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George Saunders on Anger, Ambition and Sin
George Saunders is tired of being the “kindness guy.”Saunders is one of my favorite fiction writers, and a friend of the pod; I talked to him back in…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It
Ragebait, sponcon, A.I. slop — the internet of 2026 makes a lot of us nostalgic for the internet of 10 or 15 years ago.What exactly went wrong here? …
8 months ago
Is Your Social Life Missing Something? This Is For You.
My motivation for this episode is personal. One of my resolutions this year is to spend more time hosting and to make those gatherings more meaningfu…
8 months ago
How the World Sees America, With Adam Tooze
The old world order is dying. What new world order — if any — is struggling to be born?I can’t think of a week when it felt clearer that an era was c…
8 months, 1 week ago
The Week the World Admitted the Truth About America
“We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition,” Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada announced last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, …
8 months, 1 week ago
The Staggering Scale of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Crackdown
There’s so much more happening than what you see in online video clips.Congress gave Trump a staggering, military-size budget for immigration enforce…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Has Trump Achieved a Lot Less Than It Seems?
We are one year into Trump’s second term. And it feels like so much has happened – more than the human mind, or the country, can absorb. But how much…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?
State Representative James Talarico of Texas might have been our most requested guest last year. And he seemed to come out of nowhere.Talarico starte…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’
The shocking events of January have sent a message: America works differently now. M. Gessen is a Times Opinion columnist and the author of books abo…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
What Trump Wants in Venezuela
What is America doing in Venezuela?On Jan. 3, the Trump administration launched an operation that ended with the capture of President Nicolás Maduro,…
9 months ago