Michelle Obama Reveals Style Insights: Best Audio Shows This Week

This Week's Highlight

IMO: Style Stories

This latest series of Michelle Obama's IMO podcast accompanies the launch of a hardcover volume chronicling her wardrobe transformation. It's a highly polished affair (as expected from the Obamas), with appearances by including style expert Elaine Welteroth and iconic performer Jane Fonda. Much like Michelle personally, the podcast delivers substance in addition to its polish, revealing fascinating perspectives about the pressures she faced as the first Black woman to reside in the White House.

The Pause

Medical reports. Your ride. Your big day. We all experience the complex sentiments associated with expectation. However, consider expecting a jailed romantic interest? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the period spanning passing away and being revived? In this thoughtful series, host Katy Davis collects remarkable accounts of managing unpredictable situations.

The Preventionist

This podcast by an established audio team maintains their reputation of in-depth reporting into contentious subjects. Presenter Dyan Neary meets caregivers whose children were taken away after allegations of abuse were linked to a single medical professional, and probes whether a "better safe than sorry" approach was justified.

The Truth Unveiled

Public records inquiries aren't the sexiest topic, but journalist Jason Leopold and constitutional lawyer Matt Topic turn them into an engaging show. The revelations they've discovered by using them in the US feature obtaining confirmation from Trump's assistant to state in legal proceedings that the president doesn't mean what he tweets.

European Comparison: Top Performers

This special production places European countries head to head on accommodation, early education and narcotics laws to determine the leading example. The parenting segment examines multiple topics from Iceland's women's strike to the reality that much-vaunted Sweden problematically reduces preschool services if their parents have another baby. The best childcare system? It's not Scandinavian.