Please, Go On with James Hohmann

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Why a Florida superintendent is defying DeSantis on masks Aug 13, 2021

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Carlee Simon, superintendent of Alachua County Public Schools, defends her district's decision to require masks, even if it means losing her own salary.

Read Carlee Simon's op-ed here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/09/florida-schools-mask-mandate-ban-desantis-alachua/?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=please-go-on

Norman Lear, 99, reflects on Archie Bunker in the age of Donald Trump Aug 06, 2021

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Fifty years after “All in the Family” premiered, the legendary television writer and producer laments how many headlines seem drawn from the past.
Read Lear’s op-ed for The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/27/norman-lear-99th-birthday/?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=please-go-on

Why employers should do away with college degree requirements Jul 30, 2021

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Byron Auguste, CEO of Opportunity@Work and former jobs czar under the Obama administration, joins James for a conversation about degree discrimination in the workforce.
Read Byron Auguste's op-ed: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/20/majority-americans-lack-college-degree-why-do-so-many-employers-require-one/?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=please-go-on

The FBI's failures to investigate Larry Nassar Jul 23, 2021

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Former gymnast Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse Larry Nassar of assault, is now a lawyer and advocate. As the Olympics begin, she reacts to the Justice Department's inspector general report on the many warnings the FBI ignored.
Read Denhollander's op-ed: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/15/rachael-denhollander-larry-nassar-fbi-failures/?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=please-go-on
Read Horowitz's report: https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/fbi-inspector-general-finds-major-flaws-in-handling-of-gymnastics-sex-abuse-case/59d6af8e-7367-450f-9fe8-91009bde6085/?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=please-go-on

The war on truth is raging. Here's how we end it. Jul 16, 2021

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How do you debate someone who's operating from a fundamentally different set of facts? We hear from Lee McIntyre and Jonathan Rauch about what it will take to win the war on truth.
Read their op-ed: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/25/war-truth-is-raging-not-everyone-recognizes-were-it/?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=please-go-on

Sociologist Philip N. Cohen says generation labels are meaningless — and we should quit using them Jul 09, 2021

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Marketers love them. Journalists often use them. But do generation labels like "baby boomer" and "millennial" mean anything? Cohen, who researches social identity, says no — and he and other sociologists want the Pew Research Center to stop using them.
Read Philip N. Cohen's op-ed here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/07/generation-labels-mean-nothing-retire-them/?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=please-go-on

Gavin Grimm on a watershed moment in the fight for transgender rights Jul 02, 2021

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Gavin Grimm was a sophomore in high school when he became a household name in the movement for transgender rights. This week, vindication arrived from the Supreme Court.
Read Gavin's op-ed here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/30/gavin-grimm-transgender-bathroom-supreme-court-victory/?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=please-go-on

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on the dark history of Indigenous boarding schools Jun 25, 2021

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The first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history opens up about her own grandmother’s experience with family separation after announcing a comprehensive review of the troubled legacy of federal boarding schools.
Read Haaland's op-ed here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/11/deb-haaland-indigenous-boarding-schools/?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=please-go-on

‘Democracy is under siege’: Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs Jun 18, 2021

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Arizona's top elections official presses the Senate to pass the For the People Act, even if it requires fellow Democrat Kyrsten Sinema to change her position on the filibuster.

VP Kamala Harris on women in the workplace Jun 11, 2021

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In the inaugural edition of "Please, Go On," Post columnist James Hohmann speaks with Vice President Harris about the exodus of women from the workforce during the pandemic.
Read Harris’s op-ed here.

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