Factually! with Adam Conover

Freedom 250 Concert Flop and Pattie Gonia v. Patagonia, with Bethy Squires & Sabrina Jalees

05 Jun 2026

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Here's Proof EVERYONE hates A.I.

04 Jun 2026

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Elon Musk’s Dark Ideology, with Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian

03 Jun 2026

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Elon Musk sucks so bad, dude. We all know this already. Unfortunately, however, he remains one of the most consequential people on the planet. This me...

The Texas Primary and the Pope Hates A.I. with Erin Ryan and Andra Whipple

29 May 2026

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Nithya Raman’s Optimistic Vision for LA

27 May 2026

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Adam has been friends with LA city councilmember Nithya Raman for a long time now, and certainly didn’t expect that one day she would be running for...

LA Mayoral Race Heats Up and Supreme Court Dumps Voting Rights w/ Guy Branum & Sam Roudman

22 May 2026

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How to Cure Perfectionism with Oliver Burkeman

20 May 2026

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Like it or not, we all have our limits. But this world seems to want to make us feel guilty for not constantly trying to outdo ourselves—we’re mad...

Boomers Are Wealth Hoarders, the AI Revolt, and California’s Cursed Governor’s Race with Brian Merchant and Andrea More

15 May 2026

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Sonic the Hedgehog vs. the Real Housewives and Urkel with with Exploration: LIVE!

13 May 2026

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Did you know that there are other podcasts out there besides Factually? And some are even… good?! This week, Adam talks to Headgum network colleague...

The Edge of Space Time with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

06 May 2026

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When the world gets to be too much, contemplating the endless wonder and beauty of the cosmos can be a huge relief. After all, we’re insignificant i...

Trump made gas expensive and now his supporters hate him.

30 Apr 2026

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The Warehouse Workers Who Beat Amazon with Derrick Palmer

29 Apr 2026

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The Amazon warehouse floor is infamous for poor working conditions, but the workers themselves know it best. Recently, the workers of warehouse JFK8 i...

Sammy Mowrey Inflicts Psychic Damage on Adam Conover for 60 Minutes

22 Apr 2026

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After a year and a half, Adam has finally capped off his standup tour. Friend and fellow comedian Sammy Mowrey was there to open for him at nearly eve...

Nintendo's Empire of Secrets with Keza MacDonald

15 Apr 2026

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The video game industry is in a state of chaos. Layoffs, buyouts, studio closures, mergers—the entire industry seems plagued. Except for Nintendo. T...

How 30,000 People Formed and Impossible Union, with Ethan Bakuli and Rodney Tate

08 Apr 2026

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It’s easy to feel powerless with everything going on, but there are normal people out there every day banding together to change the world for the b...

Fighting ICE with Journalism, with Memo Torres

01 Apr 2026

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Trump’s assault on immigrants is ongoing. ICE continues to raid neighborhoods, kidnap people, and commit the occasional murder. Time and again, it’...

White Collar Workers are Radicalizing with Noam Scheiber

25 Mar 2026

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For nearly two decades, prospects for college graduates have been dwindling. The worth of a degree has suffered greatly, and it’s become increasingl...

Debunking AI’s “Existential Risk” with Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor

18 Mar 2026

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Will AI obliterate all of humanity? Will it destroy all of our jobs? There are so many questions swirling around the existential threat that AI poses,...

Ballet isn't dead, movies are.

13 Mar 2026

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AI, Mergers, and This Week's News Onslaught, with Dylan McKeever and Jason Koebler

11 Mar 2026

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The news is relentless in pace as well as issues, isn’t it? This week we’re trying something a bit different: Adam sits with previous guests Jason...

Why the F#!@ Are We Are War with Iran? with Reza Aslan

06 Mar 2026

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What are we doing in Iran? No, seriously. Why? Call it what you will, but we’ve just gone to war for seemingly no reason whatsoever. In a bonus epis...

Joel McHale is Nicer Than We Deserve, with Joel McHale

04 Mar 2026

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Actor and comedian Joel McHale isn’t just one of the nicest people working in entertainment; he’s also got a unique, firsthand perspective on the ...

Anti-Trans Playbook is Designed to Hurt Women, with Paisley Currah

25 Feb 2026

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Why is it that the anti-trans movement is so ferociously set on upending the livelihood of people who are simply trying to live their lives? As it tur...

Tech Giants Are Nothing But Middlemen, with Tim Wu

18 Feb 2026

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The tech industry no longer serves human needs. According to legal scholar and writer Tim Wu, the tech industry has shifted away from providing servic...

How to Beat the Gamification of Our Lives with C. Thi Nguyen

11 Feb 2026

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The scoring mechanics of video games are ostensibly how the player is directed to have fun. Scores put interesting bounds on the experience of play, l...

Is the Trump Regime Crumbling? with Osita Nwanevu

04 Feb 2026

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After the madness of the past decade, it can feel impossible to tell where we’re at in our political story as a country. Between Trump kidnapping th...

What Nuclear War Would Actually Look Like with Annie Jacobsen

28 Jan 2026

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For decades, the threat of total nuclear annihilation cast a long shadow on everyday life. Nowadays, it almost seems like an old-fashioned kind of fea...

Susan Orlean Shares the Secrets of a Lifetime of Reporting

21 Jan 2026

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Susan Orlean is one of the greatest living nonfiction writers. She has an uncanny ability to find stories in mundane, unexpected places, and approach ...

You Are Being Robbed of Your Attention with D. Graham Burnett and Peter Schmidt

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Would you rather that your attention were a resource freely directed toward your interests, or a measure of how many ads can be propelled into your ey...

The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption with David Sirota

07 Jan 2026

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It kind of seems like political corruption should be illegal, doesn’t it? Whether it’s happening on the right or the left, the whole filthy ordeal...

An AI Expert Challenges an AI Skeptic, with Ethan Mollick

31 Dec 2025

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Even if the AI bubble bursts, the technology won’t just disappear. We’re going to live alongside some version of AI, so we have to ask: what does ...

An AI Safety Expert Explains the Dangers of AI with Steven Adler

24 Dec 2025

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Why should we assume that AI is safe? As the technology has grown at an alarming rate, companies like OpenAI have seen wrongful death lawsuits begin t...

Exploring the Depths of Wikipedia with Annie Rauwerda

17 Dec 2025

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While it feels like the very concept of an accepted collective reality has crumbled around us, Wikipedia has gradually revealed itself to be our accep...

Plastic Pollution is Killing Us with Judith Enck

10 Dec 2025

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Plastic is everywhere. Over the past century, we’ve stuffed our landfills, lined the bottom of the ocean floor, and even managed to get microscopic ...

Philosophers Explain How a Single Person Can Make a Difference with Alex Madva and Michael Brownstein

03 Dec 2025

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The rumors are true: our world is a dumpster fire, and it feels like it’s growing hotter and stinkier by the day. If it feels hopeless, like it’s ...

We All Feel Like the World's Ending Because It Is (Kind Of) with Lizzie Wade

26 Nov 2025

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Do you have the not-so-creeping feeling that the world is ending? You might be right. The world’s ended before, and the world will end again—just ...

America’s Secret Technofacist Overlord, with Max Chafkin

19 Nov 2025

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You’ve almost certainly heard Peter Thiel’s name. You very likely even have an opinion about him. But how much do you actually know about him? One...

Let’s Replace Our Elderly Politicians, with Amanda Litman

12 Nov 2025

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Our politicians are too f*#&ing old. We’ve covered the state of our dismal, sleepy, cranky gerontocracy before—but how do we actually get powe...

Why Porn Bans Will Destroy the Internet with Siri Dahl and Noelle Perdue

05 Nov 2025

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Half the states in the US have passed age verification laws that put pornography under threat. Not only does this compromise a vital industry, it puts...

Everyone Can Screw Us Now Thanks to Trump, with Julie Morgan

29 Oct 2025

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Everyone in their right mind already knows the gift: Trump ran on helping working people, then immediately threw working Americans to the wolves in fa...

America is Addicted to Cars, with Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon

22 Oct 2025

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While we think of automobiles as an integral part of American life, the fact is that they’re just objectively a bad form of transportation. They’r...

Stand Up Comedy with Tourette's with Benny Feldman

15 Oct 2025

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Benny Feldman is one of the funniest new comics working today. He also has Tourette Syndrome, a neurological condition characterized by involuntary vo...

The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow

08 Oct 2025

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The internet is getting shittier. Hell, the whole world is getting shittier. The thing is, it’s no accident—it’s by design. The tech giants who ...

The Labor Movement Refuses to Be Destroyed By Trump with Julie Su

01 Oct 2025

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Trump despises the average worker and has spent the past several months doing everything he can to demolish the labor protections that Americans of pr...

Will A.I. Slop Replace the Internet? with Jason Koebler

24 Sep 2025

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A.I. slop is competing for space all across the web, and it’s starting to edge out actual human creators. The internet, once rife with possibility, ...

Being Funny in Deeply Unfunny Times with Gianmarco Soresi

17 Sep 2025

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Comedy has changed as an art form. On top of social media fundamentally reconfiguring the expectations of the audience for what the role of a comedian...

What Labubus Say About Our F-d Up Economy

15 Sep 2025

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Genocide Scholar: I Know It When I See It, with Omer Bartov

10 Sep 2025

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The Palestinian people are being killed en masse, they are being starved, and many are dying of preventable disease. More and more people are beginnin...

Why Strength Training Kicks Dieting’s Ass with Casey Johnston

03 Sep 2025

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Being in “good shape” doesn’t just mean changing your diet in pursuit of unrealistic standards of thinness; it means challenging your body to be...

How The Naked Gun Saved Comedy

27 Aug 2025

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The world is getting less funny. Not just out there in the geopolitical hellscape of every day life, but at the movie theater as well. While comedy fi...

Vivian Wilson Bullies Adam Conover for 74 Minutes

20 Aug 2025

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One of Elon Musk’s most insightful critics is his own daughter. Vivian Wilson came into the limelight last year after her father deadnamed her in an...

Everything in America is a Pyramid Scheme Now with Bridget Read

13 Aug 2025

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Pyramid schemes have been a comedic punchline for ages now, but they’ve never been more relevant. Not only is there still a thriving culture of mult...

What’s Wrong with Capitalism? with John Cassidy

06 Aug 2025

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While we’re certainly in a uniquely bad time for our capitalist society, we’re definitely not the first people to be having the thought, “what i...

Zohran Is Teaching the Left How to Win

04 Aug 2025

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Spotify Is Even Worse Than You Think with Liz Pelly

30 Jul 2025

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It’s no secret that Spotify pays artists extremely poorly, but it turns out they don’t treat their customers much better. Author and journalist Li...

We’re not ready for what’s coming.

25 Jul 2025

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The Secret Agent Organizer of the Starbucks Union with Jaz Brisack

23 Jul 2025

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Companies are infamous for their union busting tactics, but that doesn’t mean union organizers don’t have their own strategies. This week, Adam sp...

Is Pride Dead?

21 Jul 2025

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Lina Khan: How to Fight Corporate Power Under Trump

16 Jul 2025

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Until recently, Lina Khan was the chair of the Federal Trade Commission. Under her leadership, the FTC went after the anti-competitive tactics of tech...

RFK is Shortening Our Lifespans, with Dr. Eric Topol

09 Jul 2025

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When it comes to medical science, there’s never been a better time to be alive than now… other than maybe a few months ago before the new Trump ad...

How Zohran Humiliated the Democrats with David Roth

02 Jul 2025

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Last week, Zohran Mamdani shattered the notion that a New York City mayor has to be some craggy-faced, man-shaped stack of disappointments who’d soo...

AI Is Making You Dumber

30 Jun 2025

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The Right is Wrong About Latin America with Greg Grandin

25 Jun 2025

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Trump has long expressed racism and vitriol toward immigrants, particularly those from Latin America. As he deploys the National Guard to Los Angeles ...

America Has No Left Wing with Vivek Chibber

18 Jun 2025

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At the No Kings protests this past weekend, millions of Americans demonstrated against the fascist right wing. Despite the staggering number of people...

How D&D Took Over Sports Arenas with Brennan Lee Mulligan

11 Jun 2025

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In the past several years, the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons has firmly made the leap from subculture to pop culture. Massively pop...

The End of Women's Rights with Mary Ziegler

04 Jun 2025

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The Dobbs Decision is one of the biggest blows to human rights in our lifetimes, and it’s just the beginning. Ending access to abortion is only the ...

Did Elon Tell Grok to Promote “White Genocide”?

03 Jun 2025

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A.I. Companies Believe They're Making God with Karen Hao

28 May 2025

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Trump and Elon Want to Force You to Have Babies

27 May 2025

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The Philosophy of Fatness with Kate Manne

21 May 2025

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5 Star Reviews Are Ruining Your Life

16 May 2025

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Homeless and Employed in America with Brian Goldstone

14 May 2025

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Having a full-time job doesn’t guarantee a roof over your head. While many Americans still equate homelessness with unemployment, the reality is tha...

Group Chats are Destroying MAGA

09 May 2025

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Why America Can’t Build (Yet) with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

07 May 2025

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Could many of America’s biggest problems be solved by simply building more? The theory of abundance suggests that from the housing crisis to the cli...

The End of American Supremacy with Mark Blyth

30 Apr 2025

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For over 75 years we’ve lived in a world DEFINED by American economic supremacy. With the chaos of Trump’s tariffs and the rise of China it’s wo...

You are not safe.

25 Apr 2025

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Quit Your Useless Job with Rutger Bregman

23 Apr 2025

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Why does it so often feel like the more society claims to value a job, the slimier it is? Why are so many brilliant minds funneled into the tech indus...

The tariffs are just so stupid.

18 Apr 2025

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The New Red Scare with Corey Robin

16 Apr 2025

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Just months into Trump’s second term, we’re already witnessing the rapid erosion of fundamental American rights. Legal residents are being detaine...

There's No Such Thing as "Red States" with Trae Crowder

09 Apr 2025

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Our political system—and the way we talk about it—often flattens the true diversity of American voters, especially in so-called “red states.” ...

Former Inmates Reveal Life Inside American Prisons with David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan

02 Apr 2025

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How Capitalism Killed the Movie Star

28 Mar 2025

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Being Trans in Trump's America with Dylan McKeever, River Butcher, and Sammy Mowrey

26 Mar 2025

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The Trump administration is actively working to erase the existence of trans people through policy and legislation. But no law can erase the 1.6 milli...

A.I. Companies Are Stealing Your Face with Kashmir Hill

19 Mar 2025

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The Tesla protests are working.

18 Mar 2025

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Trump Hates Science

14 Mar 2025

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Trump and Elon Don't Know Who They're Firing - with Max Stier

12 Mar 2025

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump are actively trying to burn down the federal government. Federal workers are being fired en masse, with no regard for their...

"Resistance" Isn't Enough for Trump 2.0 with Dr. Dana Fisher

05 Mar 2025

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Last time we faced a Trump administration, people flooded the streets in protest. But this time feels different. Even as we watch our government being...

No one is coming to save us.

28 Feb 2025

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The AI Hoax is Destroying America with Ed Zitron

26 Feb 2025

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The tech oligarchs who once pulled the strings from behind the scenes are now running the show right out in the open. Professional idiot Elon Musk is ...

Elon and Zuck are INSECURE Men

21 Feb 2025

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Your Legal Weed is Full of Poison with Paige St. John

19 Feb 2025

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Just because weed is legal doesn’t mean it’s safe. Despite its growing legalization across the country, a lack of regulation has led to alarming l...

RFK Jr is Going to Kill Many Children - with Dr. Adam Ratner

12 Feb 2025

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Vaccines save lives—period. So why have so many people grown skeptical of one of the most scientifically proven medical advancements in human histor...

Everything in America is Gambling Now

07 Feb 2025

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Proof that Health Insurers Screw You Deliberately with T. Christian Miller and Patrick Rucker

05 Feb 2025

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Health insurance companies aren’t in the business of keeping people healthy—they’re in the business of making money. And that means they’ll go...

What Happened to Decades?

31 Jan 2025

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Trump’s Attacks on Trans Rights with Chase Strangio

29 Jan 2025

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In recent years, despite trans people making up a relatively small percentage of the population, there has been an outsized and deeply harmful wave of...

Who’s Really to Blame for the LA Fires

24 Jan 2025

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American Self-Reliance is a Toxic Myth with Adam Chandler

22 Jan 2025

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The phrase "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" actually started as a joke—because, let’s face it, it’s physically impossible. So how did this ...

Climate Scientist Debunks L.A. Wildfire Myths with Dr. Daniel Swain

19 Jan 2025

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Southern California has been utterly decimated by wildfires, with the neighborhoods of Pacific Palisades and Altadena being virtually leveled to the g...