WBUR's Morning EditionLocal content from WBUR's Morning Edition broadcastsWhy sending a Native American into space is a big dealIndigenous people have lost far too much on Earth, and we need to prevent that from happening in space, writes Joelle Renstrom. Oct 11, 2022I've been working hard — on doing lessRest was not a concept I was raised with, writes Neema Avashia. In the past year, that changed. It had to. Play04:35Aug 19, 2022Advertisement How my family's story tracks with the Green LineThe Green Line's imminent expansion was the perfect time for my train-enthusiast family to come together, writes Sharon Brody. The line shaped the lives of her sons, and her relationship...Play07:14Mar 20, 2022A cure for the Covid winter blues? Joan DidionDidion's work goes zing -- straight to the heart -- no throat-clearing, no platitudes. We need more of that to help make sense of this nonsensical time, writes Cloe Axelson....Play05:55Nov 19, 2021'The Phantom Hum': My Tinnitus Is Real. It's Also A Metaphor For Our TimeWhat keeps me up at night isn’t an externally generated noise, writes Julie Wittes Schlack. It’s hyper-vigilance, a condition generated by Twitter and Trump and made worse by the pandemic.Play04:19Jul 16, 2021The Kids Are Not All RightWhen my teenage daughter struggled, she didn’t blame the isolation, or the extraordinary times we’re all still muddling through, writes Alysia Abbott. She blamed herself.Play04:53May 21, 2021'What It Felt Like Was Stillness': Finally, Accountability For The Murder Of George FloydTheresa Okokon watched every minute of the Chauvin trial. Our relief in the verdict is temporary, she writes, but I don't really want to think about that right now. Play03:29Apr 21, 2021Talking To Patients And Their Families, Even When There's Nothing To SayDr. Michael P.H. Stanley called the wife of his cancer patient every day with updates. Then he missed a day.Play03:34Mar 31, 2021Why You Can't Shake Pandemic AnxietyWith infection rates falling and vaccination rates rising, imagining post-pandemic life feels less like tempting fate. So, why are we still feeling anxious? Dr. Molly Colvin explains what's happening in...Play03:26Mar 9, 2021I'm A Psychiatrist Who Treats Health Workers. A Year Into The Pandemic, We're All Suffering From BurnoutAbout 50% of medical professionals were dealing with burnout before COVID-19, writes Dr. Jessi Gold. The pandemic has made it exponentially worse.Play02:44Mar 4, 2021Singing Bollywood In The Sunroom: A Daughter Remembers Her Dad As He Was Before COVIDSalman Wasti was an immigrant, a professor, a lover of plants and a collector of things. He’s also one of nearly 500,000 Americans who’ve died from COVID-19. Here, his daughter...Play08:51Feb 19, 2021Pearls And Chucks: How Kamala Harris Is Changing Fashion In PoliticsIt has been easy to look on fashion cynically, writes Joanna Weiss. But sometimes you want that attention -- and if you’re blessed with political talent, you know how to...Play02:31Jan 20, 2021The Greatest Threat To Our Democracy Is InactionAmerica can still demonstrate that an inclusive democracy based on civic ideals is possible, writes former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. But it won't happen without accountability for Trump and his...Play05:29Jan 12, 2021'He Blew Me A Kiss. And That Was The Last Time I Saw Him': They Were Both Gravely Ill With COVID — But Only One SurvivedKaren Nascembeni and her husband, Steven T. Richard, contracted the coronavirus last March. When Karen woke up after 31 days in a medically induced coma, Steven was gone. Here, she...Play09:30Dec 22, 2020Follow Science: That's How To Fight Climate Change — And How We Should Be Fighting The PandemicA raging pandemic, a devastating recession, a reckoning on race: Is it too much to ask Americans to also think about climate change? I don’t think so, writes Gina McCarthy....Play03:02Oct 29, 2020‘Losing The Thread Of What We’ve Lost’: A Postcard From The PandemicSometimes when I think about the “before times” I can’t believe it, writes Cloe Axelson in this meditation on seven wholly surreal months. Play02:46Oct 2, 2020Deval Patrick: 'Policing In America Has To Change For Peace In America To Exist'I pray that as we protest we show the strength of controlled resolve, and channel our rage into the ballot box, writes former Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick. And that America...Play04:14Sep 26, 2020RBG Didn't Do It For Notoriety. She Wanted People Like Me To Be FreeWhat Ginsburg embodied every day of her life was a steadfast and electrifying refusal to accept the unacceptable, writes Jaclyn Friedman.Play03:17Sep 21, 2020What Resilience During The Pandemic Really MeansWhile the oldest among us may get the sickest, it’s our kids who will experience the ripple effects of these generational traumas for far longer, writes Ellen H. O'Donnell. Play02:58Sep 14, 2020For My Latinx Mother, Shopping At Lord & Taylor Meant ‘Aspiring To The Best Life’My mother "wielded her hunter green Lord & Taylor credit card like a scythe," writes Judy Bolton-Fasman. The store announced last week that it is closing.Play02:55Sep 1, 2020Next Page
Why sending a Native American into space is a big dealIndigenous people have lost far too much on Earth, and we need to prevent that from happening in space, writes Joelle Renstrom. Oct 11, 2022
I've been working hard — on doing lessRest was not a concept I was raised with, writes Neema Avashia. In the past year, that changed. It had to. Play04:35Aug 19, 2022
How my family's story tracks with the Green LineThe Green Line's imminent expansion was the perfect time for my train-enthusiast family to come together, writes Sharon Brody. The line shaped the lives of her sons, and her relationship...Play07:14Mar 20, 2022
A cure for the Covid winter blues? Joan DidionDidion's work goes zing -- straight to the heart -- no throat-clearing, no platitudes. We need more of that to help make sense of this nonsensical time, writes Cloe Axelson....Play05:55Nov 19, 2021
'The Phantom Hum': My Tinnitus Is Real. It's Also A Metaphor For Our TimeWhat keeps me up at night isn’t an externally generated noise, writes Julie Wittes Schlack. It’s hyper-vigilance, a condition generated by Twitter and Trump and made worse by the pandemic.Play04:19Jul 16, 2021
The Kids Are Not All RightWhen my teenage daughter struggled, she didn’t blame the isolation, or the extraordinary times we’re all still muddling through, writes Alysia Abbott. She blamed herself.Play04:53May 21, 2021
'What It Felt Like Was Stillness': Finally, Accountability For The Murder Of George FloydTheresa Okokon watched every minute of the Chauvin trial. Our relief in the verdict is temporary, she writes, but I don't really want to think about that right now. Play03:29Apr 21, 2021
Talking To Patients And Their Families, Even When There's Nothing To SayDr. Michael P.H. Stanley called the wife of his cancer patient every day with updates. Then he missed a day.Play03:34Mar 31, 2021
Why You Can't Shake Pandemic AnxietyWith infection rates falling and vaccination rates rising, imagining post-pandemic life feels less like tempting fate. So, why are we still feeling anxious? Dr. Molly Colvin explains what's happening in...Play03:26Mar 9, 2021
I'm A Psychiatrist Who Treats Health Workers. A Year Into The Pandemic, We're All Suffering From BurnoutAbout 50% of medical professionals were dealing with burnout before COVID-19, writes Dr. Jessi Gold. The pandemic has made it exponentially worse.Play02:44Mar 4, 2021
Singing Bollywood In The Sunroom: A Daughter Remembers Her Dad As He Was Before COVIDSalman Wasti was an immigrant, a professor, a lover of plants and a collector of things. He’s also one of nearly 500,000 Americans who’ve died from COVID-19. Here, his daughter...Play08:51Feb 19, 2021
Pearls And Chucks: How Kamala Harris Is Changing Fashion In PoliticsIt has been easy to look on fashion cynically, writes Joanna Weiss. But sometimes you want that attention -- and if you’re blessed with political talent, you know how to...Play02:31Jan 20, 2021
The Greatest Threat To Our Democracy Is InactionAmerica can still demonstrate that an inclusive democracy based on civic ideals is possible, writes former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. But it won't happen without accountability for Trump and his...Play05:29Jan 12, 2021
'He Blew Me A Kiss. And That Was The Last Time I Saw Him': They Were Both Gravely Ill With COVID — But Only One SurvivedKaren Nascembeni and her husband, Steven T. Richard, contracted the coronavirus last March. When Karen woke up after 31 days in a medically induced coma, Steven was gone. Here, she...Play09:30Dec 22, 2020
Follow Science: That's How To Fight Climate Change — And How We Should Be Fighting The PandemicA raging pandemic, a devastating recession, a reckoning on race: Is it too much to ask Americans to also think about climate change? I don’t think so, writes Gina McCarthy....Play03:02Oct 29, 2020
‘Losing The Thread Of What We’ve Lost’: A Postcard From The PandemicSometimes when I think about the “before times” I can’t believe it, writes Cloe Axelson in this meditation on seven wholly surreal months. Play02:46Oct 2, 2020
Deval Patrick: 'Policing In America Has To Change For Peace In America To Exist'I pray that as we protest we show the strength of controlled resolve, and channel our rage into the ballot box, writes former Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick. And that America...Play04:14Sep 26, 2020
RBG Didn't Do It For Notoriety. She Wanted People Like Me To Be FreeWhat Ginsburg embodied every day of her life was a steadfast and electrifying refusal to accept the unacceptable, writes Jaclyn Friedman.Play03:17Sep 21, 2020
What Resilience During The Pandemic Really MeansWhile the oldest among us may get the sickest, it’s our kids who will experience the ripple effects of these generational traumas for far longer, writes Ellen H. O'Donnell. Play02:58Sep 14, 2020
For My Latinx Mother, Shopping At Lord & Taylor Meant ‘Aspiring To The Best Life’My mother "wielded her hunter green Lord & Taylor credit card like a scythe," writes Judy Bolton-Fasman. The store announced last week that it is closing.Play02:55Sep 1, 2020
