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

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Not Even Mad: Michael A. Cohen & Charles Fain Lehman

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Brad Meltzer on Plot Twists, Product Placement, and Violating Rules on Purpose

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Andy Mills: "Acceleration Is Salvation" — and Why AI Might Be the Last Invention.

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Quico Toro: Venezuela was never a one-man show

206

Dan Soder & Moshe Kasher: A Lighthouse for the Mentally Ill

207

Rosebud Baker: We're Raising Her Autistic

208

Robby Hoffman: Zero Personality Disorder

209

Chris Turner: Possession is 9/10 of the Word

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Michelle Buteau: An Achievable Beyonce

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T.J. Miller: You'll Do Better in Toledo

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Sarah Silverman & Kyle Kinane: Comedy, Cancel Culture, and Conspiracies

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Alex Edelman: "The Hardest Thing to Talk About in a Joke is Israel."

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Roy Wood Jr.: "People Just Want to Feel Good."

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Django Gold: The Comedian Who Wants to Dim Your Shine

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Thomas Chatterton Williams: Why the Summer of 2020 Wasn't Inevitable

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Quico Toro: "Charlatans Burrow Into Your Life and Don't Leave."

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Rob Reiner: "I Just Viewed My Child in Pain"

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Jay Jurden: High Profundities Per Minute

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Nicholas Wright: When Ancient Brains Meet Modern War

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James Clyburn: "The World Would Much Rather See a Sermon Than Hear One."

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Mikhail Zygar: From Glasnost Whiplash to Social-Media Smog

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Chris Dalla Riva: "Billboard's become a Christmas chart."

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Finding the Next Terry Gross with Daniel Oppenheimer

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Shadi Hamid: The Left Should Learn to Love American Power

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Not Even Mad: Anthony Weiner & John Ketcham

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Holiday Suicides: Is That BS? with Sadie Dingfelder

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Mark Rowlands on Memory and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

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Daniel Zoughbie: The Mightiest Turns an Enemy into a Friend

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Mike Pesca on the Vig, the Fix, and the John Goodman Thumb

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Funny You Should Mention: Mohanad Elshieky

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TJ Raphael on the Liberty Godparent Trap and the Cost of Coercion

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Rachel McCarthy James on Axe Murder, Salad Spinners, and the Hat-Brim Line

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Daniel Brook & Brandy Schillace: The Sex Expert Who Scared Hitler

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Murdaugh Showrunner Michael D. Fuller: Power Metastasizes

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Jesse Eisenberg: "Marv Albert Is My Therapist"

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Bob Saget & Chuck Klosterman: "I Really Have Become Liza Minnelli"

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Henry Winkler & Clint Watts: "Three Little Fonzies and a Trail of Dead Russians"

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Abby Phillip: "The Stones for David's Slingshot"

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Not Even Mad: Russ Muirhead & Nick Gillespie

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Mike Vuolo & Bob Garfield: "Life Is a Flat Pizza Bagel"

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Mike on Matt Lewis Can't Lose

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Funny You Should Mention: Myq Kaplan

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Fareed Zakaria on Revolutions, Backlashes, and the High Cost of Not Fixing Immigration

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James Patterson: "My Time Here Is Short. What Can I Do Most Beautifully?"

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John Amaechi: "Excellence Isn't Sorcery"

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Nicole Gelinas on Crime, Bail, and Mamdani's Vibesy Criminology

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David Ignatius on Space Wars, Skepticism, and His Father's Legacy

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Katie Herzog Is the Kind of Person Who Googles Recidivism Rates in an AA Meeting

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Not Even Mad: Charles Lehman & Brad Carson

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John J. Lennon — "I'm Owning My Sh*t on the Page"

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Jon Levy: "We Don't Really Want Authenticity"

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Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon on Life After Cars

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The Good Fight Club, or Good Fight Club?

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Funny You Should Mention: Dusty Slay

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Sadie Dingfelder on "Hair, Feathers, and the Theater of Disgust."

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Colin Woodard: The Federation Is the Fault Line

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The Wars Trump Says He Ended, and the One Cheney Began

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Matthew Hiltzik on the Craft of Crisis Communications

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Mike Pesca on "Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em"

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Art Cullen on Iowa's Corn Gospel, Cancer, and Capture

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Beth Macy: "When the Local Paper Dies, the Community Follows"

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Karine Jean-Pierre: "Independent," Evasion, and the Party She Says Left Her

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Steve Hayes & Damon Linker: The Hole Truth

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Barista Michelle Eisen on Face Tattoos, Short Staffs, and Union Shots Fired

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Jeremy Workman — "Walking Every Block, Hiding in a Mall"

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Funny You Should Mention: Ariel Elias

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No Capes, Real Peace: U Thant's UN and What We Lost

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Alicia Wanless — "The Ecology of Information"

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Michael Kirk — "RFK Jr.'s Latest Addiction: Attention"

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Michael Townsend & Jeremy Workman: "Secret Mall Apartment"

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Chris Murphy: "Congress needs to take war powers back."

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Lisa Graves: On The Roberts Court's Power Play

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Not Even Mad: Jonah Goldberg & Zee Cohen-Sanchez

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Jonathan Mahler: The Tabloids That Made The City That Made the Country

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Cory Doctorow: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

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SCOTUS's Shadow Docket, Calibrated + Steven Vladeck

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Funny You Should Mention: Steph Tolev

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Plestia Alaqad: "The Eyes of Gaza," Witness and Journalist

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Jake Tapper and the Race Against Terror

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Obama CDC Director Tom Frieden: "'Believe in Science' Is a Terrible Idea."

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Steven Pinker: "Common Knowledge Changes Everything"

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Diane Foley on America's Hostage Blind Spot

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Jonah Blank: "Very Quickly and Then Very Slowly" in Nepal

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Not Even Mad: Ben Wizner & Ilya Shapiro

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Yaakov Katz - While Israel Slept: Winning Tunnels, Losing Time

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KJ Steinberg, on The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox

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Amanda Knox — "You don't have to be a psychopath to wrongly convict somebody."

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Is Masculinity A Prison? - Mike on Open to Debate

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Andrew J. Taylor: "Blue-Collar Voters Don't Want Blue-Collar Politicians"

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Justin Driver: "The Fall of Affirmative Action"

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Laura Spinney on the Language That Conquered the World

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Sadie Dingfelder on Mosquito Magnets and Who Tastes Best to Bugs

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Andrew Fox on "Slam Frank": Make Something Dangerous

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JD Vance, Jimmy Kimmel, and America's Radical Underground

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Brendan Nyhan: Measuring Political Violence Without Panic

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Not Even Mad: Michael A. Cohen and Jamie Kirchick

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Christian Duguay Brings the Valley Heat

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Garrett Graff: "Russia Sought Division More Than Victory"

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Garrett M. Graff on "Long Shadow" and the Internet's Descent Into Outrage