Michelle Obama Unveils Outfit Stories: Best Podcasts This Week

This Week's Highlight

IMO: The Look

This latest series of Michelle Obama's IMO podcast aligns with the publication of a hardcover volume chronicling her fashion evolution. The production is sleek (as expected from the Obamas), featuring guests such as ex-Teen Vogue chief Elaine Welteroth and Hollywood legend Jane Fonda. Similar to the woman herself, the series provides meaning in addition to its glamour, uncovering significant insights about the pressures she faced as the inaugural African American first lady to live in the White House.

The Pause

Medical reports. The bus. Your marriage ceremony. We're familiar with the complex sentiments linked to anticipation. However, consider waiting for a lover in prison? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the period spanning passing away and being revived? This contemplative show, narrator Katy Davis collects extraordinary stories of managing unpredictable situations.

The Prevention Expert

This production from a renowned production house maintains their legacy of in-depth reporting into debated issues. Host Dyan Neary meets parents whose kids were taken away after reports of harm were made by a single medical professional, and probes whether an overly cautious strategy was justified.

Revelations

Freedom of information requests aren't the sexiest topic, but journalist Jason Leopold and constitutional lawyer Matt Topic turn them into a lively listen. The information they've obtained through these methods in the US feature obtaining confirmation from Trump's assistant to admit to a court that the president doesn't mean what he tweets.

European Comparison: Top Performers

This limited series puts EU nations in competition on real estate, childcare and narcotics laws to determine the leading example. The childcare episode explores various issues such as Iceland's gender equality walkout to the fact that renowned Sweden problematically reduces daycare for young children if a new sibling arrives. The finest provider of childcare? It's not Scandinavian.