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June 12, 2024

Season 2024 Episode 6248 | 55m 53s

Journalist George Packer spent months reporting from Phoenix, where he investigated the quixotic growth fueling urban expansion -- even as the water runs dry and the heat kills hundreds. Packer and climate expert Leah Stokes join the show. Co-directors Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia on their film “Federer: Twelve Final Days.” Professor Leah Rigueur on the Black vote ahead of the 2024 election.

Aired: 06/11/24
Extras
The little-known story of the deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’etat in Wilmington, NC.
Simeon Lipman: 1917 Boston Red Sox Baseball Calendar
Extraordinary Find: Louis Rice-designed Skyscraper Coffee & Tea Service, ca. 1928
Travis Landry: 1964 Aurora Plastics Godzilla Model
Extraordinary Find: 1655 Shakespeare "King Lear" 3rd Quarto Edition
Extraordinary Find: Pete Seeger-autographed Sign
Allan Katz: 1876 John Alexander Stoneware Cooler
Extraordinary Find: Jane Peterson "The Answer" Oil Painting
Extraordinary Find: 1892 H.F. Farny Watercolor & Gouache Painting
Extraordinary Find: Evelyn Rumsey Cary "Woman Suffrage" Poster
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