| Post Opinions launched a podcast in June called "Please, Go On" to allow for deeper conversations with interesting people who wrote important op-eds. During our first six months, we've interviewed household names such as Vice President Kamala Harris and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah). Some of our most memorable conversations, though, have been with lesser-known figures who had unique insights on some of the biggest stories of 2021. Here are five episodes that you might find compelling if you have some down time over the holidays: - After Kabul fell in August, I interviewed two truly remarkable young Afghan women: Shabana Basij-Rasikh co-founded the only boarding school for girls in the country, and she took most of her students — and her parents — to begin anew in Rwanda. Nasrin Nawa, a journalist, left her hometown just days before the Taliban took over, so that she could study as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Nebraska. She laments that her guitar-loving sister is still stranded in Kabul.
- Rick Boyte, the medical director for palliative and supportive care at Forest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, Miss., talked about the dangers of "compassion fatigue" in a region that has one of the lowest covid-19 vaccination rates in the country.
- Former gymnast Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse Larry Nassar of assault, discussed the Justice Department's inspector general report on the many warnings the FBI ignored about the physician who abused her and countless other underage girls. Nassar's victims agreed this month to a $380 million settlement.
- Interior Secretary Deb Haaland discussed the dark history of Indigenous boarding schools. The first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history opened up about her own grandmother's experience with family separation after announcing a comprehensive review of the troubled legacy of federal boarding schools.
- Gavin Grimm emerged as an unlikely leader of the transgender rights movement as a high school sophomore in rural Virginia, and he talked with me after a final victory at the Supreme Court in his multi-year legal battle to be able to use his preferred bathroom. For another episode, I chatted with Maia Kobabe, whose memoir "Gender Queer" is being challenged in school districts across the country.
- The year ends on a dark note. We lost our beloved Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt, who developed the idea for this podcast. To understand why he meant so much to those who knew him, we broke format this month to pay tribute to him.
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