Ahmad Damen
Stories
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Chef's soup dumpling lesson doubles as a love letter to DC's Chinatown
Chef Tim Ma, owner of Lucky Danger in Washington's Chinatown, walks us through how to fold soup dumplings in preparation for Lunar New Year celebrations.
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'Pillion' drops a timid singer into a gay biker BDSM world
A24's new film Pillion follows a timid singer pulled into a biker's BDSM relationship. Alexander Skarsgård talks about his enigmatic character in the movie.
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The seismometers at the end of the earth have names
Scientists have placed two seismometers 8000 feet below the ice cap at the South Pole to measure earthquakes and support tsunami alerts.
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What does it mean when the president calls to "nationalize the voting"?
Wendy Weiser, the vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice, discusses the impact of President Trump's recent urging of Republicans to "nationalize" voting.
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Population growth is slowing, and the ripple effects could be wide
Immigration crackdowns may be slowing U.S. population growth and reshaping the economy, says Luke Pardue, policy director at the Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group.
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After backsliding, democracy often comes back weaker and more fragile
Losing democracy once can make it harder to restore it, even after a democratic government returns to power. University of Birmingham professor Nic Cheeseman analyzed three decades of data.
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'Ye Gods' asks guests where their moral compass comes from
What does it mean to have faith, and where do our moral codes come from? Scott Carter of 'Ye Gods' podcast tries to tackle these big questions.
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Israel advances a 'lost tribe' immigration plan despite discredited ancestry claims
Who are the Bnei Menashe, an ethnic group from India that has been immigrating to Israel? Judy Maltz of Ha'aretz has covered the community for more than a decade.
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Why de-escalation training and communication matters when federal agents police city streets
The third Minneapolis shooting in three weeks has renewed questions about immigration agents' role, training, and use of force. We put these questions to Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum.
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Billions owed: 'The Debt' podcast covers the South's long fight to repay public HBCUs
A long-running fight over how to calculate and repay state funding debts to public HBCUs is flaring across the South, and Emily Siner and Camellia Burris tell the story in their podcast 'The Debt' from Nashville Public Radio