I Love You Waymo
The beach ball test.Revisionist History travels to Phoenix, Arizona to learn about the future of the automobile. It’s not what you think. It’s much better.Warning: Some of the actions depicted…
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Epiphany
This season has chronicled a long, dark century of lies, fakes, frauds, and hoaxes. In the season 2 finale, Jill Lepore draws that history all the way down to the…
The Attack on Voting Rights: An Ugly History
Ari Berman is, without question, one of the leading journalists documenting voter suppression in the United States today. He covers voting rights at Mothers Jones and is the author of…
Power and Nations: Francis Fukuyama
On this Deep Background mini-series about global power, Francis Fukuyama weighs in on the decay of liberal democracy and the rise of China as a global superpower.Fukayama is a renowned…
Reopening New York Safely and Securely is Solvable
Jason DiGianni is the project lead for the Excelsior Pass. He thinks the free digital tool (which confirms negative COVID-19 tests and positive vaccine statuses) can help New York reopen…
Craig Finn Holds Steady
Craig Finn, the lead singer and songwriter of The Hold Steady, is known for his vivid, literary-style songwriting. He often writes about characters going through an existential crisis. The Hold…
Tommy Caldwell Finds Clarity
Tommy Caldwell’s near-death experience unlocks a completely new state of mind that propels him to become the greatest big wall climber of all time.
Hush Rush
In the 1980s, Rush Limbaugh transformed talk radio. In the process, he radicalized his listeners and the conservative movement. Limbaugh’s talk radio style became a staple of the modern right.…
The Juneteenth Mixtape
Host Ibram X. Kendi expounds the history and legacy of Juneteenth, and what the day means to him. He passes the mic to Annette Gordon-Reed, Heather McGhee, Adam Serwer, Tiya…
Under-Representation in Robotics and AI is Solvable
Dr. Ayanna Howard is the dean of the College of Engineering of the Ohio State University as well as the founder and president of the board of directors of Zyrobotics,…
Moby Reprised
Moby may be one of the most highly recognizable dance-music artists of all time, but he’s also a talented multi-hyphenate whose unconventional 30-year career includes massive success as a producer…
The Zero-Sum Myth: We’re Divided, We’re Conquered
Heather McGhee is an expert in economic and social policy, and author of the best-selling book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.…