Factually! with Adam Conover
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Sammy Mowrey Inflicts Psychic Damage on Adam Conover for 60 Minutes
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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AI, Mergers, and This Week's News Onslaught, with Dylan McKeever and Jason Koebler
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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Genocide Scholar: I Know It When I See It, with Omer Bartov
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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Spotify Is Even Worse Than You Think with Liz Pelly
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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The Secret Agent Organizer of the Starbucks Union with Jaz Brisack
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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Lina Khan: How to Fight Corporate Power Under Trump
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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The Right is Wrong About Latin America with Greg Grandin
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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A.I. Companies Believe They're Making God with Karen Hao
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Trump and Elon Want to Force You to Have Babies
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Philosophy of Fatness with Kate Manne
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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5 Star Reviews Are Ruining Your Life
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Homeless and Employed in America with Brian Goldstone
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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Why America Can’t Build (Yet) with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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Quit Your Useless Job with Rutger Bregman
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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The New Red Scare with Corey Robin
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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How Capitalism Killed the Movie Star
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Being Trans in Trump's America with Dylan McKeever, River Butcher, and Sammy Mowrey
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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The Tesla protests are working.
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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The AI Hoax is Destroying America with Ed Zitron
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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Your Legal Weed is Full of Poison with Paige St. John
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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Proof that Health Insurers Screw You Deliberately with T. Christian Miller and Patrick Rucker
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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Trump’s Attacks on Trans Rights with Chase Strangio
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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American Self-Reliance is a Toxic Myth with Adam Chandler
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
Southern California has been utterly decimated by wildfires, with the neighborhoods of Pacific Palisades and Altadena being virtually leveled to the g...
How to Beat Climate Change with Aru Shiney-Ajay
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the effects of climate change ravage our world, we have no choice but to fight back. While it may feel like a hopeless endeavor, the truth is that ...
We Have a Warped View of Crime with Jeff Asher
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So much of today’s political policy is shaped by the public perception of crime—but what if that perception isn’t accurate to begin with? Donald...
Could Cratering Birthrates Mean Impending Disaster? with Dr. Alice Evans
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Global fertility rates are dropping, and while this might initially seem like a solution to overpopulation concerns, it also signals major challenges ...
The Secret Reason the Dems Keep Losing
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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How Unions Beat Amazon with Stephen Maing and Brett Story
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon workers are on strike! It’s no shock that employees are pushing back against the invasive, abusive, and grueling practices of one of the worl...
California Is Struggling, But Not How You Think with Senator Scott Wiener
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
California has the fifth-largest economy in the world, the biggest population of any U.S. state, and it's just gosh darn beautiful. So why do Trump an...
Why Everyone Loves the CEO Murderer
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Why Did Democrats Lose So Hard with Congressman Ro Khanna
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What the hell is going on with the Democratic Party? For the past eight years, it seemed like the party’s entire identity revolved around defeating ...
The State of the War on Palestine with Rashid Khalidi
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The war in Gaza has been going on for over a year, killing 44,000 Gazans and leaving countless others injured or displaced. With no ceasefire on the h...
A Third Party That Actually Works with Maurice Mitchell
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The left lost hard this election, and it warrants a deep examination of what the ideals of the Democratic party even stands for. Are voters on the lef...
Criminal Gangs Run the Sheriff's Department with Jessica Pishko
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to police reform, one of the most glaring and urgent issues is the unchecked power of sheriff departments. Once elected, sheriffs face a...
Inside Elon's Twitter Takeover with Ryan Mac and Kate Conger
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter was an unmitigated catastrophe on multiple fronts, but it’s hard to ignore how it ultimately became a powerful too...