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Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle — 341 episodes

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Can You Win Three Emmys and Still Wonder If the Check Will Clear? with W. Kamau Bell

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What If Your Biggest Client Has Never Heard of Your Other Career? with Kim Newmoney

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Past Due Turns One, Pt 2

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Past Due Turns One, Pt. 1

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Is the Garage Is Better Than the Studio? with Chris Gethard

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How Do You Build Something That Lasts? with Adam Gurri

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What If You Never Have to Quit Your Day Job? with Chandler Dean

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Can Improv Fix Your Career? Your Relationship? Your Life? with Marry Holland and Matt Newell

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Is Everythign Actually Food? with Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

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Was the Serious Version of You Holding You Back? with Ben Collins

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What Does It Cost to Finally Feel Safe? with Lilan Bowden

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Ana and Mike Write Ghost Stories

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How Do You Build Your Own Thing Within the "Mothership"? with Jamelle Bouie

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What If Fear Is What Keeps You Working? with Xochitl Gonzalez

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Is Joy a Better Goal Than Fame? with Jonah Ray

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Is Any Job Actually Safe? with Devin Field

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Ana and Mike Don’t Quit

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What If Merit Was Never the Metric? with Karen K. Ho

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What If You’re Still Becoming the Person You Want to Be? with Baron Vaughn

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What Even Is a Viable Career Anymore? with Paul F. Tompkins

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2025 Receipts

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What If Momentum Doesn’t Mean Security? with Eliot Glazer

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How Do You Build the Thing You’ve Been Waiting Your Whole Life to See? with Joey Clift

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How Many Jobs Make a Creative Life? with Mary Robinette Kowal

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What Do We Need to Know About the ACA? with Charles Gaba

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What If Steady Work Beats the Big Break? with John Scalzi

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Can Journalism Survive the Algorithm? with Jason Koebler

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How Do You Survive With Integrity? with Jesse Thorn

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Can you Career Without a Company? with Colt Cabana

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What Does It Actually Look Like to Make It? with Babs Gray

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What Do You Really Get Paid In? with Will Hines

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Is the Climb Its Own Kind of Arrival? with Jacquis Neal

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How Do You Let Go And Still Stay In It? with River Butcher

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Is Doing It Yourself the Only Honest Way Left? with Michael Burns

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Ana and Mike Leave the House

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Can You Make a Career Out of a Patchwork Quilt? with Ron Funches

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Is the Garage Is Better Than the Studio? with Chris Gethard

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What If the “Recession-Proof” Job Isn’t? with Siri Dahl

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What If 30 Years Is Just The Beginning? with Rhett Miller

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Ana and Mike Face the Music

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What Comes After the Big Job? with Jody Avirgan

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What If Making Good Work Still Isn’t Enough? with Ian Danskin

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How Do You Keep Going? with Bob DeRosa

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What If You Outgrow the Dream Job? with Sam Sanders

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What Does It Take to Stay Kind in a Brutal Industry? with Josh Gondelman and Maris Kreizman

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What If Fear Is What Keeps You Working? with Xochitl Gonzalez

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Ana and Mike Sell Out

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What If Scarcity Never Really Leaves You? with Jamie Loftus

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What Do You Do When the Work Doesn’t Feel Like Enough? with Parker Molloy

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What If Rest Is the Work? with Maggie Mae Fish

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Are Follows Replacing Real Support? with Taylor Lorenz

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Who Wins When Everyone’s a Freelancer? with Adam Conover

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Is Stability Just a Story We Tell Ourselves? with Lyz Lenz

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What Even Is a Viable Career Anymore? with Paul F. Tompkins

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Introducing "Past Due" (Trailer)

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Why Are We Making Past Due? (Teaser)

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Another Day Archives: Always Be Podcasting (Farewell to Another Day)

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Another Day Archives: Living the Dream (and the Struggle) with Open Mike Eagle

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Another Day Archives: Politics Isn’t Optional, But Optimism Might Be with Open Mike Eagle

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Another Day Archives: The Government Should Be a Trampoline, Not a Net with Open Mike Eagle

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Another Day Archives: The Act of Showing Up with Josh Gondelman

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Another Day Archives: Andy Richter

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Another Day Archives: Josh Gondelman

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Day 3: Peggy Flanagan

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Day 5: Emily Hauser

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Day 6: Parker Malloy

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Day 10: Beau Friedlander

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Day 12: Greg Pak

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Day 13: Philip Bump

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Day 17: Hamilton Nolan

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Day 19: Kevin M. Kruse

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Day 20: Josh Gondelman

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Day 24: Emily Atkin

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Day 26: Ben Collins

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Day 27: Rebecca Nagle

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Day 31: Terrance Woodbury

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Day 33: Paul Rieckhoff

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Day 34: Jemar Tisby, PhD

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Day 38: Akilah Hughes

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Day 40: Guest Host Beto O’Rourke with Judge Andy Brown

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Day 41: Mandela Barnes

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Day 45: Mo Ryan

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Day 47: Angelo Carusone

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Day 48: Jason Kander

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Day 52: Jane Coaston

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Day 54: Beto O'Rourke

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Day 55: Charlotte Clymer

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Day 59: Jamil Smith

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Day 61: Ari Melber

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Day 62: John Moe

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Day 66: Sam Sanders

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Day 68: Kevin M. Kruse

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Day 69: Parker Molloy

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Day 73: Daniel W. Drezner

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Day 75: Elizabeth Spiers

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Day 77: Josh Gondelman

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Day 81: Anna Sale

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Day 83: Betsy Hodges

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Day 84: Beto O'Rourke

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Day 88: Daniel W. Drezner

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Day 90: Molly Jong-Fast

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Friend Goals: W/ Rhett Miller and Murry Hammond

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The Sound of Nashville

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What Was Going on with the Go-Go's with Kathy Valentine

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Is a bar a bar without booze? On sober socializing with Chris Marshall

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Why you eat what you eat on Thanksgiving

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Andrew Zimmern: The Road to Recovery

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Adam Serwer: What Texas Can Teach Us

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Daisy Haggard on Female Felons: From Villain to Human

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Sophie Santos on Lesbian Identity: From Denial to Pride

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Eric Garcia on Autistic Self-Advocacy: From Patients to Citizens

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Lizz Winstead: From Comedy Writer to Pro-Abortion Activist

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How to Craft A Life Worth Living

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The Power Struggle Behind Who Does The Dishes with John Hodgman

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The Anti-Black History of the Second Amendment w/Carol Anderson

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The Lawsuit About the Indian Child Welfare Act That Isn’t About the Children

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Everything You Thought You Knew About the Alamo Is Wrong

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Brian Broome Is His Own Man with Brian Broome

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Growing Up Girl with Melissa Febos

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Straight Up Fangirling Simone Biles with Alyssa Roenigk

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Ask What Kind of Help People Want with Ruby Welch

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The Science of Online Outrage with Molly Crockett

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The Secret to Talking About Hard Things Is to Listen, with Anna Sale, PLUS Moby's #adorable

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Andy Richter Needs a New Job

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Greenwood After the Tulsa Race Massacre with Carlos Moreno

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That’s Not Funny, THIS Is Funny, with Negin Farsad

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“When Statues Do Pratfalls” with Jana Schmieding

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Filling Your Existential Portfolio with Moby

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Doing what’s in your pleasure with Andrew Gillum

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More Than the Worst Thing He’s Done with Vince Granata

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OFF-FIELD ISSUES WITH Mina Kimes

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Unf*ck the Police with W. Kamau Bell

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“Boys State” Star Isn’t Ready to Run Again

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How to Be Fearless with Tig Notaro

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If It’s Not Fixed, Don’t Break It (with Elizabeth Kolbert)

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When Your Parents Don’t Know You (with Rebecca Carroll)

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Debts to Society

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Toxic Avenger

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Love and Death in the Time of Covid

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Sympathy for the Executioner

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Forgiveness & Reconciliation (New Season Trailer)

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These Friends

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Who Watches the Weight Watchers?

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The Sheraton Experiment

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The Berkeley Socialist Behind Mass Incarceration (with Heather Ann Thompson)

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“Hope Is a Strategy"

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The Future Reminds You of Your Responsibility

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Mothers of Invention

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You Can’t Change the World If You Hate Yourself

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When Denouncing White Nationalism Isn’t Enough (Encore)

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“Scared to Believe” (Encore)

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A Little White Christmas Lie

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Their Libertarians Attract Bears!

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Don’t Accentuate the Positive

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Evangelical Christians’ Lesbian Poster Girl

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Suicide Is a Public Health Issue

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Are We Overstating Abuse?

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IN PRAISE OF MAGICAL THINKING

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Cable News Is Bad for America

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How Not to Cover a Conspiracy Theory

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Julián Castro Had Trouble Smiling

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Hating on the Hiker Bro Evangelist

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Just Say No to Politics

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The Empathy Engine

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The Friend Zone

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Dark Arts Professors Against Trump

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What We Have Learned

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Can You Convert a Conversion Therapist?

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“Scared to Believe?”

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The Science Writer Who Became a Mystic

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America Is a Nation of Converts, with Thomas Kidd

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The Moment You Realize You’re White

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From Feminist to Fascist

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“The Cop Who Realized The Bad Apple Was Him”

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”The Heart Decides and Reason Justifies”: A conservative climate activist’s evolution

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How White Light Moments Change Your Brain, with Andrew Newberg

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When Denouncing Racism Isn’t Enough

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When Protests Changed Minds

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When Your Thoughts Are Not Your Own

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Why Your Brain Doesn't Want You to Change

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Why (Most) People Don’t Convert

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It’s My Body and I’ll Live if I Want To with Alice Wong

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Welfare for White People with Eduardo Porter

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A Whole Other Level of Disaster (with Dan Drezner)

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The Hopeful Feminist (with Rebecca Solnit)

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The Psychological Abyss (with Ezra Klein)

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All Doom And Bloomberg (with Rick Wilson)

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Listen To Your Heart (with Kate Murphy)

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We Can Be Heroes (with Susan Neiman)

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Feels Like We Only Go Forward (with Lori Gottlieb)

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The Ledge is Always There

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Where the Boys Are (with Peggy Orenstein)

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Feel the Burn with Anne Helen Petersen

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Red-Pilling Grandma (Holiday Edition) with Eli Saslow

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The Giant Negging Pick-Up Artist in the Sky

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Whoever Cheats Hardest Wins with Rick Wilson

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Death Cab for Acutely with Esme Wang

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Blame Walmart with Sarah Marshall

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A Very Problematic Thanksgiving with Ed Schupman

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A Cure For Wellness with Amanda Mull

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National Reality Disorder with Robert J. Lifton

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Rick Wilson Halloween Spooktacular (feat. Rick Wilson)

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Band-Aids on a Broken Leg with Lyz Lenz

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Shoot First, Therapy Later with Jason Kander (feat. Sheila Bynum Coleman)

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A Different World (with Andrew Gillum & Shani Curry Mitchell)

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Manic Investigative Phase (with Stephanie Wittels Wachs)

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Just For Today (live with Bassey Ikpi)

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Mush Love Dogs (live with Blair Braverman)

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Cheat Codes For God with Avery Trufelman

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Hot Bananapants Summer with Rick Wilson

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My Least Favorite Murderer with Rachel Monroe

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Stage Four Metastatic Racism with Arjun Sethi and Ibram X. Kendi

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Apocalyptic Safe Spaces with Elizabeth Bruenig

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Real Friends Argue with Betsy Hodges

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Consequences Waiting To Happen with E. Jean Carroll

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There Is Alt-Lite That Never Goes Out with Alexandra Minna Stern

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All Along The Watchtower with Amber Scorah

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Mussolini's Valet with Rick Wilson

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Boulevard of Woken Dreams with Shannon Watts

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Infiltrating UFO Culture with Anna Merlan

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Paranoia Is Just Having All The Facts with Vann Newkirk

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A Conspiracy Of Dunces with Will Sommer

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In League With Witches with Jesse Walker and Parker Molloy

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Go Screw Yourself with Adam Savage (feat. Rebecca Nagle)

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Native American Imposter Syndrome- Tommy Orange on There, There

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Polar Oppositions (feat. Rick Wilson and Jordan Klepper).

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Sweet Nothing(ness)- Heather Armstrong on Her New Book, The Valedictorian of Being Dead

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Down Ass White Boy Bingo: A Conversation with Author Damon Young

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Disrespected By the Toilet: Stephanie Land on her Book, Maid

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An Iceberg of Sh*t: Rick Wilson on the Mueller Report

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Are You Smart or Just Cynical? With Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Jay Rosen

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Red-Pilling Grandma with Eli Saslow

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“Teacher, Explainer, Soldier, Spy: Doing Solidarity Work with Nausheena Hussain and Beth Gendler.”

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“Sugar, We’re Cohen Down with Nina Burleigh”

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Hate Crimes and Crossed Lines with Jamil Smith

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You’ve Got Problematic Male Leads: A With Friends Like These Valentine’s Day Special!

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#TrustWomen with Tressie Cottom and Erika Christensen

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More than Flyover Country: Sarah Smarsh on her book Heartland

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Bonkerpalooza! With Rick Wilson

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The Witching Hour with Dianna E Anderson

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"Real Shit with Ashley Nicole Black"

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"Amateur Hour with Mina Kimes"

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"Split and Knitted Back Together: Amanda Carpenter on the GOP"

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“Not Leaving on a Jet Plane: Eric Holthaus on Climate Change and Activism”

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“Stand Up and Disrupt: Live from the Women Rule Summit with Anna Palmer and Piper Perabo”

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"Back to Selma and Beyond: Dr. Carol Anderson on Her Book One Person, No Vote"

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"Dive Into the Deep End: Kiese Laymon on His New Book"

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“All I Need is Right Here: Being Thankful with Diana Butler Bass.”

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“Maximum Man-Baby Mode: Rick Wilson on What the 2018 Midterms Mean for Trump”

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"White Women: Foot Soldiers of the Patriarchy"

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“Life During Wartime Language: Talking with a former white nationalist turned SJW”

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Where the Personal and Political Meet: In Conversation with Karamo Brown and Parker Molloy

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“The Pied Piper of Feminism”

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“Resisting Power, Oppression, and Inequality with Alice Wong.”

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“A Recovering Republican: How Max Boot Left His Party.”

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“Far Too Normal: An Update on the Kavanaugh Confirmation with Rick Wilson”

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“The Jackie Robinson of Bisexuals w/ Travon Free”

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"White Fragility in the Wild"

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“Why Pleasure Is Political w/ Michael Arceneaux”

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"ARA: Ask Rick Anything!"

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"White Fragility 101"

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“Funny Is How We Got Here: When Journalists Amplify Hate”

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“Almost Bravery w/ Rick Wilson”

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“A Country Built On a Hate Crime w/ Arjun Sethi”

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“Evangelism’s God Complex w/ Sarah Jones”

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“Contemplative Activism” with Teresa P Mateus

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“Spiteful and Shortsighted” with Rick Wilson

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"Amy Chozick on Hillary and Humility"

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"When Ideology is Identity with Lilliana Mason"

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"Cruelty is as American as Thanksgiving with Adam Serwer"

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"Hurting Unit Cohesion with Charlotte Clymer"

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"Rick Wilson Is Giving Up on Corporate Christians"

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"Tall Decaf, Implicit Bias, No Whip with W. Kamau Bell"

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"Grateful (in Trump-adjusted terms) with Diana Butler Bass"

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Imani Gandy on the Road to Gilead

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"Sex Robots Titillate and Childish Gambino Provokes with Ross Douthat and Doreen St. Felix"

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Rick Wilson Says Don’t Campaign on Impeachment

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"Alex Wagner knows the secret to belonging (spoiler alerts!)"

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“Atheism and the Alt-Right, with Chris Stedman and Diana Butler Bass”

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"Talking Ableism, Hashtag Appropriation and Rom-Coms with Keah Brown"

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The other side has a resistance too, reporting from CPAC

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“They’re standing at the podium” w/ Dave Weigel

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“The Average American White Racist” with Christian Picciolini

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“Black Future Month” with Jamil Smith

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“Mormon Pundit Mode” with McKay Coppins

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"Wear Your Hair Shirt More Properly"

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Not Your Mama's Interracial Relationship with Melissa Febos and Quinta Brunson

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“A Party of Men and Mobs” with Rick Wilson

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“If You Can’t Vlog It, It Didn’t Happen” with Katie Notopoulos and Jemar Tisby

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“Foot Servants of Wokeness” with Ijeoma Oluo and Parker Molloy

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”At Least the Obama People Felt Bad" with James Risen and Jamil Smith

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“Two Rats In a Sack” w/ Rick Wilson and Scaachi Koul

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Winter Break Encore Part II with Ben Howe and Adam Savage

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Winter Break Encore with Rembert Browne

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“Turning Off The Gaslight” w/ Rebecca Carroll and Amy Sullivan

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“Karma Is A Magnificent B*tch” w/ Diana Butler Bass and Rick Wilson

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"Scale of Awfulness" with Adam Serwer and Lizzie O’Leary

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BONUS EPISODE: “Sometimes a Loss is More Powerful than a Win”

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“Families Are a Bag of Triggers” with John Moe

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“You’re Gonna Feel a Pinch” with Ira Madison III and Bob Inglis

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What about Bill?

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“Platoon of Chicken$**t$"

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“Post Office With Guns” with Jon Lovett and Nate Bethea

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“Look In The Mirror” with Vann R. Newkirk II and Helen Rosner

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“The Human Shock Doctrine hits Puerto Rico” w/ Naomi Klein and Jamil Smith

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“A Novel and Disturbing Place” w/ Sam Sinyangwe and Rick Wilson

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“Can’t Countenance the Bullshit Anymore” w/ Michael Steele

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“A Brick Through The Overton Window" w/ Timothy Faust

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"Too Tired to be Angry" w/ Rembert Browne

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“Nothing messier than sex” with Kim Cavill

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“We Act Like It’ll Never Happen” w/ Neena Satija and Jon Lovett

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One God, Under Trump w/ Jack Jenkins and Parker Molloy

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"Are you going to join the fight?”

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“Keep it” with Kat Rosenfield and Ira Madison III

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"Enormous waste and loss": What it's like to report on the death penalty

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“A President Who Makes Us Less Safe” with Greg Howard and Rick Wilson

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“A Daily Insult” with Kim Cavill and Michelle Goldberg

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“Health Care Is a Civil Right” with Anita Cameron and Vann Newkirk

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“An existential crisis happening to America every day” w/ Neera Tanden

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“Typical white dude attitude”

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“It’s not who we’re supposed to be, but it is who we are”

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“I have no regrets”

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“Surprised you called me a feminist”

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“Justice is a mechanical duck”

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“Proud pigheadedness”

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“You can’t build things with pitchforks and torches”

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“Poetic justice and justice are not the same thing”

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“Women in power are always complicit”

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“More of a Fetish Than a Mission”

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“The Help Is Coming From Inside the House”

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“I always assume everyone knows”

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"Being Called Racist is White People's Kryptonite"

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“Let’s create messy coalitions”

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“Contentment is a professional risk”

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“No one cries, no one gets asked to prom”

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“If you’re worried about the future, look at the past”

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"Police violence didn't just stop happening"

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"Too soon to start shooting"

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"Discomfort is a tool of oppression"

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"Hope and Trust in Trump." The first episode!

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With Friends Like These: Converts