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The Gray Area with Sean Illing — 790 episodes
Freud was right about one thing
Why straight dating feels bleak
We’re postliterate
What does a parent owe their child?
The vanishing pleasures of daily life
How Google broke the internet
The illusion of the ‘self’
How MAGA is turning on itself
The global baby bust
Why public opinion turned on AI
A skeptic considers the case for God
The “Godzilla El Niño” is coming
The “real” America at 250
How to fix America’s spiritual crisis
The end of the human internet
The expectations on men
Canceling Plato
How to feel more secure
The people who want AI to replace us
Understanding our dreams
Do we really need to work so hard?
The post-sex generation
Talk to strangers
Who needs experts?
The myth of absolute freedom
The college dream has failed
Why progress is hard to see
The wellness path to conspiracy
The science of awe
In defense of fatherhood
The case for thinking like a child
The one thing the Supreme Court won’t touch
The Pentagon’s AI war machine
American democracy's structural flaw
The contradictions of wokeness
How to forgive yourself
The revolution will be memed
How we standardized music
Why humans need to matter
A brief update on the AI apocalypse
Consciousness is a mystery
The end of world order as we know it
Alone in a cage with cocaine
Winging it in Iran
Of course you're anxious
Gen Z men have baby fever
Why mindfulness got weird
You’re right to bear arms
Happy news from Sean
The problem with gamifying life
America is football
How we built a government that can’t build anything
It’s okay to not be okay
Forgiveness is optional
The pornification of everything
What counts as progress?
How to survive awkward encounters
Truth in an age of doublethink
The case against free will
What the climate story gets wrong
The Great Enshittening
America chose violence. Now what?
What's worth remembering?
Why TikTok matters
The sun will save us
How much free speech is too much?
Imagine there's no billionaires
America's lawyers vs. China's engineers
So, what exactly is the “New Right?”
America is losing big on sports betting
It’s time to get weird
What if humans went extinct next Friday?
Can college survive Trump?
Hopeful pessimism
If AI can do your classwork, why go to college?
Is Trump winning?
A right-wing economist makes his case
What "near death" feels like
Machiavelli on how democracies die
Do you have moral ambition?
The science of ideology
A new analysis of the pandemic
Halfway there: a philosopher’s guide to midlife crises
Whatever this is, it isn’t liberalism
A new way to listen
The beliefs AI is built on
Stop comparing yourself to AI
Democrats need to do something
How to live in uncertain times
How to sink into silence
How to change your personality
Is ignorance truly bliss?
Is America broken?
The cost of spending time alone
Attention pays (with Chris Hayes)
How to be happy
The screens between us
The importance of failure
What to do with your sadness, pain, and grief
What do animals feel?
Are men okay?
How to feel alive
The antidote to climate anxiety
America’s reactionary moment
Well this is awkward
What just happened, and what comes next
Does being "woke" do any good?
Is America collapsing like Ancient Rome?
The world according to Werner Herzog
ETa-Nehisi Coates on complexity, clarity, and truth.
Your mind needs chaos
Musician Laraaji on the origin of creativity
Is AI creative?
Happiness isn’t the goal
A message from Sean
What if we get climate change right?
EYuval Noah Harari on the eclipsing of human intelligence
Why cynicism is bad for you
Poetry as religion
The jazz musician’s guide to the universe
Revisiting the "father of capitalism"
Breaking our family patterns
Why Orwell matters
The timebomb the founding fathers left us
Swear like a philosopher
Taking Nietzsche seriously
What India teaches us about liberalism — and its decline
1992: The year politics broke
The existential struggle of being Black
The world after nuclear war
Gaza, Camus, and the logic of violence
This is your kid on smartphones
Life after death?
The world after Ozempic
UFOs, God, and the edge of understanding
How to listen
Everything's a cult now
Fareed Zakaria on our revolutionary moment
Life is hard. Can philosophy help?
The American dream is a pyramid scheme
The chaplain who doesn't believe in God
Can a friend be our most significant other?
The power of climate fiction
The denial of death
A brief history of extinction panics
The new(ish) world order
The free-market century is over
EMusic and mysticism
The case for banning...millionaires?
The joy of uncertainty
A pro-worker work ethic
How psychedelics can reinvent learning
Seeing ourselves through the darkness
Living Mindfully
Taking anarchism seriously
3,000 years of The Iliad
Late-stage liberalism
The case against free will
A Jew and a Muslim get honest about Israel and Gaza
How to keep panic from attacking
We Are What We Watch
Werner Herzog’s ecstatic truth
The lessons of Sam Bankman-Fried
Is America getting meaner?
Naomi Klein on her doppelganger (and yours)
Should we press pause on AI?
Democracy’s existential crisis
EConservative socialism?
The benefits of utopian thinking
What Clarence Thomas really thinks
The new crisis of masculinity
How we all became a brand
EThe therapeutic potential of MDMA
EIs the journey to self-discovery pointless?
Parenting through the climate crisis
Seeing ourselves through darkness
EBest of: A new philosophy of love
The future of tribalism
When you can't separate art from artist
The case for not killing yourself
EWhat comes after Black Lives Matter?
Clickbait’s destructive legacy
Simone Weil’s radical philosophy of love and attention
Peter Singer on his ethical legacy
Why the poor in America stay poor
The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work
Mysteries of the mind
Why we can’t just blame capitalism for everything
Being human in the age of AI
A philosopher's psychedelic encounter with reality
The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard
The chemistry of connection
EWhat a slow civil war looks like
EHow to listen
Why we can't give up on persuasion
Rep. Katie Porter's working-class politics
The climate apocalypse will be televised
A philosopher takes on religious life
Your brain isn't so private anymore
Brian Stelter thinks the news has a reliability problem
How corporations got all your data
The case for failure
Poetry as religion
Revisiting the American Dream
The cost of saving pandas
Breaking our family patterns
EFor Black horror fans, fact is scarier than fiction
Taking Nietzsche seriously
EThe dark history of Silicon Valley
The value of being a "hater"
EBehind the blue wall
Best of: Imagine a future with no police
Is America broken?
The creator of Fargo is done with good guys vs. bad guys
Revisiting the "father of capitalism"
Can effective altruism be redeemed?
The roots of homelessness
Can race be transcended?
Is ethical AI possible?
What do we owe animals?
Best of: America's philosophy, with Cornel West
Best of: The necessity — and danger — of free speech
The church of celebrity
Men and boys are struggling. Should we care?
The power of attention in a world of distraction
A veteran reporter on how to fix the news
The end of social media
If society is making us sick, how can we heal?
The free-market century is over
Your identity is a story you tell yourself
James Carville unpacks the midterms
EWhy are billionaires prepping for the apocalypse?
EToday's Republicans were made in the 1990s
Yuval Noah Harari thinks humans are unstoppable
Dying with dignity
Finding hope in a world on the brink
The new American Reconstruction
Is America losing its religion?
EHow we got to January 6th
ENeil deGrasse Tyson gets political
Introducing The Gray Area
Best of: Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
A GOP insider on why the party went Trump
EHow do we fix the harm we cause?
A new philosophy of love
The politics of 'Yellowstone'
How society sexualizes us
The Parent Trap
40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation
40 Acres: The old Jim Crow
40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules
40 Acres: The original promise
What Clarence Thomas really thinks
Even Better: Don't call it a budget
The quest for authenticity
Even Better: Setting your boundaries
Your gut instinct is usually wrong
Even Better: Workplace equality 2.0
Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)
Even Better: Activism when you don't know where to start
EThe Supreme Court's power grab
How middlemen took over the economy
The necessity — and danger — of free speech
Hacking coral sex to save the reefs
The price of keeping secrets
Does China control Hollywood?
Steve Bannon is still at war
EThe Fortress of Solitude saw it all coming
The Philosophers: Stoic revival
Station Eleven's creator on the end of the world
EThe racist origins of fat phobia
The fight for Ukraine — and democracy
The war on trans people
Michael Ian Black on being a better man
ECarmen Maria Machado's haunted feminine
EThe rise and fall of America's monuments
The Philosophers: America's philosophy, with Cornel West
Why accidents aren't accidental
Rethinking the "end of history"
Anita Hill finally gets even
Elites have captured identity politics
The moral dangers of dirty work
Did the sexual revolution go wrong?
Who decides how to conserve nature?
The Philosophers: Loneliness and totalitarianism
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 4: The future of Europe
Michael Lewis on why Americans distrust experts
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 3: The nuclear threat
The case for regret
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 2: Sanctions
The spirituality of parenting
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 1: Why did Putin go to war?
The Philosophers: Resisting despair
What happened to American conservatism?
EThe limits of forgiveness
The madness behind The Method
David Cross is disappointed in you guys
EAuthor Kiley Reid on why we read novels
The conversation about guns we're not having
Why does middle school suck?
ERussia's war with Ukraine — and reality
Robert Glasper on why Black Radio is back
ECould we lose delicious foods forever?
What Don't Look Up is really about
Democracy in crisis, part 2: The two-party problem
Why we can't pay attention anymore
Democracy in crisis, part 1: Ross Douthat isn't too worried
Pod Save the Democrats
A Yellowjackets creator spills his guts
A scientist's case for "woo-woo"
Imagine a future with no police
Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix
EAre we living in a simulation?
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthinkable, twice
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
EBest of: Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery
Best of: We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
The cult of toughness
Is ethical investing a scam?
The good life is painful
The father of environmental justice
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
Workers of the world, stay home!
How progressives get back in the game
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
The stories soul food tells
The paradox of American freedom
Nonbinary parenthood
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation panic
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
What the internet took from us
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
What's your status?
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
Fighting a world on fire with fire
Revolutionary Love
How to make meaning out of suffering
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America after 9/11
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery
Was the cruelty the point?
How seashells shaped the world — and predict our future
Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters
ERobert Reich wants you to take on the system
Marty Baron on the future of news
The death of cool
We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
Philadelphia's progressive prosecutor
Fareed Zakaria on the fate of democracy
Jane Goodall on the power of hope
Why we love drugs
The rugged majesty of revision
EHow to forgive
What makes a great conversation?
Introducing: Now & Then
The science of dating
Honoring Juneteenth with Ibram X. Kendi
Digital dictatorship
The man who proposed reparations in the 1860s
What pandemic recovery should look like
The gift of getting old
EFreedom, and what it means to have a body
Why are we so worried about Satan?
EHow to be wrong less often
The complicated history of wildlife conservation
How to replace everything in the industrialized world
Patricia Lockwood's big, beautiful internet brain
Who is the real George Soros?
Introducing Unexplainable
EThe border, explained by someone who knows it intimately
"Wintering," wisdom, and weathering life's darkest times
Reframing America's race problem
Who owns the Western?
A Watchmen writer on race, TV, and tech giants
Uncovering the history of psychedelics in Christianity
Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform, and the Obama legacy
The Capitol Siege and American Revolution
Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn't going away
The Joe Biden experience
What it means to be a "good" rich person
Peter Kafka and Kevin Roose on big tech's power and responsibility
Sam Sanders and Olivia Nuzzi on President Trump’s last days
Best of: We don’t just feel emotions. We make them.
Best of: Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich
Best of: The moral philosophy of The Good Place
Best of: Michael Lewis reads my mind
Best of: Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry
What I’ve learned, and what comes next.
Best of: An inspiring conversation about democracy with Danielle Allen
Michael Pollan on the psychedelic society
Best of: Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress
Joe Biden and "the new progressivism"
Best of: Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational
The most important book I've read this year
Best of: Alison Gopnik changed how I think about love
Best of: Vivek Murthy on America’s loneliness epidemic
What Democrats got wrong about Hispanic voters
Antitrust, censorship, misinformation, and the 2020 election
The crisis isn’t Trump. It’s the Republican Party.
The Joe Biden experience
Chris Hayes and I process this wild election
Stacey Abrams on minority rule, voting rights, and the future of democracy
Nate Silver on why 2020 isn't 2016
Sarah Kliff grades Biden and Trump's health care plans
Trumpism never existed. It was always just Trump.
What should Democrats do about the Supreme Court?
Marilynne Robinson on writing, metaphysics, and the Donald Trump dilemma
The case for Trump’s foreign policy
Fareed Zakaria on how Biden and Trump see the world
How a climate bill becomes a reality
The meat we eat affects us all
A dark, dangerous debate
A radical — or obvious? — plan to save American democracy
RBG, minority rule, and our looming legitimacy crisis
David French and I debate polarization, secession, and the filibuster
The Matt Yglesias Show
Race, policing, and the universal yearning for safety
How to think about coronavirus risk in your life
Black Republicans, Donald Trump, and America's "George Floyd moment"
Andrew Yang on UBI, coronavirus, and his next job in politics
Why the hell did America invade Iraq?
How to decarbonize America — and create 25 million jobs
Isabel Wilkerson wants to change how we understand race in America
What it would take to end child poverty in America
Hannah Gadsby on comedy, free speech, and living with autism
What would Keynes do?
A devastating indictment of the Republican Party
How inequality and white identity politics feed each other
Best of: Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance
Dadding out with Mike Birbiglia
A rabbi explains how to make sense of suffering
The crisis in the news
Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal
What a post-Trump Republican Party might look like
Free speech, safety, and ‘the letter’
The frightening fragility of America's political institutions
Can artificial intelligence be emotionally intelligent?
Danielle Allen on the radicalism of the American revolution — and its lessons for today
Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect
Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking
Your questions, answered
Which country has the world's best healthcare system?
The transformative power of restorative justice
Ross Douthat and I debate American decadence
A serious conversation about UFOs
A former prosecutor's case for prison abolition
Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful
Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bregman)
From politician to priest
Robert Frank's radical idea
Why “essential” workers are treated as disposable
"The world’s scariest economist” on coronavirus, innovation, and purpose
A mind-bending conversation about quantum mechanics and parallel worlds
Why the coronavirus is so deadly for black America
Jenny Odell on nature, art, and burnout in quarantine
An unusually honest conversation about wielding political power
What should the media learn from coronavirus?
Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond coronavirus
An epic conversation with Madeline Miller
The loneliness pandemic/Betraying “essential workers”
Why Bernie Sanders lost and how progressives can still win
Scott Gottlieb on how, and when, to end social distancing
Toby Ord on existential risk, Donald Trump, and thinking in probabilities
Elizabeth Warren has a plan for this, too
What social solidarity demands of us in a pandemic
Coronavirus has pushed US-China relations to their worst point since Mao
Is the cure worse than the disease?
An economic crisis like we’ve never seen
"The virus is more patient than people are"
A master class in organizing
Weeds 2020: The coronavirus election
Dan Pfeiffer on Joe Biden, beating Trump, and saving democracy
Are you a "political hobbyist?" If so, you're the problem.
What would a Sanders or Biden presidency look like?
Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein, feminism, and social change
Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate
Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry
Barbara Ehrenreich on UBI, class conflict, and collective joy
What Donald Trump got right about white America
Ta-Nehisi Coates on my “cold, atheist book”
If God is dead, then … socialism?
Tim Urban on humanity’s wild future
Jill Lepore on what I get wrong
Is Tom Steyer the solution to our dysfunctional politics?
Why We're Polarized, with Jamelle Bouie (live!)
Antisemitism now, antisemitism then
Book excerpt: A better theory of identity politics
The war on Muslims (with Mehdi Hasan)
Post-debate special!
An “uncomfortable” conversation with Cory Booker
The conservative mind of Yuval Levin
How an epidemic begins and ends
Nathan Robinson’s case for socialism
How to topple dictators and transform society (with Erica Chenoweth)
Ask Ezra Anything
Best of: Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
Republicans vs. the planet
The geoengineering question
How to solve climate change and make life more awesome
Paul Krugman on climate, robots, single-payer, and so much more
The moral philosophy of The Good Place (with Mike Schur and Pamela Hieronymi)
When doing the right thing makes you a criminal
Peter Singer on the lives you can save
Best of: The age of "mega-identity" politics
Because podcast
There’s more to life than profit
Having a bad day? Dave Eggers can help.
How Whole Foods, yoga, and NPR became the hallmarks of the elite
How social media makes us antisocial
ICYMI: Edward Norton’s theory of mind, movies, and power
Introducing Reset
What a smarter Trumpism would sound like
The climate crisis is an oceans crisis
We live in The Good Place. And we’re screwing it up.
Neoliberalism and its discontents
The four words that will decide impeachment
We don’t just feel emotions. We make them.
How politics became a war against reality
The loneliness epidemic
Ibram X. Kendi wants to redefine racism
Malcolm Gladwell’s Stranger Things
An inspiring conversation about democracy
Samantha Power’s journey from foreign policy critic to UN ambassador
When meritocracy wins, everybody loses
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the 1619 project, choosing schools, and Cuba
Randall Munroe, the genius behind XKCD
Julián Castro's quiet moral radicalism
Political animals (with Leah Garcés)
John McWhorter thinks we're getting racism wrong
The rocky marriage between libertarians and conservatives
A mind-bending, reality-warping conversation with John Higgs
Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance
The original meaning of “identity politics” (with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)
Are bosses dictators? (with Elizabeth Anderson)
The Constitution is a progressive document
Matt Bruenig’s case for single-payer health care
Can Raj Chetty save the American dream?
Astra Taylor will change how you think about democracy
Is big tech addictive? Nir Eyal and I debate.
Generation Climate Change
Is the media amplifying Trump’s racism? (with Whitney Phillips)
Rutger Bregman’s utopias, and mine
How white identity politics won the Republican civil war
George Will makes the conservative case against democracy
What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do (with Jane Mansbridge)
Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture war [CORRECTED]
White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Richeson re-air)
Behind the panic in white, Christian America
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik)
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mullainathan)
Failing towards Utopia
Why liberals and conservatives create such different media (with Danna Young)
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
This changed how I think about love (with Alison Gopnik)
The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
Michael Lewis reads my mind
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to run for president
How the brains of master meditators change
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawrence Lessig)
The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian Stelter)
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
The purpose of political violence
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
The disillusionment of David Brooks
Emily Oster schools me on parenthood
Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years
Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
How social democrats won Europe — then lost it
In defense of white-backlash politics
Identity, nationalism, and fatherhood
An ex-libertarian’s quest to rebuild the center right
How whiteness distorts our democracy, with Eddie Glaude Jr.
Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change
Meet the policy architect behind the Green New Deal
The somewhat fractured state of American conservatism
American politics after Christianity, with Ross Douthat
Why Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president on climate change
ICYMI: Julia Galef
The roots of extremism, with Deeyah Khan
ICYMI: Paul Krugman
Pop music can make you smarter
Life after climate change, with David Wallace-Wells
Pramila Jayapal thinks we can get to Medicare-for-All fast
Noah Rothman on the "unjustice" of social justice politics
Why should we care about deficits?
Anniversary special: Rachel Maddow
Andrew Sullivan and I work out our differences
The core contradiction of American politics
Leftists vs. liberals, with Elizabeth Bruenig
The world according to Ralph Nader
This conversation will change how you understand misogyny
Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich
Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress
Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational
Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis on campus
Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout
Eric Holder’s plan to save democracy
Anil Dash on the biases of tech
Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions
Best of: N.K. Jemisin
Best-of: Bryan Stevenson
Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Journalism (Live!)
TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening
Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing
How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy
Adam Serwer on white political correctness
Will Storr on why you are not yourself
EHow to be a better carnivore
Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and illiberalism in Israel
EWhere Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind went wrong
The Impact: Deportation without representation
Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ryan’s failure
Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls the media
Ask Ezra Anything
Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh
Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
How identity politics elected Donald Trump
Rep. Mark Sanford on losing the Republican Party to Donald Trump
Doris Kearns Goodwin (live!) on how great presidents are made
What Nate Silver's learned about forecasting elections
EJay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I.
Why Bill Gates is worried
Reihan Salam makes the case against open borders
Jose Antonio Vargas on living undocumented in Trump’s America
Rebecca Traister: Women's rage is transforming America
EPatrick Deneen says liberalism has failed. Is he right?
Francis Fukuyama’s case against identity politics
Carol Anderson on the myth of American democracy
Martha C. Nussbaum on how fear deforms our politics
David French on “The Great White Culture War"
Your attention is being hijacked. Chris Bailey can help.
Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of changing the world
EI build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin
Reup: Zephyr Teachout vs. Corruption
Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate.
Chef Marcus Samuelsson on immigration, creativity, and Anthony Bourdain
EWhy online politics gets so extreme so fast
Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
The surprising story of how American politics polarized
The most important idea for understanding American politics in 2018
What economists and politicians get wrong about trade
How to disagree better
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media right now
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about Trump and Russia (part 2)
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
What Ellen Pao saw coming
The Green Pill
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’s torture program, and the Kochs
Political power and the racial wealth gap
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American complacency
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
Optimism about America
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter reflects on her coverage
The age of "mega-identity" politics
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained by a UN diplomat who saw it start
Is modern society making us depressed?
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
The Sam Harris Debate
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Trump"?
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate change, ending malaria, and the problems money can’t solve
A better conversation on guns
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democratic Party, and he knows it
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
How technology brings out the worst in us, with Tristan Harris
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this the best moment in human history
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
How Democracies Die
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lanier, but I can’t describe it
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Trump and Russia
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first year, the GOP’s “rot,” and the left’s failures
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
What life is like in North Korea
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Paul Krugman
The case for impeachment
What Buddhism got right about the human brain
Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and Anita Hill’s legacy
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It’s caring humans.
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s mental health, and China's rise
Why politics needs more conflict, not less
Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope about Hollywood
What happens when human beings take control of their own evolution?
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Party -- again
David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era and why he hires obsessives
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then came President Trump.
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-right came from, and where it's going
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to criminal justice reform
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed from office
Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, sociopathic era in Congress
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but America's acceptance of it
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change your mind more
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist to run a jail
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and marathoning
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's health bill
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corruption, and breaking monopolies
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia theory
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us from his illiberalism?
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, but justice
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing empathy to politics
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump, and basic incomes
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping social media
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and modern myths
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the politics of order
Tyler Cowen explains it all
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor organizing, and the Supreme Court
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spirituality
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, religion, and 60-day meditation retreats
Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what she thinks of Trump.
Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace diversity
Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting and interviewing
David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis
Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should run for office
JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism
Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committee has become the Democratic Presidential Committee, and that needs to end
Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries of climate change
Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obamacare
You Ask, Ezra Answers
Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and the threat of Russia
Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending to this story"
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rationalism, and the enlightenment
Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, creativity, and learning from the best
Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and empathy
Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of the white working class
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long decline of the GOP
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and you
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade deals, and basic incomes
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas, with Jonathan Cohn
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy is decaying
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politics, media, and more
The best conversation I’ve had about the election, with Molly Ball
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on running Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is health
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump supporters
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning from games, and finding your online identity
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twitter, and fame
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining consensus opinions
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conflicts
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, and connecting newsrooms
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, and indie music
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how the Republican Party lost its way
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the science of flavor
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong about racism
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lessons, and interrogating strangers
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, and modern feminism
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing political correctness, and Donald Trump
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social media
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dating Hillary Clinton, and fighting inequality
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce animal suffering
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to change American politics
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hillary Clinton
David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics
Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up
Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat the world's poor
Theda Skocpol on how political scientists think differently about politics
Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building robots, and the best books he's read
How lobbying works, with super-lobbyist Tony Podesta
Rachel Maddow on skinhead rallies, AIDS activism, and why she doesn't read op-eds