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How a Radical Hippie Experiment Changed American Policing

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Are We Becoming Too Afraid to Take Risks? | With Allison Schrager

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Why Scientists Are Suddenly So Optimistic About Alzheimer’s

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The Race for the Arctic Has Already Begun. Is America Ready? | With Rana Foroohar

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AI Experts Are Warning About Human Extinction. Here’s What They’re Missing

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The Science of Sports Betting: How Gambling Apps Are Changing Our Brains | with Dr. Brendan Dwyer and Isaac Rose-Berman

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The World Map You Grew Up With Is Wrong

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Could Reparations Actually Happen in America? With Prof. Dorothy Brown

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AI Was Supposed to Destroy Jobs. Here's What Actually Happened

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Why We Can't Picture a Good Future Anymore | With Ari Wallach

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AI Designed a Cancer Therapy, Cyborg Bugs Are Saving Lives, and the Farmworkers Who Fought Back

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Alien Civilizations, Mars Colonization & Humanity in the Age of AI | With Dr. Dakotah Tyler

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Introducing: The Ongoing Transformation

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Social Media Is Making Politics Feel Worse Than It Really Is | With David Pakman

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The Crime Wave Is Over. Why Does Nobody Believe It?

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The AI Future Isn’t Inevitable. So Why Are We Told It Is? | With Carissa Véliz

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Why the Experts Were Wrong about India

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How Haters Can Accidentally Make You Happier | with Ronda Rousey

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The Case for Rewriting Nature's Code | with Ben Lamm

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Global Shark Conservation Sees Historic Regulatory Breakthroughs

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Why the Economic Numbers Don't Match How You Feel | With Mark Zandi

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The Invisible Arms Race Against Wildfire Smoke

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The Case for Embracing Limits | with David Epstein

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Opening a Nearly 2,000-Year-Old Treasure + Reviving Eyes for Science and Shark-Spotting Drones

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The Era of Mass Incarceration May Actually Be Ending | with Alex Duran

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Average Joes Making Positive Change

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The Case Against Cynicism | with Greg Jackson & Steven Johnson

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Can We Please Celebrate America's 250th Without Whitewashing the Past? | with Alexis Coe

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The Race to Catalogue Biodiversity + Brain Implants and Sweating Robots

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How to Read Economic News Without Spiraling | with Alex Mayyasi

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The Odds Favor Democracy + Safer Prenatal Screening and Good News for Disenfranchised Voters

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Is Free Expression Actually Under Attack? | with Dinaw Mengestu

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The 30-Year Animation Problem Pixar Just Solved + Accessible Travel is Booming and AI-Designed Vaccines

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Surviving the 80-Year Cycle of American Crises | with Anthony Scaramucci

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What Really Happened After the Affirmative Action Ban + Deep Sea Discoveries and Moon Base Missions

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Why AI and Drones Won’t Bring the Apocalypse | with Sarah Kreps

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What the Headlines Aren’t Telling You About Ebola, Plus India's Solar Revolution and a Chicago Medical Miracle

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The Surprising Ritual Renaissance | with Bruce Feiler

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American Dads Are Stepping Up, Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Patients, and Oklahoma Bans Child Marriage

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Real Progress: Why We Ignore How Good We Have It | with Nick Gillespie

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Looted Artifacts Returned, Rape Kit Backlogs Slashed, and a Fatal Disease That's Now Treatable

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The Case for Not Knowing | with Simone Stolzoff

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Gene Therapy Is Giving Blind People Their Sight Back + The UK Bans Smoking Forever and Solar Power From Space

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Why $6 Gas Isn't the End of the World | with Jason Bordoff

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Chernobyl’s Unintended Nature Reserve + The End of the Coal Era and a New Frontier in IVF

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Can We Achieve "Super Abundance" Without AI Doom? | with Sebastian Mallaby

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Trump’s Surprising Move on Psychedelics + A Record Year for Humpback Whales

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Is the World Order Actually Disintegrating? | with Ian Bremmer

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How Hungary Ousted an Authoritarian + Ocean Progress, Falling Rents, and Thailand’s New DM Laws

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Do we need a NEW America? | with Anne-Marie Slaughter

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Turning Down the Headline Noise

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The Progress Report: China’s Climate Change Commitment

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Whatever Happened to Civics? with Nick Capodice

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The Progress Report: This Bacteria Beats Dengue Fever

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Turning Science Fiction Into Reality with Ed Finn

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The Progress Report: Techie to Trekkie: AirPods That Translate!

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The Guardian of Public Lands with Josh Jackson

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Democracy’s Next Chapter: Hope or Decline? with Brink Lindsey

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Parent by Numbers with Emily Oster

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The Progress Report: Clean Energy Is Crushing It

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Godfather of the New Right with Sam Tanenhaus

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The Progress Report: We're Divorcing Like It's 1959

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Is the US Still a Rule of Law Country? with Joyce Vance

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The Progress Report: Crime Is Down, Fear Is Up!

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Shaking Up the Vatican with Austen Ivereigh

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Are We Wasting Our Talent? with Rutger Bregman

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The Progress Report: Japan’s Tsunami Tech Saves Lives

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Does the Deficit Even Matter? with Stephanie Kelton

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Education Where the Internet Can't Reach with Laura Hosman

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The Progress Report: $16 Billion for Childcare and the World's First Climate Visa

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A Historian’s Look Into America’s Future with Garrett Graff

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The Progress Report: Clean Up on Aisle Everest

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What Makes Societies Thrive? with Johan Norberg

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The Progress Report: A Robot Saved My Heart

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Climate Change's Agriculture Problem with Michael Grunwald

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The Progress Report: FDA Approves HIV Prevention Gamechanger

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Are High-Achieving Families Born or Made? with Susan Dominus

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The Progress Report: Child Labor Drops by 100 Million

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The Capitalism Conundrum with John Cassidy

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The Progress Report: With or Without the U.S.

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Judicial vs. Executive: Preventing a King with Jeffrey Rosen

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Progress Report: Vatican City Runs on Pure Sunshine

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Democrats: What the Heck Happened? with Jaime Harrison

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The Progress Report: The US Says 'I Don't' to Child Marriage

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Introducing: The Ongoing Transformation

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The Progress Report: Crime Plummets in 2025!

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The View from Canada with David Frum

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The Progress Report: Would You Let Snakes Bite You for Science?

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Modern Money and Marketcrafters with Chris Hughes

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Introducing The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)

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The Progress Report: Ancient Scrolls Decoded by AI!

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The Supreme Court vs. Donald Trump with Stephen Vladeck

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The Progress Report: Science Tastes Like Chicken

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Is the US Repeating Brexit's Mistakes? with Gillian Tett

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The Progress Report: We've Got Aliens!

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Navigating and Negotiating the Middle East with Dr. Jon Alterman

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The Progress Report: Brazil Could Go Right!

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What American Global Empire? with Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

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The Progress Report: All Aboard the 3D Express!

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The Antitrust Advocate with Matt Stoller