Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSam 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 2 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, …
5 years, 2 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 …
5 years, 2 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…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Spectacle of the G.O.P.'s Shrinking Tent
On May 12, House Republicans voted to remove Representative Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House, from her leadership post. Her tran…
5 years, 2 months ago
Status Games, Polyamory and the Merits of Meritocracy
Agnes Callard is an ethical philosopher who dissects, in dazzlingly precise detail, familiar human experiences that we think we understand. Whether h…
5 years, 2 months ago
Michael Lewis Is Asking the Right Question
Michael Lewis’s new book, “The Premonition,” is about one of the most important questions of this moment: Why, despite having the most money, the bri…
5 years, 2 months ago