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Back to SearchEhud Olmert on Israel's Catastrophic War in Gaza
It is impossible to overstate how hellish life in Gaza has been for the past 20 months.
The death count is above 50,000 people — more than 15,000 of w…
11 months ago
Best Of: Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is
This is one of my favorite episodes of the show in recent memory. It’s a conversation with the author Salman Rushdie about the experience of losing c…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Emergent Trump Doctrine
Trump has been making some foreign policy moves I didn’t entirely expect. He seems determined to get a nuclear deal with Iran. He’s been public about…
11 months, 1 week ago
Our Lives Are an Endless Series of 'And'
This is a bit of a strange episode. It’s an attempt to explore the difficulty of everything we’re supposed to feel in a day. We’re in a time when to …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Growing Scandal of $TRUMP
Steve Bannon famously talked about using “muzzle velocity” as a strategy: doing so much so quickly that you overwhelm the ability of the media to cov…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump’s Big Budget Bomb
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is the cruelest and most irresponsible piece of domestic legislation to be seriously proposed in my lifetime.
When you t…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump
This episode is about a seemingly simple question: Was there a Joe Biden cover-up?
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book argues there was. “Origina…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Is Trump Losing? A Debate
Is Donald Trump eroding American democracy and consolidating power for himself? Or is he trying to do that and failing? Is this what sliding toward a…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’
I honestly don’t know how I should be educating my kids. A.I. has raised a lot of questions for schools. Teachers have had to adapt to the most ingen…
1 year ago
Best Of: Margaret Atwood on American Myths and Authoritarianism
A good rule of thumb is that whatever Margaret Atwood is worried about now, the rest of us will likely be worried about a decade from now. The rise o…
1 year ago