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What Could Go Right? — 227 episodes

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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

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The Progress Report: The World Bank Goes Nuclear

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Are We the Real Fossil Fools? with Emily Atkin

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The Progress Report: Ebola Scare and Obamacare

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DOGE, Democracy, and Everything Between with Matthew Yglesias

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The Progress Report: Construction: It’s Electric!

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Everything Is Tuberculosis, But It Doesn’t Have to Be with John Green

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The Progress Report: Erasing Hidden Hazards

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Tariffs, Trade, and TikTok with Noah Smith

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The Return to Trumplandia

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What Could Go Right: New Episodes March 5th

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BONUS: We want to hear from YOU

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Looking Back and Moving Forward

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Introducing What’s Your Problem: The World Is Getting Better with Hannah Ritchie

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The Progress Report: Legislative Transplants

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Election Reflection with Robert Wright

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The Progress Report: Recovered Life Expectancy

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The Throes of Trumplandia with Ana Marie Cox

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The Progress Report: Here and Now

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Maggots, Monkeys, and Mars with Mary Roach

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The Progress Report: Looming Changes

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Past and Present Power with Peter Frankopan

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The Progress Report: Advancements and Deposits

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Undertaking Utopia with Kristen R. Ghodsee

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The Progress Report: Improving Communication

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The Beleaguered Club of Eternal Optimists with Bill Burke

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The Progress Report: Good Decreases

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From Hamas to Hezbollah with Steven A. Cook

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A Community Fight in Wisconsin, From To See Each Other

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The Progress Report: Positive Innovation

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The Dish on Disinformation with Jiore Craig

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The Progress Report: Interest Rates of Social Change

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The Attention Deficit with Gloria Mark

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The Progress Report: New Discoveries

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What's So Good About Immigration? with Zeke Hernandez

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The Progress Report: Shifting Attitudes

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The Politics of Ranked Choice with Andrew Yang

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The Progress Report: Expect the Unexpected

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Introducing The Global Story

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The Progress Report: Medical Advancements

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The Kamala Pivot with Evan Osnos

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The Two Sides of Gene Editing with Kevin Davies

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The Progress Report: Smarter Insulin

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Elite Gatekeepers with Musa al-Gharbi

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The Progress Report: Pro-Democracy Protests

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Psychedelic Sea Change with Oshan Jarow

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The Progress Report: Olympic Strides Forward

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Beyond the Bluff with Maria Konnikova

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The Progress Report: Green Steel Revolution

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The Wild Week with Bret Stephens

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The Progress Report: The Implications of an Assassination Attempt and A Global News Roundup

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Mental Health & the Impact of Therapy Culture with Author Abigail K. Shrier

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The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of New Media with Buzzfeed's Founding Editor Ben Smith

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Introducing Say More: Beating Burnout with Krista Tippett

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The Progress Report: Decriminalizion of Marijuana & A Global News Roundup

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India Rising with Ravi Agrawal

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The Progress Report: Repairs to the Ozone & A Global News Roundup

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How to Be a Supercommunicator with Journalist & Author Charles Duhigg

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The Progress Report: Elections in the EU and A Global News Roundup

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Progress, Polarization, and Backlash with CNN host Fareed Zakaria

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The Social Media Generation with Psychologist Jonathan Haidt

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Red, White, and Due: The Polarizing Topic of Taxes with Scholar Vanessa Williamson

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The Poll Miner: Elections and Polling with CEO John Gerzema

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Being Jewish Today with Author & Professor Noah Feldman

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America's Next Economy with Natalie Foster

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Veterans and Invisible War: Lessons from Phil Klay

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The Honesty of Our Economy with Allison Schrager

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A Colorblind Nation: A Conversation About Race and Progress With Coleman Hughes

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Introducing The Ongoing Transformation: Finding Collective Advantage in Shared Knowledge

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Progress Check: Season 5 Recap with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

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Lessons From Former Presidents with Jared Cohen

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Inside Election Administration with Arizona's Secretary of State with Adrian Fontes

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Marxism and Modern Society with Freddie deBoer

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Can We Collectively Change the Internet? with Chris Anderson

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Is Free Speech Dead? with Greg Lukianoff

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Progress Check: 2024's Election Frenzy with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

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Hashtag Trauma with Scott Barry Kaufman

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A Science of Culture with Michael Muthukrishna

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Revisiting The Feminine Mystique with Rachel Shteir

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Climate Capital and a Green Tech Future with Jigar Shah

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Progress Check: Politics and AI, Homeless Vets, and STDs with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

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Change Is the Operative Force of History with Drew Gilpin Faust

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Not Too Late for the Climate with Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua

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Progress Check: Climate Dads, Cell Phone Bans, and Asteroid Sampling with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

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Navigating Israel-Palestine with Ian Bremmer

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The Great Awokening's Great Mistakes with Yascha Mounk

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A System Under Stress: Lincoln and Today with Steve Inskeep

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Progress Check: Catching Up on the News with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

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Introducing What’s Your Problem: Building a Plane to Help Save the World

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Introducing Smart People Podcast: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

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Introducing Ones and Tooze: Could Green Hydrogen Revolutionize the Energy Sector?

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A Look Back and A Look Forward with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

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Renovating Our House with Danielle Allen

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A Better World with James Pethokoukis

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Science with Sara Walker

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How to Be Optimistic About America with John Avlon

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Ukraine's Counteroffensive with Tim Mak

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Demon Drugs and Moral Panics with Maia Szalavitz

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Artificial Unintelligence with Baratunde Thurston

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Challenging the Consensus on China with Jessica Chen Weiss

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Demanding More: Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa with Ebenezer Obadare

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The Boys Are Not All Right with Richard Reeves

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The Globalization Myth with Shannon O'Neil

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How to Create Positive Change with Danielle Moodie and Wajahat Ali

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Entangled with Isaac Saul

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Bootstrapping the American Dream with Alissa Quart

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Government Secrecy with Matthew J. Connelly

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Living Up to America's Promises with Peniel E. Joseph

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Moral Ambition with Rutger Bregman

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Good Indicators: A Bird's Eye View of 2023 with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

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Misinformation, Climate Momentum, and Negative Headlines with Bina Venkataraman

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The Modern Muslim World, Social Media's Positive Effects, and Gay Marriage in America with Mustafa Akyol

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The Fix for Crypto, Healthcare, and Equal Opportunity with Avik Roy

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Moving Away from Toxicity: Recapping the Midterms with Steve Clemons

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Democracy on the Ballot, Climate Change, and Salary Transparency

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World Energy, Student Loans, and Iran with Reza Aslan

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Midterms, Gerrymandering, Bias, and Conspiracy with Sharon McMahon

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Space News, Hearing Aids, and a Changing Tomorrow with Jason Feifer

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Pardons, Guaranteed Income, and "Superabundance" with Gale L. Pooley and Marian L. Tupy

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Why Is Violent Crime Rising? with Jennifer Doleac

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Legalizing Marijuana, Electric Cars, and What’s Going on with California? with Sen. Robert Hertzberg

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Vaccine Equity and Bipartisan Reality with Rep. Eric Swalwell and Gov. Jeff Colyer

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The New Space Race with Ché Bolden

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Facing America's Biggest Challenges with Victoria Pratt & Lauren Leader

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The Interfaith Imperative with Eboo Patel

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Wisdom for Smart Tech with Ayesha Khanna

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Race in America, 2 Years After George Floyd with Theodore R. Johnson

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The Philanthropic Moment with Rachel Pritzker and David Callahan

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Global Trade: The Race to the Top with Gregg Easterbrook

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Pandemic "Retrospective" with Nicholas Christakis and Ezekiel Emanuel

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The Information Horizon with Tyler Cowen

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The World Post-Putin with Anne-Marie Slaughter

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The Happiness Rebellion with Arthur C. Brooks

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Does Work Work Anymore? with Roy Bahat

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The Progress Movement with Jason Crawford

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The Plague Cycle (Bonus)

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Bridging Our Divides (Bonus)

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The Population Explosion (Bonus)

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Our Lonely Century (Bonus)

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We Are the Outrage Machine (Bonus)

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The Crypto Dream (Bonus)

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This Changes Everything: The World-Turning Power of Ideas (Bonus)

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Rethinking Today's Capitalism (Bonus)

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The Next Wave of Higher Education (Bonus)

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Maybe We're Not F*cked: Moving the Climate Conversation Forward (Bonus)

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Live from Web Summit: An Affordable Internet & Pharmaceutical Psychedelics (Bonus)

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Live from Web Summit: Drone Delivery & Turning Buildings into Teslas (Bonus)

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A Future We Want with Yancey Strickler

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You Can't Say Anything Anymore with Suzanne Nossel

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Global Change Starts at Home with James Fallows and Parag Khanna

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What's Next for the World? with John McArthur

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Are We In a Transformational Moment? with John Wood, Jr.

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GDP Ain't Measuring Up with Diane Coyle

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Politics Doesn't Have To Be Our Everything with Jonathan Haidt and Alison Goldsworthy

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Building a Better Internet with Danielle Keats Citron and Eli Pariser

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The Future of Work with Zeynep Ton and Joan C. Williams

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The Raging 2020s with Alec Ross