Podcast Episodes

Sarah Schulman’s Radical Approach to Conflict, Communication and Change

Sarah Schulman’s work — as a nonfiction writer, novelist, activist, playwright and filmmaker — confronts the very thing most people try to avoid: con…

4 years, 10 months ago

Welcome to the ‘Take This Job and Shove It’ Economy

This is a strange moment in the economy. Wages are up, but so is inflation. Jobs are growing, but maybe not fast enough. Quit rates are at a 21st-cen…

4 years, 10 months ago

The Freeing of the American Mind

Free minds. Freedom fries. Free speech. The Freedom Caucus. Freedom from. Freedom to. What do Americans really mean when they talk about freedom?

Loui…

4 years, 11 months ago

Sam Altman on the A.I. Revolution, Trillionaires and the Future of Political Power

“The technological progress we make in the next 100 years will be far larger than all we’ve made since we first controlled fire and invented the whee…

4 years, 11 months ago

Employers Are Begging for Workers. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.

There has been a bit of panic lately over employers who say not enough people want to apply for open jobs. Are we facing a labor shortage? Have stimu…

4 years, 11 months ago

Is A.I. the Problem? Or Are We?

If you talk to many of the people working on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence research, you’ll hear that we are on the cusp of a technolog…

4 years, 11 months ago

Obama Explains How America Went From ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘MAGA’

“My entire politics is premised on the fact that we are these tiny organisms on this little speck floating in the middle of space,” Barack Obama told…

4 years, 11 months ago

Sway: How Online Sleuths Pantsed Putin

Today, while I'm on vacation, we're sharing an episode from Sway, a fellow New York Times Opinion podcast. Host Kara Swisher talks to Eliot Higgins, …

4 years, 11 months ago

The Argument: Should We Cancel Student Loan Debt?

This week, while I'm on vacation, we'll be sharing work from two other New York Times Opinion podcasts. First up, an episode from our friends at The …

4 years, 11 months ago

Violent Crime Is Spiking. Do Liberals Have an Answer?

Early estimates find that in 2020, homicides in the United States increased somewhere between 25 percent and nearly 40 percent, the largest spike sin…

4 years, 11 months ago