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Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then came President Trump.
Episode 90
Dan Rather has covered the most momentous events of the modern era. He was in Dallas, Texas, during President Kennedy's assassination. He was in Viet…
8 years, 6 months ago
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-right came from, and where it's going
Episode 89
Angela Nagle spent the better part of the past decade in the darkest corners of the internet, learning how online subcultures emerge and thrive on fo…
8 years, 6 months ago
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to criminal justice reform
Episode 88
Angela J. Davis is the former director of the DC public defender service, a professor of law at American University, and editor of a remarkable new b…
8 years, 6 months ago
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed from office
Episode 87
In the aftermath of Trump’s bizarre, dangerous North Korea tweets, I’ve been fixated on a question: Should Trump be removed from office? The mechanis…
8 years, 6 months ago
Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, sociopathic era in Congress
Episode 86
Michael Bennet is an accidental senator. He was unexpectedly appointed to fill an open seat after Ken Salazar joined the Obama administration. He had…
8 years, 7 months ago
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but America's acceptance of it
Episode 85
Yascha Mounk is a lecturer at Harvard, a columnist at Slate, and the host of The Good Fight podcast. He’s also an expert on how democracies backslide…
8 years, 7 months ago
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change your mind more
Episode 84
At least in politics, this is an era of awful arguments. Arguments made in bad faith. Arguments in which no one, on either side, is willing to change…
8 years, 7 months ago
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist to run a jail
Episode 83
Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart calls the 8,000-person Cook County Jail the largest mental health institution in the country. Thirty percent of its i…
8 years, 7 months ago
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and marathoning
Episode 82
Now that I've gotten Eddie Izzard to re-derive his famed "cake or death?" routine in real time, I'm ending this podcast. Always good to go out on top…
8 years, 8 months ago
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's health bill
Episode 81
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Senate GOP’s health care bill — officially known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act — will lead …
8 years, 8 months ago