The Former First Lady Unveils Style Insights: Top Podcasts This Week
Pick of the Week
IMO: Fashion Focus
This fresh installment of the former first lady's IMO podcast coincides with the publication of a hardcover volume documenting her fashion evolution. The production is sleek (in true Obama fashion), featuring guests such as ex-Teen Vogue chief Elaine Welteroth and Hollywood legend Jane Fonda. Similar to the woman herself, the series offers depth alongside its polish, revealing significant insights about the expectations she faced as the first Black woman to occupy the White House.
The Pause
Test results. Public transport. Your big day. Everyone knows the complex sentiments linked to waiting. However, consider awaiting an incarcerated partner? A baby born via surrogate? Or the period spanning passing away and being revived? In this thoughtful series, narrator Katy Davis hears remarkable accounts of dealing with the unknown.
The Interventionist
This production by a major media investigative unit upholds their legacy of hard-hitting investigations into contentious subjects. Journalist Dyan Neary speaks with caregivers whose minors were placed in foster care after reports of harm were attributed to one physician, and probes whether an overly cautious strategy was the right one.
Disclosure
Government document petitions aren't the sexiest topic, but reporter Jason Leopold and First Amendment attorney Matt Topic make them a compelling series. The information they've obtained by using them in the US include getting Donald Trump's chief of staff to state in legal proceedings that the leader's social media posts aren't factual.
European Comparison: Top Performers
This limited series puts EU nations against each other on real estate, childcare and substance regulations to establish the best. The family support installment explores different concerns such as Iceland's gender equality walkout to the reality that renowned Sweden problematically reduces childcare for toddlers if their parents have another baby. The best childcare system? Surprisingly, it's not Nordic.
