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http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_171210W_otto.mp3 Millions of Americans, young and old, suffer from chronic toothaches they have no choice but to live with day in and day out. Veteran health journalist Mary Otto joined Angie for an evening addressing the appalling links tying dental hygiene to a person's job prospects, social mobility, and education....

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_171202W_lakey.mp3 Liberals worldwide invoke Scandinavia as a promised land of equality, while most conservatives fear it as a hotbed of liberty-threatening socialism. But the left and right can usually agree on one thing: that the Nordic system is impossible to replicate elsewhere. Lakey dispels these myths and explores the inner-workings of the Nordic economies that boast the world’s happiest, most productive workers, and explains how, if we can enact some of the changes the Scandinavians fought for surprisingly recently, we, too, can embrace equality in our economic policy....

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_171118W_Eisinger.mp3 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, unravels a culture of cowardice, incompetence and corruption — one that has allowed the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and above all the Department of Justice to flounder in their efforts to hold not only the government, but America's financial institutions, accountable for their crimes....

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_171103W_vicsweet.mp3 Today, robots can perform surgery, x-rays can be conducted instantaneously, and countless tests, once unimaginable to doctors, can be executed to learn diagnoses often before symptoms are even apparent. This is truly a golden age of technological medical wonders. But at what cost? For all these technological wonders, it can hard to remember that physicians were once craftsman. Victoria Sweet, a physician at Laguna Honda Hospital for over twenty years, wants to fix this. Join Sweet as she sits down with Angie Coiro to share just how much the medical industry has changed over the years. With Slow Medicine, Sweet offers a revelatory personal vision for what a physician can and should be....

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_171021W.mp3 For her most recent book, Nomadland, Jessica Bruder spent months living in a camper van, documenting itinerant Americans who gave up traditional housing and hit the road full time, enabling them to travel from job to job and carve out a place for themselves in our precarious economy. The project spanned three years and more than 15,000 miles of driving—from coast to coast and from Mexico to the Canadian border. Jessica has been teaching at Columbia Journalism School since 2008. Her long-form stories have won a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism and a Deadline Club Award....

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_171014W_carajones.mp3 Cara Jones is a filmmaker, writer, founder of Storytellers for Good and director of the upcoming documentary "Second Coming." Also a Moth Story SLAM winner and writing published in the Washington Post, Boston Globe and Huffington Post. Cara was raised in the Unification Church, better known as the Moonies, and was married in a mass wedding while a sophomore at Princeton. Her upcoming film "Second Coming" explored her departure from the church and this decision's impact on her and her family....

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_170927W_zoequinn.mp3   Quinn's new book Crash Override offers an up-close look inside the controversy, threats, and social and cultural battles that started in the far corners of the internet and have since permeated our online lives. Through her story--as target and as activist--Quinn provides a human look at the ways the internet impacts our lives and culture....

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_170923W_freespeech.mp3 From the Google memo to public statues to campus protests, accusations of quashed free-speech rights are flying. Is picketing a college speaker an effort to shut down discourse? How protected is an employee writing internal memos on company policy? If residents feel a memorial expresses their history, can the majority take that away? How do so many Americans mistake, say, moderation of comment sections as a breach of their First Amendment rights? In Deep has pulled together a panel reflecting deep experience in activism, the courtroom, and the classroom to address these thorny questions:  ...

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_170916F.mp3 Nigeria-born Chike Nwoffiah looked around at how American cinema depicted African people and culture, and saw almost nothing real or accurate. A filmmaker himself now living in America, he maintained ties with Nigeria and knew the creative power of film talent throughout Africa. Eight years ago he founded the Silicon Valley African Film Festival. It's more than a collection of live-action movies, animation, and documentaries - although it is all of that. It also incorporates celebrations of wider African culture, with a procession of flags, a fashion show, and an African marketplace. Angie and Chike will discuss his own work, perceptions of Africa in American, and the evolution of the festival and its audience....