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Trump’s Courtroom Campaign
Episode 68
The Stormy Daniels case may have a less serious fact pattern. But it might turn out to be the one chance to hold Donald Trump accountable for electio…
1 year, 8 months ago
Money Can Buy You Everything, Except Maybe a Birkin Bag
Episode 67
Is having a Birkin bag ... a right? Earlier this year, two California residents filed a class-action lawsuit against the French luxury design company…
1 year, 8 months ago
During the Eclipse, Don't Just Look Up
Episode 66
Where were you for the 2017 total eclipse? Where will you be this year? And where will you be for the next one in 2045? Hanna talks to Atlantic staff…
1 year, 9 months ago
Do Trump Supporters Mind When He Mocks Biden’s Stutter?
Episode 65
Atlantic political reporter John Hendrickson has had a stutter since he was a kid. Recently he heard Donald Trump make fun of Joe Biden’s stutter, an…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Smartphone Kids Are Not All Right
Episode 64
Hanna talks to her child Jacob about the thing they've argued the most about: being on their phone.
Then, Hanna sits down with social psychologist Jon…
1 year, 9 months ago
Inside a Hospital’s Abortion Committee
Episode 63
Sarah Osmundson knows how to talk about abortion. She’s learned over the course of her career as a maternal-fetal medicine doctor that some patients …
1 year, 9 months ago
The Sound of Cruelty
Episode 62
We talk to Oscar-nominated sound designer Johnnie Burn about how he created the soundscape of horrors for The Zone of Interest. Burn explains how he …
1 year, 10 months ago
The Lost Boys of Big Tech
Episode 61
The original “Burn Book” from Mean Girls was used to spread rumors and gossip about other girls (and some boys) at North Shore High School. Kara Swis…
1 year, 10 months ago
Maybe You Should Quit Therapy
Episode 60
Dr. Richard Friedman has been teaching and seeing patients for more than 35 years. Recently, he wrote about the idea that, if therapy has become less…
1 year, 10 months ago
What If Your Best Friend Is Your Soulmate?
Episode 59
How would life be different if we centered it on our friends? In her new book, The Other Significant Others, Rhaina Cohen visits the extremes of frie…
1 year, 10 months ago