All episodes

How Social Media Exploits Creators with Taylor Lorenz

What Tech Gets Wrong About Disability with Ashley Shew

How the Wealthy Use “Charity” to Screw Everyone Else with Amy Schiller

Why Smart People Become Conspiracy Theorists with Naomi Klein

What Liberals Get Wrong about the Right with Corey Robin

Why You Don't Actually Want to Live on Mars with Dr. Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

How to Fight Monopoly Power with FTC Chair Lina Khan

What’s Happening in Israel and Why with Nathan Thrall

How Engineering Created Your World with Roma Agrawal

How Roads Actually Divide Us with Ben Goldfarb

Inside the Crypto Crash with Zeke Faux

Why Are Americans Afraid of Black History with Michael Harriot

Why Free Parking Is Ruining Your City with Henry Grabar

Why YOU Need a Union with Kim Kelly

How These Strippers UNIONIZED Their Strip Club with Equity Strippers Noho

The Disgusting (and Delicious) Truth about Hot Dogs with Jamie Loftus

The Secret History of Theme Parks with Defunctland

Hollywood's Toxic Underbelly with Maureen Ryan

The Hidden Factors Controlling Your Health with Bapu Jena and Chris Worsham

Unionizing the Skies with Sara Nelson

The Plot to End Voting Rights with Rick Hasen

How Computers Took Over Our Lives with Laine Nooney

Do Generations Exist? with Jean Twenge

The ACTUAL Danger of A.I. with Gary Marcus

Could MDMA Be Medicine? with Rachel Nuwer

Saving Time Is For Suckers with Jenny Odell

The Real Cause of Poverty with Matthew Desmond

Why Language is Always Changing with Valerie Fridland

Debunking the Tech Hype Cycle with Dan Olson

Why Cops Are Untouchable with Joanna Schwartz

Why Writers Are On Strike with David A. Goodman and Danielle Sanchez-Witzel

Remembering Judith Heumann and the Extraordinary History of the Disability Rights Movement

A.I. and Stochastic Parrots with Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru

Social Justice, One Bite at a Time with Daryl Atkinson

The Truth about TikTok and China with Abbie Richards

Rethinking Intelligence with Rina Bliss

Synthetic Biology with Michael Specter

Organizing for Power with Jane McAlevey

Why Do We Laugh? with Nuar Alsadir

Chokepoint Capitalism with Cory Doctorow

The Attack on Trans Rights with Shelby Chestnut

The First Scientist with Carlo Rovelli

Dark Matter and More with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Death to Productivity with Oliver Burkeman

Cars, Debt, and Police Violence with Andrew Ross and Julie Livingston

You Are Going to Die with Caitlin Doughty

Talking About the Weather with Daniel Swain

Justice for Animals with Martha Nussbaum

Viral Justice with Ruha Benjamin

Snitching with Alexandra Natapoff

How DAs are Changing Criminal Justice with DA George Gascón

Why No One Wins the Lottery with Jon Cohen

How Viruses Have Shaped Our World with Joseph Osmundson

Why Humans Need Music with Susan Rogers

How the NLRB Defends Workers Rights with Jennifer Abruzzo

How Humans Took Over the World with Yuval Noah Harari

Africa is Not a Country with Dipo Faloyin

The Big Bang of Numbers with Manil Suri

Existential Physics with Sabine Hossenfelder

The Science Fiction of Climate Change with Kim Stanley Robinson

The Congressional Modernization Committee with Reps. Derek Kilmer and William Timmons

What If? with Randall Munroe

What’s Happening in Iran and Why? with Reza Aslan

How to Fix the Housing Crisis with Brian Hanlon

How to Solve the Climate Crisis with Bill McKibben

How to Organize a Movement with Mie Inouye

Thinking Seriously About Comedy with Nick Marx and Matt Sienciwicz

The Facts About Immigration with Leah Boustan

Are We Fucked? with Chris Hayes

How to Fix Transportation with Secretary Pete Buttigieg

How to Do Nothing with Jenny Odell (Re-Broadcast)

Animal Crisis with Lori Gruen and Alice Crary.

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals with Stephen Brusatte

Governing Trans Identity with Paisley Currah

Asian American Histories Of The U.S. with Catherine Choy

Popping the Crypto Bubble with Nicholas Weaver

The Real Problem with A.I. with Emily Bender

Psychiatry’s Desperate Remedies with Andrew Scull

What Happened to Criminal Justice Reform? with James Forman Jr.

Robots, Robots, Robots! with Kate Darling

Junk Science and the Criminal Justice System with Chris Fabricant

The G Word and the Truth About Our Government with Michael Lewis

The Right to Repair with Aaron Perzanowski

How Religion Evolved with Robin Dunbar

The Latest Science on Climate Change with Sarah Burch

A People’s History of Climate Change with Eugene Linden

The Great Stewardess Rebellion with Nell McShane Wulfhart

The Long, Slow Death of the Internet with Cory Doctorow

The Power of Poop with Lina Zeldovich

Why Do Men Rule the World? with Dr. Alice Evans

China's Kingdom of Characters with Jing Tsu

Why Is Housing So Expensive In America? with Jenny Schuetz

Reconsidering Reparations with Olufemi Taiwo

What Americans Don’t Get About China with Kaiser Kuo

Indigenous Science with Jessica Hernandez

The Great Resignation and the Rebirth of American Labor with Hamilton Nolan

Is Virtual Reality… Real? with David Chalmers

The Philosophy of Games with C. Thi Nguyen

Death to Medical Debt! with Allison Sesso

How Modern Medicine Has Failed Women with Elinor Cleghorn