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Sway — 195 episodes

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Best Of: Jon Stewart

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Best Of: Matthew McConaughey

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Best Of: Stacey Abrams

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Best Of: Jason Miller

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Best Of: Fran Lebowitz

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First Person: She’s Gay and a Republican. Is There a Place for Her in the G.O.P.?

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Best Of: Monica Lewinsky

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Best Of: Elon Musk

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Kara in the Hot Seat

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‘Venture Capitalists Are Going to Turn Into Vulture Capitalists,’ and Other Predictions From Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Would You Upload Your Consciousness to the Cloud?

12

‘The Senate Needs a Soul’

13

As Bitcoin Busts, What’s the Future of Web3? And What Even is Web3?

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Can We Tech Our Way Out of Climate Change?

15

David Axelrod, Sarah Longwell and Preet Bharara on What to Look For in the Jan. 6 Hearings

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Best Of: Dave Eggers Created the Google-Amazon Mash-Up of Your Nightmares

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Are Elon Musk and Twitter Trapped In a Bad Marriage?

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David Ellison on ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ Working with Tom Cruise and Hiring John Lasseter

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When It Comes to Gun Control, Will ‘Baby Steps’ Fix Anything?

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The C.E.O. of Condé Nast: ‘ This Is No Longer a Magazine Company’

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After Buffalo: Will Anything Change at Facebook, Twitter or Fox News?

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From Bernie to Biden to … MSNBC

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From Twitter to TV, Are We in a Media Reckoning?

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Clarissa Ward: ‘Fear and Panic Are Bedfellows’ in Ukraine

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How the Supreme Court Became ‘Intoxicated With Its Power’

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The ‘Frighteningly Autocratic’ Implications of Overturning Roe v. Wade

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A Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Predicts the Future — and What He Sees Is Concerning

28

Is Elon Musk About to Be the ‘King of Nothing’?

29

Tina Brown on Harry and Meghan’s ‘Scorched Earth’ Exit

30

Jimmy Kimmel Made a Joke. Then Marjorie Taylor Greene Called the Police On Him.

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Tony Kushner on the Republican ‘Fantasy’ of a Nation Controlled by ‘Straight White Men’

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How Michelle Yeoh Took Jackie Chan’s Role

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Paul Krugman on Why the Economy Is Doing Better Than We Think

34

How Elon Musk’s ‘Soft Power’ Might Shape Twitter’s Future

35

‘Trump Is Gone, and We Still Have the Problems’: Michael Lewis Makes Sense of Our Bungled Covid Response

36

What Putin’s Propaganda Looks Like from Russia and Ukraine

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Why Facebook's 'Hubris and Arrogance' Astound This Attorney General

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The Corporations Passing — and Failing — the Ukraine Morality Test

39

How Apple, Not Government, Became Tech’s Biggest Regulator

40

How Kathy Griffin Survived Cancer and Cancellation

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Why this Hollywood Actor Stays Off Social Media (Mostly)

42

How Far Would Biden Go in a Cyber War Against Putin?

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Will Putin's Information Iron Curtain Backfire?

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Jon Stewart on Why the Right Would ‘Rather Do a Deal With Putin Than Pelosi’

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Maggie Gyllenhaal Wants to Tell the Transgressive Stories of Motherhood

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Anita Hill Takes On Those ‘Trying to Put Black Women in a Box’

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Best Of: What the Heck are NFTs? Let’s Ask Beeple.

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Tech’s Love Affair With Miami

49

How the Sacklers Got Away With It

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The Sandy Hook Father Who Refused to Let Alex Jones Win

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How Instagram, FedEx and Wordle Hook You

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A Fox News ‘Defector’ on How the Network ‘Played Footsie’ With Trump

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Why This Democratic Governor Seems to Be Over Covid

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Bob Iger’s Advice to Hollywood on His Way Out

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Omicron Is (Still) Confusing. Two Experts Help Untangle the Covid Chaos.

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Elizabeth Warren Claps Back at Elon Musk

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Exclusive: Lina Khan Is (Still) Bursting Big Tech's Bubble

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Best Of: America’s Caste System Is 400 Years Old. That Doesn’t Change Overnight.

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Why This Liberal Mayor Doesn’t Want a Lecture From Progressives

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What if Work Were a Video Game?

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One Year After the Jan. 6 Attack, Parler’s C.E.O Grapples with Big Tech and Trump

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Twitter’s Former C.E.O. Has a ‘Too Bad, So Sad’ Approach to Content Moderation

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Best Of: Michael Pollan’s ‘Trip Report’

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Why Facebook Whistle-Blower Frances Haugen Thinks She’ll Outlast Mark Zuckerberg

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Buy an Earth Suit, Shoot Sulfur into the Atmosphere (And Other Contingency Plans for a Warming Earth)

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Best Of: Exercise, and Accept Your ‘Inevitable Demise’

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Why Humans Aren’t the Worst (Despite, Well, Everything Happening in the World)

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Emily Ratajkowski Isn't Quite Ready to Quit Profiting Off the Male Gaze

69

Sway's Newest Listener (and an Update on This Week)

70

Can The Washington Post De-Snark the News?

71

What the Metaverse Sounds Like to Hans Zimmer

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The Metaverse: Expectations vs. Reality

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Best Of: Sacha Baron Cohen Has a Message for Mark Zuckerberg

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Is Casey Newton a ‘Facebook Apologist'?

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Sex Bots and Mortality and A.I., Oh My!

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Why Katie Couric Owned Up to Her Regrets

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Why Republican Ken Buck Believes in Antitrust and Doesn’t Believe in the ‘Big Lie’

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Can a Nobel Peace Prize Protect Maria Ressa From Rodrigo Duterte?

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Walt Mossberg's Take on Mark Zuckerberg and More

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Adam Schiff on Facebook, Fox News and the Trump Cult

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Samantha Bee Doesn't Miss Donald Trump

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Is Texas Ready for Matthew McConaughey?

83

What if Monica Lewinsky Had Twitter in 1998?

84

Can Andrew Yang End America’s 2-Party System?

85

Can Beto O’Rourke Pull a Stacey Abrams?

86

How They Failed: C.A. Republicans, Media Critics and Facebook Leadership

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What Is 23andMe Doing With Your DNA?

88

Jeffrey Katzenberg Talks About His Billion-Dollar Flop

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Is Limitless Choice Killing Us Slowly?

90

When Will Hollywood Stop Stereotyping Muslims?

91

Why Ashton Kutcher and Julie Cordua Are Defending Apple

92

Is Kara Behind on Barbie?

93

Why Vaccine Mandates for Teachers Have Been a Harder Sell Than Mask Mandates for Kids

94

Yes, the Owner of a Movie Theater Chain Feels Bad for Me

95

How Jason Miller Is Trying to Get Trump Back on the Internet

96

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: ‘Silicon Valley Now Owns Hollywood.’

97

Should We Worry As Billionaires Buy Up Newspapers?

98

Michael Pollan's 'Trip Report'

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$54 Billion Later, Why Is Flying Still a Headache?

100

Is Ken Burns Taking Up Too Much Space? He Doesn’t Think So.

101

Would You Give Up Google for This?

102

‘It’s a Tough Time to Be Mayor’: Lori Lightfoot Responds to Her Critics

103

Robot Therapists? Not So Fast, Says Talkspace C.E.O.

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Kara Goes to the Olympics

105

The Ezra Klein Show: Sam Altman on the A.I. Revolution, Trillionaires and the Future of Political Power

106

The Argument: Not Everyone Is Worried About America's Falling Birthrates

107

Chelsea Handler Has a Message for Straight Men

108

What’s Keeping Biden’s Chief of Staff Up at Night?

109

A Guy Fieri Pep Talk

110

Exercise, and Accept Your ‘Inevitable Demise’

111

Dr. Fauci Claps Back

112

Is This the Big Tech Breakup We’ve Been Waiting For?

113

Inside the I.R.S. Files of the Ultra-Wealthy

114

Meet Big Tech’s Tormenter-in-Chief

115

Silicon Valley’s Thin Skins and Giant Egos

116

Women’s Basketball Is on the Rise. Is Anyone Paying Attention?

117

Is Jake Tapper for Sale?

118

How Online Sleuths Pantsed Putin

119

Can Snapchat Win the War Against TikTok?

120

We're Running a Little Late!

121

Algorithms Make Fewer Mistakes Than Humans. Why Don't We Trust Them?

122

Inside the Republican Anti-Transgender Machine

123

Who Wins in a Meme Stock World?

124

Inside the Decision on Trump’s Facebook Fate

125

‘It’s His Own Damn Fault,’ Frank Luntz Says of Trump and Facebook

126

Can Pete Buttigieg Deliver Joe Manchin?

127

Why is So Much Money Moving to Miami?

128

Why Does the C.I.A. Need Puppets?

129

The Evolution of Desus & Mero

130

She's Taking Jeff Bezos to Task

131

CNN Is in a Post-Trump Slump. What Does That Mean for Don Lemon?

132

A Public Health Lesson for Ron DeSantis, From Harvard

133

A 5 O’Clock Shuttle to Mars?

134

Is Apple's Privacy Push Facebook's Existential Threat?

135

Why It's Taken Us So Long to Talk About Anti-Asian Racism

136

Amy Klobuchar vs. Silicon Valley

137

The Spiritual Teacher Biden’s Campaign Called for Help

138

What the Heck are NFTs? Let's Ask Beeple.

139

Airbnb Has a Hate Group Problem Too

140

Stop Whining About Big Government

141

Spike Lee Predicts the Future

142

I Asked the Head of Space Force What the Agency Has Done for Me Lately

143

Stacey Abrams on American Idealism and American Betrayal

144

If Government Did Its Job We Might Not Need GoFundMe

145

Sacha Baron Cohen Has a Message for Mark Zuckerberg

146

Lessons on Resilience From Dogs and Dog Sledders

147

Bonus: Is Kara a Chump?

148

No Parties. No Sports. How Oberlin College Is Surviving the Pandemic.

149

Innovation, Not Trees. How Bill Gates Plans to Save the Planet

150

Fran Lebowitz Isn’t Buying What Jack Dorsey Is Selling

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Bonus: Kara and Nicole Perlroth Debrief on Brad Smith

152

Should Big Tech Stay Out of Politics?

153

Why GameStop Reminds Mark Cuban of the ’90s

154

Is it Investing or Cliff Jumping? Reddit C.E.O. on the Forum Shaking Up Wall Street

155

What if the ‘Karate Kid’ Isn’t the Hero?

156

Bonus: Kara and Kevin Roose Debrief on Chris Best

157

The Site Trump Could Run to Next

158

A Black and Asian Female V.P. Doesn’t Mean We’ve Escaped Caste

159

Bryan Cranston Won’t Play Donald Trump

160

Food Delivery Is Keeping Uber Alive. Will It Kill Restaurants?

161

Anna Wintour on the Kamala Harris Vogue Cover

162

Inside the Billion-Dollar War Against Right-Wing Conspiracists

163

If You Were on Parler, You Saw the Mob Coming

164

What’s Next in Your Netflix Queue?

165

This Astrologer Has Some Things to Tell Kara Swisher

166

Bonus: Kara and Nick Kristof Debrief on Ajay Banga

167

Your Card Payment Has Been Declined

168

Can Kara be Vulnerable?

169

Bonus: Kara and Maggie Haberman Debrief on Brad Raffensperger

170

Georgia's Secretary of State on Standing Up to Trump

171

Bonus: Kara Swisher and Ben Smith Debrief on Jason Kilar

172

Movie Theaters Are Dying. Did Jason Kilar Deal the Final Blow?

173

Lifestyles of the ‘More Famous Than Rich’

174

They Made the ‘Pfizer Vaccine’

175

In Hollywood, Women Are Seen as ‘a Risk’

176

Jane Goodall on Chimps, Presidents and Other Alpha Males

177

Why 3rd Grade Matters

178

At-Home Covid Tests and Other Powers of a Tech Billionaire

179

Math Lessons From Pennsylvania

180

Post-Election Therapy With Esther Perel

181

‘Some Version of the Apocalypse Is Inevitable’

182

Sarah Cooper Is Tired of Being Donald Trump

183

She’s Bursting Big Tech’s Bubble

184

Hillary Clinton Says It’s Different This Time

185

Should You Choose Your Baby’s Eye Color?

186

The Election Isn’t Doomed … Yet

187

Can Big Tech Make Sure That 2020 Is Not 2016?

188

Planned Parenthood’s Plan for Amy Coney Barrett

189

Killer Mike Says He Has a Choice to Make

190

The Man Behind America’s Race for a Vaccine

191

Alexander Vindman Knew Trump Would End His Career

192

Elon Musk: ‘A.I. Doesn’t Need to Hate Us to Destroy Us’

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Gavin Newsom: ‘We Decided to Pull the Band-Aid Off’

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Nancy Pelosi: ‘If The Election Were Held Today, We Would Win It All’

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