The Dictator's Playbook — with Maria Ressa
Maria Ressa is arguably one of the bravest journalists working in the Philippines today. As co-founder and CEO of the media site Rappler, she has withstood death threats, multiple arrests and a rising...
5 Nov 201950min
The Opposite of Addiction — with Johann Hari
What causes addiction? Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream, travelled some 30,000 miles in search of an answer. He met with researchers and lawmakers, drug dealers and drug makers, those who wer...
22 Okt 201948min
Pardon the Interruptions — with Gloria Mark
Every 40 seconds, our attention breaks. It takes an act of extreme self-awareness to even notice. That’s why Gloria Mark, a professor in the Department of Informatics at University of California, Irvi...
14 Aug 201943min
From Russia with Likes (Part 2) — with Renée DiResta
In the second part of our interview with Renée DiResta, disinformation expert, Mozilla fellow, and co-author of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation, she explains how social media ...
1 Aug 201928min
From Russia with Likes (Part 1) — with Renée DiResta
Today’s online propaganda has evolved in unforeseeable and seemingly absurd ways; by laughing at or spreading a Kermit the Frog meme, you may be unwittingly advancing the Russian agenda. These campaig...
24 Jul 201945min
Down the Rabbit Hole by Design — with Guillaume Chaslot
When we press play on a YouTube video, we set in motion an algorithm that taps all available data to find the next video that keeps us glued to the screen. Because of its advertising-based business mo...
10 Jul 201954min
With Great Power Comes... No Responsibility? — with Yaёl Eisenstat
Aza sits down with Yael Eisenstat, a former CIA officer and a former advisor at the White House. When Yael noticed that Americans were having a harder and harder time finding common ground, she shifte...
25 Jun 201955min
Should've Stayed in Vegas — with Natasha Dow Schüll
In part two of our interview with cultural anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll, author of Addiction by Design, we learn what gamblers are really after a lot of the time — it’s not money. And it’s the sa...
19 Jun 201939min
