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Salmon on Psychotropics - Rebecca Giggs - May 2019 01.05.2019 6:10

Salmon on psychotropics, platypuses on prozac, and other strange tales from the wild Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Problem With High-Minded Politics - Sean Wilentz - May 2019 01.05.2019 15:58

John Adams and John Quincy Adams’s virtuous disdain for partisanship was at the root of their failures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stock Picks From Space - Frank Partnoy - May 2019 01.05.2019 13:38

Investors are using real-time satellite images to predict retailers’ sales. Is that cheating? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Poets in the Press Box - James Parker - May 2019 01.05.2019 9:32

A new anthology of sportswriting celebrates the poetry written in the press box. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Death of the Pioneer Myth - Jordan Kisner - May 2019 01.05.2019 16:09

A remarkable novel, Lost Children Archive, and a work of history, The End of the Myth, reckon with a walled border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Art After Sexual Assault - Merve Emre - May 2019 01.05.2019 14:58

Siri Hustvedt’s new novel explores fiction’s role in feminist consciousness-raising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Much Immigration is Too Much? - David Frum - April 2019 19.03.2019 53:47

We need to make hard decisions now about what will truly benefit current and future Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s Gonna be Huge - Bruce Handy - April 2019 19.03.2019 14:00

The many towers that Trump never built Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will John Bolton Bring on Armageddon? - Graeme Wood - April 2019 19.03.2019 48:39

The national security adviser could be our best hope for protecting the world from Donald Trump’s impulses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Fertility Doctor’s Secret - Sarah Zhang - April 2019 19.03.2019 34:48

Donald Cline must have thought no one would ever know. Then DNA testing came along. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots - Adam Serwer - April 2019 19.03.2019 31:52

A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How AI Will Rewire Us - Nicholas A. Christakis 19.03.2019 18:43

For better and for worse, robots will alter humans’ capacity for altruism, love, and friendship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Music for the Migrant Crisis - Rachael Allen - April 2019 19.03.2019 4:30

How Italy fell for Ghali Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get Off My Lawn - James Fallows - April 2019 19.03.2019 13:37

How a small group of activists (our correspondent among them) got leaf blowers banned in the nation’s capital Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Songs of Fire and Ice - Spencer Kornhaber - April 2019 19.03.2019 12:53

Ramin Djawadi’s score helped make the show a hit—and brought unlikely fame to the composer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Underemployment Chic - Gillian White - April 2019 19.03.2019 12:06

Uniqlo has become the unofficial clothier of urban Millennials. Can it catch on with the rest of America? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why Americans Don’t Cheat on Their Taxes - Rene Chun - April 2019 19.03.2019 5:59

The weirdly hopeful story of how the U.S. came to be a leader in tax compliance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Killing with Kindness - James Parker - April 2019 19.03.2019 8:24

Ellen DeGeneres, daytime superstar, is itching to try something new. But America needs the old Ellen more than ever before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris - Gary Greenberg - April 2019 19.03.2019 16:10

The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Art of Leaving Things Out - Ruth Franklin - April 2019 19.03.2019 13:37

Amy Hempel’s best short stories reveal how rich spareness can be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Curated Self, Circa 1820 - Nicholas Dames - April 2019 19.03.2019 15:59

The celebrity poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon mesmerized a 19th-century public with hints of dark secrets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Impeach Donald Trump - Yoni Appelbaum - March 2019 12.02.2019 55:59

Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals—and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What the Crow Knows - Ross Andersen - March 2019 12.02.2019 36:07

What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

‘Nobody Is Going to Believe You’ - Alex French and Maximilian Potter - March 2019 12.02.2019 1:04:22

The Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct for 20 years. Here, his alleged victims tell their stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yuck Factor - Kathleen McAuliffe - March 2019 12.02.2019 25:36

To a surprising degree, our political beliefs may derive from a specific aspect of our biological makeup: our propensity to feel physical revulsion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices