704 Episodes

  1. Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and empathy

    Published: 22/11/2016

  2. Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of the white working class

    Published: 15/11/2016

  3. David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long decline of the GOP

    Published: 06/11/2016

  4. Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and you

    Published: 01/11/2016

  5. Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade deals, and basic incomes

    Published: 25/10/2016

  6. Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas, with Jonathan Cohn

    Published: 18/10/2016

  7. Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy is decaying

    Published: 11/10/2016

  8. Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politics, media, and more

    Published: 06/10/2016

  9. The best conversation I’ve had about the election, with Molly Ball

    Published: 04/10/2016

  10. HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on running Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid

    Published: 27/09/2016

  11. Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is health

    Published: 20/09/2016

  12. Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump supporters

    Published: 13/09/2016

  13. Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning from games, and finding your online identity

    Published: 06/09/2016

  14. W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twitter, and fame

    Published: 30/08/2016

  15. Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining consensus opinions

    Published: 23/08/2016

  16. Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conflicts

    Published: 16/08/2016

  17. Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, and connecting newsrooms

    Published: 09/08/2016

  18. Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, and indie music

    Published: 02/08/2016

  19. Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show

    Published: 26/07/2016

  20. Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how the Republican Party lost its way

    Published: 19/07/2016

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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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