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Apr 2, 2023
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It's on. Twice a week, award-winning journalist Kara Swisher gets to the heart of the story through no-holds-barred interviews with power players across business, tech, media, politics and beyond. So why do her guests show up? “Smart people,” says Kara, “like difficult questions.”
Mondays and Thursdays from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates On Trump, Palestine and Journalism as a “Contact Sport”
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Trump’s Second Term: How He Did It & What to Expect
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Trump vs Democracy: Two Historians’ Perspectives
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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The “Elon Election”: What It Means For America and Musk
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Timothy Snyder and Bill Adair on the War on Truth & The Fight for Freedom
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Reid Hoffman on Trump, Elon, Peter Thiel and Lina Khan
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Seth Meyers on Parenting, Podcasting & Late Night
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Robert Downey Jr., Ayad Akhtar and Bartlett Sher on “Truthful Lies” in AI, Art and Politics
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on Surveillance Capitalism, Text Privacy and AI
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Yuval Noah Harari on AI & the Future of Information
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Chris Wallace Explains How JFK (Possibly) Stole the 1960 Election
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Rachel Maddow and Billy Corben on Mobsters, Russia, Trump and the 2020 Election
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on AI “Friends”, OpenAI “Siblings” and Climate Change
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Bill Gates on How to Tax the Rich, AI, Misinformation, & the Election
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Pete Buttigieg Thinks Trumpism is in Its Last Season
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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From “Witch Hunt” to “Weaponization”: The Impact of Trump’s War on the DOJ with David Rohde
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Robert Reich on Trump, Harris, Musk and More
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Hillary Rodham Clinton Drops Truth Bombs
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Useful Idiots? How Right-Wing Influencers Got $ to Spread Russian Propaganda
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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CNN's Dana Bash On Debate Drama, the Harris Interview & America’s Deadliest Election
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Tech and Kids: Parenting Expert Dr. Becky Answers Listener Questions
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Stay Tuned with Preet: Elections, Now & Then (with Joanne Freeman)
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Unpacking Tech’s Influence on Today’s Media
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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The DNC Afterparty and What’s Next for the Harris/Walz Campaign
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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David Axelrod Breaks Down Kamala Harris’s Messaging and Strategy
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Politics, Protests and Kamalanomenon: What to Expect at the DNC
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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How the Right Launders Online Propaganda with Renée DiResta
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic Mines the “Weird” 2024 Election For Comedy Gold
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Roxane Gay on Guns, Kamala & Media
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Nancy Pelosi on the ‘Decision to Win’ in 2024
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Anti-DEI Moms & the Alt-Right: Two Sides of the Same Coin
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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The Debate, the Dropout and the Dems' Future with “Biden Whisperer” Ron Klain
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Who’s Behind the Harris Campaign Donation Tsunami?
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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What Happened to Joe Biden? What’s Next for Kamala Harris and the Dems?
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Guns, Social Media & Loneliness with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Rachel Maddow on Trump, Biden’s Dilemma & America’s Fascist History
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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How Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is Leading During “A Really Heavy Time”
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Too Old or Still Relevant? NATO at 75 with Ambassador Julianne Smith
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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July 4th Special: Why Heather Cox Richardson Still Has Hope for American Democracy
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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On Creepy Fingers, Deep Fakes, and Fair Use with Getty Images CEO Craig Peters
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Trump vs. Biden 2.1 with Stephanie Ruhle, Eliana Johnson and Mike Madrid
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Storytelling, Family & Tragedy with Griffin Dunne
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Flags, Free Trips & Secret Recordings: The Cases, Trials & Tribulation of SCOTUS
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Doing Death, Truth-Telling in Comedy and Getting Wiser
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Laurene Powell Jobs and Kara Talk Tech, AI & Journalism
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on ScarJo Controversy, Sam Altman & Disinfo Fears
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Abortion Politics in 2024 with Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood President
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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AOC on Trump vs. Biden, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tech, Gaza & More
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Bill Maher Won't Back Down (But He Might Shock You)
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May 30, 2024 |
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“Possible” by Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger featuring Kara Swisher
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May 27, 2024 |
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Are Elon’s Best Days Behind Him? with Kirsten Grind, Tim Higgins & Becky Peterson
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May 23, 2024 |
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On Journalism, Activism and Hope with Nicholas Kristof
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May 20, 2024 |
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War in Gaza, Ukraine & Space, plus Biden vs. Trump with David Ignatius
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May 16, 2024 |
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Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review
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May 13, 2024 |
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Radical Self-Acceptance, Cancel Culture, and Forgiveness with Writer Anne Lamott
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May 09, 2024 |
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Can Chipotle Founder Steve Ells Strike "Fast-Casual" Gold Again?
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May 06, 2024 |
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Wrestling with America’s (Racist) History with Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks
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May 02, 2024 |
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Time for a Data Privacy Bill + the TikTok Crackdown with Senator Maria Cantwell
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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How to Prevent War with China with Dmitri Alperovitch and Chris Krebs
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Is the Fight Over Abortion Rights Enough to Beat Trump? with Shefali Luthra, Sarah McCammon and Mary Jo Pitzl
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Kids and Phones: Moral Panic or Time to Panic? with Jonathan Haidt
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Can Yahoo Bring Back the "Good Internet"?
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Will Disinformation Doom Our Democracy? with Nina Jankowicz, Sasha Issenberg & Barbara McQuade
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Lessons Learned From Hitler’s Rise To Power
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Can Food Save The World? with Joan Nathan
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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"Food, Feminism, and Fury" with Geraldine DeRuiter
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Life Lessons from Tech Titans (Kara in conversation with Brené Brown)
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Much Ado About TikTok
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on the IPO
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Margrethe Vestager Shows Tech Gatekeepers The Door
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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"Burn Book" Takes SxSW, with "Mensch" Mark Cuban
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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More Burn Book with Ted Sarandos
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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How did Kara Scoop OpenAI, and More on Burn Book (with Sam Altman)
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Why Reed Jobs is Betting on Cancer Innovations
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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David Chalian Makes the Call
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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The Burn Book Kick-Off with Don Lemon
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Roberta Kaplan Will See You In Court
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Brooke Shields on Surviving Hollywood
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Cord Jefferson on Making American Fiction
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Tracy Chapman's Timeless Earworms
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Ambassador Rahm Emanuel on the New Japan, Contending With China, and Biden’s Calm
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Is the Apple Vision Pro All That?
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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How Ava DuVernay Made a Hit with ‘Origin,’ and Without Big Studio Backing
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Judy Woodruff on Polarization, Politics, and the Media
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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PA Governor Josh Shapiro’s “Get Sh*t Done” Attitude
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Hope for American Democracy, According to Heather Cox Richardson
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Psychedelics with Joe Green
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Fei-Fei Li and a Humane Approach to AI
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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A Close Read of Trump’s 2024 Strategy
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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COVID Lessons Learned with Donald G McNeil Jr.
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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OpenAI Drama to Trump to Elon Musk: What It Means for 2024
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Stay Tuned with Preet: The Many Lies of George Santos
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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The Man Taunting Mike Johnson, Ron DeSantis and George Santos
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Will Big Bets to Solve Climate Change Pay Off? With Rajiv Shah
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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God, Money and Trump with Tim Alberta
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Mark Esper on Gaza, Iran, China and (of course) Trump
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Is Liz Cheney the GOP Cassandra?
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Washington’s Top China Hawk Talks TikTok, Taiwan & Trump
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Martina Navratilova on Transgender Athletes, Pay Equity and Trump
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Olympian Caster Semenya on Fighting to Run
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the OpenAI Debacle
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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The Fox News ‘Lying Tax,’ Tucker and More with Brian Stelter
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Dan Doctoroff on Living with ALS and Building the Future
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Adam Grant on Your Potential, Gen Z and — oops — Elon
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Can Mike Johnson Survive As House Speaker?
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The Twitter Fantasy from Land of the Giants
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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How Elon Broke Twitter — and Twitter Broke Elon — with Ben Mezrich
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Uber’s Profit, Power and Problems with CEO Dara K
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Alexis Ohanian and Deb Roy on Big Tech’s Effects on Democracy
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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The Fog of War: Navigating Disinformation Now
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Christiane Amanpour on Covering This War
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Why Fei-Fei Li is Still Hopeful About AI (… and Elon)
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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The Politics of Disagreement with Steve Inskeep
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Martha, Martha, Martha (ICYMI)
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Jon Lovett Talks Trump, Biden & the Podcasting Biz
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Do Never Trumpers Matter? We Asked Adam Kinzinger
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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The Yoel Roth-Linda Yaccarino Showdown
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Sheila Johnson Talks BET, Entrepreneurship and Why She Doesn’t Love Being Called “America’s First Black Female Billionaire”
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Is Biden the Best Democrats Can Do?
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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The Walter Isaacson-Kara Swisher Showdown
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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How Twitter Took Alex Edelman to IRL White Supremacists
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Conan O'Brien Talks to His Accountant
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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What Naomi Klein Found Down the Steve Bannon Rabbit Hole
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Elon Musk: Somebody That I Used to Know
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Barry Diller on Biden, AI and the Hollywood Shutdown
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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WTF Can We Do About Deadly Wildfires?
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Why We Can’t Quit Elon with Ronan Farrow & William Cohan
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Ron DeSantis Won’t Stop Imani Rupert Gordon
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Big Companies Are Scared of These Lawyers
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel: Friendship — My Reliable Gift
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Aging, Death and other Uplifting Topics with Mike Birbiglia
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Esther Perel on Grief — In Memory of Blakeney Schick
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Is Chris Christie Really the Anti-Trump?
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Vinod Khosla’s View of the Future, From AI to China
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Barbie & Oppenheimer & Strikes, Oh My
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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The Rewards of Stepping Out of Line: A Commencement Address from Kara
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Fran Drescher on the SAG Strike and Hollywood’s "Fat Cats”
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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The Crypto Founder Who Won a “Landmark Victory” Against the SEC
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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The Fox News Love Triangle: Tucker, Murdoch and Trump
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Jake Tapper on Trust, Trump and CNN
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Oliver Stone on Nuclear Energy, Putin and the Path to Conspiracies
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Mark Zuckerberg: Oops! I Did It Again (Again)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Martha Stewart Makes No Apologies for Being Perfect
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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The Weeds: We Need to Rethink Discipline in Schools
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Inflection AI: Personalized and More "Woke" Than The “TruthGPT” Elon Might Make
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Sorry, Donald. Jen Easterly Plans To Make Elections Boring Again.
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Man Making Self-Driving Trucks
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Jeremy Strong, Alexander Skasgard and Succession Spin-Off Theories (Spoiler Alert)
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Ukraine’s Tech Advantage
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May 29, 2023 |
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A.I. Doomsday with Tristan Harris
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May 25, 2023 |
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Lilly Singh on Making It on Social Media — and Hollywood
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May 22, 2023 |
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Will Elon Musk Turn Twitter Into Yahoo Mail?
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May 18, 2023 |
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How Will Lina Khan and the FTC Tackle AI?
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May 15, 2023 |
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Watergate to Trump and Today’s GOP: A Throughline
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May 11, 2023 |
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Making Relationships Work (or Not) with Maggie Smith
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May 08, 2023 |
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Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike
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May 04, 2023 |
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Snap’s Evan Spiegel on AI, AR, and – yes – TikTok
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May 01, 2023 |
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Ron Klain on the Likely Biden-Trump 2024 Showdown
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Ben Smith on the Turmoil at Buzzfeed, Fox News and Everything In Between
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Larry Summers on the Politics & Economics of Envy
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Jen Psaki on Her New Show and Her Old Boss
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Inside the Elon-Substack Drama with Chris Best & Hamish McKenzie
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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What Rupert Murdoch and Succession’s Logan Roy Have in Common (and Don’t)
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani talks TikTok, Telehealth Deal on GLP-1/Ozempic and Why She Took the Job
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Brooke Shields: Stardom, Teen Girls & Social Media
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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How to Make It in Media with Audie Cornish
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Katie Porter: Taking Big Business to Task While Running for Dianne Feinstein’s Seat
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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When Silicon Valley Invaded Texas
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4 & the A.I. Arms Race
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Reid Hoffman Talks Trump, Thiel & AI
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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SVB, IG & AI with Instagram Co-founder Kevin Systrom
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Walter Isaacson Is Writing the Book (Literally) on Elon Musk
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Jamie Lee Curtis and Donna Langley Take Us Inside Hollywood
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Marc Benioff’s Toughest Conversation with Kara Swisher
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Is Bing Back? with Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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How Much Damage Did Trump Do to America’s Standing In the World?
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Will Killing Section 230 Kill the Internet?
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Welcome to AI Warfare
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Ken Buck Takes On the Big Tech Boogeyman
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Ruben Gallego Is Ready to Take On “Queen MAGA” Kari Lake for Kyrsten Sinema’s Seat
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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"Donald Trump Has Made Democrats Great" (Again)
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Conservative or Liberal? This Prosecutor Refuses to Be Put in a Box
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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The Big Business of Online Dating (Land of the Giants)
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Mark Zuckerberg: Oops!...I Did It Again
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Has the Silicon Valley Bubble Burst? A Conversation w Jessica Lessin & William Cohan
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Biden’s Antitrust Advisor Left the White House. Here’s His Exit Interview
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Intelligence Squared: Swisher and Scaramucci Debate If Elon Is Killing Twitter
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Inside the Prince Harry Book Blitz and What It Means for the Monarchy
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Ian Bremmer on Putin, Xi…and Elon Musk
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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What’s Next for GOP & Trump – w/Charlie Sykes & Manu Raju
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Are You “Dying of Politeness”? Geena Davis Explains.
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Peering into the Future with Tony Fadell
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Love, Life & Other Advice from Kara and Nayeema
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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The Legacy of Steve Jobs
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Casey Newton, Kara & Nayeema Talk Tech
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Fox News, Dominion — oh, and Donald Trump
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Aging, Death and Other Uplifting Topics with Mike Birbiglia
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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A Bad Week for Donald Trump? … And Potentially for Gay Marriage?
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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The Man Behind "Sex and the City" and "Emily in Paris"
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Why Twitter’s Former Safety Chief Left Elon Musk
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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A Nobel Prize Winner on the “Dark Matter of Biology”
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Into It: A Portrait of Artist as Taylor Swift
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Where’s the Line in Comedy? Monty Python’s Eric Idle Has an Idea
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Can Chris Licht Turn CNN Around?
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Elon Musk: Somebody That I Used to Know
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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How Donald Trump Helped the Democrats
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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How John King Gets Ready for Election Night
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Kara on Elon and John Legend on Kanye (and More!)
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Matt Levine on Elon Musk: Chief Twit & “Meme Lord”
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Frank Luntz, Rick Wilson and Sarah Longwell on Donald Trump and the Midterms
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Twitter Spaces On: WTF is Happening in the UK and the World
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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The Economy Stinks, and Dr. Doom is Not Hopeful
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Airbnb’s CEO on Nomadic Life, Loneliness… and Cleaning Fees
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Twitter Spaces On: Elon, Elon, Elon … and Trump
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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The Billionaire Who Took America Online
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Will Stacey Abrams (Finally) Win?
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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John Fetterman and Kara Talk Strokes, Recovery & Senate Race
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Maggie Haberman Makes Sense of Donald Trump
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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So ... Should We Ban TikTok?
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Hillary Clinton Lets Loose with Predictions
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Chris Cuomo’s Comeback
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Coming Soon: On with Kara Swisher
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Sep 03, 2022 |