legally accessible — why is abortion such a contentious, even volatile, issue in this country. In this journey, a new narrative of reproductive resistance comes to the surface. Women, particularly Black, brown and indigenous, have always made choices that are best for their bodies, families, and lives — no matter the obstacles men have placed before them. In these stories of resistance we also hear first-hand accounts of surprising allies in underground abortion access, courage in the face of limited reproductive choices, and a relentless push for bodily autonomy. The illegal period before Roe is a mirror to our impending, post-Roe future. It's vital that we pay attention.

More information on this episode's guests and resources:

Guttmacher Institute

The Bixby Center for Reproductive Health

Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

Boulder Abortion Clinic

Books and more:

Reproductive Justice, by Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger

When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, by Leslie Reagan

The Janes, available to stream now on HBO Max
Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe V. Wade, by Daniel K. Williams

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Abortion: The Body Politic, Part 1 Jun 09, 2022

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In Part 1 of Abortion: The Body Politic, we explore the current state of abortion access. Katie Couric visits two abortion clinics that straddle the Missouri-Illinois border. They are only 15 minutes but — because of Missouri’s state-imposed restrictions — worlds apart. We also find out what types of abortion are available today, how people access them, and what it is like to get an abortion in today’s charged climate. We hear from abortion fund organizers, doctors in restrictive and progressive states, and people from all over the country, many of whom are already living in a post-Roe world. We also find out what is at stake for the upcoming Supreme Court decision that is expected to reverse the landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed the right to a safe and legal abortion.

More information on this episode’s guests and resources:

Organizations:

Guttmacher Institute

ARC Southeast

Physicians for Reproductive Health

We Testify

Advocates for Youth

Books and more:

You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion, by Dr. Meera Shah

Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present, by Mary Ziegler

Unpacking the Roe draft bombshell with Mary Ziegler - Next Question with Katie Couric

The Body is Not an Apology, by Sonya Renee Taylor