Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSo you toppled an autocrat
Bangladeshis are about to find out if a Nobel laureate can run their government better than a nepo baby.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah wit…
1 year, 6 months ago
The tech titans backing Trump
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are vying for Silicon Valley's support. Democrats typically get it. But Elon Musk threw his weight behind Trump in an …
1 year, 6 months ago
ClassGPT
Students are returning to college campuses this month armed with generative AI tools. One professor who has banned them and one who has embraced them…
1 year, 6 months ago
A green medal for Paris?
Paris wanted this to be the greenest Olympics ever. We assess.
This episode was produced by Denise Guerra, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by La…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ecstasy Therapy: Bad trip
A clinical trial for MDMA-assisted therapy showed promising results. But participants who say they suffered afterward allege their experiences aren’t…
1 year, 7 months ago
Riots in the UK
Disinformation after a knife attack in the UK transformed a local tragedy into nationwide upheaval. The Guardian's Robyn Vinter explains how it got t…
1 year, 7 months ago
It's Tim Walz
The governor of Minnesota is Kamala Harris’s running mate. Minnesota Public Radio’s Dana Ferguson and Vox’s Andrew Prokop explain the Democratic tick…
1 year, 7 months ago
RIP Project 2025?
Project 2025 and J.D. Vance have brought fringe policies to the presidential campaign. Democrats are using both to label the Republican ticket "weird…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ecstasy Therapy: How MDMA became medicine
Military veterans are unlikely collaborators with the psychedelic counterculture. The two groups’ efforts are being tested this month, when the FDA i…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ecstasy Therapy: Penicillin for the soul
In 1980s Berkeley, an eccentric chemist and his wife, a self-taught therapist, experimented with MDMA. Their work would kickstart a decades-long camp…
1 year, 7 months ago