Podcast Episodes

The End of Human Driving? with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi

Kara sits down with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to dig into how applied artificial intelligence works at scale. 

At Uber, AI powers everything from p…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s Slide into Techno-Authoritarianism

One of 2025’s most memorable images was of Silicon Valley’s billionaire CEOs lined up in the front rows at President Donald Trump’s inauguration. It …

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Rachel Maddow on Japanese Incarceration During WWII, Mass Deportation & Media Chaos

Rachel Maddow is an author, podcast host and producer, documentary producer, and, of course, the anchor of her eponymous show on MS NOW. Her newest p…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Beyond ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Margaret Atwood on Memoir, Grudges, & Getting Older

Margaret Atwood is one of the most famous and prolific authors of the modern era. Though best known for her 1985 hit “The Handmaid’s Tale,” her dozen…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Tech Billionaires & the Rural Poor: Two Sides of Trump’s MAGA Populism

The tech billionaires of Silicon Valley and the Midwestern rural poor wouldn’t seem to have much in common. But somehow many of them have united unde…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief

How do you grieve the impending death of a lifelong friend when you are a multi-hyphenate comedian, actor, director and producer? If you are Tig Nota…

7 months ago

Fighting for Truth in a Rage-Driven Algorithmic Age with Jessica Yellin

In the mid-2010s, television journalist and former chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin left her job at CNN to go independent. A few years …

7 months ago

Jennifer Welch of 'I’ve Had It' Blasts Both MAGA & Centrist Dems

In the year since President Trump won re-election — thanks in part to capitalizing on sitdowns on friendly podcasts — Democrats have been looking for…

7 months, 1 week ago

Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit

Political commentator Scott Jennings has been called the “conservative explaining Red America to CNN viewers.” As the in-house Republican on CNN’s Ne…

7 months, 1 week ago

Ken Burns & Sarah Botstein on Finding Hope in America’s Brutal Beginnings

In “The American Revolution,” a new six-part docuseries airing on PBS this week, filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein take a deep look at the Amer…

7 months, 2 weeks ago