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Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bregman)
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Dutch historian and De Correspondent writer Rutger Bregman got famous for the lashings he gave Tucker Carlson and the assembled plutocrats of Davos. But his ...

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From politician to priest
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I first met Cyrus Habib at a conference a few years ago. You don’t forget him. He’s a Rhodes scholar. Iranian-America. As lieutenant governor of ...

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Robert Frank’s radical idea
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I’ve known Cornell economist Robert Frank for almost 15 years. And for as long as I’ve known him, Frank has been trying to convince his fellow economists of an ...

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Why “essential” workers are treated as disposable
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Grocery store clerks. Fast food cashiers. Hospice care workers. Bus drivers. Farm workers. Along with doctors and nurses, these are the people who are putting ...

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“The world’s scariest economist” on coronavirus, innovation, and purpose
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The Times of London called Mariana Mazzucato “the world’s scariest economist.” Quartz describes her as “on a mission to save capitalism from itself.” Wired ...

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A mind-bending conversation about quantum mechanics and parallel worlds
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While you read these words, the universe is splitting into countless copies. New realities, all with a version of you, exactly like you are now, but journeying ...

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Why the coronavirus is so deadly for black America
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In Michigan, African Americans represent 14 percent of the population, 33 percent of infections, and 40 percent of deaths. In Mississippi they represent 38 ...

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Jenny Odell on nature, art, and burnout in quarantine
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One of my favorite episodes of this show was my conversation with Jenny Odell, just under a year ago. Odell, a visual artist, writer, and Stanford lecturer, ...

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An unusually honest conversation about wielding political power
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) is the co-chair of the 95-member House Progressive Caucus. That means, in the aftermath of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential ...

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What should the media learn from coronavirus?
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The coronavirus is “a nightmare scenario” for media, wrote New York Times columnist Charlie Warzel. “It is stealthy, resilient and confounding to experts. It ...

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