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Apple News In Conversation

Apple News In Conversation with Shumita Basu brings you interviews with some of the world’s best journalists and experts about the stories that impact our lives. Join us every week as we go behind the headlines.

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Why we keep buying stuff we don’t need

Nov 28, 2024
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Why more people are cutting ties with family

Nov 21, 2024
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She writes women who feel real. Her work is shaking up TV.

Nov 14, 2024
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Why Americans bet on Donald Trump — again

Nov 7, 2024
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How a Harris or Trump win would change America

Oct 31, 2024
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The truth behind one of the biggest political lies

Oct 24, 2024
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Hurricanes are deadlier than ever. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Oct 17, 2024
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Why this crucial voting bloc is inching to the right

Oct 10, 2024
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What to know about the Israel-Hamas war, one year in

Oct 3, 2024
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What a post-Roe America looks like now — and how the election could change it

Sep 26, 2024
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They killed 24 people, including children. Why was no one held responsible?

Sep 19, 2024
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Why our loved ones believe political conspiracy theories — and ways to repair the damage

Sep 12, 2024
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Living longer should be a gift. Why doesn’t it feel that way?

Sep 5, 2024
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Rebroadcast: Her family had always kept one relative a secret. She set out to uncover the truth.

Aug 29, 2024
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Inside the strategy to get Kamala Harris to the White House

Aug 23, 2024
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The scariest 70 miles

Aug 15, 2024
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What Nancy Pelosi wants for America — and what she’s done to get it

Aug 8, 2024
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How America’s food is making us sick

Aug 1, 2024
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The GOATs to watch at the Paris Olympics

Jul 25, 2024
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How Trump became the GOP’s savior in chief — and the strategy to bring him back to the White House

Jul 19, 2024
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Kids feel anxious. Parents feel hopeless. Why it’s so hard to limit social-media use.

Jul 11, 2024
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How to survive this summer’s unbearable heat

Jul 3, 2024
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Inside the making of reality TV

Jun 27, 2024
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The real reason so many people are getting cosmetic surgery

Jun 20, 2024
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Why TV and movies are getting worse

Jun 14, 2024
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What we know about the allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs

Jun 6, 2024
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If you could choose another version of your life, would you?

May 30, 2024
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Rebroadcast: What losing family taught Anderson Cooper about grief and gratitude

May 23, 2024
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Retirement is daunting. Here’s how Americans are making it work.

May 16, 2024
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How to become your own boss

May 9, 2024
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Rebroadcast: His father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. He went looking for answers.

May 2, 2024
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How to make America a better place to raise kids

Apr 25, 2024
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How money affects your mental health

Apr 18, 2024
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How a financial-advice columnist got scammed out of $50,000

Apr 11, 2024
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Rebroadcast: Tom Hanks on what it takes to make a movie

Apr 4, 2024
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The U.S. political system is broken. Here are five ideas to fix it.

Mar 28, 2024
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Who’s better for the economy — Biden or Trump?

Mar 21, 2024
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Not sure what’s real or fake online? Here are some tips.

Mar 14, 2024
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Everything you need to know about Trump’s four criminal trials

Mar 7, 2024
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Could Biden drop out of the race? Can Trump run if he’s convicted? Your 2024 election questions, answered.

Feb 29, 2024
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The WNBA is building something — and it’s not just the women’s version of the NBA

Feb 22, 2024
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Former elite gymnast Maggie Nichols speaks out about Larry Nassar’s abuse

Feb 15, 2024
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Why America is obsessed with the NFL

Feb 9, 2024
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College sports are a multibillion-dollar business. Why aren’t athletes getting a cut?

Feb 1, 2024
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Inside the mind of one of the New Yorker’s most iconic cartoonists

Jan 25, 2024
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“There is a government cover-up around UFOs. It’s just not the one that you think.”

Jan 18, 2024
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How the evangelical church became so political, according to a pastor’s son

Jan 11, 2024
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Esther Perel on the real reasons couples fight

Jan 4, 2024
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Rebroadcast: Your brain is hardwired to resist change. Here’s how to retrain it.

Dec 28, 2023
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Rebroadcast: ‘The Office’ star Rainn Wilson on how to let go of resentment and find happiness

Dec 21, 2023
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How to unlock your family’s history

Dec 14, 2023
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A guide to smarter, more ethical shopping this holiday season

Dec 7, 2023
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Rachel Maddow on America’s history of fighting fascism

Nov 30, 2023
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Rebroadcast: Why relationships fall apart over dirty dishes — and how to avoid the trap

Nov 23, 2023
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What a former astronaut says TV gets right and wrong about space

Nov 16, 2023
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“It’s intolerable”: the New Yorker’s David Remnick on the Israel-Hamas war

Nov 9, 2023
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How facial-recognition technology is upending privacy as we know it

Nov 2, 2023
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Marriage, murder, betrayal: the true story behind ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

Oct 26, 2023
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The realities of living in the Palestinian territories

Oct 19, 2023
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A guide to help you understand the Israel-Hamas war

Oct 13, 2023
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America loves the AR-15. Here’s how that happened.

Oct 5, 2023
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The secret to finding joy in running

Sep 28, 2023
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Elon Musk’s biographer on two years of shadowing the tech billionaire

Sep 21, 2023
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Why so many American kids are struggling to learn how to read — and how to fix that

Sep 14, 2023
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Her family had always kept her aunt a secret. She set out to uncover the truth.

Sep 7, 2023
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Think Again: The signs that you’re ready to retire

Aug 31, 2023
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Think Again: What losing family taught Anderson Cooper about grief and gratitude

Aug 24, 2023
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Think Again: Why people lose themselves in parenthood — and how to reclaim your sense of self

Aug 17, 2023
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Think Again: The most confusing years of your life — and strategies to get through them

Aug 10, 2023
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Think Again: Your brain is hardwired to resist change. Here’s how to retrain it.

Aug 3, 2023
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Sneak Peek: Life’s big transitions, reimagined

Aug 1, 2023
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The dangers of extreme heat — for our health and our planet

Jul 27, 2023
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Rebecca Lowe can’t believe how far women’s soccer has come

Jul 20, 2023
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Tom Hanks on what it takes to make a movie

Jul 13, 2023
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Playing Dwight on ‘The Office’ didn’t make Rainn Wilson happy. Here’s how he’s seeking real joy.

Jul 6, 2023
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Rebroadcast: The real problem with elite-college admissions

Jun 29, 2023
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Enduring advice for this year’s graduating class (and nongraduates too)

Jun 22, 2023
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Writer Samantha Irby makes the case for enjoying frivolous things

Jun 15, 2023
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His father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. He went looking for answers.

Jun 8, 2023
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What you should know before buying an EV

Jun 1, 2023
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Rebroadcast: Malcolm Gladwell on why changing your mind can be so difficult

May 25, 2023
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How unreported gifts and luxury travel are harming the Supreme Court’s legitimacy

May 18, 2023
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The secrets our government keeps from us — and why

May 11, 2023
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What makes a murderer? These investigators might have the answer.

May 4, 2023
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What a top couples therapist wishes more people knew

Apr 27, 2023
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Why Sienna Miller and Scott Z. Burns made a climate-catastrophe show

Apr 20, 2023
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What Fox News insiders are saying as the network faces a landmark trial

Apr 13, 2023
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Why we don’t take postpartum mental health seriously enough — and what that means for new parents

Apr 6, 2023
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Why there’s so much poverty in America — and what you can do about it

Mar 30, 2023
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What A.I. will make better — and much, much worse

Mar 23, 2023
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Havana syndrome looks very real on brain scans. Why is it still a mystery to the U.S. government?

Mar 16, 2023
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Inside the most shocking moments in Oscar history

Mar 11, 2023
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After a reporter’s killing, journalists came together to finish his last investigation

Mar 4, 2023
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How new weight-loss drugs are changing conversations about obesity

Feb 25, 2023
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Why the economy is so weird right now

Feb 18, 2023
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Money ruins marriages. It doesn’t have to.

Feb 11, 2023
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The deadliest wave of the fentanyl crisis is here. Why aren’t we doing more to stop it?

Feb 4, 2023
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The real problem with elite-college admissions

Jan 28, 2023
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They thought their crimes were untraceable. Then their dark-web empire collapsed.

Jan 21, 2023
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Inside one of the NFL’s most stunning failures

Jan 14, 2023
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The signs that you’re ready to retire

Jan 7, 2023
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Rebroadcast: The health and wellness myths almost everyone falls for

Dec 31, 2022
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Rebroadcast: She teaches Yale’s famous class about the science of happiness. Here’s what she’s learned.

Dec 24, 2022
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Microplastics are everywhere. Here’s what that means for your health.

Dec 17, 2022
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Nobel Peace Prize–winning journalist Maria Ressa on how to stand up to a dictator

Dec 10, 2022
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A growing scientific field saves lives. It’s also rife with controversy.

Dec 3, 2022
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Traveling for the holidays? Here’s what to know before your next flight

Nov 22, 2022
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Introducing ‘After the Whistle,’ a podcast all about the World Cup

Nov 19, 2022
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What the lottery reveals about the American dream

Nov 12, 2022
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Which party will control Congress? Three experts weigh in.

Nov 5, 2022
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Something is deeply broken in American news. Can it be fixed?

Oct 29, 2022
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What happened to Mahsa Amini: Inside Iran’s extraordinary uprising

Oct 22, 2022
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What will happen if Trump returns to the White House? This book offers clues.

Oct 15, 2022
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Does the TSA actually keep anyone safe?

Oct 8, 2022
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Inside Nina Totenberg’s Supreme Court career — and powerful friendship with RBG

Oct 1, 2022
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How the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders transformed sports

Sep 24, 2022
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How America bungled COVID school closures — and failed to put children first

Sep 17, 2022
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Think Again: How to master the art of doing nothing

Sep 10, 2022
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Think Again: Why Americans are so burned out — and how to fix your work-life balance

Sep 3, 2022
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Think Again: The health and wellness myths almost everyone falls for

Aug 27, 2022
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Think Again: Why relationships fall apart over dirty dishes — and how to avoid the trap

Aug 20, 2022
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Think Again: Malcolm Gladwell’s tips for changing a stubborn mind

Aug 13, 2022
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What it took to bring down R. Kelly

Aug 6, 2022
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Inside the dark corners of the internet that breed mass shooters

Jul 30, 2022
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Why air travel is such a mess — and what to know before your next flight

Jul 23, 2022
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Her son was briefly out of sight during a picnic. She was arrested for child abuse

Jul 16, 2022
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Why the news is so broken, according to one of the first journalists to cover Trump’s campaign

Jul 9, 2022
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Rebroadcast: Nikole Hannah-Jones on the 1619 Project and how the legacy of slavery shapes America

Jul 2, 2022
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She had an illegal abortion in 1970 — and was charged with manslaughter

Jun 25, 2022
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There’s a science to happiness. This Ivy League professor has cracked the code.

Jun 18, 2022
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Are political insiders looking for a Biden backup plan?

Jun 11, 2022
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Why child suicide is on the rise

Jun 4, 2022
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The school shooting generation

May 28, 2022
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The anatomy of Trump’s Big Lie

May 21, 2022
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What Queen Elizabeth is really like

May 14, 2022
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How the abortion news threatens the Supreme Court’s credibility

May 7, 2022
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The people who got rich off the pandemic

Apr 30, 2022
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The network of activists preparing for a post-Roe future

Apr 23, 2022
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She thought she knew her family — until she took a DNA test

Apr 16, 2022
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The transgender swimmer whose success made her a target

Apr 9, 2022
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Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty. What about her COO?

Apr 2, 2022
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What happened when a man made a chatbot of his dead fiancée

Mar 26, 2022
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Jon Stewart can’t fix America. But he knows people who can.

Mar 19, 2022
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Uncovering slave-ship wrecks, a diver puts lost souls to rest

Mar 12, 2022
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How real is the threat of nuclear war?

Mar 5, 2022
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David Remnick on Putin’s endgame

Feb 26, 2022
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Did a Texas man confess to a murder he didn’t commit?

Feb 19, 2022
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Are we in the golden age of ‘Jeopardy’?

Feb 12, 2022
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They survived school shootings. How are they 20 years later?

Feb 5, 2022
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Nikole Hannah-Jones on the 1619 Project and reframing U.S. history

Jan 22, 2022
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How one journalist helped her dad die

Jan 15, 2022
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Feeling burned out? Here’s how to rethink work.

Jan 8, 2022
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Inside the secret prisons where migrants are tortured and beaten

Dec 11, 2021
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Jelani Cobb on the backlash to critical race theory

Nov 20, 2021
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Kids were jailed for a crime that doesn’t exist. How could that happen?

Oct 30, 2021
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Think the stock market is rigged? You may be right.

Oct 23, 2021
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Bob Woodward and Robert Costa on the final months of Trump’s presidency

Oct 2, 2021
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The story of Jane Roe, her baby, and abortion in America

Sep 18, 2021
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E. Alex Jung on who writer Anthony Veasna So might’ve been

Aug 14, 2021
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Roxane Gay talks Kelis’s farm and the beauty of homegrown food

Jul 31, 2021
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Allison P. Davis on how Zola’s Twitter thread became a movie

Jul 3, 2021
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Mar 14, 2022