Podcast Episodes

New variant just dropped

Seems like everyone’s got Covid again. Vox’s in-house epidemiologist, Dr. Keren Landman, delivers the good news and the bad news about Pirola.

This ep…

3 years ago

In Google we antitrust

Google is headed to court over allegations its search engine violates federal antitrust law. The Verge’s Adi Robertson breaks down the case, and Davi…

3 years ago

Hunter becomes the hunted

Hunter Biden is set to be indicted this month. The WSJ’s Aruna Viswanatha goes over the evidence with us, and Politico’s Jonathan Lemire looks at wha…

3 years ago

Blame Capitalism: Souring on the system

Capitalism has entered its villain era. In a new series running Fridays this month, we look at how Americans came to blame it for just about everythi…

3 years ago

From Pac-12 to Pac-2

The Pac-12 college football conference has lost nearly all its teams now that schools like USC and Colorado have announced they’re leaving for rival …

3 years ago

Why American sunscreen sucks

Better sunscreen exists, you just can’t get it in the US. Amanda Mull and Elise Hu explain why.

This episode was produced by Jon Ehrens, edited by Mir…

3 years ago

The new Cold War

The Cold War started earlier than we think — and maybe never ended at all. Historian Calder Walton says understanding the US-Soviet conflict prepares…

3 years ago

…We’re trusting it anyway

Tech companies are racing to make new, transformative AI tools, with little to no safeguards in place. This is the second episode of “The Black Box,”…

3 years ago

We don’t know how AI works…

The researchers who create and study tech like ChatGPT don’t understand exactly how it’s doing what it does. This is the first episode of “The Black …

3 years ago

#SeAcabo: Spain’s World Cup reckoning

Saying “it’s over,” Spain’s World Cup-winning women are using an unwelcome kiss to try to end sexism in sports.

This episode was produced by Haleema S…

3 years ago