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The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The Gray Area with Sean Illing takes a philosophy-minded look at culture, technology, politics, and the world of ideas. Each week, we invite a guest to explore a question or topic that matters. From the the state of democracy, to the…

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Who ruined your chocolate? 2026-11-09 · 41m
Why everyone is embracing populism 2026-11-06 · 27m
How Silicon Valley learned to love war 2026-11-02 · 53m
Is America a gerontocracy? 2026-10-30 · 47m
Inside the secret race to build artificial intelligence 2026-10-26 · 44m
What makes a life good enough? 2026-10-23 · 44m
Can prediction markets be good for society? 2026-10-16 · 48m
Our gender divide 2026-10-12 · 47m
The death row assembly line 2026-10-09 · 59m
Is it bad to want to be rich? 2026-10-05 · 51m
Why does killing a bug feel wrong? 2026-10-02 · 35m
How trauma became a status symbol 2026-09-28 · 43m
Inside the world of cash advance apps 2026-09-25 · 45m
This is how you rule the world 2026-09-21 · 59m
Is starting a family becoming impossible? 2026-09-14 · 58m
The millennial midlife crisis 2026-09-11 · 50m
How to be less neurotic 2026-09-07 · 40m
Your body wasn’t built for a desk 2026-09-04 · 44m
Why we want to believe in aliens 2026-08-31 · 51m
Straight dating isn’t broken 2026-08-28 · 43m
Kidneys for sale 2026-08-24 · 49m
How memory changes you 2026-08-21 · 59m
Freud was right about one thing 2026-08-17 · 59m
Why straight dating feels bleak 2026-08-14 · 58m
We’re postliterate 2026-08-10 · 52m
What does a parent owe their child? 2026-08-07 · 28m
The vanishing pleasures of daily life 2026-08-03 · 48m
How Google broke the internet 2026-07-31 · 41m
The illusion of the ‘self’ 2026-07-27 · 44m
How MAGA is turning on itself 2026-07-24 · 47m
The global baby bust 2026-07-20 · 50m
Why public opinion turned on AI 2026-07-17 · 45m
A skeptic considers the case for God 2026-07-13 · 52m
The “Godzilla El Niño” is coming 2026-07-10 · 43m
The “real” America at 250 2026-07-03 · 47m
How to fix America’s spiritual crisis 2026-06-29 · 48m
The end of the human internet 2026-06-26 · 41m
The expectations on men 2026-06-22 · 49m
Canceling Plato 2026-06-19 · 40m
How to feel more secure 2026-06-15 · 50m
The people who want AI to replace us 2026-06-12 · 49m
Understanding our dreams 2026-06-08 · 48m
Do we really need to work so hard? 2026-06-01 · 42m
The post-sex generation 2026-05-29 · 48m
Talk to strangers 2026-05-25 · 53m
Who needs experts? 2026-05-22 · 49m
The myth of absolute freedom 2026-05-18 · 50m
The college dream has failed 2026-05-15 · 48m
Why progress is hard to see 2026-05-11 · 48m
The wellness path to conspiracy 2026-05-08 · 46m
The science of awe 2026-05-04 · 58m
In defense of fatherhood 2026-05-01 · 38m
The case for thinking like a child 2026-04-27 · 45m
The one thing the Supreme Court won’t touch 2026-04-24 · 40m
The Pentagon’s AI war machine 2026-04-20 · 49m
American democracy's structural flaw 2026-04-17 · 39m
The contradictions of wokeness 2026-04-13 · 53m
How to forgive yourself 2026-04-10 · 42m
The revolution will be memed 2026-04-06 · 49m
How we standardized music 2026-04-03 · 29m
Why humans need to matter 2026-03-30 · 47m
A brief update on the AI apocalypse 2026-03-27 · 37m
Consciousness is a mystery 2026-03-16 · 39m
The end of world order as we know it 2026-03-13 · 36m
Alone in a cage with cocaine 2026-03-09 · 49m
Winging it in Iran 2026-03-06 · 37m
Of course you're anxious 2026-03-02 · 42m
Gen Z men have baby fever 2026-02-27 · 34m
Why mindfulness got weird 2026-02-23 · 42m
You’re right to bear arms 2026-02-20 · 40m
Happy news from Sean 2026-02-19 · 1m
The problem with gamifying life 2026-02-09 · 49m
America is football 2026-01-26 · 51m
How we built a government that can’t build anything 2026-01-12 · 46m
It’s okay to not be okay 2025-12-22 · 59m
Forgiveness is optional 2025-12-15 · 64m
The pornification of everything 2025-12-08 · 56m
What counts as progress? 2025-12-01 · 41m
How to survive awkward encounters 2025-11-17 · 57m
Truth in an age of doublethink 2025-11-10 · 52m
The case against free will 2025-11-03 · 59m
What the climate story gets wrong 2025-10-27 · 49m
The Great Enshittening 2025-10-20 · 48m
America chose violence. Now what? 2025-10-13 · 58m
What's worth remembering? 2025-10-06 · 59m
Why TikTok matters 2025-09-29 · 64m
The sun will save us 2025-09-22 · 47m
How much free speech is too much? 2025-09-15 · 54m
Imagine there's no billionaires 2025-09-01 · 54m
America's lawyers vs. China's engineers 2025-08-25 · 52m
So, what exactly is the “New Right?” 2025-08-18 · 52m
America is losing big on sports betting 2025-08-11 · 54m
It’s time to get weird 2025-08-04 · 61m
What if humans went extinct next Friday? 2025-07-28 · 60m
Can college survive Trump? 2025-07-21 · 58m
Hopeful pessimism 2025-07-14 · 52m
If AI can do your classwork, why go to college? 2025-06-30 · 55m
Is Trump winning? 2025-06-16 · 49m
A right-wing economist makes his case 2025-06-09 · 64m
What "near death" feels like 2025-06-02 · 52m
Machiavelli on how democracies die 2025-05-26 · 48m
Do you have moral ambition? 2025-05-12 · 57m
The science of ideology 2025-05-05 · 52m
A new analysis of the pandemic 2025-04-28 · 47m
Halfway there: a philosopher’s guide to midlife crises 2025-04-21 · 51m
Whatever this is, it isn’t liberalism 2025-04-14 · 54m
A new way to listen 2025-04-11 · 1m
The beliefs AI is built on 2025-04-07 · 50m
Stop comparing yourself to AI 2025-03-31 · 56m
Democrats need to do something 2025-03-24 · 51m
How to live in uncertain times 2025-03-17 · 49m
How to sink into silence 2025-03-10 · 47m
How to change your personality 2025-03-03 · 39m
Is ignorance truly bliss? 2025-02-17 · 34m
Is America broken? 2025-02-10 · 50m
The cost of spending time alone 2025-02-03 · 41m
Attention pays (with Chris Hayes) 2025-01-27 · 51m
How to be happy 2025-01-20 · 67m
The screens between us 2025-01-13 · 46m
The importance of failure 2025-01-06 · 46m
What to do with your sadness, pain, and grief 2024-12-23 · 57m
What do animals feel? 2024-12-16 · 48m
Are men okay? 2024-12-09 · 48m
How to feel alive 2024-12-02 · 53m
The antidote to climate anxiety 2024-11-25 · 51m
America’s reactionary moment 2024-11-18 · 74m
Well this is awkward 2024-11-11 · 58m
What just happened, and what comes next 2024-11-08 · 50m
Does being "woke" do any good? 2024-11-04 · 53m
Is America collapsing like Ancient Rome? 2024-10-28 · 46m
The world according to Werner Herzog 2024-10-21 · 57m
Ta-Nehisi Coates on complexity, clarity, and truth. 2024-10-14 · 70m
Your mind needs chaos 2024-10-09 · 52m
Musician Laraaji on the origin of creativity 2024-10-08 · 47m
Is AI creative? 2024-10-07 · 42m
Happiness isn’t the goal 2024-09-30 · 54m
A message from Sean 2024-09-27 · 1m
What if we get climate change right? 2024-09-23 · 48m
Yuval Noah Harari on the eclipsing of human intelligence 2024-09-16 · 84m
Why cynicism is bad for you 2024-09-09 · 58m
Poetry as religion 2024-09-02 · 55m
The jazz musician’s guide to the universe 2024-08-26 · 53m
Revisiting the "father of capitalism" 2024-08-19 · 51m
Breaking our family patterns 2024-08-12 · 62m
Why Orwell matters 2024-08-05 · 52m
The timebomb the founding fathers left us 2024-07-29 · 52m
Swear like a philosopher 2024-07-22 · 45m
Taking Nietzsche seriously 2024-07-15 · 62m
What India teaches us about liberalism — and its decline 2024-07-08 · 47m
1992: The year politics broke 2024-07-01 · 45m
The existential struggle of being Black 2024-06-24 · 55m
The world after nuclear war 2024-06-17 · 57m
Gaza, Camus, and the logic of violence 2024-06-10 · 55m
This is your kid on smartphones 2024-06-03 · 54m
Life after death? 2024-05-20 · 53m
The world after Ozempic 2024-05-13 · 51m
UFOs, God, and the edge of understanding 2024-05-06 · 46m
How to listen 2024-04-29 · 55m
Everything's a cult now 2024-04-22 · 54m
Fareed Zakaria on our revolutionary moment 2024-04-15 · 45m
Life is hard. Can philosophy help? 2024-04-08 · 51m
The American dream is a pyramid scheme 2024-04-01 · 46m
The chaplain who doesn't believe in God 2024-03-25 · 49m
Can a friend be our most significant other? 2024-03-18 · 51m
The power of climate fiction 2024-03-11 · 47m
The denial of death 2024-03-04 · 46m
A brief history of extinction panics 2024-02-26 · 50m
The new(ish) world order 2024-02-19 · 42m
The free-market century is over 2024-02-12 · 55m
Music and mysticism 2024-02-05 · 47m
The case for banning...millionaires? 2024-01-29 · 54m
The joy of uncertainty 2024-01-22 · 49m
A pro-worker work ethic 2024-01-15 · 41m
How psychedelics can reinvent learning 2024-01-08 · 37m
Seeing ourselves through the darkness 2023-12-26 · 56m
Living Mindfully 2023-12-18 · 41m
Taking anarchism seriously 2023-12-11 · 51m
3,000 years of The Iliad 2023-12-04 · 37m
Late-stage liberalism 2023-11-27 · 54m
The case against free will 2023-11-20 · 59m
A Jew and a Muslim get honest about Israel and Gaza 2023-11-13 · 60m
How to keep panic from attacking 2023-11-06 · 50m
We Are What We Watch 2023-10-30 · 57m
Werner Herzog’s ecstatic truth 2023-10-23 · 57m
The lessons of Sam Bankman-Fried 2023-10-16 · 56m
Is America getting meaner? 2023-10-02 · 55m
Naomi Klein on her doppelganger (and yours) 2023-09-25 · 57m
Should we press pause on AI? 2023-09-18 · 57m
Democracy’s existential crisis 2023-09-11 · 51m
Conservative socialism? 2023-08-28 · 56m
The benefits of utopian thinking 2023-08-21 · 54m
What Clarence Thomas really thinks 2023-08-14 · 64m
The new crisis of masculinity 2023-08-07 · 62m
How we all became a brand 2023-07-31 · 53m
The therapeutic potential of MDMA 2023-07-24 · 48m
Is the journey to self-discovery pointless? 2023-07-17 · 53m
Parenting through the climate crisis 2023-07-10 · 47m
Seeing ourselves through darkness 2023-06-29 · 56m
Best of: A new philosophy of love 2023-06-26 · 59m
The future of tribalism 2023-06-22 · 53m
When you can't separate art from artist 2023-06-15 · 53m
The case for not killing yourself 2023-06-12 · 58m
What comes after Black Lives Matter? 2023-06-08 · 58m
Clickbait’s destructive legacy 2023-06-05 · 53m
Simone Weil’s radical philosophy of love and attention 2023-06-01 · 57m
Peter Singer on his ethical legacy 2023-05-25 · 65m
Why the poor in America stay poor 2023-05-22 · 55m
The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work 2023-05-18 · 53m
Mysteries of the mind 2023-05-15 · 53m
Why we can’t just blame capitalism for everything 2023-05-11 · 49m
Being human in the age of AI 2023-05-08 · 53m
A philosopher's psychedelic encounter with reality 2023-05-04 · 52m
The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard 2023-05-01 · 53m
The chemistry of connection 2023-04-27 · 53m
What a slow civil war looks like 2023-04-24 · 56m
How to listen 2023-04-20 · 55m
Why we can't give up on persuasion 2023-04-17 · 54m
Rep. Katie Porter's working-class politics 2023-04-13 · 45m
The climate apocalypse will be televised 2023-04-10 · 59m
A philosopher takes on religious life 2023-04-06 · 52m
Your brain isn't so private anymore 2023-04-03 · 63m
Brian Stelter thinks the news has a reliability problem 2023-03-30 · 55m
How corporations got all your data 2023-03-27 · 53m
The case for failure 2023-03-16 · 47m
Poetry as religion 2023-03-13 · 55m
Revisiting the American Dream 2023-03-09 · 41m
The cost of saving pandas 2023-03-06 · 44m
Breaking our family patterns 2023-03-02 · 62m
For Black horror fans, fact is scarier than fiction 2023-02-27 · 49m
Taking Nietzsche seriously 2023-02-23 · 63m
The dark history of Silicon Valley 2023-02-16 · 58m
The value of being a "hater" 2023-02-13 · 53m
Behind the blue wall 2023-02-09 · 60m
Best of: Imagine a future with no police 2023-02-06 · 62m
Is America broken? 2023-02-02 · 49m
The creator of Fargo is done with good guys vs. bad guys 2023-01-30 · 53m
Revisiting the "father of capitalism" 2023-01-26 · 52m
Can effective altruism be redeemed? 2023-01-23 · 62m
The roots of homelessness 2023-01-19 · 52m
Can race be transcended? 2023-01-12 · 45m
Is ethical AI possible? 2023-01-09 · 46m
What do we owe animals? 2023-01-05 · 47m
Best of: America's philosophy, with Cornel West 2022-12-22 · 60m
Best of: The necessity — and danger — of free speech 2022-12-19 · 54m
The church of celebrity 2022-12-15 · 57m
Men and boys are struggling. Should we care? 2022-12-12 · 56m
The power of attention in a world of distraction 2022-12-08 · 46m
A veteran reporter on how to fix the news 2022-12-05 · 54m
The end of social media 2022-12-01 · 51m
If society is making us sick, how can we heal? 2022-11-28 · 56m
The free-market century is over 2022-11-21 · 55m
Your identity is a story you tell yourself 2022-11-17 · 43m
James Carville unpacks the midterms 2022-11-14 · 47m
Why are billionaires prepping for the apocalypse? 2022-11-10 · 53m
Today's Republicans were made in the 1990s 2022-11-07 · 64m
Yuval Noah Harari thinks humans are unstoppable 2022-11-03 · 60m
Dying with dignity 2022-10-31 · 58m
Finding hope in a world on the brink 2022-10-27 · 57m
The new American Reconstruction 2022-10-24 · 65m
Is America losing its religion? 2022-10-20 · 52m
How we got to January 6th 2022-10-17 · 57m
Neil deGrasse Tyson gets political 2022-10-13 · 57m
Introducing The Gray Area 2022-10-11 · 2m
Best of: Why America's obsession with rights is wrong 2022-10-06 · 58m
A GOP insider on why the party went Trump 2022-10-03 · 60m
How do we fix the harm we cause? 2022-09-29 · 49m
A new philosophy of love 2022-09-26 · 59m
The politics of 'Yellowstone' 2022-09-23 · 27m
How society sexualizes us 2022-09-22 · 55m
The Parent Trap 2022-09-19 · 59m
40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation 2022-09-15 · 32m
40 Acres: The old Jim Crow 2022-09-12 · 47m
40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules 2022-09-08 · 48m
40 Acres: The original promise 2022-09-01 · 53m
What Clarence Thomas really thinks 2022-08-29 · 63m
Even Better: Don't call it a budget 2022-08-25 · 47m
The quest for authenticity 2022-08-22 · 50m
Even Better: Setting your boundaries 2022-08-18 · 45m
Your gut instinct is usually wrong 2022-08-15 · 53m
Even Better: Workplace equality 2.0 2022-08-11 · 53m
Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means) 2022-08-08 · 57m
Even Better: Activism when you don't know where to start 2022-08-04 · 49m
The Supreme Court's power grab 2022-08-01 · 64m
How middlemen took over the economy 2022-07-28 · 64m
The necessity — and danger — of free speech 2022-07-25 · 54m
Hacking coral sex to save the reefs 2022-07-21 · 53m
The price of keeping secrets 2022-07-18 · 51m
Does China control Hollywood? 2022-07-14 · 62m
Steve Bannon is still at war 2022-07-11 · 49m
The Fortress of Solitude saw it all coming 2022-06-30 · 38m
The Philosophers: Stoic revival 2022-06-27 · 63m
Station Eleven's creator on the end of the world 2022-06-23 · 51m
The racist origins of fat phobia 2022-06-16 · 53m
The fight for Ukraine — and democracy 2022-06-13 · 53m
The war on trans people 2022-06-09 · 53m
Michael Ian Black on being a better man 2022-06-06 · 54m
Carmen Maria Machado's haunted feminine 2022-06-02 · 40m
The rise and fall of America's monuments 2022-05-26 · 49m
The Philosophers: America's philosophy, with Cornel West 2022-05-23 · 59m
Why accidents aren't accidental 2022-05-19 · 51m
Rethinking the "end of history" 2022-05-16 · 60m
Anita Hill finally gets even 2022-05-12 · 59m
Elites have captured identity politics 2022-05-09 · 56m
The moral dangers of dirty work 2022-05-05 · 58m
Did the sexual revolution go wrong? 2022-05-02 · 57m
Who decides how to conserve nature? 2022-04-28 · 57m
The Philosophers: Loneliness and totalitarianism 2022-04-25 · 62m
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 4: The future of Europe 2022-04-21 · 63m
Michael Lewis on why Americans distrust experts 2022-04-18 · 56m
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 3: The nuclear threat 2022-04-14 · 55m
The case for regret 2022-04-11 · 49m
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 2: Sanctions 2022-04-07 · 60m
The spirituality of parenting 2022-04-04 · 47m
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 1: Why did Putin go to war? 2022-03-31 · 59m
The Philosophers: Resisting despair 2022-03-28 · 55m
What happened to American conservatism? 2022-03-24 · 59m
The limits of forgiveness 2022-03-21 · 50m
The madness behind The Method 2022-03-17 · 66m
David Cross is disappointed in you guys 2022-03-14 · 48m
Author Kiley Reid on why we read novels 2022-03-10 · 46m
The conversation about guns we're not having 2022-03-07 · 63m
Why does middle school suck? 2022-03-03 · 64m
Russia's war with Ukraine — and reality 2022-02-28 · 37m
Robert Glasper on why Black Radio is back 2022-02-24 · 55m
Could we lose delicious foods forever? 2022-02-17 · 64m
What Don't Look Up is really about 2022-02-14 · 60m
Democracy in crisis, part 2: The two-party problem 2022-02-10 · 57m
Why we can't pay attention anymore 2022-02-07 · 63m
Democracy in crisis, part 1: Ross Douthat isn't too worried 2022-02-03 · 64m
Pod Save the Democrats 2022-01-31 · 59m
A Yellowjackets creator spills his guts 2022-01-27 · 43m
A scientist's case for "woo-woo" 2022-01-24 · 59m
Imagine a future with no police 2022-01-20 · 63m
Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix 2022-01-13 · 46m
Are we living in a simulation? 2022-01-10 · 67m
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthinkable, twice 2022-01-06 · 56m
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away 2022-01-03 · 48m
Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery 2021-12-30 · 60m
Best of: We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously. 2021-12-27 · 61m
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything) 2021-12-23 · 57m
The cult of toughness 2021-12-20 · 65m
Is ethical investing a scam? 2021-12-16 · 56m
The good life is painful 2021-12-13 · 53m
The father of environmental justice 2021-12-09 · 49m
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world 2021-12-06 · 61m
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world 2021-12-02 · 55m
Workers of the world, stay home! 2021-11-29 · 61m
How progressives get back in the game 2021-11-22 · 61m
The highs and lows of the "creator economy" 2021-11-18 · 48m
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now 2021-11-15 · 59m
The stories soul food tells 2021-11-11 · 49m
The paradox of American freedom 2021-11-08 · 55m
Nonbinary parenthood 2021-11-04 · 59m
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist 2021-11-01 · 65m
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care 2021-10-28 · 61m
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation panic 2021-10-25 · 56m
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom 2021-10-21 · 58m
What the internet took from us 2021-10-18 · 57m
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi 2021-10-14 · 47m
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement 2021-10-07 · 61m
What's your status? 2021-10-04 · 55m
Is there a hack for enlightenment? 2021-09-30 · 63m
Fighting a world on fire with fire 2021-09-27 · 60m
Revolutionary Love 2021-09-23 · 55m
How to make meaning out of suffering 2021-09-20 · 55m
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest 2021-09-16 · 66m
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump 2021-09-13 · 66m
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America after 9/11 2021-09-09 · 49m
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong 2021-09-02 · 56m
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals 2021-08-30 · 61m
Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery 2021-08-26 · 59m
Was the cruelty the point? 2021-08-23 · 59m
How seashells shaped the world — and predict our future 2021-08-19 · 56m
Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters 2021-08-16 · 49m
Robert Reich wants you to take on the system 2021-08-12 · 52m
Marty Baron on the future of news 2021-08-09 · 53m
The death of cool 2021-08-05 · 47m
We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously. 2021-08-02 · 61m
Philadelphia's progressive prosecutor 2021-07-29 · 53m
Fareed Zakaria on the fate of democracy 2021-07-26 · 69m
Jane Goodall on the power of hope 2021-07-22 · 60m
Why we love drugs 2021-07-19 · 62m
The rugged majesty of revision 2021-07-15 · 58m
How to forgive 2021-07-12 · 57m
What makes a great conversation? 2021-07-08 · 23m
Introducing: Now & Then 2021-07-01 · 59m
The science of dating 2021-06-24 · 55m
Honoring Juneteenth with Ibram X. Kendi 2021-06-17 · 51m
Digital dictatorship 2021-06-10 · 58m
The man who proposed reparations in the 1860s 2021-06-03 · 66m
What pandemic recovery should look like 2021-05-27 · 56m
The gift of getting old 2021-05-20 · 56m
Freedom, and what it means to have a body 2021-05-13 · 54m
Why are we so worried about Satan? 2021-05-06 · 62m
How to be wrong less often 2021-04-29 · 52m
The complicated history of wildlife conservation 2021-04-22 · 67m
How to replace everything in the industrialized world 2021-04-15 · 62m
Patricia Lockwood's big, beautiful internet brain 2021-04-08 · 55m
Who is the real George Soros? 2021-04-01 · 57m
Introducing Unexplainable 2021-03-27 · 28m
The border, explained by someone who knows it intimately 2021-03-25 · 55m
"Wintering," wisdom, and weathering life's darkest times 2021-03-18 · 66m
Reframing America's race problem 2021-03-11 · 53m
Who owns the Western? 2021-03-04 · 49m
A Watchmen writer on race, TV, and tech giants 2021-02-25 · 54m
Uncovering the history of psychedelics in Christianity 2021-02-18 · 52m
Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform, and the Obama legacy 2021-02-11 · 62m
The Capitol Siege and American Revolution 2021-02-04 · 45m
Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn't going away 2021-01-28 · 44m
The Joe Biden experience 2021-01-25 · 65m
What it means to be a "good" rich person 2021-01-21 · 49m
Peter Kafka and Kevin Roose on big tech's power and responsibility 2021-01-18 · 29m
Sam Sanders and Olivia Nuzzi on President Trump’s last days 2021-01-14 · 45m
Best of: We don’t just feel emotions. We make them. 2021-01-07 · 94m
Best of: Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich 2021-01-04 · 79m
Best of: The moral philosophy of The Good Place 2020-12-31 · 102m
Best of: Michael Lewis reads my mind 2020-12-28 · 104m
Best of: Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry 2020-12-24 · 89m
What I’ve learned, and what comes next. 2020-12-21 · 41m
Best of: An inspiring conversation about democracy with Danielle Allen 2020-12-17 · 71m
Michael Pollan on the psychedelic society 2020-12-14 · 74m
Best of: Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress 2020-12-10 · 79m
Joe Biden and "the new progressivism" 2020-12-07 · 62m
Best of: Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational 2020-12-03 · 59m
The most important book I've read this year 2020-11-30 · 95m
Best of: Alison Gopnik changed how I think about love 2020-11-26 · 95m
Best of: Vivek Murthy on America’s loneliness epidemic 2020-11-23 · 80m
What Democrats got wrong about Hispanic voters 2020-11-19 · 64m
Antitrust, censorship, misinformation, and the 2020 election 2020-11-16 · 59m
The crisis isn’t Trump. It’s the Republican Party. 2020-11-12 · 64m
The Joe Biden experience 2020-11-07 · 67m
Chris Hayes and I process this wild election 2020-11-05 · 63m
Stacey Abrams on minority rule, voting rights, and the future of democracy 2020-11-02 · 69m
Nate Silver on why 2020 isn't 2016 2020-10-29 · 69m
Sarah Kliff grades Biden and Trump's health care plans 2020-10-26 · 77m
Trumpism never existed. It was always just Trump. 2020-10-22 · 59m
What should Democrats do about the Supreme Court? 2020-10-19 · 85m
Marilynne Robinson on writing, metaphysics, and the Donald Trump dilemma 2020-10-15 · 74m
The case for Trump’s foreign policy 2020-10-12 · 72m
Fareed Zakaria on how Biden and Trump see the world 2020-10-08 · 80m
How a climate bill becomes a reality 2020-10-05 · 86m
The meat we eat affects us all 2020-10-02 · 35m
A dark, dangerous debate 2020-09-30 · 72m
A radical — or obvious? — plan to save American democracy 2020-09-28 · 70m
RBG, minority rule, and our looming legitimacy crisis 2020-09-24 · 72m
David French and I debate polarization, secession, and the filibuster 2020-09-21 · 91m
The Matt Yglesias Show 2020-09-17 · 92m
Race, policing, and the universal yearning for safety 2020-09-14 · 54m
How to think about coronavirus risk in your life 2020-09-10 · 68m
Black Republicans, Donald Trump, and America's "George Floyd moment" 2020-09-07 · 87m
Andrew Yang on UBI, coronavirus, and his next job in politics 2020-09-03 · 87m
What the Iraq disaster can teach us about Trump 2020-08-31 · 81m
How to decarbonize America — and create 25 million jobs 2020-08-27 · 69m
Isabel Wilkerson wants to change how we understand race in America 2020-08-24 · 97m
What it would take to end child poverty in America 2020-08-20 · 52m
Hannah Gadsby on comedy, free speech, and living with autism 2020-08-17 · 92m
What would Keynes do? 2020-08-13 · 102m
A devastating indictment of the Republican Party 2020-08-10 · 60m
How inequality and white identity politics feed each other 2020-08-06 · 77m
Best of: Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance 2020-08-03 · 104m
Dadding out with Mike Birbiglia 2020-07-30 · 77m
A rabbi explains how to make sense of suffering 2020-07-27 · 56m
The crisis in the news 2020-07-23 · 50m
Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal 2020-07-20 · 79m
What a post-Trump Republican Party might look like 2020-07-16 · 80m
Free speech, safety, and ‘the letter’ 2020-07-13 · 89m
The frightening fragility of America's political institutions 2020-07-09 · 67m
Can artificial intelligence be emotionally intelligent? 2020-07-06 · 76m
Danielle Allen on the radicalism of the American revolution — and its lessons for today 2020-07-02 · 71m
Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect 2020-07-01 · 18m
Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking 2020-06-29 · 72m
Your questions, answered 2020-06-25 · 82m
Which country has the world's best healthcare system? 2020-06-22 · 70m
The transformative power of restorative justice 2020-06-18 · 74m
Ross Douthat and I debate American decadence 2020-06-15 · 93m
A serious conversation about UFOs 2020-06-11 · 90m
A former prosecutor's case for prison abolition 2020-06-08 · 67m
Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful 2020-06-04 · 92m
Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bregman) 2020-06-01 · 98m
From politician to priest 2020-05-28 · 122m
Robert Frank's radical idea 2020-05-25 · 73m
Why “essential” workers are treated as disposable 2020-05-21 · 70m
"The world’s scariest economist” on coronavirus, innovation, and purpose 2020-05-18 · 83m
A mind-bending conversation about quantum mechanics and parallel worlds 2020-05-14 · 80m
Why the coronavirus is so deadly for black America 2020-05-11 · 80m
Jenny Odell on nature, art, and burnout in quarantine 2020-05-07 · 67m
An unusually honest conversation about wielding political power 2020-05-04 · 85m
What should the media learn from coronavirus? 2020-04-30 · 95m
Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond coronavirus 2020-04-27 · 52m
An epic conversation with Madeline Miller 2020-04-23 · 81m
The loneliness pandemic/Betraying “essential workers” 2020-04-20 · 48m
Why Bernie Sanders lost and how progressives can still win 2020-04-16 · 100m
Scott Gottlieb on how, and when, to end social distancing 2020-04-13 · 48m
Toby Ord on existential risk, Donald Trump, and thinking in probabilities 2020-04-09 · 85m
Elizabeth Warren has a plan for this, too 2020-04-06 · 50m
What social solidarity demands of us in a pandemic 2020-04-02 · 66m
Coronavirus has pushed US-China relations to their worst point since Mao 2020-03-30 · 60m
Is the cure worse than the disease? 2020-03-26 · 65m
An economic crisis like we’ve never seen 2020-03-23 · 83m
"The virus is more patient than people are" 2020-03-19 · 79m
A master class in organizing 2020-03-16 · 120m
Weeds 2020: The coronavirus election 2020-03-14 · 54m
Dan Pfeiffer on Joe Biden, beating Trump, and saving democracy 2020-03-12 · 96m
Are you a "political hobbyist?" If so, you're the problem. 2020-03-09 · 84m
What would a Sanders or Biden presidency look like? 2020-03-05 · 73m
Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein, feminism, and social change 2020-03-02 · 106m
Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate 2020-02-29 · 58m
Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry 2020-02-27 · 88m
Barbara Ehrenreich on UBI, class conflict, and collective joy 2020-02-24 · 66m
What Donald Trump got right about white America 2020-02-20 · 73m
Ta-Nehisi Coates on my “cold, atheist book” 2020-02-17 · 73m
If God is dead, then … socialism? 2020-02-13 · 63m
Tim Urban on humanity’s wild future 2020-02-10 · 88m
Jill Lepore on what I get wrong 2020-02-06 · 83m
Is Tom Steyer the solution to our dysfunctional politics? 2020-02-03 · 63m
Why We're Polarized, with Jamelle Bouie (live!) 2020-01-30 · 74m
Antisemitism now, antisemitism then 2020-01-27 · 90m
Book excerpt: A better theory of identity politics 2020-01-23 · 62m
The war on Muslims (with Mehdi Hasan) 2020-01-20 · 89m
Post-debate special! 2020-01-16 · 57m
An “uncomfortable” conversation with Cory Booker 2020-01-13 · 91m
The conservative mind of Yuval Levin 2020-01-09 · 79m
How an epidemic begins and ends 2020-01-08 · 37m
Nathan Robinson’s case for socialism 2020-01-06 · 101m
How to topple dictators and transform society (with Erica Chenoweth) 2020-01-02 · 48m
Ask Ezra Anything 2019-12-30 · 92m
Best of: Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle 2019-12-26 · 78m
Republicans vs. the planet 2019-12-23 · 101m
The geoengineering question 2019-12-19 · 75m
How to solve climate change and make life more awesome 2019-12-16 · 95m
Paul Krugman on climate, robots, single-payer, and so much more 2019-12-12 · 88m
The moral philosophy of The Good Place (with Mike Schur and Pamela Hieronymi) 2019-12-09 · 103m
When doing the right thing makes you a criminal 2019-12-05 · 103m
Peter Singer on the lives you can save 2019-12-02 · 77m
Best of: The age of "mega-identity" politics 2019-11-28 · 77m
Because podcast 2019-11-25 · 81m
There’s more to life than profit 2019-11-21 · 93m
Having a bad day? Dave Eggers can help. 2019-11-18 · 84m
How Whole Foods, yoga, and NPR became the hallmarks of the elite 2019-11-14 · 72m
How social media makes us antisocial 2019-11-11 · 93m
ICYMI: Edward Norton’s theory of mind, movies, and power 2019-11-08 · 111m
Introducing Reset 2019-11-08 · 43m
What a smarter Trumpism would sound like 2019-11-07 · 86m
The climate crisis is an oceans crisis 2019-11-04 · 73m
We live in The Good Place. And we’re screwing it up. 2019-10-28 · 85m
Neoliberalism and its discontents 2019-10-24 · 93m
The four words that will decide impeachment 2019-10-21 · 55m
We don’t just feel emotions. We make them. 2019-10-17 · 94m
How politics became a war against reality 2019-10-14 · 88m
The loneliness epidemic 2019-10-10 · 79m
Ibram X. Kendi wants to redefine racism 2019-10-07 · 89m
Malcolm Gladwell’s Stranger Things 2019-10-03 · 95m
An inspiring conversation about democracy 2019-09-30 · 90m
Samantha Power’s journey from foreign policy critic to UN ambassador 2019-09-26 · 91m
When meritocracy wins, everybody loses 2019-09-23 · 89m
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the 1619 project, choosing schools, and Cuba 2019-09-19 · 102m
Randall Munroe, the genius behind XKCD 2019-09-16 · 86m
Julián Castro's quiet moral radicalism 2019-09-12 · 65m
Political animals (with Leah Garcés) 2019-09-09 · 91m
John McWhorter thinks we're getting racism wrong 2019-09-05 · 67m
The rocky marriage between libertarians and conservatives 2019-09-02 · 87m
A mind-bending, reality-warping conversation with John Higgs 2019-08-29 · 89m
Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance 2019-08-26 · 103m
The original meaning of “identity politics” (with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor) 2019-08-22 · 83m
Are bosses dictators? (with Elizabeth Anderson) 2019-08-19 · 89m
The Constitution is a progressive document 2019-08-15 · 60m
Matt Bruenig’s case for single-payer health care 2019-08-12 · 123m
Can Raj Chetty save the American dream? 2019-08-08 · 81m
Astra Taylor will change how you think about democracy 2019-08-05 · 80m
Is big tech addictive? Nir Eyal and I debate. 2019-08-01 · 77m
Generation Climate Change 2019-07-29 · 95m
Is the media amplifying Trump’s racism? (with Whitney Phillips) 2019-07-25 · 86m
Rutger Bregman’s utopias, and mine 2019-07-22 · 90m
How white identity politics won the Republican civil war 2019-07-18 · 87m
George Will makes the conservative case against democracy 2019-07-15 · 74m
What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do (with Jane Mansbridge) 2019-07-11 · 55m
Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture war [CORRECTED] 2019-07-08 · 114m
White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Richeson re-air) 2019-07-04 · 77m
Behind the panic in white, Christian America 2019-07-01 · 95m
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik) 2019-06-27 · 109m
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mullainathan) 2019-06-24 · 97m
Failing towards Utopia 2019-06-21 · 20m
Why liberals and conservatives create such different media (with Danna Young) 2019-06-20 · 94m
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!) 2019-06-17 · 63m
This changed how I think about love (with Alison Gopnik) 2019-06-13 · 95m
The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans 2019-06-10 · 52m
Michael Lewis reads my mind 2019-06-06 · 103m
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to run for president 2019-06-03 · 77m
How the brains of master meditators change 2019-05-30 · 71m
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawrence Lessig) 2019-05-27 · 83m
The art of attention (with Jenny Odell) 2019-05-23 · 87m
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis 2019-05-20 · 63m
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian Stelter) 2019-05-16 · 86m
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously 2019-05-13 · 79m
The purpose of political violence 2019-05-09 · 79m
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame 2019-05-06 · 94m
The disillusionment of David Brooks 2019-05-02 · 97m
Emily Oster schools me on parenthood 2019-04-29 · 55m
Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years 2019-04-25 · 94m
Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle 2019-04-22 · 83m
How social democrats won Europe — then lost it 2019-04-18 · 68m
In defense of white-backlash politics 2019-04-15 · 100m
Identity, nationalism, and fatherhood 2019-04-11 · 107m
An ex-libertarian’s quest to rebuild the center right 2019-04-08 · 84m
How whiteness distorts our democracy, with Eddie Glaude Jr. 2019-04-04 · 90m
Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change 2019-04-01 · 59m
Meet the policy architect behind the Green New Deal 2019-03-28 · 83m
The somewhat fractured state of American conservatism 2019-03-25 · 62m
American politics after Christianity, with Ross Douthat 2019-03-21 · 78m
Why Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president on climate change 2019-03-18 · 66m
ICYMI: Julia Galef 2019-03-14 · 92m
The roots of extremism, with Deeyah Khan 2019-03-11 · 83m
ICYMI: Paul Krugman 2019-03-07 · 98m
Pop music can make you smarter 2019-03-06 · 22m
Life after climate change, with David Wallace-Wells 2019-03-04 · 73m
Pramila Jayapal thinks we can get to Medicare-for-All fast 2019-02-28 · 58m
Noah Rothman on the "unjustice" of social justice politics 2019-02-25 · 71m
Why should we care about deficits? 2019-02-21 · 66m
Anniversary special: Rachel Maddow 2019-02-18 · 102m
Andrew Sullivan and I work out our differences 2019-02-14 · 124m
The core contradiction of American politics 2019-02-11 · 67m
Leftists vs. liberals, with Elizabeth Bruenig 2019-02-07 · 80m
The world according to Ralph Nader 2019-02-04 · 84m
This conversation will change how you understand misogyny 2019-01-31 · 135m
Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich 2019-01-28 · 79m
Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress 2019-01-24 · 79m
Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational 2019-01-21 · 61m
Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis on campus 2019-01-17 · 78m
Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout 2019-01-14 · 69m
Eric Holder’s plan to save democracy 2019-01-10 · 64m
Anil Dash on the biases of tech 2019-01-07 · 81m
Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions 2019-01-03 · 94m
Best of: N.K. Jemisin 2018-12-31 · 84m
Best-of: Bryan Stevenson 2018-12-27 · 93m
Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Journalism (Live!) 2018-12-24 · 94m
TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening 2018-12-20 · 70m
Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing 2018-12-17 · 80m
How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy 2018-12-13 · 102m
Adam Serwer on white political correctness 2018-12-10 · 51m
Will Storr on why you are not yourself 2018-12-06 · 86m
How to be a better carnivore 2018-12-03 · 32m
Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and illiberalism in Israel 2018-11-29 · 87m
Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind went wrong 2018-11-26 · 112m
The Impact: Deportation without representation 2018-11-22 · 33m
Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ryan’s failure 2018-11-19 · 63m
Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls the media 2018-11-15 · 110m
Ask Ezra Anything 2018-11-12 · 96m
Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh 2018-11-08 · 84m
Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap 2018-11-05 · 51m
How identity politics elected Donald Trump 2018-11-01 · 98m
Rep. Mark Sanford on losing the Republican Party to Donald Trump 2018-10-29 · 64m
Doris Kearns Goodwin (live!) on how great presidents are made 2018-10-25 · 83m
What Nate Silver's learned about forecasting elections 2018-10-22 · 79m
Jay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I. 2018-10-18 · 82m
Why Bill Gates is worried 2018-10-15 · 60m
Reihan Salam makes the case against open borders 2018-10-11 · 90m
Jose Antonio Vargas on living undocumented in Trump’s America 2018-10-08 · 88m
Rebecca Traister: Women's rage is transforming America 2018-10-04 · 71m
Patrick Deneen says liberalism has failed. Is he right? 2018-10-01 · 60m
Francis Fukuyama’s case against identity politics 2018-09-27 · 92m
Carol Anderson on the myth of American democracy 2018-09-24 · 56m
Martha C. Nussbaum on how fear deforms our politics 2018-09-17 · 57m
David French on “The Great White Culture War" 2018-09-10 · 93m
Your attention is being hijacked. Chris Bailey can help. 2018-09-04 · 66m
Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of changing the world 2018-08-30 · 94m
I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin 2018-08-27 · 83m
Reup: Zephyr Teachout vs. Corruption 2018-08-24 · 93m
Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate. 2018-08-20 · 72m
Chef Marcus Samuelsson on immigration, creativity, and Anthony Bourdain 2018-08-13 · 73m
Why online politics gets so extreme so fast 2018-08-06 · 66m
Taking Trump’s corruption seriously 2018-08-02 · 66m
The surprising story of how American politics polarized 2018-07-30 · 66m
The most important idea for understanding American politics in 2018 2018-07-23 · 77m
What economists and politicians get wrong about trade 2018-07-19 · 58m
How to disagree better 2018-07-16 · 98m
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media right now 2018-07-09 · 81m
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about Trump and Russia (part 2) 2018-07-05 · 69m
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy 2018-07-02 · 68m
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles 2018-06-25 · 64m
What Ellen Pao saw coming 2018-06-18 · 55m
The Green Pill 2018-06-11 · 61m
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’s torture program, and the Kochs 2018-06-04 · 75m
Political power and the racial wealth gap 2018-05-28 · 81m
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American complacency 2018-05-21 · 88m
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan 2018-05-14 · 83m
Optimism about America 2018-05-07 · 82m
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter reflects on her coverage 2018-05-03 · 59m
The age of "mega-identity" politics 2018-04-30 · 78m
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate. 2018-04-23 · 114m
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained by a UN diplomat who saw it start 2018-04-20 · 58m
Is modern society making us depressed? 2018-04-16 · 91m
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump 2018-04-12 · 95m
The Sam Harris Debate 2018-04-09 · 132m
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next 2018-04-02 · 50m
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Trump"? 2018-03-26 · 84m
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate change, ending malaria, and the problems money can’t solve 2018-03-19 · 54m
A better conversation on guns 2018-03-12 · 53m
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democratic Party, and he knows it 2018-03-05 · 65m
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart 2018-02-26 · 63m
How technology brings out the worst in us, with Tristan Harris 2018-02-19 · 73m
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this the best moment in human history 2018-02-12 · 69m
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara 2018-02-05 · 75m
How Democracies Die 2018-01-29 · 76m
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him 2018-01-22 · 73m
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lanier, but I can’t describe it 2018-01-15 · 99m
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Trump and Russia 2018-01-08 · 77m
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first year, the GOP’s “rot,” and the left’s failures 2018-01-02 · 62m
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama 2017-12-25 · 63m
What life is like in North Korea 2017-12-18 · 50m
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Paul Krugman 2017-12-11 · 97m
The case for impeachment 2017-12-04 · 70m
What Buddhism got right about the human brain 2017-11-27 · 79m
Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and Anita Hill’s legacy 2017-11-20 · 90m
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It’s caring humans. 2017-11-13 · 65m
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s mental health, and China's rise 2017-11-06 · 86m
Why politics needs more conflict, not less 2017-10-30 · 76m
Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope about Hollywood 2017-10-23 · 45m
What happens when human beings take control of their own evolution? 2017-10-16 · 65m
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you 2017-10-09 · 71m
How the Republican Party created Donald Trump 2017-10-02 · 109m
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Party -- again 2017-09-25 · 80m
David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era and why he hires obsessives 2017-09-19 · 86m
What Hillary Clinton really thinks 2017-09-12 · 58m
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then came President Trump. 2017-09-05 · 69m
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-right came from, and where it's going 2017-08-29 · 87m
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to criminal justice reform 2017-08-22 · 77m
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed from office 2017-08-15 · 68m
Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, sociopathic era in Congress 2017-08-08 · 79m
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but America's acceptance of it 2017-08-01 · 66m
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change your mind more 2017-07-25 · 92m
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist to run a jail 2017-07-18 · 69m
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and marathoning 2017-07-11 · 69m
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's health bill 2017-07-03 · 87m
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe 2017-06-27 · 88m
Al Franken on learning to be a politician 2017-06-20 · 56m
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corruption, and breaking monopolies 2017-06-13 · 93m
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia theory 2017-06-06 · 67m
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism 2017-05-30 · 67m
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us from his illiberalism? 2017-05-23 · 95m
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, but justice 2017-05-16 · 93m
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing empathy to politics 2017-05-09 · 54m
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump, and basic incomes 2017-05-04 · 71m
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care 2017-05-02 · 73m
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong 2017-04-25 · 47m
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping social media 2017-04-18 · 84m
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and modern myths 2017-04-11 · 76m
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the politics of order 2017-04-04 · 103m
Tyler Cowen explains it all 2017-03-28 · 95m
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics 2017-03-21 · 77m
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House 2017-03-14 · 82m
Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor organizing, and the Supreme Court 2017-03-07 · 76m
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spirituality 2017-03-02 · 112m
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, religion, and 60-day meditation retreats 2017-02-28 · 71m
Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what she thinks of Trump. 2017-02-21 · 72m
Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace diversity 2017-02-14 · 92m
Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting and interviewing 2017-02-07 · 99m
David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis 2017-02-02 · 50m
Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should run for office 2017-01-31 · 65m
JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism 2017-01-24 · 104m
Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committee has become the Democratic Presidential Committee, and that needs to end 2017-01-17 · 64m
Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries of climate change 2017-01-10 · 82m
Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obamacare 2017-01-06 · 76m
You Ask, Ezra Answers 2017-01-03 · 97m
Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and the threat of Russia 2016-12-27 · 81m
Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life 2016-12-20 · 93m
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending to this story" 2016-12-14 · 104m
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rationalism, and the enlightenment 2016-12-06 · 91m
Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, creativity, and learning from the best 2016-11-29 · 90m
Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and empathy 2016-11-22 · 63m
Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of the white working class 2016-11-15 · 67m
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long decline of the GOP 2016-11-06 · 96m
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and you 2016-11-01 · 93m
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade deals, and basic incomes 2016-10-25 · 70m
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas, with Jonathan Cohn 2016-10-18 · 74m
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy is decaying 2016-10-11 · 71m
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politics, media, and more 2016-10-06 · 77m
The best conversation I’ve had about the election, with Molly Ball 2016-10-04 · 72m
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on running Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid 2016-09-27 · 46m
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is health 2016-09-20 · 100m
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump supporters 2016-09-13 · 59m
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning from games, and finding your online identity 2016-09-06 · 95m
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twitter, and fame 2016-08-30 · 92m
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining consensus opinions 2016-08-23 · 94m
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conflicts 2016-08-16 · 90m
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, and connecting newsrooms 2016-08-09 · 83m
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, and indie music 2016-08-02 · 98m
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show 2016-07-26 · 77m
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how the Republican Party lost its way 2016-07-19 · 78m
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton. 2016-07-12 · 47m
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the science of flavor 2016-07-05 · 45m
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong about racism 2016-06-28 · 78m
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lessons, and interrogating strangers 2016-06-21 · 62m
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, and modern feminism 2016-06-14 · 72m
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art 2016-06-07 · 59m
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez 2016-05-31 · 67m
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing political correctness, and Donald Trump 2016-05-24 · 115m
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks 2016-05-17 · 58m
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social media 2016-05-10 · 85m
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dating Hillary Clinton, and fighting inequality 2016-05-03 · 102m
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce animal suffering 2016-04-26 · 78m
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016 2016-04-19 · 95m
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing 2016-04-19 · 95m
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to change American politics 2016-04-12 · 88m
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hillary Clinton 2016-04-05 · 70m
David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire 2016-03-29 · 86m
Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics 2016-03-22 · 109m
Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up 2016-03-15 · 72m
Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat the world's poor 2016-03-08 · 76m
Theda Skocpol on how political scientists think differently about politics 2016-03-01 · 61m
Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building robots, and the best books he's read 2016-02-23 · 43m
How lobbying works, with super-lobbyist Tony Podesta 2016-02-16 · 58m
Rachel Maddow on skinhead rallies, AIDS activism, and why she doesn't read op-eds 2016-02-09 · 104m
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