Plain English with Derek Thompson
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Longtime Atlantic tech, culture and political writer Derek Thompson cuts through all the noise surrounding the big questions and headlines that matter to you in his new podcast Plain English. Hear Derek and guests engage the news with clear viewpoints and memorable takeaways. New episodes drop every Tuesday and Friday, and if you've got a topic you want discussed, shoot us an email at plainenglish@spotify.com! You can also find us on tiktok at www.tiktok.com/@plainenglish_
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Plain English BEST OF: How to Be Happy and the Science of Cognitive Time Travel
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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A Grand Unified Theory of Cultural Stagnation
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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The American Math Crisis
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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How Superintelligent AI Could Upend Work and Politics
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Everything Is Television
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Are Young People Screwed?
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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The Democrats Have a New Winning Formula
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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How the American Revolution Changed the World, With Ken Burns
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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The Problem With Sports Gambling
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Michael Lewis on How the Global Financial Crisis Explains Trump, Crypto, and Everything Else
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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What Happens When AI Learns to Do Our Jobs
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Can "Touch-Grass Populism" Save America?
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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The Future of Entertainment, Part 2: What’s the Matter With Broadway?
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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The Future of Entertainment, Part 1: Is Hollywood's Business Model Broken?
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Why Money Doesn't Buy Happiness in America
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Is AI Really About to Solve Human Disease?
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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How America Became a Nation of "Free Speech Hypocrites"
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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What’s the Matter With America’s Food?
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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The Jimmy Kimmel Saga and America's Free-Speech Crisis
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good for Everything, Should We All Be on Them?
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Charlie Kirk's Killing and America's Age of "Salad-Bar Extremism"
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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America in the Age of Diagnosis
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Trumponomics Explained, Part 2: The Enshittification of American Power
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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What Is Trumponomics? Part 1: How Donald Trump Is Breaking American Capitalism
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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The Healthiest "Super-Agers" Have One Thing in Common, According to a 25-Year Study
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Plain History: How the Transcontinental Railroads Built the Modern World
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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The Modern World Is Changing America’s Personality For the Worse
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Will AI Usher In the End of Deep Thinking?
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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The New Geography of Housing in America
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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The Demise of Late-Night TV Is an Omen for American Culture
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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If Trump’s Economic Ideas Are So Bad, Why Isn’t the U.S. Economy Doing Much Worse?
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Fertility Needs a Scientific Revolution
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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The Mysterious Rise of Major Injuries in Professional Sports
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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How Abundance Won in California
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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What's Next for the Middle East: War, Peace, or Revolution?
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani on Abundance, Socialism, and How to Change a Mind
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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A Grand, Unified Theory of Why Americans Are So Unhealthy
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Why Are Americans So Unhealthy? Part I: Is Ultra-Processed Food Killing Us?
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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What Experts Really Think About Smartphones and Mental Health
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Plain History: How Adolf Hitler Destroyed German Democracy in Six Months
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May 30, 2025 |
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Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill Is Great for the "Stealthy Wealthy"
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May 28, 2025 |
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The Gene-Editing Breakthrough That Saved a Baby’s Life
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May 23, 2025 |
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The Rules of Attraction and the Psychology of Romance
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May 20, 2025 |
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Plain History: How Norman Borlaug Stopped the Apocalypse
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May 16, 2025 |
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Why Do Americans Pay So Much for Drugs?
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May 13, 2025 |
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Is Pop Culture Worse Than Ever?
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May 09, 2025 |
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The Job Market for Young Grads Is Flashing Red
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May 06, 2025 |
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Megapod: The Crisis in American Science
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May 02, 2025 |
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Is This the Chinese Century?
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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What Americans Get Wrong About ADHD
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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An Astrophysicist Explains the "Strongest Evidence Yet" of Alien Life
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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A Toy Manufacturer Explains How Trump’s Tariffs Could Crush His Industry
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Why America Will Lose Its Trade War With China
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Plain History: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Great Depression
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Trump’s Trade War Is Like Nothing America’s Ever Seen
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Trump’s Plan to Smash the Global Economic Order
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Plain History: The Gilded Age
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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ABUNDANCE! With Ezra Klein
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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How Gen Z Sees the World
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Can a Vaccine Cure the World’s Deadliest Cancer?
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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How AI Could Change the Future of Music
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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The End of Reading
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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'How Progressives Froze the American Dream' (Live)
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Plain History: The Astonishingly Successful Presidency of James K. Polk
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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The Trump-Musk Doctrine: F-ck Around and Find Out
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Is There a Scientific Case for Believing in God?
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Fraud, Scandal, and Failure in the Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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The Energy Story of the Moment: The Unstoppable Rise of Solar Vs. the Unmovable Demand for Global Fossil Fuels
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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The 5 Types of Wealth
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Are GLP-1 Drugs "the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of the 21st Century"?
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Tech Talk: AI Supremacy, TikTok’s Fate, and Crypto Decadence
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Plain History Volume 1: Who Killed President James Garfield?
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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What's the Truth About Alcohol, Cancer, and Your Health?
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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The L.A. Fires: How They Happened, Climate Change’s Role, and What the City Must Do Now
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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‘The Anti-Social Century’: America’s Epidemic of Solitude—and How to Fix It
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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The Big 2025 Economy Forecast: AI and Big Tech, Nuclear’s Renaissance, Trump vs. China, and What’s Eating Europe?
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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The Year's Biggest Breakthroughs in Science and Tech (Feat.: OK, But Seriously, What Is Quantum Computing?)
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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A Mysterious Health Wave Is Breaking Out Across the U.S.
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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The Productivity Paradox: Why Less Is More With Oliver Burkeman
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Why American Health Care Is a "Broken System"
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Is Crypto Entering a New Golden Age—or Just a New Era of Failed Promises?
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Megapod: Why Is There So Much BS in Psychology?
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Vaccine Conspiracies, Fluoride Myths, and America’s Broken Public-Health Discourse
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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The Self-Driving Revolution Is Real—and It Could Be Spectacular
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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How Trump Won: Young Men’s Red Wave, the Blue-City Flop, and the Incumbency Graveyard
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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How to Watch Election Night Without Falling for Conspiracy Theories or False Hope
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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This Small Pennsylvania Town Explains the 2024 Election
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Why Is Every Recent Presidential Election So Close?
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Is Radical Human Life Extension Possible?
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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America's Young Men Are Falling Behind—and Shifting Right
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Is the Middle East on the Verge of All-Out War?
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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The Surprising Science of Cynicism (Plus: The Policy Paradox of the 2024 Election)
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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A Sports Mystery: What Happened to the NFL Quarterback?
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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How AI Could Help Us Discover Miracle Drugs
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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"Exercise May Be the Single Most Potent Medical Intervention Ever Known"
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Democrats Are Euphoric. But This Election Is Much Closer Than They Think.
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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The Four Biggest Myths About Political Persuasion
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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How to Be Happy and the Science of Cognitive Time Travel
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Market Meltdown FAQ: Recession Fears, Global Stock Wipeout, and the Case for Calm
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Why Are Robocalls So Hard to Stop? (Plus: Kamala and the Gender Wars.)
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Why Are Conservatives Happier Than Progressives?
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Harsh Truths About 2024 and the Future of the U.S. Economy
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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"The Weirdest Housing Market in Recent History"
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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"People Feel Lied To": The White House, the Media, and the Joe Biden Blame Game
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Whatever Happened to Serial Killers?
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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The Radical Cultural Shift Behind America's Declining Birth Rate
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Breathing Is Easy. But We’re Doing It Wrong.
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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The News Media’s Dangerous Addiction to ‘Fake Facts’
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Microplastics Are Everywhere. How Dangerous Are They?
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May 31, 2024 |
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Why the New NBA Deal Is So Weird. Plus, How Sports Rights Actually Work.
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May 28, 2024 |
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What America’s Bold New Economic Experiment Is Missing
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May 24, 2024 |
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The Five Superstars Who Invented the Modern NBA
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May 21, 2024 |
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Are Smartphones Really Driving the Rise in Teenage Depression?
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May 14, 2024 |
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Are Flying Cars Finally Here?
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May 07, 2024 |
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How the Logic of Cults Is Taking Over Modern Life
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May 03, 2024 |
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How Will the Gaza War Finally End?
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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A Political Scientist on How Protests Can Change Minds or Backfire
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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What Kind of a Superpower Is India Becoming?
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Health Fads and Fictions: VO2 Max, Supplement Mania, Sunlight, and Immortality
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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U.S. Economy FAQ: Skyrocketing Insurance Prices, Stuck Inflation, Higher Rates, and Wrong Experts
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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If the 2024 Election Is So Important, Why Does It Feel So Boring?
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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A Psychologist Explains Four Reasons the Internet Feels So Broken
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Why School Absences Have "Exploded" Across America
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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What Evolutionary Biology Can Teach Us About Diet, Exercise, and Staying Alive
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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America's Biggest Car Companies Are in Trouble
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Should the U.S. Ban TikTok?
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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How Hollywood’s Hit Formula Flopped—and What Could Come Next
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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What Many Economists (and I) Got Wrong About This Economy
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Why the "Need for Chaos" Is Eating American Politics
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Why Americans Stopped Hanging Out—and Why It Matters
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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"We’re Seeing a Fundamental Reorganization of Work in America"
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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How to Have the Hardest Conversations—in Marriage, Politics, and Life
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Would You Buy a Drug to Extend Your Dog’s Life?
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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The Dark Side of the Internet's Obsession With Anxiety
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Can Solar Power and Battery Tech Save the World From Climate Change?
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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The Gender War Within Gen Z
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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What’s the Best Diet for Planet Earth?
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Why Did Stanley Water Bottles Suddenly Become a Cultural Phenomenon?
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Why the U.S. Media Industry Is in Meltdown
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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World on Fire, Part 3: How Did America's Border Crisis Get So Bad?
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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World on Fire, Part 2: Global Conflict Has Surged to an 80-Year High. Why?
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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World on Fire, Part 1: The Houthis, Israel's Impossible War, and Worsening Middle East Chaos
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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The Dark Side of the Obsession With Focus
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Four Megatrends for 2024 in Tech, Economics, Media, and Weird Science
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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The Biggest Breakthroughs in Science Happening Right Now
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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The Truth About Ketamine: Depression Cure, Health Fad, or Placebo?
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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The Year in Media and Entertainment: What’s Broken (News), What’s Surging (Netflix), and What’s Next
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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How Weight-Loss Drugs Could Impact U.S. Healthcare and Food. Plus, the Biggest Problems With GLP1s.
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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The Weight-Loss Drug Revolution, Part 1: Why These Drugs Work So Well
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Why It’s So Hard to Buy a House Right Now—and Why It Might Get Better Soon
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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How Henry Kissinger’s Catastrophes and Triumphs Changed the World
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Elon Musk’s Meltdown, the Death of Twitter, and the Chaotic Future of Social Media
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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How China's Economic Miracle Went Off the Rails
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Inside the OpenAI Meltdown
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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The Media is Missing Something Big in Biden’s Bad Polling Numbers
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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How ChatGPT Can Change the Future of Jobs—Starting With Your Own
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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What Most People Get Wrong About Wealth, Fame, and Happiness
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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The Fragile Hope for Peace in Israel-Palestine
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Could a Housing Recession Take Down the U.S. Economy?
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Two Israel-Palestine Historians Explain: How Did We Get Here? And What Happens Next?
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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The Science of Achievement, With Adam Grant
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Israel Has No Good Options
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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The Tragedy of Picking Sides in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Inside the Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Israel at War: Why Did Hamas Attack?
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Disney’s Downfall: The Rise and Fall of an Entertainment Giant
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Why Americans are Losing Faith in College
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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What’s So Great About Marriage?
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Why Is It So Expensive to Build Stuff in America?
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Fatherhood and What Americans Get Wrong About Major Life Changes
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Experts Predicted a Recession This Year. How Were They So Wrong?
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Why Elite College Admissions Are Biased Toward the Superrich
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Oppenheimer: The Genius, the Film, and the Project That Changed the World
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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How Hollywood Drove Its Business Model Off a Cliff
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Americans Think the Economy Is Terrible. The Data Tell Another Story.
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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How the Digital Workplace Broke Our Brains
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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What Just Happened in Russia This Weekend?
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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The Science of Procrastination—and How to Really Get Stuff Done
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Why Fertility Rates Are Plunging—in the U.S., South Korea, and Everywhere Else
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Why So Many Young Men Are Lonely, Sexless, and Extremely Online
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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How Hollywood's Writers Strike Could Change the Future of TV and Movies
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May 30, 2023 |
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Why Youth Sports in America Are in Decline
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May 23, 2023 |
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The Future of War Is Here
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May 16, 2023 |
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A Diet Conspiracy: Is Ice Cream Secretly Good for You?
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May 09, 2023 |
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An Optimistic Guide to America’s Clean-Energy Future
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May 02, 2023 |
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The Most Important Thing Most Americans Misunderstand About Insomnia
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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How American Cities Can Avoid the ‘Urban Doom Loop’
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Americans Die Younger Than People in Any Other Rich Country. Why?
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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How Strong Is the Case Against Donald Trump?
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Myth-Busting Wellness Hacks: Cold Plunges, Coffee, Alcohol, and Fitness Trackers
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Eight Burning Questions About the Donald Trump Indictment
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Why the Cult of Achievement in Schools Is Making People Miserable
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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A Mind-Expanding Conversation About Human History and Happiness With Tim Urban
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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The AI Revolution Could Be Bigger and Weirder Than We Can Imagine
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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MAILBAG: Why Does the Internet Make Us Depressed? Where Does Good Writing Come From? Is College Worth It Anymore?
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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The SVB Debacle: The Biggest Myths, the Out-of-Control Blame Game, and the Worst Takes
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Silicon Valley Bank Collapse FAQ: Whose Fault Is It? How Can We Stop a Bank Panic? What Comes Next?
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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"Industrial Policy" Is the Hottest Idea in Economics. What Could Go Wrong?
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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How the Media Failed Its COVID Test: The Truth Behind the Lab Leak and Masking Debates
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Why Are American Teens So Unhappy? How Do We Solve This Crisis?
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Happiness in America, Part 1: The Secret to a 'Good Life,' According to an 80-Year Study
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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The Science of How Music Hits Have Changed in the Last 60 Years
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Bing Chatbot Gone Wild and Why AI Could Be the Story of the Decade
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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UFOs and Aliens and Drones and Balloons: Understanding the U.S. Sky Wars
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Why Everybody Is Wrong About a Recession and Housing’s Great Comeback
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Fake Meat in America
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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China’s Spy Balloon Is Down. Cold War 2.0 Risks Are Rising.
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Econ Megapod: The Debt Ceiling Is Dumb, and the Inflation “Crisis” Might Be Over
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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The Dark Side of Being Obsessed With Productivity
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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How AI Could Change Apple and Google, Writing and Music, and Everything Else
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Why Big Tech's Jobs Bubble Burst. Plus, SBF's Scandal Deepens.
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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America Isn’t Ready for the Weight-Loss-Drug Revolution That’s Coming
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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How Americans Got Everything About Food—Fat, Sugar, and Obesity—‘Entirely Backwards’
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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True or False: 10 Controversial Predictions About the Future of Streaming, Tech, and Media
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Why There Is So Much Bullsh*t in Science
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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The 2023 Economy FAQ: Is Recession Inevitable? Will Housing Crash? Can Tech Recover?
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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PE Greatest Hits: Thompson and Klosterman Debate Why Society Got So Negative
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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PE Greatest Hits: Derek and Ryen Debate the Most Impressive Sports Statistic of All Time
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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ChatGPT, Obesity Drugs, Exoplanet Images, and Medical Miracles: The Most Amazing Breakthroughs of 2022
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Sperm Counts Are Falling All Over the World—Why?
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Who's Afraid of a Four-Day Work Week?
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Why the Bad Guys—in China, Russia, Iran, and the U.S.—Are Having a Terrible Winter
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Why America is Suffering a 'Friendship Recession'
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Thanksgiving Mega-Pod: Bob Iger’s Power Grab, SBF’s Scandal, and Elon Musk’s Omnishambles
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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If China Invades Taiwan, Is It World War III?
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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A Crypto Catastrophe: The Stunning Fall of FTX—and What Comes Next
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Instant Reaction Pod: Midterm Election Winners, Losers, Surprises, and Takeaways
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Elon Musk's Reign of Chaos and Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse Madness
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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America in the Age of Conspiracy: Q-Anon, JFK, Aliens, and More
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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How the U.S. Housing Market Became Such a Dumpster Fire
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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How to Invest and Be Happy When It Feels Like the World Is Falling Apart
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Ben Smith on the Future of News, How to Start a Media Company, and Why TikTok Is a Time Bomb
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Midterm Election FAQ: Can We Trust the Polls? Are Democrats Doomed?
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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The Case for Indicting Donald Trump
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Is Hybrid Work Doomed?
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Why the Future of AI Should Terrify and Thrill You
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Bill Simmons on Aaron Judge, How Baseball Ruined Itself, and the Joy of Debating Sports Records
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Could the Fed Break the World Economy?
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Scott Galloway on Why the Internet Is a Mess, Why the News Is So Angry, and Why American Men Are ‘Adrift’
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Is the Federal Reserve Making a Huge Mistake?
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Why America Has a Crisis of Masculinity
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Why the Voice Inside Your Head Can Sound Like a Jerk
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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The Housing Recession Is Coming
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Bill Gates on Progress, Food Technology, and the Battle Between Climate Change and Innovation
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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How Ukraine’s New Offensive Could Win the War Against Russia
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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The UK Is in Trouble: Economic Crises, Energy Shocks, and the Queen’s Death
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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America’s National Teacher Shortage: Looming Crisis or Media Myth?
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Nate Silver on Why This Midterm Election Could Be the Weirdest in Decades
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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The Messy Debate Over Student Loan Forgiveness
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Burning Questions on Media: Streaming’s Summer of Hell, Movie Theater Woes, and CNN’s Risky Pivot
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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What’s the Secret of Success in America? This Economist Has Answers.
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Why Does It Seem Like Everybody Hates Everything?
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Donald Trump vs. the FBI: Everything We Know About the Investigation So Far
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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A New Way to Think About Racism in America
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Carbon Removal Might Be the World’s Most Important Technology. How Does It Work?
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Curiosity Corner: Monkeypox Myths, Millennial Facts, and Overpopulation Fears
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Is Old Music Killing New Music?
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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How the Democrats' New Climate Bill Could Change the World
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Why the Question "Are We in a Recession?" Is Impossible to Answer
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Crypto Crash, Part II: A Debate About the Future of Web3
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Crypto Crash Part I: The Case Against Crypto
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Why It Seems Like So Many Countries Are Falling Apart
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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The World Is on Fire. Here’s a Realistic Plan to Save Humanity.
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Three Ways the Elon Musk–Twitter Showdown Could End
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Burning Questions About the Future of Media: Netflix vs. Disney, TikTok vs. Everyone, and the Metaverse
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Musk Meltdown: Elon’s Breakup With Twitter Is Going to Be Very Messy
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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The Biggest Economic Question of the Moment: Is This Peak Inflation?
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Why Are the Police So Bad at Solving Murders?
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Abortion Pills Are a Game Changer, Plus Our Next Big Culture War
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Five Reasons Everybody Is Wrong About a U.S. Recession—Including Me
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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The End of Roe v. Wade Changes Everything
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Why Air Travel Is a Hot Mess Right Now
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Why Gas Prices Are Skyrocketing—and an Ingenious Plan to Bring Them Down
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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The Big Winners and Losers From the Remote Work Revolution
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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The End of the Everything Boom (Plus: The Federal Reserve's Risky Move)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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The Big Inflation FAQ: Why It’s So High, How Everyone Got It Wrong, and What's Next
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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California’s Elections Sent an Important Message. What Is It?
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Curiosity Corner: America’s Gun Dilemma, the Future of Corporate Politics, Relationship Advice, and More!
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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America’s Gun Problem Is Impossible
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May 26, 2022 |
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What's Going on With the U.S. Housing Market?
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May 24, 2022 |
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Why Does the Internet Hate Amber Heard?
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May 20, 2022 |
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The Mystery of America's Missing Baby Formula
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May 18, 2022 |
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Why the U.S. Could Be Headed For the "Weirdest Recession Ever"
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May 17, 2022 |
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Market Meltdown: Why Tech and Crypto Are Crashing - and What Happens Next
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May 11, 2022 |
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The Future of AI Is Thrilling, Terrifying, Confusing, and Fascinating
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May 10, 2022 |
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The 300-Year History of Abortion in America—in 30 Minutes
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May 06, 2022 |
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How Would the End of Roe v. Wade Change America?
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May 04, 2022 |
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Economic Mystery Hour: How Low Will Stocks Go? Is a Recession Inevitable?
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May 03, 2022 |
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Why Is It So Hard to Predict the Next Great Quarterback?
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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The End of the Golden Age of Streaming
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Instant Reaction Pod! Elon Musk Buys Twitter. So, What Happens Next?
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Why Are American Teenagers So Sad and Anxious?
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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How Joe Biden Lost Millennials
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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The News About Shanghai’s COVID Lockdown Is Shocking. The Reality Might Be Worse.
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Instant Reaction Pod! Elon Musk Offers to Buy 100 Percent of Twitter.
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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When Will the Ukraine War End? (Plus: 10 Good Minutes on What the Hell Elon Musk Is Doing With Twitter)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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It's Not Just You: America's Epidemic of Bad Behavior
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Why U.S. Population Growth Crashed to a Record Low
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Should You Be Afraid of TikTok?
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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What Is the “Don’t Say Gay” Law Really About? (Plus: The Big Disney vs. DeSantis Showdown in Florida.)
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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How Ukraine Wins
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Could Putin’s War Crash the U.S. Economy?
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Five Reasons Putin’s War Was Doomed From the Start
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Why a No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine Could Be—Literally—the Worst Idea Ever
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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“Every Person Is Ready to Die for Our Country”: Five Ukrainians on Life Inside Putin’s War Zone
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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SPECIAL DOUBLE EPISODE: What Putin Will Do Next and the West’s Unprecedented "Financial War" on Russia
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Russia’s Economic Meltdown, Putin’s Big Mistake, and the West’s Financial War Against Vlad and the Oligarchs
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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How Putin's War Will End
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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What Vladimir Putin Wants—and How Russia’s War in Ukraine Could Reshape the World
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Four Brilliant Frames for Finding the Next Big Thing, With Venture Capitalist Josh Wolfe. Plus, What's Eating Tech Stocks in 2022?
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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The Great Debate: What's the Single Most Amazing Sports Statistic in U.S. History?
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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What American Media Is Getting Wrong About Canada’s Big Protests
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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The Meaning of Life and the Power of Regret
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Media Gossip Hour: Spotify's Joe Rogan Problem, Facebook's TikTok Crisis, and Crypto's Anonymity Conundrum
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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This Guy Predicted the 2021 Economy. I Asked Him What's Next.
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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One Big Question For: Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla, and Meta
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Should We Cancel Student Debt?
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Crypto Crashing, Pandemic Stocks Plunging: The Story Behind January’s Crazy Stock Market
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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2022 Is Off to a Terrible Start for Democrats
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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The Biggest Losers of the Streaming Wars: ESPN, Movie Theaters, Peacock, and More
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Everybody Was Wrong About Inflation
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Omicron: Feelings vs. Facts
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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The Biggest Inventions of the 2020s: Cancer Vaccines, Flying Cars, Space Travel, and More
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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The Four Ways That America Is Polarizing
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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The Four Biggest Myths of the U.S. Economy. Plus, Omicron in 100 Seconds.
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Elon Musk Is the Person of the Year. Who Is the Person of the Century?
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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The Elizabeth Holmes Trial With Rebecca Jarvis of 'The Dropout' Podcast
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Media Report Card! Biden Blues, Omicron Fears, Chris Cuomo, and a Celebrity Profile for the Ages
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Work in America Is Broken—Can Remote Work Save Us?
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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BONUS POD: The Future of Democracy, the Media, and the Economy With Andrew Yang
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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The Bad Guys Are Winning
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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The Omicron Variant: So, How Bad Is It?
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Buy or Sell Pandemic Trends: Peloton, Movie Theaters, Masks, and More!
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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We Have to Talk About Inflation
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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The Future Is Going to Be Weird As Hell
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Introducing Plain English with Derek Thompson
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Nov 11, 2021 |