The best conversation I’ve had about the election, with Molly Ball
This election season has left pretty much everything I thought I knew about politics in doubt. Both parties nominated unpopular candidates, even when they had popular alternatives. One party's nominee...
4 Okt 20161h 12min
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on running Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid
This week, I've turned over the mic to The Weeds' Sarah Kliff. She went to Capitol Hill to interview HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell about all things healthcare. They talked about how to pay doctors to p...
27 Sep 201646min
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is health
There are a couple of ideas that drive how I see policy and politics. One of them is that most of what drives health outcomes has nothing to do with what happens in doctor's offices. Another is that w...
20 Sep 20161h 40min
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump supporters
I’ve been reading sociologist Arlie Hochschild’s writing for about a decade now. Her immersive projects have revolutionized how we understand labor, gender equity, and work-life balance. But her lates...
13 Sep 201659min
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning from games, and finding your online identity
If you came by the Vox office, you would find it oddly quiet. That's not because we don't like each other, or because we're not social, or because we don't have anything to say. It's because almost al...
6 Sep 20161h 34min
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twitter, and fame
W. Kamau Bell is a comedian and a writer. But you probably know him from one of his podcasts(Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time Period and Politically Re-Active) or his CNN show The U...
30 Aug 20161h 31min
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining consensus opinions
Malcolm Gladwell needs no introduction (though if you didn't know the famed author has launched a podcast, you should — it's called Revisionist History, and it's great.).Gladwell's work has become so ...
23 Aug 20161h 33min
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conflicts
Grant Gordon is a political scientist and policymaker who specializes in humanitarian intervention. He’s a fellow at the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation, and has worked on hu...
16 Aug 20161h 29min
