Shane Mehling
Stories
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Debate: Who should decide what kind of surveillance tech Seattle Police uses?
Bill Radke speaks with Shankar Narayan, technology and liberty director of the ACLU, and Ron Hosko, president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund,...
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How Washington state's law against affirmative action has hurt, or helped, college students
Bill Radke speaks with Eugene Volokh and Dr. Jim Sulton Jr. about race-based college admissions. Washington state passed a law in 1998 that prevented...
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Learn about hydroplane racing from the world's fastest grandpa
Bill Radke speaks with hydroplane drivers Brent Hall and Jerry Hopp about their love of racing. Hall speaks about his childhood dreams of being behind...
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Are President Trump's critics too outraged?
Bill Radke speaks with Tom Nichols, professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. He explains why he thinks, as a Trump critic,...
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What if your driver's license had a third option for gender?
Bill Radke speaks with Hailey, the head of 3rd Gender Washington, a group pushing for driver's licenses and other documents to feature a third gender...
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Would you vote to ban safe injection sites in King County?
Bill Radke speaks with Republican state Representative Morgan Irwin and former police chief Norm Stamper about safe injection sites. An initiative may...
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Is single payer the future of health care in America?
Bill Radke speaks with Vox.com senior policy correspondent Sarah Kliff about single payer health care. Kliff explains the political and practical...
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What it's like to perform surgery on a 450-pound gorilla
Vip the gorilla needed emergency hernia surgery. Dr. Andrew S. Wright explains his process, from inspecting Vip in the smelly gorilla enclosure to...
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What will a post email world look like?
Bill Radke speaks with Farhad Manjoo, NY Times tech columnist, and Amy Webb, founder of the Future Today Institute, about the frustrations and...
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Would you rather be bored or receive an electric shock?
Some of us will do almost anything to avoid boredom. No, really — anything. A University of Virginia study put a bunch of people in a room that was...