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What Barack Obama and Malcolm Gladwell Want America to Remember About Reconstruction

In a conversation anchoring the new Audible series Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise, the former president argues the most consequential era in American history is also its most willfully forgotten—and that…

Why Michael Lewis is Writing About the Civil Service—And Why That Matters Now

Michael Lewis has built a career revealing the hidden machinery behind institutions most people take for granted: the stock market, Major League Baseball, Silicon Valley. But for years now, his…

Travis Barker on Jamming His Way Into Box Car Racer With Billie Joe Armstrong, and Why blink-182 Never Rehearsed for the Pop Disaster Tour

The drummer tells Broken Record’s Justin Richmond about the joke his own son didn’t get, building an empire out of a Riverside skate warehouse, and gearing up for the Ramones’…

Tom Morello on the Failure That Created Rage Against the Machine, Faking Chords for Bruce Springsteen, and Teaching His Son to Shred

The guitarist tells Broken Record’s Justin Richmond about getting rejected by the Sunset Strip, a Harvard degree that led to nothing, and the Dutch teenage Nazi-killers behind his new single…

You‘re Actually Not Bothering People Enough

A psychologist and a man who spent 100 days collecting rejections make the case that asking for help is less risky than our anxious minds assume Most of us would…

Eric Zimmer on Why Willpower Was Never the Point

A former heroin addict turned behavior-change expert explains why every dramatic transformation is secretly built from thousands of boring, tiny ones Eric Zimmer had been to detox before. He’d tried…

Your Brain Is Changing Right Now, Whether You Notice or Not

The neuroscientist who helped launch the scientific study of meditation says flourishing isn’t a personality trait. It’s a trainable skill, and five minutes a day is enough to start Richard…

Grit Made Angela Duckworth Famous. Now She Says the Secret to Success Is Something Else Entirely.

The psychologist behind the bestseller Grit has a new theory: white-knuckling your way to your goals is not just exhausting, it’s the wrong approach altogether Angela Duckworth built a career…

The Killers’ Brandon Flowers Finally Made The Country Album He Spent His Entire Career Waiting For 

The Killers frontman talks Nashville’s RCA Studio A, the brother-in-law he lost, and why he’s embarrassed he didn’t know he was recording in the room where Elvis, Dolly Parton, and…

What Happened When One Woman Banned Small Talk for a Month

A mental-health blogger who dreaded “how are you?” makes the case that skipping the weather report is the fastest route to real connection Most of us treat small talk as…