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Hasan Piker vs. The Establishment | America, Actually
- Title
- Hasan Piker vs. The Establishment | America, Actually
- Runtime
- 47:57
- Date posted
- 1 day ago
- Description
- Hasan Piker has become one of the most prominent leftist voices in the US, serving as an online guide for a Democratic Party trying to navigate the new internet. But his rapid rise has sparked a furious backlash from the party's centrist establishment.
Vox’s Astead Herndon sits down with Jonathan Cowan, president of the premier centrist think tank Third Way, who argues that Piker’s history of inflammatory rhetoric makes him a toxic liability that Democrats must cast out. Then, we put those exact claims to the Twitch streamer himself.
00:00 — Introduction: Is Hasan Piker toxic?
01:12 — The centrist case against Piker with Third Way's Jonathan Cowan
04:47 — Comparing Piker to far-right extremists
07:34 — Evaluating rhetoric and the threat of violence
10:19 — Electoral strategy: Moderates vs. deep blue progressive pushes
18:14 — The apology question: Third Way's challenges for Hasan
21:26 — Hasan Piker respond...
- Title
- Hasan Piker “quadruples down” on why he would vote for Hamas over Israel
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 1 day ago
- Description
- “This is not a statement that they would ever hear in polite society, and that's kinda the purpose of it.”
Left-wing political commentator Hasan Piker tells Vox’s Astead Herndon that he’s not backing down from his stance that he’d rather vote for Hamas than Israel.
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- Title
- The richest person in history can’t be held accountable
- Runtime
- 1:09
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
- Description
- Elon Musk can signal boost race riots, spread lies about “white genocide,” and cut aid to the world's poorest. And almost nobody can hold him accountable for any of it.
Vox's Zack Beauchamp explains why Elon becoming a trillionaire isn't just a personal milestone. It's a threat to democracy itself.
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- Title
- The establishment’s case against Hasan Piker
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
- Description
- After 2024, Democrats turned to Hasan Piker for answers on how to reach young men and embrace the internet. Now, a top centrist think tank is publishing op-eds saying the party is getting too cozy with him.
Vox's Astead Herndon sits down with both Jonathan Cowan of Third Way and Piker himself to get into the fight that is dividing the Democratic Party.
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- Title
- The people who think AI should replace us
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
- Description
- Should chatbots replace humans?
Vox’s Sigal Samuel explains the growing viewpoint of AI successionists who see humanity not as the final destination, but as a stepping stone.
Listen to the full discussion with The Gray Area host Sean Illing wherever you get your podcasts.
#AI #FutureOfTech #ArtificialIntelligence #TechEthics #ElonMusk #Transhumanism #TechPhilosophy #Humanity
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- Title
- The AI movement to end humanity | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 51:17
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
- Description
- Sean talks with writer Sigal Samuel about AI successionism, the growing movement that sees artificial intelligence as humanity’s rightful successor. They discuss why some people in the AI world think humanity should be replaced, how this vision borrows from old religious ideas about salvation and transcendence, and why artificial intelligence is a dangerous thing to worship.
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Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Sigal Samuel (@SigalSamuel)
Click here to read Sigal’s article on AI successionism.
00:00 Intro
01:15 What is AI successionism?
07:26 Intelligence vs consciousness
09:59 The disturbing politics of AI successionism
12:12 Is AI secessionism a religion?
23:04 Is this a way to escape our mortality?
24:49 Is intelligence the most valuable thing in the universe?
33:28 Is it wrong to put humans first?
44:49 Is successionism a wa...
- Title
- Has the term “girl’s girl” lost all meaning?
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
- Description
- Summer House castmember Amanda Batula linked up with her friend Ciara Miller’s ex, so therefore reality TV fans have deemed her not a girl’s girl. In contrast, Love Island season 6 stars Leah Kateb, Serena Page, and JaNa Craig prioritized their friendship, deeming themselves the “Powerpuff girls” and earning the title of girl’s girls in the process. But as reality TV popularizes the term, does it still do what it’s meant to in lifting women up and fostering a culture of support? Not exactly.
Read more from Vox’s Alex Abad-Santos: https://www.vox.com/culture/491448/summer-house-amanda-batula-ciara-miller-girls-girl
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- Title
- Three ways the Trump administration is playing politics with the World Cup
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
- Description
- There's always politics at the World Cup. Think Qatar in 2022 or Russia in 2018. But what the Trump administration is doing now is something entirely different.
Vox's Astead Herndon breaks down three ways the US is already alienating the world as the tournament kicks off.
Note: This was filmed before the games began on Jun 10, 2026.
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- Title
- Can a quiz tell you more about your political beliefs?
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- MAGA and the progressive left together make up less than 40% of Americans. So who makes up the rest?
Vox’s Christian Paz took the new Pew Research political typology quiz, which breaks Americans into nine distinct political groups. He found that the results paint a much more nuanced picture of why the country feels so divided.
Take the quiz yourself on Pew's website.
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- Title
- Who does Hasan Piker want to run for president in 2028?
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- Hasan Piker, a left-wing political commentator known for causing controversy across the political spectrum, has a solid ranking of which Democrats he’d want to run for president in 2028. He explains his list to Vox’s Astead Herndon.
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- Title
- Men are choosing their looks over their sperm
- Runtime
- 1:08
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
- Description
- Testosterone prescriptions have jumped 154% since 2020. And a growing number of men aren't taking it for medical reasons. They're taking it to look like the guys they see on social media.
The catch? Testosterone therapy can cause infertility, which some men already know and don't care about.
Vox's Anna North breaks down the looksmaxxing trend and what it reveals about how masculinity is changing.
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- Title
- Should ChatGPT be your couples therapist?
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
- Description
- Just because you can use AI chatbots like ChatGPT as an intermediary in a spat with a loved one, should you? It’s complicated. While couples often felt less divided when AI was mediating, AI platforms lack the emotional intelligence to adequately read a couple’s body language and tone, understand cultural context and power dynamics, and incorporate a couple’s past into the fight at hand.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/advice/491229/chatgpt-claude-therapist-argument-mediation-relationships
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- Title
- What was invented at 2 Cumberland St in NYC?
- Runtime
- 1:59
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- There’s a certain sweet product you’ve seen a thousand times and never thought about — and it was invented at 2 Cumberland St in Brooklyn, New York City. This is Pin Point, the series where Vox producer Nate Krieger throws a dart at a map and investigates the surprising history of whatever address he hits. In this episode, he takes a look at the history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the cafeteria across the street where thousands of shipbuilders had lunch.
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- Title
- How to understand your dreams & nightmares | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 47:08
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- Sean talks with dream scientist Michelle Carr about what dreams are, why we have them, and what they might reveal about the mind. They discuss nightmares, lucid dreaming, memory, consciousness, and whether dreams are just random brain noise or a kind of overnight therapy. They also explore why dreams feel so real and what the strange world of sleep can teach us about waking life.
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Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Michelle Carr
00:00 Intro
00:53 What are dreams for?
05:14 Are dreams simulations?
10:45 Why do we forget our dreams?
17:31 Why do we have nightmares?
26:31 What are lucid dreams?
41:28 Can lucid dreaming backfire?
42:51 Is there a connection between dreams and consciousness?
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- Title
- Democrats still don't have a vision
- Runtime
- 1:43
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
- Description
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- Title
- Maine Senate race turns amid Platner allegations
- Runtime
- 1:08
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
- Description
- Graham Platner, the leading Democrat in Maine’s Senate primary, is facing scrutiny after a New York Times report detailed an allegation of physical intimidation from a former partner, which he denies. Rep. Madeleine Dean said she believes he has “disqualified himself” from the race.
The primary is just days away, and his main opponent has largely stopped campaigning, leaving Democrats close to nominating a candidate now at the center of a last-minute controversy.
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- Title
- How foreign aid cuts are impacting the Ebola response
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
- Description
- The world is watching a deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus spreading in Africa. In a matter of weeks, it has been elevated to a global health emergency and has become one of the largest Ebola outbreaks on record. The timing couldn’t be worse.
In this Patreon-exclusive Reporter Extra, Vox Future Perfect fellow Sara Herschander explains what was lost in funding cuts that could have allowed for a faster and more effective response to the outbreak.
#ebola #usaid #health
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- Title
- Higher gas prices hit different in Las Vegas
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
- Description
- As gas prices fluctuate nationwide, some Americans are switching up their commute to work. But what if their city doesn't have a better alternative — like Las Vegas, which has too few mass transit options and too much heat?
Stephanie Valdez is partnering with Vox on our first-ever creator collaboration to bring important local stories to a national audience. How are you saving money at the pump? #gasprices #affordability #economy
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- Title
- Democrats in Virginia think they've found a winning message | America, Actually
- Runtime
- 26:37
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
- Description
- We went to Virginia to report on redistricting. What we found was a potential new message for Democrats to win over voters.
Gerrymandering is usually treated as an academic problem. In Virginia’s 1st Congressional District, it’s a gut punch for many Democrats. After courts struck down a voter-approved redistricting amendment, grassroots volunteers are facing an uphill battle against voter cynicism.
But now, Democratic candidates are pivoting away from abstract warnings about authoritarianism. Instead, they’re aiming at a new sweet spot: tying political corruption directly to the rising cost of living.
00:00 The midterms map battle
00:51 Ashland, VA: the center of the political universe
02:31 From Republican to Democratic protester: Katie Sitterson's journey
03:33 Why didn’t defending democracy work in 2024?
04:27 Maps whiplash and morale
09:06 How candidates are responding to gerrymandering
13:21 Linkin...
- Title
- A simple way to lower everyone’s property tax
- Runtime
- 2:17
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- Compact neighborhoods cost cities half as much to maintain as sprawled out ones. So why don’t we build more of them? Vox’s Marina Bolotnikova explains how building densely packed neighborhoods can lower everyone’s property taxes.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/490658/housing-crisis-sprawl-density-property-taxes
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- Title
- Is this the end of cheap flights?
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- Since the conflict in the Middle East led to the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, about 20 percent of global oil supply has been choked off, sending prices sky high, especially for jet fuel. So far, the war may already be costing the airline industry an additional $15 billion.
Airlines have responded by raising ticket prices, charging more for bag fees, and cutting flights that they’ve deemed unprofitable because of higher fuel costs. It’s hitting low-cost carriers especially hard, even contributing to the May 2026 closure of Spirit Airlines.
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- Title
- Trump is MAGA’s only star
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- Ten years into MAGA, and the movement still has only one entertainer who can reliably fill a room — Trump.
Vox's Constance Grady explains why the collapse of the White House concert series points to something much bigger about Trump and his lifelong obsession with celebrity.
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- Title
- What you need to know about the NBA finals
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- The New York Knicks are facing the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA finals in a matchup that has the internet on fire. Vox’s Benjy Sarlin breaks down what you need to know even if you’re not a basketball fan — and gives a nod to his pick.
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- Title
- How the war in Iran could end affordable air travel
- Runtime
- 6:41
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- Since the conflict in the Middle East led to the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, about 20 percent of global oil supply has been choked off, sending prices sky-high, especially for jet fuel. So far, the war may already be costing the airline industry an additional $15 billion. Airlines have responded by raising ticket prices, charging more for bag fees, and cutting flights that they’ve deemed unprofitable because of higher fuel costs.
This price shock was a deciding factor in the May 2026 closure of Spirit Airlines. When a low-cost airline like Spirit goes under, it has a ripple effect through the entire industry, canceling flight routes and raising ticket prices all around.
But even if the war were to end and fuel costs stabilize, major airlines might not be willing to bring their prices back down. In fact, corporations seem all but guaranteed to take advantage of pressuring consumers to pay more to fly.
For over 40 years, flying has been an...
- Title
- Should I drink raw milk?
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- While it’s easy to buy raw milk at popular grocery stores like Erewhon in California, other states have made it difficult to buy or sell it. The CDC recommends that all milk be pasteurized, but there are over 40 bills in 18 states that would make it more accessible. So what’s going on here? Vox’s Avishay Artsy explains how milk got to be so controversial.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/podcasts/489961/raw-milk-dairy-pasteurization-e-coli-fda-rfk-jr
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- Title
- A new species in NYC?
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
- Description
- Can we find a new species in New York City? 👀🐛🐞
We're sure going to try.
Working with NYC Parks, Central Park Conservancy, and Prospect Park Alliance, we set up two large bug traps in NYC's Central Park and Prospect Park that will collect insects this summer.
Follow along as we uncover our findings: https://www.vox.com/climate/489471/nyc-species-project
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- Title
- Americans don’t know how to stop working | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 38:51
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- Americans have absorbed the Protestant work ethic: the idea that our value as human beings – and our eventual salvation – is determined by how hard we work. Political philosopher Elizabeth Anderson explains how this evolved, why it pervades everything, and why it’s no longer serving us.
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This episode originally aired in January of 2024.
Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Elizabeth Anderson, professor of public philosophy at the University of Michigan.
00:00 Intro
04:21 Why the Protestant work ethic still controls us
12:32 Why do treat wealth as a virtue and poverty as a vice
23:51 When making money becomes the point of life
30:40 Why can’t we have a better work-life balance?
32:35 How workers can reclaim their freedom
36:27 How to build support for a progressive work ethic
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- Title
- Why does cheating make us so mad?
- Runtime
- 1:38
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
- Description
- Cheating is one of those things we're all quick to judge. But why do we care so much even when it's not our relationship?
Clinical sexologist and dating coach, Myisha Battle joins Vox's Jonquilyn Hill to unpack why celebrity infidelity hits so close to home for so many of us.
Listen to Explain It to Me wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Title
- Why has Gen Z stopped dating?
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- A recent study found that Gen Z is in a “depressed dating economy,” meaning people aren’t putting themselves out there and going on dates. A lot of the reasoning has to do with anxiety.
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- Title
- The myth of "one person, one vote" | America, Actually
- Runtime
- 26:07
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- Democrats talk a lot about protecting democracy, but for most Americans, the system was written to exclude them a long time ago. Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter joins Vox’s Astead Herndon this week to break down the current redistricting wars. They explore the fallout of recent Supreme Court decisions, the GOP’s short-term tactical gains, and the uncomfortable question facing Democrats: do they prioritize minority representation or raw seat counts?
00:00 The myth of “one person, one vote”
01:42 Electoral College imbalance
02:36 Why 1 voter in Wyoming = 68 in California
04:36 Gerrymandering as a tool of political power
05:23 Who wins the maps fight
09:47 The nationalization of local redistricting
11:45 SCOTUS and the future of Black representation
16:36 How to fix the broken primary system
20:17 The California paradox: why reform doesn't always feel like progress
21:46 Changing the incentive structure in D.C...
- Title
- Why Taiwan’s passport still says “China” #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:56
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
- Description
- For decades, Taiwan's passport didn't say "Taiwan" at all. It said something else: the Republic of China. But if Taiwan once called itself China, who gets to be the "real" China?
As China's influence has grown, Taiwan has faced increasing pressure over how it defines itself and how the world sees it. Vox producer Dolly Li explores how a passport became a symbol of one of the world's most important geopolitical disputes. #taiwan #china #geopolitics
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- Title
- Why the Carroll investigation is a sham
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
- Description
- The DOJ is reportedly opening a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the woman who won $88 million in damages after a jury found Trump sexually abused her.
Vox's Zack Beauchamp breaks down why legal experts say the case is built on shaky ground and what it reveals about how Trump is using the Justice Department against his critics.
Read the full analysis at the link in bio.
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- Title
- Gen Z’s retreat from dating and sex | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 43:57
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
- Description
- Sean talks with writer Christine Emba about the strange and increasingly anti-social world young people are inheriting online. They discuss the rise of “looksmaxxing,” the manosphere, Gen Z’s retreat from dating and sex, and how the internet has transformed what might have been normal insecurities into a permanent state of anxiety and self-optimization. Along the way, they explore loneliness, intimacy, masculinity, social media, and what happens to a society when human connection starts to feel unbearable.
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Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Christine Emba (@ChristineEmba)
00:00 Intro
01:47 The world of looksmaxxing: incels, bone smashing, and drugs
12:18 The digital doom loop: anxiety, optimization, and the death of dating
21:20 The growing gender divide of Gen Z
28:25 When digital substitutes replace real connections
38:27 Is the internet designed to des...
- Title
- Can there ever really be “one China?”
- Runtime
- 13:19
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
- Description
- For decades, Taiwan’s passport didn’t say “Taiwan” at all. It said something else: the Republic of China. But if Taiwan has called itself China, who gets to be the “real” China?
This video traces the evolution of Taiwan’s identity through one simple object: its passport. From the booting of the Republic of China from the United Nations, to President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to Communist China in 1972, to the 2003 addition of the word “Taiwan” to the Republic of China passport, the story of “One China” is less about geography and more about history, power, and shifting global alliances.
As Beijing becomes more financially and politically powerful on today’s global stage, is it possible for Taiwan to hold onto its autonomy? And what is the US’s role in the triangulation between Beijing and Taipei, especially as Taiwan’s main weapons dealer?
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- Title
- A look inside the “steroid Olympics”
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
- Description
- Juiced-up athletes took part in the Enhanced Games last weekend, not breaking tons of records, but showing that the performance-enhancing drug industry is growing fast. Health and wellness reporter Chris Gayomali has been following this story for the past year and attended the games. Here’s why he called it the “kookiest thing I’ve ever been to.”
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- Title
- Can unclenching your jaw unlock your emotions?
- Runtime
- 1:08
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- Have you seen videos like this on social media? A young woman lies face-up on a massage table while a practitioner manipulates her cheeks and jaw from inside her mouth. Often labeled “buccal massage,” “jaw release,” or “intraoral massage,” these treatments are marketed as a way to release stored trauma — with clients sometimes shown crying afterward.
While the mind and body are deeply connected, there’s little evidence that our jaws literally store trauma the way these practitioners claim.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/life/489815/jaw-trauma-tension-stress-tiktok
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- Title
- Stop being afraid to find moments of connection
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- What’s stopping you from picking up the phone to call a friend? Or talking to a stranger in line at a coffee shop? Our worry that other people don’t want to connect with us is stopping us from having meaningful conversations and connections that we all need.
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- Title
- Who is buried in NYC’s Greenwood Cemetery?
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- When a city grows too fast, it runs out of room in its cemeteries. That’s why New York City built Greenwood Cemetery in the 1830s. Today, it has 580,000 permanent “residents”, with some pretty fascinating stories. This is Pin Point, the series where Vox producer Nate Krieger throws a dart at a map and investigates the surprising history of whatever address he hits. In this episode, he uncovers the stories of a ship captain, a tourist with bad luck, and the owner of a rabid cow.
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- Title
- Why we’re bad at being social | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 48:37
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- Sean talks with University of Chicago psychologist Nicholas Epley about the strange gap between our need to be social and how social we choose to be. They explore why we underestimate how good conversations will feel, why awkwardness looms so large in our minds, and how small acts of connection can make us happier, less lonely, and more open to the people around us.
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Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Nicholas Epley
00:00 Intro
00:59 The Paradox of Connection: Why We Avoid Being Social
11:03 The Fear of Awkwardness
19:31 Why We Get Cold Feet: The Approach-Avoidance Conflict
27:51 The Surprising Kindness of Honesty
38:21 Why We Should Skip Small Talk and Go Deep
46:17 Simple Social Experiment for connection
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- Title
- Is there still hope for the national parks?
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- America 250 is right around the corner, and President Donald Trump wants you to visit some of our national parks this summer. But there are a few problems: Gas prices and plane ticket costs are soaring, while the parks themselves have suffered an enormous hit from the administration itself. Despite all this, Outside Magazine contributing editor Stephanie Pearson still has hope.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/podcasts/489070/national-parks-trump-administration-budget-cuts-science-yosemite-glacier-acadia
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- Title
- Everyone’s an expert now | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 43:56
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- Almost a decade ago, Tom Nichols warned that Americans were losing respect for expertise. He didn’t expect things to get this bad.
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Sean talks with Nichols about his 2017 book “The Death of Expertise” and what’s happened since: why people don’t just distrust experts but actively push back against them, how the internet turns bad ideas into communities, and why a society that can’t agree on basic facts can’t function for long. They also dig into the deeper causes: loneliness, narcissism, and the weird psychology of living in a world where everything “just works.”
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom)
00:00 Intro
01:13 A Growing Contempt for Competence: Revisiting The Death of Expertise
08:14 Decadence and the collapse of respect for competence
18:07 How internet echo chambers destroys shared reality
21:59 Is the...
- Title
- Why was The Late Show with Stephen Colbert cut?
- Runtime
- 1:34
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
- Description
- Tonight, the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will air on CBS. The talk show, which has been running since 1993, was previously hosted by David Letterman. The network cancelled the show in July. This came after Colbert criticized parent company Paramount for paying a $16 million settlement over an edited 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, which President Trump claimed was unfair.
Despite this, CBS cited financial pressures as the reason for the cancellation. So why didn’t they just work to cut costs? Today, Explained host Sean Rameswaram asks former late night host and comedian Larry Wilmore.
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- Title
- We don’t know where Ebola is going — or where it began
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- The World Health Organization just declared its ninth-ever public health emergency over an Ebola outbreak in the Congo. More than 600 suspected cases. At least 139 deaths. No identified source.
Vox's Bryan Walsh explains why not knowing where Ebola comes from is not just unsettling — it's what guarantees the next outbreak.
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- Title
- The Republican party and psychedelics
- Runtime
- 0:47
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- Trump is famously straight edge. He doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't do drugs. But he just signed an executive order opening the door to psychedelic research.
On the latest episode of Today, Explained, Vox’s Jonquilyn Hill looks into the rise of ibogaine, why the podcast world is obsessed with it, and what it could mean for treating PTSD in America.
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- Title
- The religious right is loud right now — that doesn't mean they're winning
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
- Description
- Christian nationalism had a big weekend on the National Mall. That doesn't mean it's winning.
Vox's Christian Paz breaks down the curious gap between the growing visibility of the religious right and what Americans actually want when it comes to the relationship between church and state. Read the full piece on Vox.com
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- Title
- See the weird 1,100 new sea creatures discovered by scientists
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- Scientists discovered more than 1,100 new species of sea creatures, according to the Ocean Census. But are they legit? Some experts are skeptical because they are not all formally described — meaning they haven’t gone through the process to prove what they found is new to science.
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- Title
- How to be more creative | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 47:40
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- Sean talks with writer David Epstein about why unlimited freedom and endless choice often make us less creative, less focused, and less fulfilled. They discuss the hidden power of constraints, the psychology of attention, why humans struggle with too many options, and how useful limits can help us do better work and live more meaningful lives.
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Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: David Epstein (@DavidEpstein)
00:00 Intro
01:46 How restraints helped create the periodic table
03:41 The relationship between freedom and creativity
10:55 Is freedom the absence of limits?
16:50 Why does choice create anxiety?
22:20 How do we navigate a world with too many choices?
27:22 Making a decision vs ‘sliding’ into one
34:02 The value of ritual
37:55 Creative limits and Dr. Seuss
39:41 How David Epstein’s life changed after writing this book
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- Title
- Why are our bodies never good enough?
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
- Description
- It can feel impossible to be comfortable in your own skin when the internet is constantly throwing your insecurities in your face — telling you to change everything about yourself through cosmetic surgeries and weight loss drugs. So how do you block out the noise and love the body you’re in right now? Vox’s Allie Volpe shares how to reframe your mindset.
Read Allie's full piece here: https://www.vox.com/life/488424/how-old-am-i-supposed-to-look-botox-fillers-ozempic-identity-crisis-aging
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- Title
- Americans oppose data centers. We went to find out why | America, Actually
- Runtime
- 21:28
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
- Description
- There’s a growing disconnect between a local community that says it’s being treated as the "guinea pigs" in a new industrial revolution, and Washington politicians. Astead Herndon heads to Vineland, New Jersey, this week to check out one of the Northeast’s biggest data centers that neighbors say was rushed into construction without community buy-in.
00:00 Why data centers are the new political flashpoint
02:26 On-site at one of the Northeast’s biggest data centers
05:01 The jobs debate
07:45 The extractive reality of data centers
12:39 Residents speak out at a town hall
18:11 AI anxiety and government trust
America, Actually publishes video episodes every Saturday tackling key issues in politics, culture, and the economy. Subscribe to Vox’s YouTube channel to get them. Listen to episodes of America, Actually on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite app.
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- Title
- The surprising role of a giraffe's spots
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
- Description
- Scientists spent 8 years tracking hundreds of giraffes in Tanzania and discovered a link between their spot patterns and chance of survival under different climate conditions. Giraffe calves and adult males with larger spots had a higher survival probability in extremely cold temperatures, the study found, whereas individuals with smaller spots had a higher survival probability in extremely hot temperatures. That means future warming may pose a greater threat to giraffes with larger spots.
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