Biden, Psychedelics, Twitter, My New Book — and So Much More
As I head into a three-month book leave, I wanted to take some time to address a wide array of listeners’ questions. My column editor, Aaron Retica, joins me for a conversation that ranges from the co...
25 Jul 20231h 15min
Barbara Kingsolver Thinks Urban Liberals Have It All Wrong on Appalachia
When Barbara Kingsolver set out to write her latest novel, “Demon Copperhead,” she was already considered one of the most accomplished writers of our time. She had won awards including the Women’s Pri...
21 Jul 20231h 1min
What We Learned From the Deepest Look at Homelessness in Decades
California has around half of the nation’s unsheltered homeless population. The state’s homelessness crisis has become a talking point for Republicans and a warning sign for Democrats in blue cities a...
18 Jul 20231h 2min
What Tom Hanks Thinks of America
There are few actors as widely beloved as Tom Hanks. Hanks has acted in over 75 films in his 46-year career, winning the best actor Academy Award two years in a row, for “Philadelphia” and “Forrest Gu...
14 Jul 202351min
A.I. Could Solve Some of Humanity’s Hardest Problems. It Already Has.
Since the release of ChatGPT, huge amounts of attention and funding have been directed toward chatbots. These A.I. systems are trained on copious amounts of human-generated data and designed to predic...
11 Jul 20231h 28min
This Taught Me a Lot About How Decarbonization Is Really Going
The Inflation Reduction Act was the largest piece of climate legislation ever passed in the United States, setting aside hundreds of billions of dollars for decarbonizing the economy. But the money wa...
7 Jul 20231h 29min
Best Of: A Revelatory Tour of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Forgotten Teachings
It’s hard to think of a more celebrated figure of the 20th century than Martin Luther King Jr.He has a national memorial in Washington, D.C. His birthday is one of just 11 federal holidays. His words ...
4 Jul 20231h 34min
What’s Really Going On in Russia?
Last weekend, in the course of about 36 hours, Vladimir Putin faced — and then survived — one of the most serious challenges to his rule in over 20 years. An armed rebellion led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, ...
30 Jun 20231h 8min
