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A Special Announcement

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Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature.

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Are These Black Leaders on the Cusp of a New National Movement?

4

The Nightmare of Getting an Abortion in the South

5

Ammon Bundy Is Running to Be Idaho’s Next Governor

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How Flint Closed the Gap Between Black and White Suffering Under COVID

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The Afghan Refugee Crisis Has Only Just Begun

8

The Metamorphosis of Kyrsten Sinema

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CNN’s Jake Tapper Says the Media Must Confront Republicans’ Big Lie

10

Escape From the Billionaire Meme Mogul

11

Everything You're Getting Wrong About the Culture Wars

12

Garry Trudeau on Lampooning Trump and Other Lessons from 5 Decades of Doonesbury

13

Can America’s Problems Be Fixed By a President Who Loves Jon Meacham?

14

A Special Summer Announcement from the Podcast Team

15

The Insurrection Was a Giant Recruitment Exercise for Extremists

16

Doctor, Lawyer, Insurrectionist: The Radicalization of Simone Gold

17

Leaked Video: How a Dark Money Group Is Trying to Rig Our Elections

18

“We’re Torn Apart”: Inside India’s Worsening COVID Nightmare

19

“Queen Sugar” Author Natalie Baszile: Black Farmers Can Help Save the Planet

20

The Black Farmer Movement Battling History to Return to the Land

21

The Oscar-Nominated Writers of Judas and the Black Messiah Make History

22

Derek Chauvin Is Guilty. The Fight for Real Justice Is Far From Over.

23

How America's Super-Rich Tax Evaders Are Hurting Everyone

24

The Hidden Influence of Lady Bird Johnson

25

Hope and Fear: The Dangerous New COVID Phase, Explained

26

Stop the COVID Shaming!

27

A Post-Trump Guide to Stopping the Lies and Healing Our Politics

28

What Happened in Jackson, Mississippi, Was a Catastrophe—and a Warning Sign

29

All Hail Pop Queen Selena, Who Showed Us How to Belong

30

Stacey Abrams Is Hellbent on Stopping the GOP's "Jim Crow 2.0"

31

Roxane Gay Says Cancel Culture Does Not Exist

32

The Vaccine Rollout Is Racist. We Can Do Something About That.

33

Biden Can't Make Trump's Immigration Cruelty Vanish Overnight

34

What the Hell Is “Truth and Reconciliation”, Anyway?

35

Impeachment Trial Day One: The Damning Case Against Donald Trump

36

Biden Confronts Our Climate Crisis Head On

37

Dr. Seema Yasmin Grew Up Believing Conspiracies. Now She Fights Them.

38

The Post-Trump Era Is Here: Inside Joe Biden's Historic Inauguration

39

Twice Impeached: Trump’s Name Will Live Forever in Shame and Infamy

40

Trump's Terror Tactics and America's History of Racist Violence

41

I Watched the Capitol Siege Begin. I Was Threatened For Being a Reporter.

42

BREAKING: Goodbye, Mitch. Democrats Win the Senate.

43

Trump Won't Stop Lying, Extorting, and Cheating, Even If It Kills the GOP

44

2020 Needs Its Own History Book. Here’s Our First Draft.

45

“He Won’t Get Played:” Biden’s Biographer on Lessons from the Obama White House

46

Prayer and Politics: On the Campaign Trail in Georgia with Raphael Warnock

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Georgia’s Runoff Races Are Usually Disasters for Dems. This Time Is Different.

48

Will Biden Finally Fix America's Crippling Student Debt Crisis?

49

The Safest Ways to Celebrate Thanksgiving, According to Science

50

Surge Shock: Top Coronavirus Experts Share Fixes for Our Broken System

51

Biden Won. Now He Needs to Save the Planet.

52

Live Podcast Special: How Biden Banished Trump

53

No Clear Outcome. No Clear Rejection of Trump. Now We Wait.

54

Staying Sane During America's Coming Constitutional Firestorm

55

Live Special: How to Survive Election Night (and Beyond)

56

How Biden Can Pull Off the Once-Unthinkable: Win Arizona

57

Trump, Guns, and 2020: One Hunting Family Tackles America's Biggest Debates

58

Trump’s Biggest Florida Influencer: A Cuban YouTuber with a Pet Monkey

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Trump's Trashy Debate Performance Proved Biden's Point: This Choice Is Stark

60

After RBG: Our Fight for Democracy Just Got More Desperate

61

CNN's Brian Stelter: Inside the Toxic Trump-Fox Feedback Loop

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Young. Black. Gay. Heading to Congress. Meet the Ascendant Mondaire Jones.

63

QAnon Is Infecting Congress. How the Wild Conspiracy Theory Went Mainstream.

64

Progressive Prosecutors Are Frontline Fighters in the New Culture War

65

The Biggest Night of Kamala Harris's Life

66

"We Know How to Lead." Rep. Barbara Lee on Kamala Harris and the Unifying Power of Black Women

67

I'm a New Dad Freaking Out About Pandemic Day Care. So I Called the Expert.

68

An Unhinged President Declares War on Protesters. (No, Not Trump.)

69

Samantha Bee: What Using the C-Word Taught Me About Trump-Era Comedy

70

Debbie Harry on Blondie, Bowie, and Bees

71

John Leguizamo on Trump, Dirty Jokes, and Whitewashing Latinx History

72

Screaming and Christmas Trees: A Beloved Rehab's Dark Side

73

"Our Job Is to Unlearn All That Shit": Actor Diane Guerrero Reckons With Whiteness in Hollywood and Beyond

74

Lies. Lies. Lies. Lies. How Much More Can America Take, Mr. President?

75

Defunding the Police Is Only the Beginning

76

"Bigotry Is a Lethal Weapon": Ibram X. Kendi's Guide to Fighting Racism

77

This Summer Will Be Long, Violent, and Necessary

78

The Unprecedented Challenge of Grieving 100,000 Americans

79

Celebrate Pandemic Workers. Then Fight Like Hell for Their Rights.

80

Exclusive: Stacey Abrams on Trump's Existential Threat to Voting

81

Fight Trump with Science. Fight Trump with Data. Fight Trump with Facts.

82

Trump's 100 Days of Deadly Coronavirus Denial

83

ICE Detainees Got Pepper-Sprayed After Demanding Coronavirus Help

84

Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiffs' Urgent Plans to Investigate Trump’s Coronavirus Disaster

85

Online Learning During the Pandemic Is Extra Tough Where Wifi Is Illegal

86

I Beat COVID-19. But I Can’t Donate My Blood for Research Because I’m Gay.

87

Doctors on the Pandemic Frontlines Speak Out

88

Many Restaurants May Never Re-Open After Coronavirus

89

Surviving Trump’s Border Crossing is Just the Beginning. Here’s What Happens Next.

90

I’m Self-Quarantined for Coronavirus After Attending Trump's Big GOP Love-in

91

Sci-Fi Genius William Gibson's Trump-Free Alternate Reality

92

Super Tuesday Special: Biden's Big Night. Bernie's Long Fight.

93

Pramila Jayapal on Bernie's Historic Candidacy and Trump's Toxic Presidency

94

How the QAnon Conspiracy is Adapting to Help Trump in 2020

95

She Killed Her 3 Kids. Does She Belong in Prison?

96

How Bernie Sanders Won New Hampshire

97

What the Iowa Caucus Data Debacle Means

98

Trump Is Going to Get Off Scot-free. Or Is He?

99

Van Jones: Liberals Can Work With Trump to Make America Better

100

Trump Is an "Existential" Threat: Ilana Glazer, Eric Holder, and 2020

101

My Brother Fled Australia's Climate-Fueled Inferno: "It Was a War Zone"

102

The Political Fight that Will Shape 2020—and Beyond

103

How to Burst Your Reality Bubble and Embrace Lasting Solutions

104

Trump's Name Will Be Stained By Impeachment Forever

105

They Made a Killing on the Mortgage Crisis. Now They Run Trump's America.

106

We've Never Seen a Primary Season Quite Like This

107

Trump's Stealth Attack on Skilled Migration

108

Trump Is Winning the Border Wars. For Now.

109

The Republican Conspiracy Frenzy Can Only Protect Trump for So Long

110

A Fearless Pop Superstar Navigates Hong Kong’s Violent Stand-Off

111

We Got 8 Presidential Candidates to Confront the World's Biggest Threat

112

Ronan Farrow on How NBC Almost Derailed #MeToo Before It Began

113

Inside the US Marshals' Secretive, Deadly Detention Empire

114

Trump's Reckless Gift to ISIS

115

Naomi Klein’s Blistering Warning: Fight for Your Lives.

116

Trump's Unexplained $50 Million Loan. Is It Tax Fraud?

117

History Comes Knocking for Donald Trump

118

I'm Racist. You're Racist. The System Is Racist. Now What?

119

Searing 9/11 Stories from the Day that Changed Everything

120

“Our President Is Unstable”: A Senator Tears into Trump's Reckless Racism

121

Rapsody’s Newest Album Is a Rapturous Celebration of Black Womanhood

122

A Radical Idea for Reclaiming Our Toxic Reality

123

Epstein, QAnon, and the Conspiracist in Chief

124

El Paso’s Nightmare Is America’s New Normal

125

Trump Killed the Era of Great American Diplomacy

126

Gun-Safety Activist Shannon Watts on How to Fight Like a Mom and Beat the NRA

127

Critic Emily Nussbaum Says You Should Never Feel Shame for Loving that TV Show

128

An Unaccompanied Minor's Online Detective Work Is Giving Hope to Others

129

"Intentional Cruelty": AOC Tells Us What She Saw Inside a Migrant Detention Center

130

Tennessee Is Accelerating Executions. I Went to See Why.

131

Betrayal. Torture. Escape. An American ISIS Wife’s Exclusive Tell-All.

132

Inside an ISIS Prison

133

My Secret Journey to the War America Can't Escape

134

Happy Pride. Here’s What We’re Fighting For.

135

The Only State Lawmaker Who Lives on the Border

136

Women Are Under Attack and Fighting Back

137

Julián Castro's Anti-Trump Border Battle

138

Trump Is Rigging the Census

139

Want Access? Pay Your Way to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.

140

Doug Jones Explains How to Win in the South

141

The Mueller Report Is the Opposite of an Exoneration

142

Columbine Changed Everything

143

How One Border Town Beat Extremist Vigilantes

144

Mayor Pete’s Plan to Beat Trump

145

Donald Trump Should Probably Stop Dancing in the Street

146

Mueller Is Done. Trump Is About To Go Nuclear.

147

How Tech Giants Gave the NZ Shooter More Firepower

148

Now Is the Time to Freak Out

149

The Real Border Crisis Trump’s Not Talking About

150

Rehabs Are Targeting and Trapping Opioid Users

151

How to Finally Reboot the Oscars

152

So Many Candidates. Who Can Beat Trump?

153

The Maddening Fight for 6-Year-Old Moira Ermentrout

154

Everyone Hates the State of the Union Address

155

Breaking News Edition: Why Roger Stone's Arrest Should Scare Don Jr.

156

The Painful Reality of Surviving Trump’s Shutdown

157

Mr. President, Have You Ever Worked for Russia?

158

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Biggest Fight

159

He Was Dying. Then Doctors Tried Some Forgotten Viruses.

160

Be a Better You: How to Break Political Tribalism

161

DeRay Mckesson on How to Turn Outrage into Hope

162

"Broad City" Star Ilana Glazer Takes Over the Podcast

163

David Byrne Rode His Bike to Our Office and Talked About Everything

164

Trump Put a Target on Our Backs: Trans Americans Fight Back

165

How the Trump-Addicted Media Blew Another Election

166

Lie, Block, Betray: Trump After the Blue Wave

167

Breaking News Edition: Trump Goes Full Mob Boss

168

Trump Wakes Up Shaking

169

Trump Ate the GOP. Now He’s Digesting It.

170

It’s Finally Time to Talk About the Polls

171

Road Trip Through the Battleground States

172

The Argument for Rage

173

The Conservative Case for Destroying the GOP

174

Breaking News Edition: Ford’s Bravery, Kavanaugh's Fury

175

A Constitutional Crisis Is Just a Tweet Away

176

Voting Has Never Been Harder—or More Important

177

The Viruses That Could Save Us All

178

The Mind-Boggling Private Prison Comeback

179

America's Rage-Inducing Student Debt Machine

180

Cohen, Guilty. Manafort, Guilty. Now What?

181

Parkland Teens Are Throwing Everything at the Midterms

182

Putin Is Hacking America on Trump's Watch

183

Ben Carson’s War on Fair Housing

184

#MeToo Heads to Church

185

Rev. William Barber Is Fighting Like Hell for Democracy

186

Can Violent Racists Kick Their Addiction to Hate?

187

Who Gets to Make America

188

Nightmare at the Border

189

Dan Pfeiffer Tries to Save America

190

Strippers, Guns, and Cash: Selling Painkillers in America

191

Torn Apart by Trump's Travel Ban

192

Make America Toxic Again

193

Primary Season in America

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