Anna Sale

"My therapist told me that it was okay to be mad at him for dying, whether or not it's rational. Because nothing about this is logical or makes sense." 

The writer joined me live on Zoom to talk student loan debt, luxury CBD drinks, and why he's not going to "pimp out [his] trauma."

A confession is tortured out of a suspect. He goes to prison. Thirty-three years later, he gets a check for what he endured. But forgiveness is not part of the bargain. 

In this collaboration with the podcast Love + Radio, we hear from listeners whose relationships ended right before the pandemic—or because of it. 

Along with the podcast Love + Radio, we've been asking you about how you're coping with a lack of physical touch in your lives due to the pandemic. This is what you told us. 

Two stories on incarceration and coronavirus: an update from Lawrence Bartley, and a woman who wrote to him, worried about her incarcerated husband's safety.

A conversation with Sharron, a certified nursing assistant in Virginia, who we first met in our essential workers episode this spring.

From budgeting blue books to a $60,000 engagement ring: your stories about love and money.

We asked you what you needed to say in this moment of reckoning with police brutality, structural racism, and grief. Here's what you told us. 

As we take in the anguish that's surfacing today, we want to hear from you.

Many of our financial situations have changed drastically in recent months. We're calling on a financial therapist to help us sort through the emotions those shifts are bringing up.

The former secretary of state reflects on re-experiencing a feeling now, in her 80s, that she had in her 20s—after graduating from college and putting her career aside for family.

A listener named Lindsay, who works as a nurse in an ICU, is struggling with the way her patients are dying from COVID-19. 

The bestselling writer on her sense of pride and why she's got no problem going back to an hourly job "the minute it feels like this is over."

A lot has changed in the student loan landscape since the pandemic hit. Student loan expert Betsy Mayotte answers your questions about who's covered by the CARES Act and more. 

Listener Diane Davis and author John Green have spent years learning tools to manage their obsessive thoughts and fears of contamination. But COVID-19 is putting all of them to the test.

We check in with Alana Duran, who has lupus and received a donor kidney several years ago from her new girlfriend at the time, Lori Interlicchio. 

Inspiration from the writer for checking in with the people you love.

"I'm just a lucky guy," John Prine told me in our 2018 interview. We will miss him. 

Songwriting icon Bill Withers died this week at 81 years old. Today, we revisit my conversation with him—from the very first episode of Death, Sex & Money.