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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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Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond coronavirus
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In 2015, I asked Bill Gates a simple question: What are you most afraid of?  He replied by telling me about the death chart of the 20th century. There’s the ...

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An epic conversation with Madeline Miller
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It’s been a while since I’ve been able to introduce a conversation on this show as fun. But this one was. I needed it. Maybe you do, too. Madeline Miller has ...

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The loneliness pandemic/Betraying “essential workers”
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We have something a bit different today. Two episodes from our extraordinary colleagues at Today, Explained, both of them close to my heart.  The first is an ...

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