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RevealThe Plague in the ShadowsDecades before Covid-19, the AIDS epidemic tore through communities in the US and around the world. It has killed some 40 million people and continues to take lives today. But early on, research and public policy focused on AIDS as a gay men’s disease, overlooking other vulnerable groups—including communities of color and women. This month marks 45 years since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published its first report about a mysterious illness that would eventually be called AIDS. So we’re bringing back Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows, from reporters Kai Wright...
2026-06-1350 min
Retro Movie RoundtableRush Hour (1998)RMR 0351 Join your hosts, Bryan Frye, Chad Robinson, Dustin Melbardis for the Retro Movie Roundtable as they revisit It’s a Rush Hour (1998) [PG-13]
Genre: Comedy, Action, Crime, Martial Arts, Buddy Cop
Starring: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson, Tzi Ma, Ken Leung, Elizabeth Peña, Mark Rolston, Rex Linn, Chris Penn, Philip Baker Hall, Julia Hsu
Directed by: Brett Ratner
Recorded on 2026-02-04
2026-04-251h 28
RevealThe Plague in the ShadowsDecades before Covid-19, the AIDS epidemic tore through communities in the US and around the world. It has killed some 40 million people and continues to take lives today. But early on, research and public policy focused on AIDS as a gay men’s disease, overlooking other vulnerable groups—including communities of color and women. “We literally had to convince the federal government that there were women getting HIV,” says activist Maxine Wolfe. “We actually had to develop treatment and research agendas that were about women.”This week on Reveal, reporters Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner f...
2025-03-1550 min
Living in the USAFlorida Abortion Politics: Amy Littlefield; AIDS in the shadows: Kai Wright & Lizzie Ratner; Opium history: Amitav GhoshAn abortion rights amendment to Florida’s Constitution has gotten enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. Now, it’s up to the state’s Supreme Court to decide whether people will get to vote on it, potentially transforming the electorate there in November. The Nation’s abortion access correspondent, Amy Littlefield, reports.Plus: Stories from the early days of HIV & AIDS: that’s the focus of a new podcast Called Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows. It's about how the epidemic decimated poor communities of color – and about the people who refused to stay out of sight. WN...
2024-02-2956 min
The Nation Podcasts“Renters are the sleeping giants of LA politics,” plus the Hidden History of AIDS | Start Making SenseA political battle is underway in Los Angeles, where landlords, multi-millionaires, and the police are trying to defeat the leading progressive on the city council. Their key issues are protection for renters and new taxes on mansions.Also on this episode of Start Making Sense: A new podcast brings us stories from the early days of HIV & AIDS. It's about how the epidemic decimated poor communities of color and the people who refused to stay out of sight. WNYC's Kai Wright and The Nation's Lizzy Ratner are behind the new show, Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows.
2024-02-2137 min
Start Making Sense with Jon Wiener“Renters are the sleeping giants of LA politics,” plus the Hidden History of AIDSA political battle is underway in Los Angeles, where landlords, multi-millionaires, and the police are trying to defeat the leading progressive on the city council. Their key issues are protection for renters and new taxes on mansions.Also on this episode of Start Making Sense: A new podcast brings us stories from the early days of HIV & AIDS. It's about how the epidemic decimated poor communities of color and the people who refused to stay out of sight. WNYC's Kai Wright and The Nation's Lizzy Ratner are behind the new show, Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows.
2024-02-2137 minRevealThe Plague in the ShadowsHIV/AIDS changed the United States and the world. It has killed some 40 million people and continues to kill today. This week, reporters Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner from the podcast Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows take us back to the early years of the HIV epidemic in New York City and show how the virus tore through some of our most vulnerable communities while the wider world looked away.
Wright begins by looking at the initial media coverage of HIV, as well as the first health bulletins circulated by the medical community. Both focused on t...
2024-02-1750 min
Lit NYCEpisode 35: Kai Wright and Lizzie Ratner’s The Plague in the Shadows
Journalists Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner talk with The City editor-in-chief Richard Kim about their Blindspot podcast digging into the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and focusing on overlooked populations including intravenous drug users, incarcerated people, and the pediatric patients separated from their families "who lived and died their entire lives on the ward of Harlem Hospital" — and the individuals and communities who stepped up and stepped in where institutions failed.
2024-02-1150 min
FAQ NYCEpisode 330: NYC's Terrible HIV and AIDS BlindspotGuest host Richard Kim, THE CITY's editor in chief, talks to journalists Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner about their Blindspot podcast digging into the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and focusing on overlooked populations including intravenous drug users, incarcerated people, and the pediatric patients separated from their families "who lived and died their entire lives on the ward of Harlem Hospital" — and the individuals and communities who stepped up and stepped in where institutions failed.
2024-02-1150 min
The ConversationPsycho CopsJessica Burbank hosts. The Nation Senior Editor Lizzy Ratner joins to discuss the impact of the 90s on modern politics. Criminal Defense Attorney Joseph Tully joins to talk about how psychopaths are drawn to and commonly found in law enforcement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2023-01-1127 min
2018-07-1954 min
Chatting with Rabbi MikeNobody Wanted to Take Us In: The Story of Jared Kushner’s FamilyAs Trump bars refugees & Muslim immigrants from coming to this country, it’s worth remembering the Jews who were shut out the last time we closed our borders—like Jared Kushner’s grandmother.
By Lizzy Ratner, a Senior Editor at www.TheNation.com
Oszcar Ratowzer, also known as Osher, was my grandfather. The manifest lists him as being 16, but my family believes he was closer to 19 or 20 when he boarded the Aquitania in Southampton, England, on Oct. 23, 1920, & began his 3rd-class voyage across the Atlantic. The journey took 7 days, finally depositing ? him at Ellis Island, America’s “Golden Door,” the gateway to a world w...
2017-01-3100 min