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What Does a Robot With a Soul Sound Like?
Episode 115
The sound designer Randy Thom was faced with a challenge: What does a robot sound like? And what if that robot learns to love?
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11 months, 4 weeks ago
The Five Eyes Have Noticed
Episode 114
We talk with staff writer Anne Applebaum about what she calls the “end of the post–World War II order.” We also talk with staff writer Shane Harris, …
1 year ago
Americans Are Stuck. Who's to Blame?
Episode 113
Americans used to move all the time to better their lives. Then they stopped. Why?
Read Yoni Appelbaum’s cover story on The Atlantic here.
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1 year ago
The Strange, Lonely Childhood of Neko Case
Episode 112
In a new memoir, the singer-songwriter Neko Case recounts a childhood of poverty and neglect: a mother who left her and a father who was barely there…
1 year ago
Purge Now, Pay Later
Episode 111
Parts of the federal government are being dismantled. But although the decisions from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are unusual—perhaps even u…
1 year ago
The War for Your Attention
Episode 110
Our attention is finite and valuable. And it’s nearing its breaking point. In a new book, MSNBC host Chris Hayes explains how everything—from politic…
1 year ago
The Chaos of Blanket Pardons
Episode 109
In a matter of hours after being sworn into office, President Donald Trump delivered on a promise in a way that even high-level Republicans didn’t se…
1 year, 1 month ago
January 6 and the Case for Oblivion
Episode 108
As Donald Trump prepares to take office again, the country is still coming to terms with what happened on January 6, 2021. But perhaps the best way t…
1 year, 1 month ago
Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Coalition Starts to Fracture
Episode 107
The MAGA alliance that helped elect Donald Trump is starting to show signs of fracturing. It recently came to a head after an important argument brok…
1 year, 1 month ago
Me, My Future, and I
Episode 106
Hanna talks to the creators of an AI project called Future You. She also has a conversation with a future version of herself. But the person she meet…
1 year, 1 month ago