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Episodes (280)
The Worst Part of Pete Hegseth’s Group Chat Debacle
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Mar 26, 202510:48pending
The Claim Trump Is Making That ‘Could Break the American System’
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Mar 24, 202529:13pending
Tom Friedman: Trump Is a ‘Small Man in a Big Time’
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Mar 20, 202520:24pending
Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
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Mar 19, 202511:11pending
Measles, MAHA Moms and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Mar 17, 202517:09pending
They Saved Taxpayers Billions. Trump Fired Them Anyway.
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Mar 13, 202510:36pending
'Is the Destruction the Point?': Three Opinion Writers on Trump's First 50 Days
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Mar 12, 202530:16pending
I’m a Transgender Colonel. Trump Wants Me Out.
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Mar 10, 202521:15pending
David Brooks on Why the Democrats Are Losing to Trump
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Mar 6, 202525:10pending
Elon Musk and the Useless Spending-Cut Theater of DOGE
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Mar 5, 202516:39pending
What Man's Man Politics Is Doing to America
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Mar 3, 202529:46pending
The Most Important Lesson in Sex Ed Isn’t Actually Sex
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Feb 27, 20259:08pending
What an F.B.I. Under Patel and Bongino Might Mean for America
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Feb 26, 202512:11pending
Trump’s Bargain With Putin Is ‘Shameful’
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Feb 24, 202527:51pending
Thomas Friedman Has Given Up on Politics — but Not on the World
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Feb 20, 202521:43pending
Trump and Musk, the ‘Co-Presidents’
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Feb 19, 202527:32pending
My Values ‘Can’t Be Nullified by an Executive Order’
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Feb 17, 202529:25pending
Please, Don't Buy Flowers for Valentine's Day
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Feb 14, 20258:00pending
There’s a Reason Even ‘Smart’ People Surrender to Trump
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Feb 13, 202528:59pending
I Survived a Kidnapping in Mexico. Now I Tell the Stories of Those Who Didn’t.
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Feb 12, 202512:03pending
This Supreme Court Philosophy Could Constrain Trump
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Feb 10, 202523:20pending
Trump Is Failing the Marshmallow Test. Again.
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Feb 6, 202519:34pending
A.I. Isn’t Coming for Moe the Bartender. Not Yet, Anyway.
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Feb 4, 202512:37pending
There’s a Reason Trump Is Going After Birthright Citizenship
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Feb 3, 202521:29pending
Kash Patel as F.B.I. Director Could ‘Destabilize the Whole System’
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Jan 31, 202518:29pending
Maureen Dowd on Trump the Narcissist, Act II
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Jan 30, 202520:05pending
Make America 1897 Again
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Jan 28, 202519:44pending
My Sister’s Murder Isn’t for Your Entertainment
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Jan 27, 20258:10pending
'Destabilize, Destabilize, Destabilize': What Trump Is Really Up To
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Jan 23, 202523:51pending
Trump’s First Day: He is Exploiting ‘Civic Ignorance’
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Jan 21, 202532:54pending
Thomas Friedman: The Global Challenges Facing Trump
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Jan 21, 202513:54pending
Trump Won’t Change the Fact That America Needs Immigrants
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Jan 20, 20259:41pending
This Jail in Rural Maine Is a Model for Treating Opioid Addiction
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Jan 16, 202513:43pending
The Home Insurance L.A. — and America — Needs
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Jan 15, 20259:15pending
How Trump’s ‘Favorite President’ Can Prepare Us for His Next Term
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Jan 14, 20259:06pending
David French on the Case for Banning TikTok
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Jan 13, 202517:52pending
When We Face the End of Life, ‘It’s Not Sadness We Should Fear. It’s Regret.’
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Jan 9, 202517:58pending
A Deceptively Simple Way to Rebuild Trust in Scary Times
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Jan 8, 20257:58pending
There’s More to Wine Than Just a Cancer Warning
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Jan 7, 20258:41pending
Trump’s Attack on D.E.I. Will Cost Us All
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Jan 6, 202511:12pending
This Diet Buzzword Is Misleading
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Jan 2, 20259:43pending
Dead Squirrels, TikTok Bops and Raw Milk: The Internet Slop of 2024
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Jan 1, 202515:43pending
See Ya, 2024. Here’s What We Loved.
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Dec 31, 20249:54pending
What the World Gets Wrong About Jimmy Carter’s Legacy
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Dec 29, 20245:11pending
The Secrets of the World’s Favorite Smell
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Dec 26, 20249:08pending
David Brooks: I Found Faith in a Crowded Subway Car
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Dec 24, 20249:46pending
Bird Flu, Pneumonia: It's Time For Weekly Virus Reports
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Dec 23, 20248:29pending
Thomas Friedman on Syria, the U.S. and Trump
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Dec 19, 202413:55pending
What If Our Democracy Can’t Survive Without Christianity?
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Dec 18, 202420:07pending
Paul Krugman: After 25 Years, My Parting Words to Readers
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Dec 17, 202415:57pending