On with Kara Swisher
It's on. Twice a week, award-winning journalist Kara Swisher gets to the heart of the story through no-holds-barred interviews with power players across business, tech, media, politics and beyond. So why do her guests show up? “Smart people,” says Kara, “like difficult questions.”Mondays and Thursdays from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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“Possible” by Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger featuring Kara Swisher
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Are Elon’s Best Days Behind Him? with Kirsten Grind, Tim Higgins & Becky Peterso...
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On Journalism, Activism and Hope with Nicholas Kristof
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War in Gaza, Ukraine & Space, plus Biden vs. Trump with David Ignatius
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Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review
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Radical Self-Acceptance, Cancel Culture, and Forgiveness with Writer Anne Lamott
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Can Chipotle Founder Steve Ells Strike "Fast-Casual" Gold Again?
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Wrestling with America’s (Racist) History with Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks
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Time for a Data Privacy Bill + the TikTok Crackdown with Senator Maria Cantwell
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How to Prevent War with China with Dmitri Alperovitch and Chris Krebs
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Is the Fight Over Abortion Rights Enough to Beat Trump? with Shefali Luthra, Sar...
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Kids and Phones: Moral Panic or Time to Panic? with Jonathan Haidt
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Can Yahoo Bring Back the "Good Internet"?
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Will Disinformation Doom Our Democracy? with Nina Jankowicz, Sasha Issenberg & B...
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Lessons Learned From Hitler’s Rise To Power
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Can Food Save The World? with Joan Nathan
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"Food, Feminism, and Fury" with Geraldine DeRuiter
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Life Lessons from Tech Titans (Kara in conversation with Brené Brown)
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Much Ado About TikTok
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on the IPO
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Margrethe Vestager Shows Tech Gatekeepers The Door
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"Burn Book" Takes SxSW, with "Mensch" Mark Cuban
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More Burn Book with Ted Sarandos
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How did Kara Scoop OpenAI, and More on Burn Book (with Sam Altman)
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Why Reed Jobs is Betting on Cancer Innovations
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David Chalian Makes the Call
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The Burn Book Kick-Off with Don Lemon
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Roberta Kaplan Will See You In Court
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Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words
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Brooke Shields on Surviving Hollywood
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Cord Jefferson on Making American Fiction
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Tracy Chapman's Timeless Earworms
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Ambassador Rahm Emanuel on the New Japan, Contending With China, and Biden’s Cal...
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Is the Apple Vision Pro All That?
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How Ava DuVernay Made a Hit with ‘Origin,’ and Without Big Studio Backing
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Judy Woodruff on Polarization, Politics, and the Media
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PA Governor Josh Shapiro’s “Get Sh*t Done” Attitude
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Hope for American Democracy, According to Heather Cox Richardson
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Psychedelics with Joe Green
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Fei-Fei Li and a Humane Approach to AI
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A Close Read of Trump’s 2024 Strategy
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COVID Lessons Learned with Donald G McNeil Jr.
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OpenAI Drama to Trump to Elon Musk: What It Means for 2024
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Stay Tuned with Preet: The Many Lies of George Santos
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The Man Taunting Mike Johnson, Ron DeSantis and George Santos
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Will Big Bets to Solve Climate Change Pay Off? With Rajiv Shah
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God, Money and Trump with Tim Alberta
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Mark Esper on Gaza, Iran, China and (of course) Trump
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Is Liz Cheney the GOP Cassandra?
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Washington’s Top China Hawk Talks TikTok, Taiwan & Trump
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