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An Ode to Barbecue Potato Chips - James Parker - December 2021 30.11.2021 3:47

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Birthday - Kathleen Rooney - December 2021 30.11.2021 4:32

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Pear - Erica Funkhouser - December 2021 30.11.2021 1:18

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A Secretive Hedge Fund Is Gutting Newsrooms - McKay Coppins - November 2021 19.10.2021 50:35

Inside Alden Global Capital Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering - Daniel Engber - November 2021 19.10.2021 48:11

James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

W. G. Sebald Ransacked Jewish Lives for His Fictions - Judith Shulevitz - November 2021 19.10.2021 29:51

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Slackers of the World, Unite! - Ellen Cushing - November 2021 19.10.2021 39:44

Why employees love the software, and bosses don’t Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

‘I Don’t Know That I Would Even Call It Meth Anymore’ - Sam Quinones - November 2021 19.10.2021 53:23

Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Largest Autocracy on Earth - Adrienne LaFrance - November 2021 19.10.2021 14:32

Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants - Amanda Mull - November 2021 19.10.2021 20:13

What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climbing the Economic Ladder in Fresno, California - José Vadi - November 2021 19.10.2021 3:01

One family’s journey into the middle class Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why Did Dostoyevsky Write Crime and Punishment? - James Parker - November 2021 19.10.2021 9:52

He had no choice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonathan Franzen’s Best Book Yet - Becca Rothfeld - November 2021 19.10.2021 15:23

At last he’s put aside the pyrotechnics and gone all in on his great theme: the American family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Human History Gets a Rewrite - William Deresiewicz - November 2021 19.10.2021 16:51

A brilliant new account upends bedrock assumptions about 30,000 years of change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spotify Has Made All Music Into Background Music - Jack Hamilton - November 2021 19.10.2021 17:23

Is the collapse of genre boundaries and the erosion of fervent musical loyalties a good thing? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Ode to Being Yelled At - James Parker - November 2021 19.10.2021 4:00

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Ode to Joy - Billy Collins - November 2021 19.10.2021 1:08

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Most Hollywood Writers’ Rooms Look Nothing Like America - October 2021 - Hannah Giorgis 14.09.2021 57:22

Could that finally be changing? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Battle of High Hill - Jeffrey E. Stern - October 2021 14.09.2021 54:11

When two megafires converged on a small town in Oregon, the community faced a choice. People could flee, leaving the town to its fate. Or they could stay and fight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The New Puritans - Anne Applebaum - October 2021 14.09.2021 53:12

Social codes are changing, in many ways for the better. But for those whose behavior doesn’t adapt fast enough to the new norms, judgment can be swift—and merciless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Search for America’s Atlantis - Ross Andersen - October 2021 14.09.2021 35:08

Did people first come to this continent by land or by sea? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don’t Go in the Basement - Carvell Wallace - October 2021 14.09.2021 26:49

The new Candyman escapes a long tradition of exploiting Black pain for cheap scares. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to Persuade Americans to Give Up Their Guns - David Frum - October 2021 14.09.2021 17:50

The way to reduce gun violence is by convincing ordinary, “responsible” handgun owners that their weapons make them, their families, and those around them less safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Nicest Man in Stand-Up - Tim Alberta - October 2021 14.09.2021 12:56

Nate Bargatze’s humor is slow, inoffensive, even soothing. And he’s one of the hottest acts in comedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Plan Z for Immigration - Jonathan Rauch - October 2021 14.09.2021 10:14

Let the states sort it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices