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Apr 20

The Pentagon’s AI war machine

The Pentagon has spent years building AI tools to help identify targets, speed up battlefield decisions, and make war more “efficient.” What started as an effort to analyze drone footage has grown into something bigger and much more unsettling. Sean talks with Bloomberg’s Katrina ... Show More

48m 42s

Apr 17

American democracy's structural flaw

Back in 2015, before President Donald Trump, before January 6, before all the craziness of the last decade, Matt Yglesias made a blunt prediction: American democracy is doomed. Guest host Zack Beauchamp talks with Matt about what that argument got right, what it missed, and why t ... Show More

38m 41s

Apr 13

The contradictions of wokeness

What does it mean to be “woke”? It's become a catch-all term to smear or dismiss anything that has any vague association with progressive politics. So anytime you venture into an argument about “wokeness,” it becomes hopelessly entangled in a broader cultural battle. Today’s gues ... Show More

53m 20s

Jan 2024

America, America IS a Racist Country

Welcome home, y’all! We're back with another episode of Native Land Pod, co-hosted by Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye and Andrew Gillum. We appreciate each of you for making us the #1 podcast on Apple Podcasts for last week's debut! This week's episode features a conversation about ... Show More

1h 27m

Apr 2019

David Brooks' Moral Journey

Tina Brown talks with David Brooks, the New York Times op-ed columnist and author of the new book The Second Mountain. Brooks posits that decades of unfettered individualism and social freedom have left us all morally adrift. But he has identified four principles that can get one ... Show More

33m 49s

Apr 2024

The great American squatter panic

Politicians and conservative news outlets say there’s an epidemic of people moving into a stranger’s house and refusing to leave. Curbed’s Bridget Read and Semafor’s David Weigel explain what’s actually happening. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collett ... Show More

25m 31s

Apr 2023

What Rupert Murdoch and Succession’s Logan Roy Have in Common (and Don’t)

Today, after Kara and Nayeema discuss what the Dominion defamation lawsuit might mean for Rupert Murdoch and News Corp, we turn to a fictional media story of Logan Roy and HBO’s Succession. Our guests are Brian Cox, series creator Jesse Armstrong and director Mark Mylod. SPOILER ... Show More

1h 8m

Jan 2021

WHY WE NEED TO DREAM – Award-Winning Author Gary Younge on MLK, Inequality and Race

<p>A remarkable conversation with a great thinker and giant of journalism who has covered the great stories of our time. We ask what can be learnt from MLK about the fight against inequality? What holds back change and what is the role of journalism? How can America heal und ... Show More

28m 47s

Feb 2024

61. James Rubin: Working for Biden, American intervention, and the fight against Russian disinformation

“You took me to one side and said be very, very careful of these people, these neo-cons. Because they’re going to use this to do all sorts of stuff that you shouldn’t be involved in.” What are the limits of foreign intervention? Do the American people still want their country to ... Show More

1h 8m

Dec 2023

How To Know a Person with David Brooks

David Brooks is one of America’s leading writers and commentators. He is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times and appears regularly on PBS NewsHour and Meet the Press. He is the bestselling author of The Second Mountain, The Road to Character, The Social Animal, Bobos in Par ... Show More

49m 50s

Jun 2024

David Brooks on Solving Social Isolation and Fixing Democracy

Hate crimes, gun violence, political polarization…. to New York Times’ columnist David Brooks, these are signs that America is undergoing a new epidemic: social isolation. He joins Ray Suarez to discuss his new book, “How To Know A Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Bein ... Show More

53m 38s

Feb 2024

Faded… None of These Candidates!

Welcome home, y’all! We are back with episode 05 of the Native Land Pod. In this episode, Tiffany Cross, Andrew Gillum, and Angela Rye tackle immigration, economic mobility, and criminal justice reform. They discuss President Biden's clash with the GOP over a bipartisan immigrati ... Show More

1h 18m