Zoha Malik

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Chantal Libsack spent the fall of 2024 house hunting from her tiny studio apartment in downtown Seattle, beside her husband Travis Libsack. She approached the hunt like she does everything else in her life: with meticulous research. She envisioned an open floor plan, a backyard for the dogs, and plenty of space for hosting. Travis, on the other hand, had a pretty standard vision for a home. He wasn’t even sure they should be looking for houses yet.

1 month ago | marketplace.org | Reema Khrais |Zoe Saunders |Alice Wilder |Zoha Malik

Claudette Powell was your classic L.A. dreamer - she’d come to the West Coast with big hopes of becoming an actress and comedian. Twenty-three years later, she was on set, but not in the way she’d hoped. She worked in advertising, crafting promotional images for blockbuster movies. After years of failed auditions and dank comedy clubs, the glitz and glamor of Hollywood had dimmed. But in its place, a new dream took root - one that required her to pay off her nearly $150,000 of personal debt.

1 month ago | marketplace.org | Reema Khrais |Zoe Saunders |Alice Wilder |Zoha Malik

When Hanna Sanborn was 12 years old, she made herself a promise: if she didn’t have kids by the time she turned 30, she’d figure out a way to do it on her own. Thirty came, she was single, so she found a sperm donor, did IVF, and became pregnant with twins. Everything was going smoothly – until a routine check-up turned into an emergency. Doctors told Sanborn she had preeclampsia, a potentially life-threatening condition for both parent and baby, and that she needed to deliver imminently.

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Episode 1372Apr 16, 2025Let's talk about Zeno's paradoxWhere the rubber meets the road in a constitutional crisis. Morakot Kawinchan/Getty Images

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Episode 1368Apr 10, 2025It’s time for a listener mailbag episode! Today, we’re diving into the mailbag, to play your voicemails, read your comments, and answer your questions after a wild week of tariff insanity. We’ll hear from YOU on how you’ve been riding the economic uncertainty. Plus, is Trump’s tariff pause really a pause? And a listener shares what it’s been like teaching elementary students about tariffs.