Important, Not Important Podcast
1) Running for School Meals (Because Learning Requires Eating)
I think we can all agree that kids shouldn't go hungry ever really, but especially at school. You might feel right now like you are giving it everything you got, but when you look around, things feel ...Show More
2) Running for Gun Control (In The Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens)
Maybe you feel like you're already giving it all you've got. You look around, and things are tough out there. You, our listeners and readers and viewers and users across the country and across the wor...Show More
3) Running for Transit (Because Your Commute Doesn't Have to Suck)
Things are a little tough out there. So you, want, no need, more examples of fight and progress you can actually see and touch and feel. And in these series of conversations, in partnership with our b...Show More
4) Running for Housing (Because Someone Has To)
In a moment when the news out of Washington can seem untenably rough, when the gerontocracy that got us here won't give up their hold on power, when billionaires own every single media channel, when e...Show More
5) (Re)Introducing The Science of Fiction
This week we're rerunning our 2024 episode with Maddie Stone, writer of The Science of Fiction blog, to celebrate the fact that Maddie has joined our team and The Science of Fiction now lives at Impor...Show More
6) The Answer is Always Run for Something
Turns out it's our 200th episode. It has been a journey.The show is now called The Most Important Question, and I can't think of a better answer than just fucking run for something. What can I do abou...Show More
7) Making Your Climate Dollars Count When Government Won't
Congress just jammed the brakes on America's clean energy boom, however short-lived it may have been. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law after a lot of debate in the House and the Sena...Show More
8) When Foreign Aid Gets Zeroed Out Overnight
Imagine waking up to discover that the United States has just pulled $35 billion out of foreign aid overnight, and that hundreds of HIV clinics, and child malnutrition programs, and poverty graduation...Show More
9) Taking Care of Business (Sustainably)
Toilet paper. You use it. I use it. Sometimes, even my children use it. The point is, toilet paper is everywhere. Almost everyone needs it, and so much of it still comes from actual forests, and yet 2...Show More
10) We Live In A World of Trees
You've heard people say it. It shouldn't have been called Earth. It should have been called Ocean, but it is simultaneously a planet of trees. As Richard Powers put it in The Overstory: We live in a w...Show More