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All Your Camp Are Belong to U.S.
Season 9 Episode 163
In “Will We Tolerate Concentration Camps and Slave Labor?”, Steven Beschloss warns that America may be on the verge of something monstrous: mass depo…
1 year, 2 months ago
What a Police Officer Is—and Is Not: A Field Note
Season 9 Episode 111
So much modern talk about policing rests on a wish: that the officer showing up at your worst moment is a hybrid — therapist, social worker, priest, …
1 year, 3 months ago
Zeus the Trump: The American Thunder God
Season 9 Episode 100
How America’s Godless Made a Thunder God Out of a Mortal Clown
I saw someone on Reddit shrug: “The thing is, he’s actually responsible for stuff. He’s…
1 year, 3 months ago
A Trump-Shaped Hole
Season 9 Episode 90
There’s an ancient fear that always asks: Who did this? Who angered the gods? When storms crush fields or floods drown children at camp, our ancestor…
1 year, 3 months ago
Invisibly Fenced
Season 8 Episode 99
Every protest sign you’ve ever waved, every petty theft you bragged about, every mask you wore — it’s all been scraped up, timestamped, and tucked in…
1 year, 3 months ago
Two Sides of the Same Coin
Season 9 Episode 88
When Silicon Valley and the CCP Start Speaking the Same Language
Let’s get real: the world’s two most powerful nations are building surveillance socie…
1 year, 3 months ago
Supermodels vs. AI Dolls: Brave Girls, Real Risk
Season 9 Episode 80
TED Radio Hour: The State of Fashion
TED Radio Hour: Supermodel Cameron Russell says she helped a 'grotesque industry' look beautiful
I listened to Cam…
1 year, 3 months ago
Trump the Carnival Brawler
Season 9 Episode 79
The Trickster as 47th President by Chris Abraham
Donald Trump was always easy to sneer at. He was a tabloid punchline long before he was the gold-plat…
1 year, 3 months ago
Declaration of Interdependence
Season 9 Episode 77
What We Forget When We Remember Ourselves
Every Fourth of July I get this itch — not to dunk on the country I love, but to scratch at the paint and se…
1 year, 3 months ago
Big Beautiful Bunker Buster Bill
Season 9 Episode 76
It’s the Fourth of July and Congress just crammed through the Big Beautiful Bunker Buster Bill — 870 pages of fences and tax cuts, border walls and m…
1 year, 3 months ago