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Claudia Rowe, The Opioid Crisis is also a Foster Care Crisis May 01, 2019

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Claudia Rowe is a journalist and author, here to discuss her recent piece in a series for The Seattle Times about the effects of the nation's opioid crisis on children. She talks with both Dave Ross and Colleen O'Brien about a solution out of Spokane, Washington that's so simple it's revolutionary: a residential drug treatment program that keeps parents and their children together, monitored and supported by a team of counselors and medical professionals, rather than putting children in foster care.

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Benji Backer, A Young Republican Fighting Climate Change Apr 30, 2019

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Benjamin "Benji" Backer is the founder and president of the American Conservation Coalition (ACC), a growing cohort of young Republicans who want to see action on climate change from their representatives. He's also a junior at the University of Washington.

In the last six months, the ACC has expanded to 125 college campuses nationwide. Dave talks with Benji about how his organization is bringing older conservatives on board with protecting the environment, why he's not a fan of the Green New Deal, and how Benji is balancing school with running a national organization.

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Michael Shellenberger, Nuclear Energy Is Our Solution to Climate Change. Why Are Democrats Against It? Apr 26, 2019

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Dave Ross interviews Michael Shellenberger, who considers himself a conservationist and environmentalist, and yet also thinks that wind and solar power are completely inefficient. Instead, he's been proposing (for years!) that our solution to the global energy crisis lies in nuclear power plants. He thinks nuclear gets a bad rap, and so he founded Environmental Progress, a financially independent research and policy organization that advocates for nuclear energy. He talks with Dave about why nuclear works, and why no one likes it.

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Gabi Zijderveld, Your Car Could Start Telling You to Calm Down ... or Wake Up Apr 24, 2019

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Dave Ross talks with Gabi Zijderveld from Affectiva about the company's Affdex technology, which can instantly detect the emotion you're experiencing by analyzing your face. You can try it out yourself - they have a free app called AffdexMe - and they're working on building this into cars so you could get a warning when you're too tired to drive ... or getting road rage. This longer interview is full of fascinating information that didn't make it on air: ever heard of video games that change based on your interest level?

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Robert Chang and Sharon Sakamoto, Citizenship Question On the 2020 Census Reaches the Supreme Court Apr 23, 2019

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Dave Ross talks with Robert Chang and Sharon Sakamoto, who filed an amicus brief to a case the Supreme Court will hear today about whether or not a question about citizenship status can appear on the 2020 census. Robert Chang is the executive director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at Seattle University School of Law, and Sharon Sakamoto was born inside a concentration camp during the Japanese-American internment. They discuss the ways in which the census was used to locate and target Japanese-Americans for internment during World War II, despite promises of anonymity.

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Ralph Taylor, 4% Black Apr 22, 2019

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Ralph Taylor talks with Dave Ross about the case he is attempting to submit to the Supreme Court. How does the government determine what race you are, and is there a possibility that white people are taking advantage of the Minority Business Enterprise certification program, or other racial equity programs, not just in Washington State but nationwide?

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Dr. Marty Makary, What Broke American Healthcare ... and How to Fix It Apr 19, 2019

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Dr. Marty Makary, a surgical oncologist and Johns Hopkins health policy expert, talks with Dave Ross about the major problems in the American healthcare system and his vision for how to combat it while maintaining a free market. His book The Price We Pay which will be released this fall and the website Restoring Medicine are both part of his effort to get hospitals, physicians and citizens involved in confronting a confusing and broken system.

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Alex Kotlowitz, Gun Violence in Chicago Apr 18, 2019

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Dave Ross speaks with award-winning reporter and author of There Are No Children Here, Alex Kotlowitz, about his newest book, An American Summer. Kotlowitz spent six years embedded in some of Chicago's most turbulent, violent neighborhoods while reporting for this book, and he tells Dave the stories of some of the people he met there, people living on a daily basis in a culture of pervasive gun violence.

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Valerie Jarrett, Finding My Voice Apr 15, 2019

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Valerie Jarrett, former senior advisor to President Barack Obama, talks with Dave Ross about the Affordable Care Act, immigration policy, community policing and some stories from her time in the Oval Office. Her new book, Finding My Voice, just made the New York Times Best Sellers list.

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Luis Ceze, How to Store Your Family Photos Inside DNA Apr 03, 2019

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The last time Dave Ross spoke with Luis Ceze at the University of Washington, he was working on how to store your photos and documents inside artificial DNA. Two years later, his research team has now automatized the entire process, they can save a full gigabyte of information, and they can extract that information back out from the DNA in just two hours. It could revolutionize the way we store data, and replace countless data storage buildings the size of a Walmart with spaces as tiny as a sugar cube.

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