In this episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia discuss Coachella and the history of music festivals.

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Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: 

• The Coachella music festival has become a major cultural and commercial event. We all drew on this BBC chronology of music festivals, and Natalia referred to this piece in High Times. Neil referenced this Bloomberg article about the urbanization of music festivals and this Los Angeles Magazine article about the city’s regional experience of music festivals.

In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History:

• Natalia recommended the new Netflix documentary, White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie and Fitch.
• Neil discussed the film, The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
• Niki shared her latest CNN column, “’The First Lady’ is a Harsh Reminder of This Dissonant Truth.”

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss the ongoing popularity of the true crime genre.

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Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: 

• When journalist Brendan Koerner took to Twitter to call out a podcast for using his work without attribution, he drew attention to the broader appetite for true crime content. Neil recommended the podcast series Someone Knows Something, and Natalia referred to the “Dead Blondes” season on the podcast You Must Remember This and this Los Angeles Review of Books essay. She also cited an NPR segment about the how podcasters should cover true crime stories.

In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History:

• Natalia recommended Derek Thompson’s Atlantic article, “Why American Teens Are So Sad”.
• Neil shared Tom Junod and Paula Lavigne’s ESPN article, “Untold.”
• Niki discussed the new podcast, Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis.

In this episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia discuss recent developments in the politics of sex and marriage.

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Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: 

• Republicans have both been sounding alarms about pedophilia and attempting to relax age-of-consent laws. Natalia referred to historian Clayton Howard’s book, The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac: The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California and Niki referenced Andrew Sullivan’s 1995 book, Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality. Neil and Natalia drew on Frank Bruni’s New York Times opinion piece.

In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History:

• Natalia recommended Anne-Helen Petersen’s Bustle article, “Britney Falls in Love.”
• Neil discussed Rebecca Mead’s New Yorker article, “Could Leopards Be Paid for Their Spots.”
• Niki shared Taylor Lorenz’ Washington Post article, “Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, ‘nip nops’ to ‘le dollar bean’.”

In this episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss concerns over population decline.

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Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: 

• The rate of population growth in the United States is declining. Natalia referred to this Smithsonian article about longstanding fears about overpopulation and this Washington Post opinion piece by historian Mytheli Sreenivas. Neil drew on this Vox article.

In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History:

• Natalia shared about her new column at Observer, “The Quick Study.”
• Neil discussed Daniel Victor’s New York Times article, “Flamingo No. 492 Is Still on the Run 17 Years Later”.
• Niki discussed Jill Wine-Banks’ NBC Think piece, “Trump’s Phone Log Gap Could Be Much Worse than Nixon’s Watergate Tape Erasures” and this Atlas Obscura essay on Rose Mary Woods.