704 Episodes

  1. Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.

    Published: 23/04/2018

  2. Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained by a UN diplomat who saw it start

    Published: 20/04/2018

  3. Is modern society making us depressed?

    Published: 16/04/2018

  4. Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump

    Published: 12/04/2018

  5. The Sam Harris Debate

    Published: 09/04/2018

  6. Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next

    Published: 02/04/2018

  7. Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Trump"?

    Published: 26/03/2018

  8. Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate change, ending malaria, and the problems money can’t solve

    Published: 19/03/2018

  9. A better conversation on guns

    Published: 12/03/2018

  10. This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democratic Party, and he knows it

    Published: 05/03/2018

  11. Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart

    Published: 26/02/2018

  12. How technology brings out the worst in us, with Tristan Harris

    Published: 19/02/2018

  13. Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this the best moment in human history

    Published: 12/02/2018

  14. Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara

    Published: 05/02/2018

  15. How Democracies Die

    Published: 29/01/2018

  16. How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him

    Published: 22/01/2018

  17. You will love this conversation with Jaron Lanier, but I can’t describe it

    Published: 15/01/2018

  18. The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Trump and Russia

    Published: 08/01/2018

  19. Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first year, the GOP’s “rot,” and the left’s failures

    Published: 02/01/2018

  20. The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama

    Published: 25/12/2017

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The Gray Area with Sean Illing takes a philosophy-minded look at culture, technology, politics, and the world of ideas. Each week, we invite a guest to explore a question or topic that matters. From the the state of democracy, to the struggle with depression and anxiety, to the nature of identity in the digital age, each episode looks for nuance and honesty in the most important conversations of our time. New episodes drop every Monday.

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