Best Osten Podcasts (2024)

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The Midnight Murder of Pearl Osten 1:15:19

1d ago1:15:19

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S1E19: On a brisk October's night in 1927, the smell of rain in the air, a fashion young lady has recently arrived in the city of Minneapolis to attend college for the piano. The heads home from a new job on a streetcar just after midnight. She steps off with a young man just a block from her home, but is never seen alive again. This century old my…

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Jennifer Ponce de León, "Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" (Duke UP, 2021) 1:05:52

1h ago1:05:52

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In Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War (Duke UP, 2021), Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art can play in the collective labour of creating and defending another social reality. Focusing on artists and art collectives in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States, Ponce de León shows how experimental…

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Matt & JD | Door To Door 1:16:21

2h ago1:16:21

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🐾 Listen to this episode WITHOUT ADS. Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss celebrities moving their kids into college, a new food app called Uber Deletes, swearing in front of kids, signs you’re listening to too much reggae, hiking with a gun, giving strangers a lift, city people …

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Gregory Makoff, "Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring" (Georgetown UP, 2024) 59:07

15m ago59:07

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The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection from their creditors. When a country defaults on its debt, the international financial system is ill equipped to manage the crisis. Decisions by key i…

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Taylor Cox | By The Sea 59:43

1h ago59:43

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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s show, Taylor Cox (Girls5eva) joins Matt & JD to discuss getting punched in the face, why the best charity is anonymous, separating twins at birth, creating a kids table at a restaurant, telling a child to shut up, the horniest part of Harry Potter, a n…

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Stephanie L Canizales, "Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States" (U California Press, 2024) 1:04:50

2d ago1:04:50

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Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand narratives of migrant youth in Los Angeles, California to produce Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United Stat…

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Stephanie L Canizales, "Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States" (U California Press, 2024) 1:04:50

18m ago1:04:50

1:04:50

Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand narratives of migrant youth in Los Angeles, California to produce Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United Stat…

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Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Haitian History: New Perspectives" (Routledge, 2012) 52:27

5d ago52:27

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Despite Haiti's proximity to the United States, and its considerable importance to our own history, Haiti barely registered in the historic consciousness of most Americans until recently. Those who struggled to understand Haiti's suffering in the earthquake of 2010 often spoke of it as the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, but could not ex…

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Jack the Ripper Files: Martha Tabram 49:01

8d ago49:01

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S1E18: This episode is the second in our Jack the Ripper Files. Periodic future episodes will be dedicated to each of the victims and suspects of the infamous Jack the Ripper murders that took place in Whitechapel, London in 1888. In this episode we will focus on Martha Tabram, whom many was the first victim of Jack the Ripper. We will travel throu…

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Claudio Lomnitz, "Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2024) 1:53:14

20m ago1:53:14

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Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico (Duke UP, 2024), Claudio Lomnitz examines the Mexican state in relation to this extreme violence, uncovering a reality that challenges the familiar narratives of “a war o…

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Claudio Lomnitz, "Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2024) 1:53:14

3h ago1:53:14

1:53:14

Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico (Duke UP, 2024), Claudio Lomnitz examines the Mexican state in relation to this extreme violence, uncovering a reality that challenges the familiar narratives of “a war o…

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Matt & JD | Suspenders On Suspenders [Patreon Exclusive] 0:51

4h ago0:51

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🐾 Join our Patreon to listen to the FULL episode! https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s Patreon-only episode, Matt, JD, and Rachel discuss why they had a show censored on YouTube, human vs. digital censorship, nude models in drawing class, trying to control your own nickname, the last time we got goosebumps, unexpected Olympic victories, to…

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Jaclyn Sumner, "Indigenous Autocracy: Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2023) 1:20:00

23m ago1:20:00

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When General Porfirio Díaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of political stability and national economic growth--though "progress" came at the cost of democracy. Indigenous Autocracy presents a new story about how regional actors negotiated between national authoritarian rule and local circumstances by explaining…

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Jaclyn Sumner, "Indigenous Autocracy: Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2023) 1:20:00

2h ago1:20:00

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When General Porfirio Díaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of political stability and national economic growth--though "progress" came at the cost of democracy. Indigenous Autocracy presents a new story about how regional actors negotiated between national authoritarian rule and local circumstances by explaining…

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Trey Kerby | Long & Lean 1:13:47

1d ago1:13:47

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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s show, Trey Kerby (No Dunks) joins Matt & JD to discuss the weirdest ways to describe someone’s body, short people taking exit row seats, everything you’re doing wrong in the bathroom, the most unnecessary inventions, rich people don’t want you to know …

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Frederick Luis Aldama, "Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities" (U Arizona Press, 2020) 37:21

4d ago37:21

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An early wave of research helped make visible the complex dynamics of sexuality and gender norms in Latino life, but a new generation of scholars is bringing renewed energy and curiosity to this field of inquiry. In this episode we sit down with Frederick Luis Aldama, Distinguished University Professor at the Ohio State University and co-editor of …

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The Fainting Widow, or the Murder of Heinrich Werner 44:22

13d ago44:22

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S1E17: In this new format episode of Twisted Roots, genealogist Dale Sheldon tells the true story of a murder within his own family. In the barn of a secluded ranch in Washington State in 1914, a man is brutally murdered by persons unknown. His wife, (and Dale's 2nd great-aunt), is put through the ordeal of a trial - her four children scattered to …

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Matt & JD | Butterfly Kisses 1:03:15

5d ago1:03:15

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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD, & Rachel discuss why people hate Howie Mandel’s podcast, the Tecate rebrand, fun ways to get a black eye, cameramen are our unsung Olympic heroes, arguing: not as fun as it used to be, artisanal mozzarella, having to tell some…

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Summer Mailbag! | Modern, Sexy & Cool 1:14:24

8d ago1:14:24

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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s Summer Mailbag episode, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss honking at golfers, sticking it to the man, embarrassing your children, giving airplanes the finger, showing your barber a picture of the haircut you want, the worst rebrands of all-time, pizza slogans,…

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David M. K. Sheinin and David S. Koffman, "Promised Lands North and South: Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation" (Brill, 2024) 1:05:45

10d ago1:05:45

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This book puts two of the most significant Jewish Diaspora communities outside of the U.S. into conversation with one another. At times contributor-pairs directly compare unique aspects of two Jewish histories, politics, or cultures. At other times, they juxtapose. Some chapters focus on literature, poetry, theatre, or sport; others on immigration,…

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1692, Salem Files: Susannah Sheldon 53:25

12d ago53:25

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S1E16: In this episode we discover the lost origins of Susannah Sheldon, never before discovered or shared. She was an "afflicted girl" who has been largely forgotten compared to other figures in the trials and yet was one of the most prolific testifiers. We will also review some of the details of Susannah's testimonies and the individuals that she…

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Jane-Marie Collins, "Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888" (Liverpool UP, 2023) 1:19:06

22d ago1:19:06

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Jane-Marie Collins's book Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888 (Liverpool UP, 2023) examines three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery: manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes central to the history of slavery and race relations in Brazil, updates the research about t…

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Matt & JD | No Chompers 1:12:22

12d ago1:12:22

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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss Olympic nitpicks, AI fan mail, new TVs are too good, waiting on someone hand AND foot, saving someone’s life with your phone, Robert Downey Jr... is BACK, the Sphere is overrun with chompers, lose-lose situatio…

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J.E. Skeets & Nora Artinian | Very Olympic! 1:23:19

16d ago1:23:19

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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s very Olympic show, J.E. Skeets and Nora Artinian (Summer of Champions) join Matt and JD to discuss shooting at drones, the dumbest sports to combine into one event, bringing back Tug of War, winners let people watch them pee, a pro-PED competition, run…

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The Tulsa Murder of Charles Reuter, Never Underestimate a Stenographer! 1:23:16

22d ago1:23:16

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S1E15: At just an hour past midnight, on a cool pleasant evening in an opulent neighborhood that edged along the Osage Country of Tulsa, Oklahoma - the sound of shots and a woman screaming were heard. A talented young lawyer had been killed, a woman locked in her bedroom and screaming for help from the porch roof. BURGLAR! MURDER! But was everythin…

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Matt & JD | Jawbreaker 1:03:53

21d ago1:03:53

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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss deepfakes of your friends, doggie AI, driving your kids around town, facial fitness gum, being addicted to chewing, men’s beauty standards over time, ways to dodge Covid, a heated geography quiz, how a cigarett…

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Sarah Osten, "The Mexican Revolution's Wake: The Making of a Political System, 1920–1929" (Cambridge UP, 2018) 1:08:33

21d ago1:08:33

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Throughout the 1920s Mexico was rocked by attempted coups, assassinations, and popular revolts. Yet by the mid-1930s, the country boasted one of the most stable and durable political systems in Latin America. In the first book on party formation conducted at the regional level after the Mexican Revolution, Sarah Osten examines processes of politica…

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Sarah Osten, "The Mexican Revolution's Wake: The Making of a Political System, 1920–1929" (Cambridge UP, 2018) 1:08:33

21d ago1:08:33

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Throughout the 1920s Mexico was rocked by attempted coups, assassinations, and popular revolts. Yet by the mid-1930s, the country boasted one of the most stable and durable political systems in Latin America. In the first book on party formation conducted at the regional level after the Mexican Revolution, Sarah Osten examines processes of politica…

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A. Ricardo López-Pedreros and Lina Britto, "Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s" (Routledge, 2024) 54:36

22d ago54:36

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By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s (Routledge, 2024) and Histories of Perplexity: Colombia, 1970s-2010s (Routledge, 2024)—study the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy ac…

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Daniel Ralston | Rockin' The Cash Bar 1:10:03

24d ago1:10:03

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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood 🐾 On today’s show, Daniel Ralston (The True Story Of The Fake Zombies) joins Matt & JD to discuss rock’n’roll frauds, good advice from Jason Reitman, buying your own karaoke songs to use at the bar, fighting hair loss, America’s greatest bald men, the ethics of a…

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Robert Weis, "For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2019) 1:14:49

1M ago1:14:49

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Why did José de León Toral kill Álvaro Obregón, leader of the Mexican Revolution? So far, historians have characterized the motivations of the young Catholic militant as the fruit of fanaticism. Robert Weis's book For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers new insights on how diverse sec…

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Robert Weis, "For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2019) 1:14:49

25d ago1:14:49

1:14:49

Why did José de León Toral kill Álvaro Obregón, leader of the Mexican Revolution? So far, historians have characterized the motivations of the young Catholic militant as the fruit of fanaticism. Robert Weis's book For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers new insights on how diverse sec…

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Jack the Ripper Files: Mary Ann Nichols 1:13:10

27d ago1:13:10

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S1E14: This episode marks the beginning of our Jack the Ripper Files. Periodic future episodes will be dedicated to each of the victims and suspects of the infamous Jack the Ripper murders that took place in Whitechapel, London in 1888. In this first episode in the collection we will focus on the first of the "Canonical Five", Mary Ann Nichols. She…

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Matt & JD | Is Vegas Good? [Patreon Exclusive] PREVIEW 1:35

27d ago1:35

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🐾 Listen to the FULL episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood On today’s Patreon-exclusive episode of The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel breakdown their fiery Las Vegas weekend including: The difference between traveling alone and traveling with your wife, natural anesthetics, worst fonts on The Strip, yelling at meat,…

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Nina Oyama | Making A Sex Tape 1:11:56

1M ago1:11:56

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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood 🐾 On today’s show, Nina Oyama (Deadloch) joins Matt & JD to discuss having a sex tape stolen, doing detective work in a foreign country, the weirdest way to trend on Twitter, elaborate revenge fantasies, going to Nicole Kidman’s school, same sex education, hangin…

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Mónica A. Jiménez, "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:27:14

1M ago1:27:14

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Myths about the powers held by the United States are often supported by the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, which derives its logic from the interpretation of a document that the US itself developed. Therefore, when pressure is placed on a specific legal precedent, the shallowness of its validity is revealed. Dr. Mónica A. Jiménez accomplishes t…

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The "Mother" Who Out-Barnumed Barnum 1:41:05

1M ago1:41:05

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S1E13: In this episode we explore a new story and reveal information that has not been discovered in well over a century. The earliest and most successful of the extreme stage mothers, a predecessor of the ladies in the wings who exploited Shirley Temple, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Judy Garland. Learn the story of "Miss Jennie Kimball" and her daughter, "…

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The (ir)Rational Priests: On Ignacio Martín-Baró and Liberation Psychology 52:20

1M ago52:20

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A group of landholding elites waged psychological warfare on the El Salvadoran people, and oppressed them for generations. When a psychologist and Jesuit priest defended the rationality of the people against their oppressors, he paid the ultimate price. This is episode three of Cited’s returning season, The Rationality Wars. This season tells stori…

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Maya Pagni Barak, "The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial" (NYU Press, 2023) 49:29

1M ago49:29

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Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are moved through immigration court. With a national backlog surpassing one million cases, court hearings take years and most migrants will eventually be ordered deported. The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial (NYU Press, 2023) by Dr. Maya Pagni Barak sheds light on the expe…

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Matt & JD | Show Us Your Pits 1:18:39

1M ago1:18:39

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🐾 Listen to this episode AD-FREE! Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/isthisgood 🐾 Today in The Great Beyond, Matt, JD & Rachel discuss recording in a bathroom, building a pool, when you’re too old for sports, using the computer mouse as a fidget spinner, urban archaeology, America has the worst animals, swearing in a professional setting, th…

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Angela Garcia, "The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos" (FSG, 2024) 50:55

1M ago50:55

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Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war. The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos …

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Angela Garcia, "The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos" (FSG, 2024) 50:55

1M ago50:55

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Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war. The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos …

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Jurgen Buchenau and Timothy Henderson, "The Mexican Revolution: A Documentary History" (Hackett, 2022) 1:08:14

1M ago1:08:14

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In The Mexican Revolution: A Documentary History (Hackett, 2022), "Henderson and Buchenau have done an excellent and thoughtful job of collecting a wide range of voices for students to learn about the Mexican Revolution and its causes, both from ‘above’ and from ‘below’. I’m particularly appreciative of the authors’ inclusion of women’s voices and …

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