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This Week's Highlight

IMO: Style Stories

This latest series of Michelle Obama's IMO podcast accompanies the launch of a visual tome exploring her fashion evolution. The production is sleek (typical of the Obama brand), featuring guests such as former Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth and Hollywood legend Jane Fonda. Much like Michelle personally, the podcast provides meaning together with its polish, uncovering important details about the expectations she encountered as the first Black woman to reside in the White House.

The Pause

Medical reports. Your ride. Your wedding day. We all experience the complex sentiments that come with anticipation. Now imagine waiting for a lover in prison? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the interval from death and resuscitation? In this thoughtful series, presenter Katy Davis collects remarkable accounts of managing unpredictable situations.

The Preventionist

This podcast by a major media investigative unit maintains their legacy of hard-hitting investigations into debated issues. Host Dyan Neary speaks with parents whose kids were removed from their care after reports of harm were made by one physician, and questions whether an overly cautious strategy was the right one.

The Truth Unveiled

Government document petitions aren't the sexiest topic, but journalist Jason Leopold and legal expert Matt Topic make them an engaging show. The revelations they've discovered by using them in the US comprise getting Donald Trump's chief of staff to testify under oath that the commander-in-chief's tweets aren't literal.

European Comparison: Top Performers

This special production positions member states head to head on accommodation, childcare and drug policy to establish the leading example. The childcare episode analyzes multiple topics such as Iceland's gender equality walkout to the situation where much-vaunted Sweden nightmarishly limits childcare for toddlers if a new sibling arrives. The finest provider of childcare? It isn't from Scandinavia.