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Jul 11, 2026

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The Supreme Court's Enduring Bias - Michael O'Donnell - March 2020 19.02.2020

Over the past half century, siding with the powerful against the vulnerable has been the rule in almost every area of the law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Art of Second Chances - Ruth Franklin - March 2020 19.02.2020

In Emily St. John Mandel’s disaster-steeped fiction, a derailed life can take multiple forms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Abraham Lincoln's Radical Moderation - Andrew Ferguson - March 2020 19.02.2020

What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ode to Cold Showers - James Parker - March 2020 19.02.2020

Fling wide the plastic curtain, take a breath, and step right in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20,000 Feet Under the Sea - Wil S. Hylton - January/February 2020 07.01.2020

It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Retreat, Christian Soldiers - Emma Green - January/February 2020 07.01.2020

Feeling out of step with the mores of contemporary life, members of a conservative-Catholic group have built a thriving community in rural Kansas. Could their flight from mainstream society be a harbinger for the nation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Museums Have Ugly Pasts - Adam Hochschild - January/February 2020 07.01.2020

Textbooks can be revised, but historic sites, monuments, and collections that memorialize ugly pasts aren’t so easily changed. Lessons from the struggle to update the Royal Museum for Central Africa, outside Brussels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where's My Flying Car? - Derek Thompson - January/February 2020 07.01.2020

The toxicity of the web is peanuts compared with Big Tech’s failure to remake the physical world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Patron Saint of Complicated Women - Abby Aguirre - January/February 2020 07.01.2020

The making of Bombshell and the eerie similarities between Roger Ailes and Harvey Weinstein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Myth of Free Shipping - Amanda Mull - January/February 2020 07.01.2020

How retailers hide the costs of delivery—and why we’re such suckers for their ploys Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before Zuckerberg, Gutenberg - Cullen Murphy - January/February 2020 07.01.2020

It’s easy to forget how unforeseeable the “unforeseeable” really is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Flamenco Went Pop - James Parker - January/February 2020 07.01.2020

The Spanish star Rosalía has made the harrowing music of Andalusia into a global phenomenon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cool It, Krugman - Sebastian Mallaby - January/February 2020 07.01.2020

The self-sabotaging rage of the New York Times columnist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Woman Who Made Modern Journalism - Liza Mundy - January/February 2020 07.01.2020

Ida Tarbell championed reportorial methods and investigative goals that are as potent today as ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The View from Inside the Bubble, - Ismail Muhammad - January/February 2020 07.01.2020

Drawn into the tech world, a 20-something wonders why she—and the rest of us—didn’t wise up to the grandiose myopia sooner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ode to Middle Age - James Parker - January/February 2020 07.01.2020

Your body begins to betray you. You have neither the vitality of youth nor the license of old age. But being over the hill has its pleasures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Love in an American War Zone (Melina Matsoukas) - Adrienne Green - December 2019 18.11.2019

The director has collaborated with artists such as Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Issa Rae. Now she is set to premiere her debut feature film—a romance set against a backdrop of police violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Nation Coming Apart - Jeffrey Goldberg - December 2019 12.11.2019

The meaning of the American idea in 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How America Ends - Yoni Appelbaum - December 2019 12.11.2019

A tectonic demographic shift is under way. Can the country hold together? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Q+A: Left Behind (Tara Westover) - Jeffrey Goldberg - December 2019 12.11.2019

A conversation with Tara Westover on the urban/rural divide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why It Feels Like Everything Is Going Haywire - Jonathan Haidt and Tobias Rose-Stockwell - December 2019 12.11.2019

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Too Much Democracy Is Bad for Democracy - Jonathan Rauch and Ray La Raja - December 2019 12.11.2019

The major American parties have ceded unprecedented power to primary voters. It’s a radical experiment—and it’s failing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Things We Can't Face - Caitlin Flanagan - December 2019 12.11.2019

Why we need to face the best arguments from the other side Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Would Mister Rogers Do - Tom Junod - December 2019 12.11.2019

I first met him 21 years ago, and now our relationship is the subject of a new movie. He’s never been more revered—or more misunderstood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can This Marriage Be Saved? - Andrew Ferguson - December 2019 12.11.2019

Borrowing techniques from couples therapy to bring liberals and conservatives back together Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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