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- Halfway there: a philosopher’s guide to midlife crises
(Mon, Apr 21, 2025)
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- Whatever this is, it isn’t liberalism
(Mon, Apr 14, 2025)
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- A new way to listen
(Fri, Apr 11, 2025)
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- The beliefs AI is built on
(Mon, Apr 07, 2025)
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- Stop comparing yourself to AI
(Mon, Mar 31, 2025)
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- Democrats need to do something
(Mon, Mar 24, 2025)
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- How to live in uncertain times
(Mon, Mar 17, 2025)
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- How to sink into silence
(Mon, Mar 10, 2025)
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- How to change your personality
(Mon, Mar 03, 2025)
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- Is ignorance truly bliss?
(Mon, Feb 17, 2025)
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- Is America broken?
(Mon, Feb 10, 2025)
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- The cost of spending time alone
(Mon, Feb 03, 2025)
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- Attention pays (with Chris Hayes)
(Mon, Jan 27, 2025)
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- How to be happy
(Mon, Jan 20, 2025)
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- The screens between us
(Mon, Jan 13, 2025)
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- The importance of failure
(Mon, Jan 06, 2025)
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- What to do with your sadness, pain, and grief
(Mon, Dec 23, 2024)
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- What do animals feel?
(Mon, Dec 16, 2024)
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- Are men okay?
(Mon, Dec 09, 2024)
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- How to feel alive
(Mon, Dec 02, 2024)
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- The antidote to climate anxiety
(Mon, Nov 25, 2024)
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- America’s reactionary moment
(Mon, Nov 18, 2024)
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- Well this is awkward
(Mon, Nov 11, 2024)
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- What just happened, and what comes next
(Fri, Nov 08, 2024)
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- Does being "woke" do any good?
(Mon, Nov 04, 2024)
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- Is America collapsing like Ancient Rome?
(Mon, Oct 28, 2024)
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- The world according to Werner Herzog
(Mon, Oct 21, 2024)
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- Ta-Nehisi Coates on complexity, clarity, and truth.
(Mon, Oct 14, 2024)
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- Your mind needs chaos
(Wed, Oct 09, 2024)
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- Musician Laraaji on the origin of creativity
(Tue, Oct 08, 2024)
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- Is AI creative?
(Mon, Oct 07, 2024)
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- Happiness isn’t the goal
(Mon, Sep 30, 2024)
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- A message from Sean
(Fri, Sep 27, 2024)
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- What if we get climate change right?
(Mon, Sep 23, 2024)
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- Yuval Noah Harari on the eclipsing of human intelligence
(Mon, Sep 16, 2024)
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- Why cynicism is bad for you
(Mon, Sep 09, 2024)
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- Poetry as religion
(Mon, Sep 02, 2024)
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- The jazz musician’s guide to the universe
(Mon, Aug 26, 2024)
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- Revisiting the "father of capitalism"
(Mon, Aug 19, 2024)
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- Breaking our family patterns
(Mon, Aug 12, 2024)
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- Why Orwell matters
(Mon, Aug 05, 2024)
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- The timebomb the founding fathers left us
(Mon, Jul 29, 2024)
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- Swear like a philosopher
(Mon, Jul 22, 2024)
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- Taking Nietzsche seriously
(Mon, Jul 15, 2024)
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- What India teaches us about liberalism — and its decline
(Mon, Jul 08, 2024)
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- 1992: The year politics broke
(Mon, Jul 01, 2024)
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- The existential struggle of being Black
(Mon, Jun 24, 2024)
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- The world after nuclear war
(Mon, Jun 17, 2024)
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- Gaza, Camus, and the logic of violence
(Mon, Jun 10, 2024)
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- This is your kid on smartphones
(Mon, Jun 03, 2024)
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- Life after death?
(Mon, May 20, 2024)
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- The world after Ozempic
(Mon, May 13, 2024)
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- UFOs, God, and the edge of understanding
(Mon, May 06, 2024)
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- How to listen
(Mon, Apr 29, 2024)
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- Everything's a cult now
(Mon, Apr 22, 2024)
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- Fareed Zakaria on our revolutionary moment
(Mon, Apr 15, 2024)
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- Life is hard. Can philosophy help?
(Mon, Apr 08, 2024)
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- The American dream is a pyramid scheme
(Mon, Apr 01, 2024)
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- The chaplain who doesn't believe in God
(Mon, Mar 25, 2024)
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- Can a friend be our most significant other?
(Mon, Mar 18, 2024)
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- The power of climate fiction
(Mon, Mar 11, 2024)
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- The denial of death
(Mon, Mar 04, 2024)
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- A brief history of extinction panics
(Mon, Feb 26, 2024)
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- The new(ish) world order
(Mon, Feb 19, 2024)
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- The free-market century is over
(Mon, Feb 12, 2024)
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- Music and mysticism
(Mon, Feb 05, 2024)
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- The case for banning...millionaires?
(Mon, Jan 29, 2024)
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- The joy of uncertainty
(Mon, Jan 22, 2024)
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- A pro-worker work ethic
(Mon, Jan 15, 2024)
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- How psychedelics can reinvent learning
(Mon, Jan 08, 2024)
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- Seeing ourselves through the darkness
(Tue, Dec 26, 2023)
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- Living Mindfully
(Mon, Dec 18, 2023)
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- Taking anarchism seriously
(Mon, Dec 11, 2023)
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- 3,000 years of The Iliad
(Mon, Dec 04, 2023)
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- Late-stage liberalism
(Mon, Nov 27, 2023)
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- The case against free will
(Mon, Nov 20, 2023)
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- A Jew and a Muslim get honest about Israel and Gaza
(Mon, Nov 13, 2023)
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- How to keep panic from attacking
(Mon, Nov 06, 2023)
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- We Are What We Watch
(Mon, Oct 30, 2023)
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- Werner Herzog’s ecstatic truth
(Mon, Oct 23, 2023)
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- The lessons of Sam Bankman-Fried
(Mon, Oct 16, 2023)
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- Is America getting meaner?
(Mon, Oct 02, 2023)
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- Naomi Klein on her doppelganger (and yours)
(Mon, Sep 25, 2023)
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- Should we press pause on AI?
(Mon, Sep 18, 2023)
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- Democracy’s existential crisis
(Mon, Sep 11, 2023)
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- Conservative socialism?
(Mon, Aug 28, 2023)
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- The benefits of utopian thinking
(Mon, Aug 21, 2023)
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- What Clarence Thomas really thinks
(Mon, Aug 14, 2023)
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- The new crisis of masculinity
(Mon, Aug 07, 2023)
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- How we all became a brand
(Mon, Jul 31, 2023)
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- The therapeutic potential of MDMA
(Mon, Jul 24, 2023)
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- Is the journey to self-discovery pointless?
(Mon, Jul 17, 2023)
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- Parenting through the climate crisis
(Mon, Jul 10, 2023)
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- Seeing ourselves through darkness
(Thu, Jun 29, 2023)
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- Best of: A new philosophy of love
(Mon, Jun 26, 2023)
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- The future of tribalism
(Thu, Jun 22, 2023)
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- When you can't separate art from artist
(Thu, Jun 15, 2023)
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- The case for not killing yourself
(Mon, Jun 12, 2023)
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- What comes after Black Lives Matter?
(Thu, Jun 08, 2023)(11:58:00 -0000, )
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- Clickbait’s destructive legacy
(Mon, Jun 05, 2023)
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- Simone Weil’s radical philosophy of love and attention
(Thu, Jun 01, 2023)
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- Peter Singer on his ethical legacy
(Thu, May 25, 2023)
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- Why the poor in America stay poor
(Mon, May 22, 2023)
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- The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work
(Thu, May 18, 2023)
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- Mysteries of the mind
(Mon, May 15, 2023)
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- Why we can’t just blame capitalism for everything
(Thu, May 11, 2023)
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- Being human in the age of AI
(Mon, May 08, 2023)
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- A philosopher's psychedelic encounter with reality
(Thu, May 04, 2023)
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- The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard
(Mon, May 01, 2023)
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- The chemistry of connection
(Thu, Apr 27, 2023)
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- What a slow civil war looks like
(Mon, Apr 24, 2023)
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- How to listen
(Thu, Apr 20, 2023)
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- Why we can't give up on persuasion
(Mon, Apr 17, 2023)
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- Rep. Katie Porter's working-class politics
(Thu, Apr 13, 2023)
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- The climate apocalypse will be televised
(Mon, Apr 10, 2023)
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- A philosopher takes on religious life
(Thu, Apr 06, 2023)
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- Your brain isn't so private anymore
(Mon, Apr 03, 2023)
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- Brian Stelter thinks the news has a reliability problem
(Thu, Mar 30, 2023)
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- How corporations got all your data
(Mon, Mar 27, 2023)
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- The case for failure
(Thu, Mar 16, 2023)
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- Poetry as religion
(Mon, Mar 13, 2023)
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- Revisiting the American Dream
(Thu, Mar 09, 2023)
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- The cost of saving pandas
(Mon, Mar 06, 2023)
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- Breaking our family patterns
(Thu, Mar 02, 2023)
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- For Black horror fans, fact is scarier than fiction
(Mon, Feb 27, 2023)
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- Taking Nietzsche seriously
(Thu, Feb 23, 2023)
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- The dark history of Silicon Valley
(Thu, Feb 16, 2023)
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- The value of being a "hater"
(Mon, Feb 13, 2023)
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- Behind the blue wall
(Thu, Feb 09, 2023)
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- Best of: Imagine a future with no police
(Mon, Feb 06, 2023)
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- Is America broken?
(Thu, Feb 02, 2023)
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- The creator of Fargo is done with good guys vs. bad guys
(Mon, Jan 30, 2023)
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- Revisiting the "father of capitalism"
(Thu, Jan 26, 2023)
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- Can effective altruism be redeemed?
(Mon, Jan 23, 2023)
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- The roots of homelessness
(Thu, Jan 19, 2023)
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- Can race be transcended?
(Thu, Jan 12, 2023)
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- Is ethical AI possible?
(Mon, Jan 09, 2023)
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- What do we owe animals?
(Thu, Jan 05, 2023)
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- Best of: America's philosophy, with Cornel West
(Thu, Dec 22, 2022)
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- Best of: The necessity — and danger — of free speech
(Mon, Dec 19, 2022)
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- The church of celebrity
(Thu, Dec 15, 2022)
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- Men and boys are struggling. Should we care?
(Mon, Dec 12, 2022)
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- The power of attention in a world of distraction
(Thu, Dec 08, 2022)
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- A veteran reporter on how to fix the news
(Mon, Dec 05, 2022)
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- The end of social media
(Thu, Dec 01, 2022)
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- If society is making us sick, how can we heal?
(Mon, Nov 28, 2022)
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- The free-market century is over
(Mon, Nov 21, 2022)
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- Your identity is a story you tell yourself
(Thu, Nov 17, 2022)
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- James Carville unpacks the midterms
(Mon, Nov 14, 2022)
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- Why are billionaires prepping for the apocalypse?
(Thu, Nov 10, 2022)
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- Today's Republicans were made in the 1990s
(Mon, Nov 07, 2022)
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- Yuval Noah Harari thinks humans are unstoppable
(Thu, Nov 03, 2022)
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- Dying with dignity
(Mon, Oct 31, 2022)
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- Finding hope in a world on the brink
(Thu, Oct 27, 2022)
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- The new American Reconstruction
(Mon, Oct 24, 2022)
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- Is America losing its religion?
(Thu, Oct 20, 2022)
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- How we got to January 6th
(Mon, Oct 17, 2022)
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- Neil deGrasse Tyson gets political
(Thu, Oct 13, 2022)
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- Introducing The Gray Area
(Tue, Oct 11, 2022)
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- Best of: Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
(Thu, Oct 06, 2022)
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- A GOP insider on why the party went Trump
(Mon, Oct 03, 2022)
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- How do we fix the harm we cause?
(Thu, Sep 29, 2022)
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- A new philosophy of love
(Mon, Sep 26, 2022)
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- The politics of 'Yellowstone'
(Fri, Sep 23, 2022)
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- How society sexualizes us
(Thu, Sep 22, 2022)
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- The Parent Trap
(Mon, Sep 19, 2022)
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- 40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation
(Thu, Sep 15, 2022)
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- 40 Acres: The old Jim Crow
(Mon, Sep 12, 2022)
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- 40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules
(Thu, Sep 08, 2022)
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- 40 Acres: The original promise
(Thu, Sep 01, 2022)
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- What Clarence Thomas really thinks
(Mon, Aug 29, 2022)
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- Even Better: Don't call it a budget
(Thu, Aug 25, 2022)
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- The quest for authenticity
(Mon, Aug 22, 2022)
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- Even Better: Setting your boundaries
(Thu, Aug 18, 2022)
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- Your gut instinct is usually wrong
(Mon, Aug 15, 2022)
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- Even Better: Workplace equality 2.0
(Thu, Aug 11, 2022)
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- Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)
(Mon, Aug 08, 2022)
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- Even Better: Activism when you don't know where to start
(Thu, Aug 04, 2022)
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- The Supreme Court's power grab
(Mon, Aug 01, 2022)
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- How middlemen took over the economy
(Thu, Jul 28, 2022)
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- The necessity — and danger — of free speech
(Mon, Jul 25, 2022)
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- Hacking coral sex to save the reefs
(Thu, Jul 21, 2022)
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- The price of keeping secrets
(Mon, Jul 18, 2022)
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- Does China control Hollywood?
(Thu, Jul 14, 2022)
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- Steve Bannon is still at war
(Mon, Jul 11, 2022)
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- The Fortress of Solitude saw it all coming
(Thu, Jun 30, 2022)
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- The Philosophers: Stoic revival
(Mon, Jun 27, 2022)
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- Station Eleven's creator on the end of the world
(Thu, Jun 23, 2022)
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- The racist origins of fat phobia
(Thu, Jun 16, 2022)
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- The fight for Ukraine — and democracy
(Mon, Jun 13, 2022)
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- The war on trans people
(Thu, Jun 09, 2022)
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- Michael Ian Black on being a better man
(Mon, Jun 06, 2022)( -0000, )
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- Carmen Maria Machado's haunted feminine
(Thu, Jun 02, 2022)
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- The rise and fall of America's monuments
(Thu, May 26, 2022)
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- The Philosophers: America's philosophy, with Cornel West
(Mon, May 23, 2022)
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- Why accidents aren't accidental
(Thu, May 19, 2022)
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- Rethinking the "end of history"
(Mon, May 16, 2022)
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- Anita Hill finally gets even
(Thu, May 12, 2022)
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- Elites have captured identity politics
(Mon, May 09, 2022)
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- The moral dangers of dirty work
(Thu, May 05, 2022)
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- Did the sexual revolution go wrong?
(Mon, May 02, 2022)
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- Who decides how to conserve nature?
(Thu, Apr 28, 2022)
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- The Philosophers: Loneliness and totalitarianism
(Mon, Apr 25, 2022)(0 , )
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- The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 4: The future of Europe
(Thu, Apr 21, 2022)
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- Michael Lewis on why Americans distrust experts
(Mon, Apr 18, 2022)
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- The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 3: The nuclear threat
(Thu, Apr 14, 2022)
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- The case for regret
(Mon, Apr 11, 2022)
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- The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 2: Sanctions
(Thu, Apr 07, 2022)
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- The spirituality of parenting
(Mon, Apr 04, 2022)
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- The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 1: Why did Putin go to war?
(Thu, Mar 31, 2022)
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- The Philosophers: Resisting despair
(Mon, Mar 28, 2022)
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- What happened to American conservatism?
(Thu, Mar 24, 2022)
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- The limits of forgiveness
(Mon, Mar 21, 2022)
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- The madness behind The Method
(Thu, Mar 17, 2022)
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- David Cross is disappointed in you guys
(Mon, Mar 14, 2022)
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- Author Kiley Reid on why we read novels
(Thu, Mar 10, 2022)
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- The conversation about guns we're not having
(Mon, Mar 07, 2022)
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- Why does middle school suck?
(Thu, Mar 03, 2022)
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- Russia's war with Ukraine — and reality
(Mon, Feb 28, 2022)
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- Robert Glasper on why Black Radio is back
(Thu, Feb 24, 2022)
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- Could we lose delicious foods forever?
(Thu, Feb 17, 2022)
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- What Don't Look Up is really about
(Mon, Feb 14, 2022)
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- Democracy in crisis, part 2: The two-party problem
(Thu, Feb 10, 2022)
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- Why we can't pay attention anymore
(Mon, Feb 07, 2022)
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- Democracy in crisis, part 1: Ross Douthat isn't too worried
(Thu, Feb 03, 2022)
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- Pod Save the Democrats
(Mon, Jan 31, 2022)
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- A Yellowjackets creator spills his guts
(Thu, Jan 27, 2022)
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- A scientist's case for "woo-woo"
(Mon, Jan 24, 2022)
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- Imagine a future with no police
(Thu, Jan 20, 2022)
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- Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix
(Thu, Jan 13, 2022)
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- Are we living in a simulation?
(Mon, Jan 10, 2022)
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- Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthinkable, twice
(Thu, Jan 06, 2022)
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- Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
(Mon, Jan 03, 2022)
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- Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery
(Thu, Dec 30, 2021)
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- Best of: We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
(Mon, Dec 27, 2021)
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- Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
(Thu, Dec 23, 2021)
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- The cult of toughness
(Mon, Dec 20, 2021)
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- Is ethical investing a scam?
(Thu, Dec 16, 2021)
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- The good life is painful
(Mon, Dec 13, 2021)
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- The father of environmental justice
(Thu, Dec 09, 2021)
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- Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
(Mon, Dec 06, 2021)
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- E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
(Thu, Dec 02, 2021)
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- Workers of the world, stay home!
(Mon, Nov 29, 2021)
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- How progressives get back in the game
(Mon, Nov 22, 2021)
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- The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
(Thu, Nov 18, 2021)
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- Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
(Mon, Nov 15, 2021)
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- The stories soul food tells
(Thu, Nov 11, 2021)
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- The paradox of American freedom
(Mon, Nov 08, 2021)
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- Nonbinary parenthood
(Thu, Nov 04, 2021)
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- John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
(Mon, Nov 01, 2021)
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- The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
(Thu, Oct 28, 2021)
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- How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation panic
(Mon, Oct 25, 2021)
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- Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
(Thu, Oct 21, 2021)
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- What the internet took from us
(Mon, Oct 18, 2021)
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- Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
(Thu, Oct 14, 2021)
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- Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
(Thu, Oct 07, 2021)
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- What's your status?
(Mon, Oct 04, 2021)
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- Is there a hack for enlightenment?
(Thu, Sep 30, 2021)
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- Fighting a world on fire with fire
(Mon, Sep 27, 2021)
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- Revolutionary Love
(Thu, Sep 23, 2021)
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- How to make meaning out of suffering
(Mon, Sep 20, 2021)
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- Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
(Thu, Sep 16, 2021)
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- The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
(Mon, Sep 13, 2021)
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- Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America after 9/11
(Thu, Sep 09, 2021)
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- Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
(Thu, Sep 02, 2021)
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- The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
(Mon, Aug 30, 2021)
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- Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery
(Thu, Aug 26, 2021)
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- Was the cruelty the point?
(Mon, Aug 23, 2021)
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- How seashells shaped the world — and predict our future
(Thu, Aug 19, 2021)
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- Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters
(Mon, Aug 16, 2021)
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- Robert Reich wants you to take on the system
(Thu, Aug 12, 2021)
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- Marty Baron on the future of news
(Mon, Aug 09, 2021)
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- The death of cool
(Thu, Aug 05, 2021)
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- We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
(Mon, Aug 02, 2021)
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- Philadelphia's progressive prosecutor
(Thu, Jul 29, 2021)
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- Fareed Zakaria on the fate of democracy
(Mon, Jul 26, 2021)
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- Jane Goodall on the power of hope
(Thu, Jul 22, 2021)
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- Why we love drugs
(Mon, Jul 19, 2021)
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- The rugged majesty of revision
(Thu, Jul 15, 2021)
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- How to forgive
(Mon, Jul 12, 2021)
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- What makes a great conversation?
(Thu, Jul 08, 2021)
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- Introducing: Now & Then
(Thu, Jul 01, 2021)
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- The science of dating
(Thu, Jun 24, 2021)
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- Honoring Juneteenth with Ibram X. Kendi
(Thu, Jun 17, 2021)
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- Digital dictatorship
(Thu, Jun 10, 2021)
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- The man who proposed reparations in the 1860s
(Thu, Jun 03, 2021)
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- What pandemic recovery should look like
(Thu, May 27, 2021)
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- The gift of getting old
(Thu, May 20, 2021)
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- Freedom, and what it means to have a body
(Thu, May 13, 2021)
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- Why are we so worried about Satan?
(Thu, May 06, 2021)
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- How to be wrong less often
(Thu, Apr 29, 2021)
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- The complicated history of wildlife conservation
(Thu, Apr 22, 2021)
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- How to replace everything in the industrialized world
(Thu, Apr 15, 2021)
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- Patricia Lockwood's big, beautiful internet brain
(Thu, Apr 08, 2021)
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- Who is the real George Soros?
(Thu, Apr 01, 2021)
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- Introducing Unexplainable
(Sat, Mar 27, 2021)
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- The border, explained by someone who knows it intimately
(Thu, Mar 25, 2021)
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- "Wintering," wisdom, and weathering life's darkest times
(Thu, Mar 18, 2021)
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- Reframing America's race problem
(Thu, Mar 11, 2021)
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- Who owns the Western?
(Thu, Mar 04, 2021)
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- A Watchmen writer on race, TV, and tech giants
(Thu, Feb 25, 2021)
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- Uncovering the history of psychedelics in Christianity
(Thu, Feb 18, 2021)
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- Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform, and the Obama legacy
(Thu, Feb 11, 2021)
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- The Capitol Siege and American Revolution
(Thu, Feb 04, 2021)
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- Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn't going away
(Thu, Jan 28, 2021)
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- The Joe Biden experience
(Mon, Jan 25, 2021)
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- What it means to be a "good" rich person
(Thu, Jan 21, 2021)
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- Peter Kafka and Kevin Roose on big tech's power and responsibility
(Mon, Jan 18, 2021)
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- Sam Sanders and Olivia Nuzzi on President Trump’s last days
(Thu, Jan 14, 2021)
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- Best of: We don’t just feel emotions. We make them.
(Thu, Jan 07, 2021)
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- Best of: Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich
(Mon, Jan 04, 2021)
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- Best of: The moral philosophy of The Good Place
(Thu, Dec 31, 2020)
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- Best of: Michael Lewis reads my mind
(Mon, Dec 28, 2020)
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- Best of: Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry
(Thu, Dec 24, 2020)
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- What I’ve learned, and what comes next.
(Mon, Dec 21, 2020)
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- Best of: An inspiring conversation about democracy with Danielle Allen
(Thu, Dec 17, 2020)
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- Michael Pollan on the psychedelic society
(Mon, Dec 14, 2020)
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- Best of: Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress
(Thu, Dec 10, 202)(0 -0000 05:00:00, )
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- Joe Biden and "the new progressivism"
(Mon, Dec 07, 2020)
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- Best of: Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational
(Thu, Dec 03, 2020)
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- The most important book I've read this year
(Mon, Nov 30, 2020)
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- Best of: Alison Gopnik changed how I think about love
(Thu, Nov 26, 2020)
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- Best of: Vivek Murthy on America’s loneliness epidemic
(Mon, Nov 23, 2020)
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- What Democrats got wrong about Hispanic voters
(Thu, Nov 19, 2020)
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- Antitrust, censorship, misinformation, and the 2020 election
(Mon, Nov 16, 2020)
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- The crisis isn’t Trump. It’s the Republican Party.
(Thu, Nov 12, 2020)
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- The Joe Biden experience
(Sat, Nov 07, 2020)
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- Chris Hayes and I process this wild election
(Thu, Nov 05, 2020)
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- Stacey Abrams on minority rule, voting rights, and the future of democracy
(Mon, Nov 02, 2020)
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- Nate Silver on why 2020 isn't 2016
(Thu, Oct 29, 2020)
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- Sarah Kliff grades Biden and Trump's health care plans
(Mon, Oct 26, 2020)
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- Trumpism never existed. It was always just Trump.
(Thu, Oct 22, 2020)
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- What should Democrats do about the Supreme Court?
(Mon, Oct 19, 2020)
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- Marilynne Robinson on writing, metaphysics, and the Donald Trump dilemma
(Thu, Oct 15, 2020)
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- The case for Trump’s foreign policy
(Mon, Oct 12, 2020)
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- Fareed Zakaria on how Biden and Trump see the world
(Thu, Oct 08, 2020)
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- How a climate bill becomes a reality
(Mon, Oct 05, 2020)
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- The meat we eat affects us all
(Fri, Oct 02, 2020)
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- A dark, dangerous debate
(Wed, Sep 30, 2020)
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- A radical — or obvious? — plan to save American democracy
(Mon, Sep 28, 2020)
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- RBG, minority rule, and our looming legitimacy crisis
(Thu, Sep 24, 2020)
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- David French and I debate polarization, secession, and the filibuster
(Mon, Sep 21, 2020)
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- The Matt Yglesias Show
(Thu, Sep 17, 2020)
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- Race, policing, and the universal yearning for safety
(Mon, Sep 14, 2020)
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- How to think about coronavirus risk in your life
(Thu, Sep 10, 2020)
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- Black Republicans, Donald Trump, and America's "George Floyd moment"
(Mon, Sep 07, 2020)
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- Andrew Yang on UBI, coronavirus, and his next job in politics
(Thu, Sep 03, 2020)
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- Why the hell did America invade Iraq?
(Mon, Aug 31, 2020)
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- How to decarbonize America — and create 25 million jobs
(Thu, Aug 27, 2020)
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- Isabel Wilkerson wants to change how we understand race in America
(Mon, Aug 24, 2020)
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- What it would take to end child poverty in America
(Thu, Aug 20, 2020)
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- Hannah Gadsby on comedy, free speech, and living with autism
(Mon, Aug 17, 2020)
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- What would Keynes do?
(Thu, Aug 13, 2020)
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- A devastating indictment of the Republican Party
(Mon, Aug 10, 2020)
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- How inequality and white identity politics feed each other
(Thu, Aug 06, 2020)
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- Best of: Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance
(Mon, Aug 03, 2020)
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- Dadding out with Mike Birbiglia
(Thu, Jul 30, 2020)
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- A rabbi explains how to make sense of suffering
(Mon, Jul 27, 2020)
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- The crisis in the news
(Thu, Jul 23, 2020)
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- Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal
(Mon, Jul 20, 2020)
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- What a post-Trump Republican Party might look like
(Thu, Jul 16, 2020)
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- Free speech, safety, and ‘the letter’
(Mon, Jul 13, 2020)
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- The frightening fragility of America's political institutions
(Thu, Jul 09, 2020)
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- Can artificial intelligence be emotionally intelligent?
(Mon, Jul 06, 2020)
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- Danielle Allen on the radicalism of the American revolution — and its lessons for today
(Thu, Jul 02, 2020)
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- Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect
(Wed, Jul 01, 2020)
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- Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking
(Mon, Jun 29, 2020)
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- Your questions, answered
(Thu, Jun 25, 2020)
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- Which country has the world's best healthcare system?
(Mon, Jun 22, 2020)
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- The transformative power of restorative justice
(Thu, Jun 18, 2020)
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- Ross Douthat and I debate American decadence
(Mon, Jun 15, 2020)
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- A serious conversation about UFOs
(Thu, Jun 11, 2020)
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- A former prosecutor's case for prison abolition
(Mon, Jun 08, 2020)
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- Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful
(Thu, Jun 04, 2020)
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- Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bregman)
(Mon, Jun 01, 2020)
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- From politician to priest
(Thu, May 28, 2020)
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- Robert Frank's radical idea
(Mon, May 25, 2020)
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- Why “essential” workers are treated as disposable
(Thu, May 21, 2020)
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- "The world’s scariest economist” on coronavirus, innovation, and purpose
(Mon, May 18, 2020)
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- A mind-bending conversation about quantum mechanics and parallel worlds
(Thu, May 14, 2020)
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- Why the coronavirus is so deadly for black America
(Mon, May 11, 2020)
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- Jenny Odell on nature, art, and burnout in quarantine
(Thu, May 07, 2020)
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- An unusually honest conversation about wielding political power
(Mon, May 04, 2020)
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- What should the media learn from coronavirus?
(Thu, Apr 30, 2020)
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- Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond coronavirus
(Mon, Apr 27, 2020)
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- An epic conversation with Madeline Miller
(Thu , )(, Apr 23, 2020)
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- The loneliness pandemic/Betraying “essential workers”
(Mon, Apr 20, 2020)
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- Why Bernie Sanders lost and how progressives can still win
(Thu, Apr 16, 2020)
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- Scott Gottlieb on how, and when, to end social distancing
(Mon, Apr 13, 2020)
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- Toby Ord on existential risk, Donald Trump, and thinking in probabilities
(Thu, Apr 09, 2020)
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- Elizabeth Warren has a plan for this, too
(Mon, Apr 06, 2020)
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- What social solidarity demands of us in a pandemic
(Thu, Apr 02, 2020)
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- Coronavirus has pushed US-China relations to their worst point since Mao
(Mon, Mar 30, 2020)
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- Is the cure worse than the disease?
(Thu, Mar 26, 2020)
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- An economic crisis like we’ve never seen
(Mon, Mar 23, 2020)
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- "The virus is more patient than people are"
(Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
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- A master class in organizing
(Mon, Mar 16, 2020)
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- Weeds 2020: The coronavirus election
(Sat, Mar 14, 2020)
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- Dan Pfeiffer on Joe Biden, beating Trump, and saving democracy
(Thu, Mar 12, 2020)
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- Are you a "political hobbyist?" If so, you're the problem.
(Mon, Mar 09, 2020)
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- What would a Sanders or Biden presidency look like?
(Thu, Mar 05, 2020)
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- Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein, feminism, and social change
(Mon, Mar 02, 2020)
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- Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate
(Sat, Feb 29, 2020)
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- Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry
(Thu, Feb 27, 2020)
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- Barbara Ehrenreich on UBI, class conflict, and collective joy
(Mon, Feb 24, 2020)
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- What Donald Trump got right about white America
(Thu, Feb 20, 2020)
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- Ta-Nehisi Coates on my “cold, atheist book”
(Mon, Feb 17, 2020)
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- If God is dead, then … socialism?
(Thu, Feb 13, 2020)
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- Tim Urban on humanity’s wild future
(Mon, Feb 10, 2020)
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- Jill Lepore on what I get wrong
(Thu, Feb 06, 2020)
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- Is Tom Steyer the solution to our dysfunctional politics?
(Mon, Feb 03, 2020)
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- Why We're Polarized, with Jamelle Bouie (live!)
(Thu, Jan 30, 2020)
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- Antisemitism now, antisemitism then
(Mon, Jan 27, 2020)
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- Book excerpt: A better theory of identity politics
(Thu, Jan 23, 2020)
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- The war on Muslims (with Mehdi Hasan)
(Mon, Jan 20, 2020)
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- Post-debate special!
(Thu, Jan 16, 2020)
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- An “uncomfortable” conversation with Cory Booker
(Mon, Jan 13, 2020)
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- The conservative mind of Yuval Levin
(Thu, Jan 09, 2020)
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- How an epidemic begins and ends
(Wed, Jan 08, 2020)
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- Nathan Robinson’s case for socialism
(Mon, Jan 06, 2020)
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- How to topple dictators and transform society (with Erica Chenoweth)
(Thu, Jan 02, 2020)
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- Ask Ezra Anything
(Mon, Dec 30, 2019)
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- Best of: Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
(Thu, Dec 26, 2019)
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- Republicans vs. the planet
(Mon, Dec 23, 2019)
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- The geoengineering question
(Thu, Dec 19, 2019)
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- How to solve climate change and make life more awesome
(Mon, Dec 16, 2019)
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- Paul Krugman on climate, robots, single-payer, and so much more
(Thu, Dec 12, 2019)
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- The moral philosophy of The Good Place (with Mike Schur and Pamela Hieronymi)
(Mon, Dec 09, 2019)
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- When doing the right thing makes you a criminal
(Thu, Dec 05, 2019)
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- Peter Singer on the lives you can save
(Mon, Dec 02, 2019)
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- Best of: The age of "mega-identity" politics
(Thu, Nov 28, 2019)
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- Because podcast
(Mon, Nov 25, 2019)
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- There’s more to life than profit
(Thu, Nov 21, 2019)
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- Having a bad day? Dave Eggers can help.
(Mon, Nov 18, 2019)
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- How Whole Foods, yoga, and NPR became the hallmarks of the elite
(Thu, Nov 14, 2019)
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- How social media makes us antisocial
(Mon, Nov 11, 2019)
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- ICYMI: Edward Norton’s theory of mind, movies, and power
(Fri, Nov 08, 2019)
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- Introducing Reset
(Fri, Nov 08, 2019)
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- What a smarter Trumpism would sound like
(Thu, Nov 07, 2019)
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- The climate crisis is an oceans crisis
(Mon, Nov 04, 2019)
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- We live in The Good Place. And we’re screwing it up.
(Mon, Oct 28, 2019)
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- Neoliberalism and its discontents
(Thu, Oct 24, 2019)
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- The four words that will decide impeachment
(Mon, Oct 21, 2019)
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- We don’t just feel emotions. We make them.
(Thu, Oct 17, 2019)
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- How politics became a war against reality
(Mon, Oct 14, 2019)
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- The loneliness epidemic
(Thu, Oct 10, 2019)
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- Ibram X. Kendi wants to redefine racism
(Mon, Oct 07, 2019)
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- Malcolm Gladwell’s Stranger Things
(Thu, Oct 03, 2019)
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- An inspiring conversation about democracy
(Mon, Sep 30, 2019)
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- Samantha Power’s journey from foreign policy critic to UN ambassador
(Thu, Sep 26, 2019)
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- When meritocracy wins, everybody loses
(Mon, Sep 23, 2019)
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- Nikole Hannah-Jones on the 1619 project, choosing schools, and Cuba
(Thu, Sep 19, 2019)
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- Randall Munroe, the genius behind XKCD
(Mon, Sep 16, 2019)
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- Julián Castro's quiet moral radicalism
(Thu, Sep 12, 2019)
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- Political animals (with Leah Garcés)
(Mon, Sep 09, 2019)
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- John McWhorter thinks we're getting racism wrong
(Thu, Sep 05, 2019)
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- The rocky marriage between libertarians and conservatives
(Mon, Sep 02, 2019)
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- A mind-bending, reality-warping conversation with John Higgs
(Thu, Aug 29, 2019)
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- Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance
(Mon, Aug 26, 2019)
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- The original meaning of “identity politics” (with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)
(Thu, Aug 22, 2019)
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- Are bosses dictators? (with Elizabeth Anderson)
(Mon, Aug 19, 2019)
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- The Constitution is a progressive document
(Thu, Aug 15, 2019)
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- Matt Bruenig’s case for single-payer health care
(Mon, Aug 12, 2019)
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- Can Raj Chetty save the American dream?
(Thu, Aug 08, 2019)
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- Astra Taylor will change how you think about democracy
(Mon, Aug 05, 2019)
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- Is big tech addictive? Nir Eyal and I debate.
(Thu, Aug 01, 2019)
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- Generation Climate Change
(Mon, Jul 29, 2019)
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- Is the media amplifying Trump’s racism? (with Whitney Phillips)
(Thu, Jul 25, 2019)
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- Rutger Bregman’s utopias, and mine
(Mon, Jul 22, 2019)
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- How white identity politics won the Republican civil war
(Thu, Jul 18, 2019)
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- George Will makes the conservative case against democracy
(Mon, Jul 15, 2019)
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- What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do (with Jane Mansbridge)
(Thu, Jul 11, 2019)
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- Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture war [CORRECTED]
(Mon, Jul 08, 2019)
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- White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Richeson re-air)
(Thu, Jul 04, 2019)
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- Behind the panic in white, Christian America
(Mon, Jul 01, 2019)
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- An enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik)
(Thu, Jun 27, 2019)
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- The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mullainathan)
(Mon, Jun 24, 2019)
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- Failing towards Utopia
(Fri, Jun 21, 2019)
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- Why liberals and conservatives create such different media (with Danna Young)
(Thu, Jun 20, 2019)
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- Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
(Mon, Jun 17, 2019)
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- This changed how I think about love (with Alison Gopnik)
(Thu, Jun 13, 2019)
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- The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
(Mon, Jun 10, 2019)
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- Michael Lewis reads my mind
(Thu, Jun 06, 2019)
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- How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to run for president
(Mon, Jun 03, 2019)
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- How the brains of master meditators change
(Thu, May 30, 2019)
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- Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawrence Lessig)
(Mon, May 27, 2019)
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- The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
(Thu, May 23, 2019)
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- Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
(Mon, May 20, 2019)
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- What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian Stelter)
(Thu, May 16, 2019)
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- Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
(Mon, May 13, 2019)
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- The purpose of political violence
(Thu, May 09, 2019)
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- Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
(Mon, May 06, 2019)
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- The disillusionment of David Brooks
(Thu, May 02, 2019)
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- Emily Oster schools me on parenthood
(Mon, Apr 29, 2019)
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- Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years
(Thu, Apr 25, 2019)
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- Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
(Mon, Apr 22, 2019)
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- How social democrats won Europe — then lost it
(Thu, Apr 18, 2019)
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- In defense of white-backlash politics
(Mon, Apr 15, 2019)
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- Identity, nationalism, and fatherhood
(Thu, Apr 11, 2019)
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- An ex-libertarian’s quest to rebuild the center right
(Mon, Apr 08, 2019)
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- How whiteness distorts our democracy, with Eddie Glaude Jr.
(Thu, Apr 04, 2019)
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- Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change
(Mon, Apr 01, 2019)
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- Meet the policy architect behind the Green New Deal
(Thu, Mar 28, 2019)
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- The somewhat fractured state of American conservatism
(Mon, Mar 25, 2019)
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- American politics after Christianity, with Ross Douthat
(Thu, Mar 21, 2019)
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- Why Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president on climate change
(Mon, Mar 18, 2019)
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- ICYMI: Julia Galef
(Thu, Mar 14, 2019)
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- The roots of extremism, with Deeyah Khan
(Mon, Mar 11, 2019)(-0000 , )
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- ICYMI: Paul Krugman
(Thu, Mar 07, 2019)
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- Pop music can make you smarter
(Wed, Mar 06, 2019)
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- Life after climate change, with David Wallace-Wells
(Mon, Mar 04, 2019)
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- Pramila Jayapal thinks we can get to Medicare-for-All fast
(Thu, Feb 28, 2019)
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- Noah Rothman on the "unjustice" of social justice politics
(Mon, Feb 25, 2019)
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- Why should we care about deficits?
(Thu, Feb 21, 2019)
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- Anniversary special: Rachel Maddow
(Mon, Feb 18, 2019)
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- Andrew Sullivan and I work out our differences
(Thu, Feb 14, 2019)
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- The core contradiction of American politics
(Mon, Feb 11, 2019)
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- Leftists vs. liberals, with Elizabeth Bruenig
(Thu, Feb 07, 2019)
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- The world according to Ralph Nader
(Mon, Feb 04, 2019)
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- This conversation will change how you understand misogyny
(Thu, Jan 31, 2019)
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- Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich
(Mon, Jan 28, 2019)
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- Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress
(Thu, Jan 24, 2019)
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- Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational
(Mon, Jan 21, 2019)
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- Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis on campus
(Thu, Jan 17, 2019)
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- Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout
(Mon, Jan 14, 2019)
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- Eric Holder’s plan to save democracy
(Thu, Jan 10, 2019)
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- Anil Dash on the biases of tech
(Mon, Jan 07, 2019)
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- Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions
(Thu, Jan 03, 2019)
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- Best of: N.K. Jemisin
(Mon, Dec 31, 2018)
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- Best-of: Bryan Stevenson
(Thu, Dec 27, 2018)
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- Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Journalism (Live!)
(Mon, Dec 24, 2018)
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- TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening
(Thu, Dec 20, 2018)
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- Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing
(Mon, Dec 17, 2018)
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- How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy
(Thu, Dec 13, 2018)
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- Adam Serwer on white political correctness
(Mon, Dec 10, 2018)
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- Will Storr on why you are not yourself
(Thu, Dec 06, 2018)
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- How to be a better carnivore
(Mon, Dec 03, 2018)
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- Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and illiberalism in Israel
(Thu, Nov 29, 2018)
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- Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind went wrong
(Mon, Nov 26, 2018)(00 , )
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- The Impact: Deportation without representation
(Thu, Nov 22, 2018)
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- Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ryan’s failure
(Mon, Nov 19, 2018)
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- Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls the media
(Thu, Nov 15, 2018)
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- Ask Ezra Anything
(Mon, Nov 12, 2018)
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- Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh
(Thu, Nov 08, 2018)
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- Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
(Mon, Nov 05, 2018)
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- How identity politics elected Donald Trump
(Thu, Nov 01, 2018)
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- Rep. Mark Sanford on losing the Republican Party to Donald Trump
(Mon, Oct 29, 2018)
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- Doris Kearns Goodwin (live!) on how great presidents are made
(Thu, Oct 25, 2018)
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- What Nate Silver's learned about forecasting elections
(Mon, Oct 22, 2018)
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- Jay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I.
(Thu, Oct 18, 2018)
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- Why Bill Gates is worried
(Mon, Oct 15, 2018)
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- Reihan Salam makes the case against open borders
(Thu, Oct 11, 2018)
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- Jose Antonio Vargas on living undocumented in Trump’s America
(Mon, Oct 08, 2018)
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- Rebecca Traister: Women's rage is transforming America
(Thu, Oct 04, 2018)
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- Patrick Deneen says liberalism has failed. Is he right?
(Mon, Oct 01, 2018)
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- Francis Fukuyama’s case against identity politics
(Thu, Sep 27, 2018)
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- Carol Anderson on the myth of American democracy
(Mon, Sep 24, 2018)
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- Martha C. Nussbaum on how fear deforms our politics
(Mon, Sep 17, 2018)
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- David French on “The Great White Culture War"
(Mon, Sep 10, 2018)
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- Your attention is being hijacked. Chris Bailey can help.
(Tue, Sep 04, 2018)
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- Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of changing the world
(Thu, Aug 30, 2018)
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- I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin
(Mon, Aug 27, 2018)
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- Reup: Zephyr Teachout vs. Corruption
(Fri, Aug 24, 2018)
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- Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate.
(Mon, Aug 20, 2018)
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- Chef Marcus Samuelsson on immigration, creativity, and Anthony Bourdain
(Mon, Aug 13, 2018)
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- Why online politics gets so extreme so fast
(Mon, Aug 06, 2018)
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- Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
(Thu, Aug 02, 2018)
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- The surprising story of how American politics polarized
(Mon, Jul 30, 2018)
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- The most important idea for understanding American politics in 2018
(Mon, Jul 23, 2018)
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- What economists and politicians get wrong about trade
(Thu, Jul 19, 2018)
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- How to disagree better
(Mon, Jul 16, 2018)
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- Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media right now
(Mon, Jul 09, 2018)
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- The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about Trump and Russia (part 2)
(Thu, Jul 05, 2018)
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- The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
(Mon, Jul 02, 2018)
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- Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
(Mon, Jun 25, 2018)
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- What Ellen Pao saw coming
(Mon, Jun 18, 2018)
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- The Green Pill
(Mon, Jun 11, 2018)
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- How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’s torture program, and the Kochs
(Mon, Jun 04, 2018)
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- Political power and the racial wealth gap
(Mon, May 28, 2018)
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- Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American complacency
(Mon, May 21, 2018)
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- A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
(Mon, May 14, 2018)
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- Optimism about America
(Mon, May 07, 2018)
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- The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter reflects on her coverage
(Thu, May 03, 2018)
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- The age of "mega-identity" politics
(Mon, Apr 30, 2018)
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- Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
(Mon, Apr 23, 2018)
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- Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained by a UN diplomat who saw it start
(Fri, Apr 20, 2018)
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- Is modern society making us depressed?
(Mon, Apr 16, 2018)
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- Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
(Thu, Apr 12, 2018)
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- The Sam Harris Debate
(Mon, Apr 09, 2018)
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- Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next
(Mon, Apr 02, 2018)
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- Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Trump"?
(Mon, Mar 26, 2018)
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- Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate change, ending malaria, and the problems money can’t solve
(Mon, Mar 19, 2018)
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- A better conversation on guns
(Mon, Mar 12, 2018)
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- This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democratic Party, and he knows it
(Mon, Mar 05, 2018)
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- Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
(Mon, Feb 26, 2018)
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- How technology brings out the worst in us, with Tristan Harris
(Mon, Feb 19, 2018)
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- Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this the best moment in human history
(Mon, Feb 12, 2018)
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- Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
(Mon, Feb 05, 2018)
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- How Democracies Die
(Mon, Jan 29, 2018)
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- How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
(Mon, Jan 22, 2018)
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- You will love this conversation with Jaron Lanier, but I can’t describe it
(Mon, Jan 15, 2018)
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- The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Trump and Russia
(Mon, Jan 08, 2018)
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- Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first year, the GOP’s “rot,” and the left’s failures
(Tue, Jan 02, 2018)
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- The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
(Mon, Dec 25, 2017)
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- What life is like in North Korea
(Mon, Dec 18, 2017)
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- "An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Paul Krugman
(Mon, Dec 11, 2017)
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- The case for impeachment
(Mon, Dec 04, 2017)
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- What Buddhism got right about the human brain
(Mon, Nov 27, 2017)
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- Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and Anita Hill’s legacy
(Mon, Nov 20, 2017)
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- Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It’s caring humans.
(Mon, Nov 13, 2017)
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- Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s mental health, and China's rise
(Mon, Nov 06, 2017)
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- Why politics needs more conflict, not less
(Mon, Oct 30, 2017)
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- Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope about Hollywood
(Mon, Oct 23, 2017)
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- What happens when human beings take control of their own evolution?
(Mon, Oct 16, 2017)
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- Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
(Mon, Oct 09, 2017)
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- How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
(Mon, Oct 02, 2017)
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- Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Party -- again
(Mon, Sep 25, 2017)
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- David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era and why he hires obsessives
(Tue, Sep 19, 2017)
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- What Hillary Clinton really thinks
(Tue, Sep 12, 2017)
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- Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then came President Trump.
(Tue, Sep 05, 2017)
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- From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-right came from, and where it's going
(Tue, Aug 29, 2017)
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- Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to criminal justice reform
(Tue, Aug 22, 2017)
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- Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed from office
(Tue, Aug 15, 2017)
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- Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, sociopathic era in Congress
(Tue, Aug 08, 2017)
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- What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but America's acceptance of it
(Tue, Aug 01, 2017)
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- Julia Galef on how to argue better and change your mind more
(Tue, Jul 25, 2017)
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- Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist to run a jail
(Tue, Jul 18, 2017)
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- Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and marathoning
(Tue, Jul 11, 2017)
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- Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's health bill
(Mon, Jul 03, 2017)
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- danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
(Tue, Jun 27, 2017)
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- Al Franken on learning to be a politician
(Tue, Jun 20, 2017)
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- Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corruption, and breaking monopolies
(Tue, Jun 13, 2017)
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- Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia theory
(Tue, Jun 06, 2017)
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- Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
(Tue, May 30, 2017)
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- Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us from his illiberalism?
(Tue, May 23, 2017)
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- Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, but justice
(Tue, May 16, 2017)
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- Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing empathy to politics
(Tue, May 09, 2017)
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- Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump, and basic incomes
(Thu, May 04, 2017)
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- VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
(Tue, May 02, 2017)
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- Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
(Tue, Apr 25, 2017)
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- Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping social media
(Tue, Apr 18, 2017)
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- G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and modern myths
(Tue, Apr 11, 2017)
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- Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the politics of order
(Tue, Apr 04, 2017)
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- Tyler Cowen explains it all
(Tue, Mar 28, 2017)
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- Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
(Tue, Mar 21, 2017)
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- Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
(Tue, Mar 14, 2017)
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- Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor organizing, and the Supreme Court
(Tue, Mar 07, 2017)
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- Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spirituality
(Thu, Mar 02, 2017)
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- Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, religion, and 60-day meditation retreats
(Tue, Feb 28, 2017)
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- Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what she thinks of Trump.
(Tue, Feb 21, 2017)
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- Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace diversity
(Tue, Feb 14, 2017)
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- Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting and interviewing
(Tue, Feb 07, 2017)
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- David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis
(Thu, Feb 02, 2017)
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- Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should run for office
(Tue, Jan 31, 2017)
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- JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism
(Tue, Jan 24, 2017)
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- Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committee has become the Democratic Presidential Committee, and that needs to end
(Tue, Jan 17, 2017)
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- Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries of climate change
(Tue, Jan 10, 2017)
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- Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obamacare
(Fri, Jan 06, 2017)
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- You Ask, Ezra Answers
(Tue, Jan 03, 2017)
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- Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and the threat of Russia
(Tue, Dec 27, 2016)
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- Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life
(Tue, Dec 20, 2016)
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- Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending to this story"
(Wed, Dec 14, 2016)
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- Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rationalism, and the enlightenment
(Tue, Dec 06, 2016)
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- Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, creativity, and learning from the best
(Tue, Nov 29, 2016)
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- Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and empathy
(Tue, Nov 22, 2016)
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- Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of the white working class
(Tue, Nov 15, 2016)
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- David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long decline of the GOP
(Sun, Nov 06, 2016)
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- Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and you
(Tue, Nov 01, 2016)
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- Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade deals, and basic incomes
(Tue, Oct 25, 2016)
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- Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas, with Jonathan Cohn
(Tue, Oct 18, 2016)
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- Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy is decaying
(Tue, Oct 11, 2016)
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- Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politics, media, and more
(Thu, Oct 06, 2016)
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- The best conversation I’ve had about the election, with Molly Ball
(Tue, Oct 04, 2016)
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- HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on running Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid
(Tue, Sep 27, 2016)
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- Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is health
(Tue, Sep 20, 2016)
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- Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump supporters
(Tue, Sep 13, 2016)
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- Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning from games, and finding your online identity
(Tue, Sep 06, 2016)
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- W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twitter, and fame
(Tue, Aug 30, 2016)
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- Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining consensus opinions
(Tue, Aug 23, 2016)
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- Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conflicts
(Tue, Aug 16, 2016)
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- Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, and connecting newsrooms
(Tue, Aug 09, 2016)
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- Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, and indie music
(Tue, Aug 02, 2016)
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- Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
(Tue, Jul 26, 2016)
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- Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how the Republican Party lost its way
(Tue, Jul 19, 2016)
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- Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
(Tue, Jul 12, 2016)
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- Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the science of flavor
(Tue, Jul 05, 2016)
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- Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong about racism
(Tue, Jun 28, 2016)
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- Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lessons, and interrogating strangers
(Tue, Jun 21, 2016)
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- Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, and modern feminism
(Tue, Jun 14, 2016)
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- Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
(Tue, Jun 07, 2016)
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- Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
(Tue, May 31, 2016)
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- Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing political correctness, and Donald Trump
(Tue, May 24, 2016)
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- Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
(Tue, May 17, 2016)
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- Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social media
(Tue, May 10, 2016)
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- Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dating Hillary Clinton, and fighting inequality
(Tue, May 03, 2016)
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- Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce animal suffering
(Tue, Apr 26, 2016)
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- Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
(Tue, Apr 19, 2016)
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- Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
(Tue, Apr 19, 2016)(000 , )
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- Grover Norquist explains what it takes to change American politics
(Tue, Apr 12, 2016)
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- Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hillary Clinton
(Tue, Apr 05, 2016)
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- David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
(Tue, Mar 29, 2016)
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- Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics
(Tue, Mar 22, 2016)
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- Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up
(Tue, Mar 15, 2016)
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- Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat the world's poor
(Tue, Mar 08, 2016)
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- Theda Skocpol on how political scientists think differently about politics
(Tue, Mar 01, 2016)
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- Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building robots, and the best books he's read
(Tue, Feb 23, 2016)
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- How lobbying works, with super-lobbyist Tony Podesta
(Tue, Feb 16, 2016)
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- Rachel Maddow on skinhead rallies, AIDS activism, and why she doesn't read op-eds
(Tue, Feb 09, 2016)
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