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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti — 454 episodes

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Get in, we're going on a road trip

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The Jackpod: Apostle of the common good

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The revolutionary history of Black comedy

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Is the Freedom of Information Act delivering on its promise?

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The big influence of big sugar

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Should fans be able to alter the music they love using AI?

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What makes baseball magic

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The Jackpod: Yankee Doodle Caged

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What does the Iran peace memo mean for the U.S.?

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What Frederick Douglass warned us about America

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Is there a right (or wrong) way to love America?

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Will a historic sewage spill undo the Chesapeake Bay's restoration?

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Meghna Chakrabarti in conversation with American historian Heather Cox Richardson

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How prediction markets have found their way into American politics

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The Jackpod: Mindless

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Is ‘eldest daughter syndrome’ real?

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Is it safe for Americans to go into the woods today?

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The real story of birthright citizenship

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How John Quincy Adams went from president to maverick

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How New Mexico's governor got big things done

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The Jackpod: Slamming the golden door

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Inside a diminished CDC as it confronts Ebola

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A road trip through American history

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China's take on the Trump summit

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Why the pope wants to 'disarm' AI

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The Declaration of Independence: 250 years later

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The Jackpod: Catastrophe-proofing AI

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How China's superfast charging cars are leaving American EVs in the dust

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Does Trump's 'anti-weaponization' fund go too far?

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Is Google's new AI search killing the internet?

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How Katie Herzog drank her way to sobriety

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The new science of 'dad brain'

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The Jackpod: Bearing his pain silently

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How women are breaking records in ultramarathons

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Is an energy crisis coming for the global economy?

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The small Utah county fighting a massive data center

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What Yale saw when it looked in the mirror

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Is Trump taking a chainsaw to the Forest Service?

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The Jackpod: The times they are a-changin’

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Introducing 'The Midnight Rebellion,' a new climate fiction podcast

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Why American low-cost airlines fail

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Inside Trump's self-dealing presidency

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A Holocaust scholar asks: 'Israel, what went wrong?'

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The hidden chemistry at the heart of the Milky Way

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What Democrats could learn from the GOP

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The Jackpod: Blue money blues

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When thinking ‘inside the box’ is better

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Why authoritarians put their faces on everything

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Roundup transformed farming in the U.S. Could it change regulation too?

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The 'how' behind the sub-two hour marathon

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Why you’re thinking about the Supreme Court in the wrong way

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The Jackpod: Sock puppets

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Inside the life of a 'degenerate' sports gambler

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Who's a 'domestic terrorist' in Donald Trump's America?

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Why California wants folic acid in its corn tortillas

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Why the tech world is ‘tokenmaxxing’

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Why America isn't ready for the AI revolution

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A word about this week’s Jackpod

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Why are American children such picky eaters?

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Why is the U.S. reluctant to adopt the Scandinavian prison model?

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How can you be drunk without drinking?

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Why conservative judges think Trump has gone too far

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Trump vs. the Pope

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The Jackpod: Death becomes them

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The 'why' behind how we talk

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Seattle mayor Katie Wilson: The full conversation

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Seattle's new socialist mayor has big plans

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New questions for the Epstein files investigation

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The teachers pushing back on screens in schools

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The real cost of the war with Iran

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The Jackpod: Democracy by lottery

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What happened to shame in politics?

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How China's superfast charging cars are leaving American EVs in the dust

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What are Israel's goals in Lebanon?

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What happens when religious fundamentalists come to power? (Part Two)

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What happens when religious fundamentalists come to power? (Part One)

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The Jackpod: Dad Gummit!

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From the archive: History-making astronaut Christina Koch

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What will it take to save America's birds?

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Trump's 'Homeland empire'

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What veterans want you to know about the war with Iran

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Could this finally be the year for Texas Democrats?

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How to make AI work for us

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The Jackpod: Naked to our enemy

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Introducing ‘Question Everything’: Why did ICE Lock Up this Pro-Trump Reporter? (Part One)

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Iran's complex revolutionary history

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The might and magic of human muscles

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Everything you need to know about the Strait of Hormuz

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Inside the breakdown of U.S.-Iran nuclear talks

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Are we witnessing the death of expertise?

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The Jackpod: The ties that bind

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The 'universal language' of rhythm

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Why Trump wants to ‘take’ Cuba

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The view of the Iran war from abroad

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Iran's new leader: 'His father on steroids'

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Israel’s endgame in Iran

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How to find glory in the ordinary

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The Jackpod: The power of example and the example of power

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How big will the Iran war price shock be?

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Why Iran wants a long war

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Is the U.S. fighting a war without rules?

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Who will profit off of ICE’s new detention warehouses?

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Why 'KPop Demon Hunters' is everywhere

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The Jackpod: The founders’ worst fears

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The one thing driving U.S. job growth

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Why regime change in Iran isn't so simple

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The Trump administration's war against legal immigration

108

Why the Pentagon wants AI without guardrails

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What really happened to Amelia Earhart?

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The Jackpod: Hold the tiger

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The Epstein class: What the files reveal about the global elite

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Celebrating Ramadan while living in fear

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Where are Ukraine's abducted children?

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A stress test for the midterms

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Why you can't get that jingle out of your head

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The Jackpod: Two cheers for the filibuster

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How to change a memory

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Inside PragerU’s conservative push into American classrooms

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The Epstein files' lingering questions

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How America sees itself through film

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Brainwaves: How does a brain stay healthy?

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The Jackpod: Don’t exhaust your indignation

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Brainwaves: What happens between life and death?

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Brainwaves: Is AI actually thinking?

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Brainwaves: Are you in there?

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Brainwaves: Why is the brain such a mystery?

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What if the polio vaccine becomes optional?

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The Jackpod: America’s golden age

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Lessons for the U.S. in 'China’s quest to engineer the future'

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Does America's new national security strategy actually put 'America First'?

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Inside the AI surveillance state

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What happened to shame in politics?

133

The Jackpod: Gimme shelter!

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A pattern of denial at the Department of Homeland Security

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The promise and reality of the rural health fund

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How Minneapolis is standing up to ICE

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'Poorly trained, overwhelmed and inexperienced': Who are the newest ICE agents?

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Is American architecture destined to be boring? 

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The Jackpod: America as a dual state

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Lauren Southern was an alt-right influencer. Now she's finding her 'way back to reality'

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Has Trump's erratic behavior gone too far?

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Trump wants to cap credit card interest. Can he?

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DOGE didn't save taxpayers $1 trillion, after all

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America is polarized. Could this writer's new approach fix it?

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Minnesota’s mining fight has global consequences

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The Jackpod: Gouged

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The history and science behind why we're all vulnerable to brainwashing

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How the U.S. could 'lose the 21st century' over Greenland

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Following the money on the Biden-era infrastructure bill

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If Trump broke international law, so what?

151

A strange turn in the AI chip race with China

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The Jackpod: We coulda been Denmark

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Rep. James Clyburn on the Black politicians that shaped America

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Venezuela's leader is out. Now what?

155

Your fitness resolution is 200 years old

156

How to prepare financially for 2026

157

Why are headlights brighter than they used to be?

158

Does using AI dumb you down?

159

The transformation of Austin, Texas

160

How should American colleges measure merit?

161

The ‘Godfather of AI’ says we can’t afford to get it wrong

162

How YouTube transformed our world

163

The music of Christmas in 16th-century Spain

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Why Gen Z says 'hotties need hobbies'

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Have we taken therapy culture too far?

166

What's lost when churches close

167

Why giving can feel so good

168

The Jackpod: It can happen here. It is happening.

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Why seeing red can give you the blues

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What's driving the rise in grandparent childcare

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Siddhartha Mukherjee on understanding cancer now

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Can we even trust videos anymore?

173

The Atlantic and 'The unfinished revolution'

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The once and future dictionary

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The Jackpod: Over there

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Wasted money, effort and opportunity in Afghanistan

177

When can the U.S. government actually revoke citizenship?

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The Trump administration’s real goal in Venezuela

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Is education research actually helping teachers?

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Is hip-hop dying?

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The Jackpod: Rural ressentiment, or ‘the country strikes back’

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Why a former federal judge calls Trump ‘uniquely dangerous’

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A family secret like no other

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How the cybersecurity industry is responding to growing foreign threats

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What the next generation of doctors needs to know about AI

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Meghna Faking the Nation!

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How AI is changing the music business

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The big impact of small interactions

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The power of gratitude

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Can democracy survive without reading?

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How ACA subsidies became a lifeline for millions of Americans

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What the U.S. loses when our allies stop sharing intelligence

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The Jackpod: The revolutionary mind

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Can math equations solve inequality?

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How JPMorgan's embrace of AI could change banking for us all

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Why are scam ads everywhere online?

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The Iranian women defying their country’s strict laws

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What the NBA betting scandal reveals about the mafia today

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The Jackpod: Tired of winning yet?

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Welcome to the casino economy

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The real reason for the U.S.-Argentina bailout

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No one wants their MTV

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Down payments: Now paid by your employer

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Why insomnia is an American health crisis

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The Jackpod: Across the panhandle

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Epstein survivor Annie Farmer tells her story

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Is Trumpism what you think it is?

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Why the Supreme Court tariffs case is about so much more

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Lessons from America’s peanut allergy flip-flop

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What can 'Frankenstein' teach us about AI?

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The Jackpod: A day that will live in ….

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How Katie Herzog drank her way to sobriety

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What happens when private equity becomes video gaming's 'final boss'

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Why are suicide rates among young Americans going up?

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Should states cut their property taxes?

216

The might and magic of human muscles

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The Jackpod: The other Washington

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The world has its first AI government official

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From unthinkable to politics as usual: The government shutdown story

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Unpacking the details of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire

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America is polarized. Could this writer's new approach fix it?

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Could the Maine Senate race determine the future of the Democratic party?

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The Jackpod: How health care can save Democrats and democracy

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Will TrumpRx actually lower drug prices?

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What can Americans learn from Stalinism?

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Is education technology actually helping students learn?

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Why Gen Z says 'hotties need hobbies'

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The Jackpod: Shake the superflux

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The big impact of small interactions

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Trump's plan for the military to serve his political agenda

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What happens when you can bet on anything?

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How Trump's tariffs are squeezing small businesses

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‘It affects your wiring’: Jake Sullivan on the weight of his work as national security adviser

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The Supreme Court case that could upend the Voting Rights Act

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The Jackpod: Homeland insecurity

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Are robo-referees making sports more fair or less fun?

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Lessons for the U.S. in 'China’s quest to engineer the future'

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Is there really a rise in left-wing political violence in America?

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Princeton's president on how the university is taking a stand 

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Meghna's old house

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Behind the scenes of On Point

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The real story behind the slump in Las Vegas tourism

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The Jackpod: Plutonomy

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How private companies are influencing the new space race

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Is Elon Musk’s supercomputer polluting Memphis?

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The legacy of the 5th Circuit: Past and present

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Why the flag burning debate is still not settled

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The strange psychology behind fawning

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The Jackpod: The two-state mirage

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The right wing is coming for Wikipedia

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What to know as the student loan industry becomes more privatized

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How presidents use the U.S. military in the war on drugs

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What Charlie Kirk's assassination reveals about political violence in America

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Have we taken therapy culture too far?

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The Jackpod: We want to hear from you

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The long-term effects of nuclear waste in St. Louis

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The great freight recession

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The 'hotshot' life

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What 25 years of CDC data on autism tells us

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Why it's the end of the road for the Humvee

261

The Jackpod: The autocrat of the cabinet table

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How Trump is transforming the way corporations do business in the U.S.

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How to redesign schools for the AI age

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The fight against Trump's 'war on history'

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How AI is changing the job marketplace

266

Falling Behind: How to talk with boys

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Falling Behind: 'We're in jail with our emotions'

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Falling Behind: Where have all the men gone?

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Falling Behind: The opportunity gap

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Falling Behind: Troublemakers

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Falling Behind: Do we treat boys like malfunctioning girls?

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An African history of Africa with Zeinab Badawi

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Swipe left: Why dating today stinks

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Our mental health in the hands of AI

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The fall of Florida citrus

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How 'Blessings and Disasters' shape Alabama

277

How AI is changing the music business

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The Jackpod: What’s wrong with the White House press corps?

279

Should SNAP pay for junk food?

280

Can public media survive?

281

How should American colleges measure merit?

282

Does using AI dumb you down?

283

Is there a better way to manage grizzly bears?

284

The Jackpod: A bold idea to help Gen Z. And maybe save the Dems

285

What the U.S.-EU trade deal means for you

286

What are 'cool roofs,' and how do they work?

287

The state of America's judiciary with Judge J. Michael Luttig

288

Famine in Gaza

289

The healing power of sunlight

290

The Jackpod: Strong and wrong

291

How the Left lost the working class

292

Did Apple empower China?

293

A former CDC vaccine adviser has words for RFK Jr.

294

How the Scopes ‘monkey’ trial echoes today

295

Are we thinking about AI the wrong way?

296

The Jackpod: Action completed this day

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The new crisis in American kids' health

298

What we know about the Epstein files

299

How Trump cuts are causing a ‘brain drain’ in American science

300

How did being a sports fan get so expensive?

301

Week of Wonder: Can we save the quietest places in the world?

302

Week of Wonder: Volcanologist Tamsin Mather on her 'adventures in volcanoland'

303

Week of Wonder: The truth about your period

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Week of Wonder: 'Vivaldi smells like breakfast sausage'

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Week of Wonder: The marvelous and misunderstood world of sharks

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The GENIUS Act and the Wild West of crypto

307

The Jackpod: It's going to be everywhere

308

The Democrats divided over populism

309

How AI tools are transforming the lives of people with disabilities

310

Why American farmers rely on unauthorized workers

311

The power of the golden share

312

A daughter, a father and a family's struggle with 'American Bulk'

313

The power of intuition

314

The secrets of super agers

315

The legacy of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

316

Who are the Zizians?

317

'The biomedical research enterprise is under attack'

318

The Jackpod: Taking a break

319

The new science of 'dad brain'

320

The push for an American baby boom

321

Who is Sam Altman?

322

Netanyahu’s endgame in Iran

323

How William F. Buckley, Jr. created modern conservatism

324

From Endless Thread: When the government wants your socials

325

Trump's budget bill and ballooning deficits

326

The Jackpod: A TV-run state

327

The $1 trillion defense budget

328

Looming cuts to food assistance in Trump's budget bill

329

What Trump's tax bill means for your wallet

330

How the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ impacts health care

331

Falling Behind: How to talk with boys

332

Hong Kong, 5 years after mass protests

333

The Jackpod: Culture warrior

334

How the cybersecurity industry is trying to keep up with foreign threat actors

335

What the loss of international students could mean for the U.S.

336

Who are the new deportation police?

337

The history and science behind why we're all vulnerable to brainwashing

338

President Trump’s proposed 'Golden Dome' vs. the laws of physics

339

The Jackpod: The basic disturbance of the 21st century

340

The Israeli government’s true goal in Gaza

341

Is animal testing even needed anymore?

342

The federal takeover of Rikers Island

343

The long-term effects of nuclear waste in St. Louis

344

How YouTube transformed our world

345

The Jackpod: Making America safe for cancer

346

Steph Curry, 'Moreyball' and the NBA's 3-point revolution

347

The push to eliminate honors programs in schools

348

The struggle to update America's aging air traffic control system

349

The power of solitude

350

How AI is changing the job marketplace

351

The Jackpod: Chainsaw

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What life is really like in El Salvador under Bukele’s 'iron fist'

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Trump and trickle-down corruption

354

Inside the wrongful conviction of Ben Spencer

355

What happens when you train your AI on AI-generated data?

356

Protecting from harm or censorship? Policing educational material in Texas

357

The Jackpod: Stephen Miller and the wages of ostracism

358

India and Pakistan on the brink of war. Again.

359

The challenges facing the first-ever American pope

360

What is Tren de Aragua? The criminal organization's origins, activities and reach within the U.S.

361

How the Trump administration's defense policies are affecting women in service

362

How closely is Trump following the Project 2025 blueprint?

363

The Jackpod: The past is a foreign country

364

Feeding America's insatiable appetite for lumber

365

Trump's push to shrink FEMA

366

The real story of REAL ID

367

Did 'An Abundance of Caution' during COVID do more harm than good for America's students?

368

The real story of birthright citizenship

369

The Jackpod: All Americans

370

The transformation of Austin, Texas

371

Will the FDA's proposed food dye ban make kids healthier?

372

Why some are calling Tesla vandalism 'domestic terrorism'

373

The 'money ladies' take stock of our current economy

374

Ask the ethicist: How to create guardrails for the AI age

375

'U.S. let go of my hand that it had extended to help': Afghan refugees on promises broken under Trump

376

Trump v. higher education

377

How Trump administration cuts threaten Native Americans

378

A doctor's fix for America's ailing medication market

379

Falling Behind: 'We're in jail with our emotions'

380

Falling Behind: Where have all the men gone?

381

Falling Behind: The opportunity gap

382

Falling Behind: Troublemakers

383

Falling Behind: Do we treat boys like malfunctioning girls?

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How Spotify shapes how we listen to music

385

Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian

386

The Jackpod: The demons

387

Trailer: 'Falling behind: The miseducation of America's boys'

388

The new war on words

389

How groceries are priced

390

How Trump administration job cuts could affect the future of weather forecasting

391

JD Vance and the rise of the 'New Right'

392

Trump v. big law

393

The Jackpod: Follow the frogs

394

How the mariner shortage could impact maritime security

395

'I thought I was doing something good': The scam that took Judith Boivin's life savings

396

'The federal workforce feels tormented': Federal employees on the consequences of losing their jobs

397

What does China make of the chaos in the U.S.?

398

Banned from speaking in public, Afghan women tell us their stories

399

How to move from languishing to flourishing

400

The Jackpod: April Fool

401

America's gold fever

402

How Trump plans to get government out of the mortgage business

403

The dirty truth about the global waste trade

404

The most powerful tech mogul you’ve never heard of

405

The Jackpod: Outside the beltway

406

Rethinking how dyslexia is diagnosed

407

What a polarized U.S. might learn from other countries in 'Another World is Possible'

408

What big changes inside the Pentagon could mean for U.S. national security

409

A daughter, a father and a family's struggle with 'American Bulk'

410

What the detention of Mahmoud Khalil reveals about free speech in the Trump era

411

America's new Gilded Age

412

The Jackpod: Strategic empathy

413

What happened when AI went after welfare fraud

414

The wonder of Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park

415

Trump's 2017 tax cuts: Who's better off, who's not?

416

Federal judge Frederic Block on second chances -- and 'who deserves it'

417

Is NASCAR a monopoly?

418

The Jackpod: Where the roads lead

419

Is Kash Patel a modern-day J. Edgar Hoover?

420

Is education technology actually helping students learn?

421

How the bond market could check Trump's power

422

A meltdown in the White House over Ukraine

423

Weight loss drugs may become harder to get. What does that mean for patients?

424

Lauren Ober was a juror on a Jan. 6 case. Then, she learned her new neighbors supported Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

425

'A clear attempt to intimidate the press'

426

The GOP's plan for the future of Medicaid

427

Where peace talks stand in Ukraine, 3 years into war

428

Tumult inside Trump's DOJ: What it means for rule of law in the U.S.

429

The Jackpod: Off the mat

430

Inside the effort to dismantle the Department of Education

431

The truth about testosterone therapy

432

What it's like to live in fear of being deported

433

The consequences of declining vaccination rates

434

The Jackpod: The child is father of the man

435

Are Chinese commercial drones a threat to national security?

436

How will we power the AI boom?

437

How Russell Vought's 'radical constitutionalism' could spark a constitutional crisis

438

How the richest person in the world is reshaping Washington

439

This doctor says he can make AI in health care safer

440

Why are headlights brighter than they used to be?

441

The Jackpod: Calamity howler

442

Do estranged parents have the legal right to be loved by their kids?

443

How ending foreign aid could damage U.S. national security

444

Should we farm octopuses for food?

445

Big banks are suing the Fed over stress tests

446

The Jackpod: Everything a president does, teaches

447

Black women's deep roots in country music

448

How Democrats squandered their 'emerging majority'

449

Can peace in Gaza last?

450

Do Trump's Jan. 6 pardons undermine rule of law in America?

451

'He wanted to destroy me financially': The economic abuse of domestic violence survivors

452

The Jackpod: Get out

453

The broken home insurance market -- in California and beyond

454

Volcanologist Tamsin Mather on her 'adventures in volcanoland'