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The Argument — 28 episodes

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Boy moms and Nazi POWs: how "The Feminine Mystique" changed feminism

2

Should we end asylum?

3

Can America still be a force for good?

4

Destroy the internet to save it?

5

Should Race Matter in College Admissions?

6

Matthew Yglesias vs. Jerusalem Demsas: The Trailer

7

Stop Letting Instagram Explain Your Love Life -- The Science of Attraction

8

The Scientific Method Comes for Criminal Justice

9

Ross Douthat on the End of Conservatism

10

Did the Opioid Epidemic Help Republicans Win?

11

Are Children People?

12

Why NIMBYs Oppose Housing (with Chris Elmendorf)

13

Matthew Yglesias on What Went Wrong with Modern Liberalism?

14

We're Getting Frog-Boiled by AI (with Kelsey Piper)

15

Best Of: Liberalism Under Pressure w/ Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, & Derek Thompson

16

How Liberal Elite Failure Fueled Far-Right Populism

17

America’s Reading Crisis: What Mississippi Got Right

18

Why We Feel Screwed: Immigration, Growth, and the Zero-Sum Mindset

19

Is Inequality the Problem?

20

The Climate Movement’s Biggest Miscalculation (with Robinson Meyer)

21

How Silicon Valley Became MAGA-Curious

22

Arguing the Politics of Climate with Bill McKibben

23

Why Free Speech Is Losing on the Left and the Right

24

Trump's Tariffs, Explained

25

The Battle to Rewrite COVID-19

26

RFK, Tylenol, and America’s Autism Panic

27

Why even (some) liberals are worrying about the debt

28

Liberalism Under Pressure w/ Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, & Derek Thompson