December 23, 2024

Part One: Lisa Song from ProPublica on her latest piece, “Buyouts Won’t Be The Answer for Many Frequent Flooding Victims.” In the aftermath of Harvey, Harris County, Texas officials face the challenge of worsening flooding, and a buyout program that can’t keep up.

Part Two: Elizabeth Heineman is a Professor of History and Gender at the University of Iowa. She talks to us about her recent piece at the conversation about Beate Uhse, who built an erotica empire in Germany that was comparable (kinda) to the empire Hugh Hefner built in the US.