Yesterday

The end of world order as we know it

Venezuela. Greenland. Iran. Things have been moving so quickly that we weren't even at war with Iran when we recorded this episode of The Gray Area with Sean Illing. It’s only March, but it’s been a long year. The war in Iran is only the latest sign that something deep is shiftin ... Show More

35m 41s

Mar 9

Alone in a cage with cocaine

Addiction is one of those words that seems obvious until you try to explain it. We tend to fall back on two simple stories. Either addiction is a moral failure or it’s a brain disease that robs people of agency entirely. But neither of those stories feels complete. Today’s guest ... Show More

48m 37s

Mar 6

Winging it in Iran

What the hell just happened in Iran? The US launched an attack last weekend, and within hours, the explanations were already shifting. Is this regime change? Will it be a few days? A few months? Several years? By the time you’re listening to this, the situation may have moved aga ... Show More

37m 13s

Mar 2021

Thinking 2.0 (with Adam Grant)

On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned, “Thinking 2.0,” Preet answers listener questions about possible sedition charges against the Capitol insurrectionists, and Trump lawyer Sidney Powell’s unusual motion to dismiss a defamation suit stemming from her false election fraud claims. ... Show More

1h 1m

Feb 2022

Political Gabfest - Am I Normal?

Emily, John and David discuss Donald Trump’s attempts to seize voting machines, the racist attacks on the yet-to-be-named SCOTUS nominee, and they are joined by Joseph Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard University's T. H. Chan School of Public Health, to ... Show More

58m 21s

Dec 2023

How Wrong Was The Supreme Court On Abortion? (ICYMI)

2023 was a year of big decisions for the Supreme Court, including recent news that they’ll be reviewing the constitutionality of mifepristone in the coming year. So we’re heading into the archives with this episode recorded right after the Dobbs decision was leaked. Professor Jac ... Show More

1h 8m

Apr 2022

107/ Black Anarchism, Abolition and the Radical Tradition w/ William C. Anderson

This is a conversation with<a href="https://williamcanderson.info/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">William C. Anderson</a>, author of the book<a href="https://www.akpress.org/nationonnomap.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Natio ... Show More

1h 40m

Aug 2023

The Supreme Court Crisis w/ Elie Mystal

Attorney, writer and political commentator Elie Mystal joins Laverne to talk about the radically conservative United States Supreme Court, the constitutional amendments through history and his eye-opening book, Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution. He expla ... Show More

47m 58s

Apr 2021

What Up Holmes?

Love it or hate it, the freedom to say obnoxious and subversive things is the quintessence of what makes America America. But our say-almost-anything approach to free speech is actually relatively recent, and you can trace it back to one guy: a Supreme Court justice named Oliv ... Show More

48m 21s

Jun 2016

Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Political Thicket

The question of how much power the Supreme Court should possess has divided justices over time. But the issue was perhaps never more hotly debated than in Baker v. Carr. On this episode of More Perfect, we talk about the case that pushed one Supreme Court jus ... Show More

44m 3s

Jun 2024

Dave Rubin on Why We Can’t Trust The Media Anymore

Dave Rubin (host of “The Rubin Report” and author of “Don’t Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Dystopia”) engages in a candid conversation with Chris Cuomo, discussing Rubin’s shift from progressive to classical liberal, his critiques of COVID-19 policies, and ... Show More

1h 17m

What Clarence Thomas really thinks