Podcast Episodes

George Saunders on Anger, Ambition and Sin

George Saunders is tired of being the “kindness guy.”

Saunders is one of my favorite fiction writers, and a friend of the pod; I talked to him back in…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

We Didn’t Ask for This Internet

Ragebait, sponcon, A.I. slop — the internet of 2026 makes a lot of us nostalgic for the internet of 10 or 15 years ago.

What exactly went wrong here? …

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Is Your Social Life Missing Something? This Is For You.

My motivation for this episode is personal. One of my resolutions this year is to spend more time hosting and to make those gatherings more meaningfu…

5 months, 4 weeks ago

How the World Sees America, With Adam Tooze

The old world order is dying. What new world order — if any — is struggling to be born?

I can’t think of a week when it felt clearer that an era was c…

6 months ago

The Most Important Foreign Policy Speech in Years

“We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition,” Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada announced last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, …

6 months ago

Minneapolis Reveals Where Trump's Deportation Agenda Is Going

There’s so much more happening than what you see in online video clips.

Congress gave Trump a staggering, military-size budget for immigration enforce…

6 months, 1 week ago

Has Trump Achieved a Lot Less Than It Seems?

We are one year into Trump’s second term. And it feels like so much has happened – more than the human mind, or the country, can absorb. But how much…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?

State Representative James Talarico of Texas might have been our most requested guest last year. And he seemed to come out of nowhere.

Talarico starte…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’

The shocking events of January have sent a message: America works differently now. 

M. Gessen is a Times Opinion columnist and the author of books abo…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

What Trump Wants in Venezuela

What is America doing in Venezuela?

On Jan. 3, the Trump administration launched an operation that ended with the capture of President Nicolás Maduro,…

6 months, 3 weeks ago