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101

Not Even Mad: Russ Muirhead & Ben Dreyfuss

102

Jonathan Vigliotti: The Olympic Rush to Rebuild LA

103

Joseph Moore: Negotiating With Drug Dealers for Real Estate Success

104

Joseph Moore: The Despair Industrial Complex

105

Ethan Strauss: Great Writers, Bad Thinkers, and the Death of the Sports Gamer

106

Liz Hoffman: Why We Are So Pessimistic About a Resilient Economy

107

Liz Hoffman: Will AI Trigger a Jobless Food Fight?

108

Suzy Hansen: How The Syrian War Radicalized Erdoğan

109

Ted Dintersmith: The Life-Changing Math Schools Ignore

110

Richard Lapper: Why Lula Didn't Become a Chavista

111

Mike Pesca Might Be Wrong & The Art of Korean Rock Throwing

112

Maya Kornberg on How Congress Got Stuck

113

Not Even Mad: Sarada Peri & Sarah Isgur

114

Jennifer Shahade on the Grandmaster of Intermezzos: Donald Trump

115

Jonathan Cheng on the Realities of Uncovering North Korea

116

Jonathan Cheng on When Pyongyang Was the Jerusalem of the East

117

The Middle - Making the case for Voting by Phone

118

Chuck Todd: Why Politicians Are "The Weirdos"

119

Sarah Isgur: Why Forum Shopping is a Bigger Threat Than the Ethics Crisis

120

Sarah Isgur: "Stop Blaming the Court and Start Blaming Congress"

121

Jacob Mchangama On The "Four Hateful Men" Who Saved Free Speech

122

Jacob Mchangama On "Elite Panic"

123

Across The Movie Aisle: Mike Pesca's "***hole Tracker" Enters The Pitt

124

Matt Yglesias & Richard Kreitner: A Billion Americans vs. Breaking It Up

125

Not Even Mad: John Ganz & Nick Gillespie

126

Freddie DeBoer and Devon Price on the "Identity Trap" of Neurodiversity

127

Noam Scheiber and the "Vinyl Record" Phase of American Unions

128

Noam Scheiber on the "Class Confidence" of the Overqualified

129

Uncertain Things: "Joy as an Act of Resistance is the Dumbest Slogan of the Woke Era"

130

Funny You Should Mention: Raanan Hershberg

131

Are You There God? It’s Me, Mark Oppenheimer

132

Tyler Goodspeed: Why "Pattern-Seeking Mammals" Blame Bankers Instead of Locusts

133

Why Brazil Stopped Its Bolsonaro and We Didn't Stop Ours

134

Zack Beauchamp: "You Kind of Have to Pick a Lane to Be an Effective Autocrat"

135

Magic Shops, $200 Million Horse Ads, and the Ghost of Nibbles the Goat

136

Julia Minson: You're Probably 50% Wrong

137

Not Even Mad: Yascha Mounk & Colin Cole

138

Ben Ritz on Slopulism and the Democrats' 2024 Lesson

139

Larry Charles: "I Am Willing To Die To Get This Scene"

140

Larry Charles: "I Finally Had to Fire the Kid"

141

The Myth of the Iranian Moderate & The "Undecided" War

142

Derrick Stroup: "I Sound Like a Bowl of Gravy and You Sound Like a Traffic Cone"

143

Is That Bulls*it: Does The Body Keep the Score - in Your Hips

144

Molly Worthen: "Charisma Is a Tool of the Weak"

145

Mickey Bergman: "Even Maduro Has a Soft Spot"

146

Mickey Bergman: The Psychology of the Hostage Deal

147

Chris Cillizza: Male Friendships, Political Posturing, and the Death of Shared Sacrifice

148

Geeta Gandbhir: "She Weaponized Her Privilege"

149

Not Even Mad: Jeff Nussbaum & Dan Rothschild

150

Aaron Tracy and Roald Dahl's Dangerous Double Life

151

Nir Eyal: "Your Brain Is Already Lying To You"

152

Elizabeth Tsurkov: Surviving 900 Days as a Hostage

153

Mike Pesca on Lifelong: The Bliss Molecule and the Psychology of Weight Loss

154

Funny You Should Mention: Jena Friedman

155

Jamie Denbo: Why I Walked Away From Grey's Anatomy

156

Brian Platzer: A Story that Literally Couldn't be Told

157

Gina Gershon: "They Treat You Differently With Boobs"

158

Eli Lake: "It Could Be An Epic Historic Geopolitical Mitzvah"

159

John Fugelsang & Corey Brettschneider: "Stochastic Self-Censorship"

160

James Kimmel Jr. : "Revenge Is Dopamine With a Law Degree"

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Not Even Mad: Austin Berg & Andrew Egger

162

C. Thi Nguyen: "The Appearance of Winning"

163

Kenji Yoshino & David Glasgow: "Go Where the Pain Is"

164

Kenji Yoshino & David Glasgow: Saving DEI

165

Is Anyone Not A Fan Of Eileen Gu?

166

Alex Roarty: "The Status Quo Sucks Right Now"

167

Kat and Mike's Museum of Bad Ideas

168

Congress, the Potency Problem, and How To!

169

Charles Duhigg: "You can mobilize till you're blue in the face."

170

The Scalpel And The Chainsaw

171

Ben Terris: "Visiting A Parallel Universe"

172

Not Even Mad: Joe Nocera & Jonah Goldberg

173

Is That BS: Compostable Dog Poop Bags

174

Autocracy Watch with Yascha Mounk

175

Aaron Magid on King Abdullah, "The Most American King"

176

Chris Cillizza on Trump's "Unconstitutional" Election Riff

177

Funny You Should Mention: Geoffrey Asmus

178

Jonathan Cohen: "Add Friction" to the Super Bowl of Gambling

179

Conor Heffernan on Why "Ego Is A Transhistorical Phenomenon"

180

The Epstein Files Are a Distraction From… the Epstein Files

181

David Greene: "Obsession Is a Window Into the Human Soul"

182

Charlie Sykes on the "Little Platoons" that Humbled Trump

183

Paul D. Miller: "International Law Is Not the Same Thing as Justice"

184

Not Even Mad: Ruy Teixeira and Jesse Adams

185

"Chaos Isn't Enforcement": Minnesota Exposes ICE's Political Miscalculation

186

Thomas Goetz: "Medicine works by helping some people a lot and most people not at all."

187

Elliot Williams: "We'll get the girls from Annie to even things out"

188

Michelle Tafoya on the "Complete and Utter Ambush"

189

Kenneth Vogel on the "Sh*tbag Business"

190

Jason Guriel: Why Culture Got Nicer—and Much Less Useful

191

Trump Weaves His Way Through Davos

192

Chuck Klosterman: Football Isn't a Game—It's the Last American Monoculture

193

Jeremy Hobson on the "Rally Around the Flag" Risk in Iran

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Funny You Should Mention: Liza Treyger

195

Charles Duhigg: "Looping for Understanding" and Other Supercommunicator Tricks

196

David McCloskey on Why Real-World Spying is "Too Crazy for Fiction"

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Reese Gorman on Congress's Vanishing Backbone — and Dexter Filkins' Rubio "Zig and Zag" Portrait

198

Séamus McElearney on the End of Omertà as a Business Model

199

Fact-Checking the Maduro Raid—and the Art of Fucking Around

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Ezekiel Emanuel: "Don't Be a Schmuck"—and Yes, Eat Your Ice Cream.