Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s Slide into Techno-Authoritarianism
One of 2025’s most memorable images was of Silicon Valley’s billionaire CEOs lined up in the front rows at President Donald Trump’s inauguration. It was visual proof of the tech industry’s embrace of ...
15 Dec 20251h 3min
Rachel Maddow on Japanese Incarceration During WWII, Mass Deportation & Media Chaos
Rachel Maddow is an author, podcast host and producer, documentary producer, and, of course, the anchor of her eponymous show on MS NOW. Her newest podcast, "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order," unrav...
11 Dec 202556min
Beyond ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Margaret Atwood on Memoir, Grudges, & Getting Older
Margaret Atwood is one of the most famous and prolific authors of the modern era. Though best known for her 1985 hit “The Handmaid’s Tale,” her dozens of works span literary genres — poetry, novels, c...
8 Dec 20251h 9min
Tech Billionaires & the Rural Poor: Two Sides of Trump’s MAGA Populism
The tech billionaires of Silicon Valley and the Midwestern rural poor wouldn’t seem to have much in common. But somehow many of them have united under the MAGA umbrella. Kara brings together two repor...
4 Dec 20251h 5min
Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief
How do you grieve the impending death of a lifelong friend when you are a multi-hyphenate comedian, actor, director and producer? If you are Tig Notaro, you produce a film about their life and work — ...
1 Dec 202558min
Fighting for Truth in a Rage-Driven Algorithmic Age with Jessica Yellin
In the mid-2010s, television journalist and former chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin left her job at CNN to go independent. A few years later, she founded News Not Noise, a multi-platform...
27 Nov 202551min
Jennifer Welch of 'I’ve Had It' Blasts Both MAGA & Centrist Dems
In the year since President Trump won re-election — thanks in part to capitalizing on sitdowns on friendly podcasts — Democrats have been looking for their own answer to the so-called “manosphere.” On...
24 Nov 20251h 30min
Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit
Political commentator Scott Jennings has been called the “conservative explaining Red America to CNN viewers.” As the in-house Republican on CNN’s NewsNight With Abby Phillips debate panels, he often ...
21 Nov 20251h 12min
