Rosecrans Baldwin is a writer and regular contributor to GQ. His latest novel is "The Last Kid Left"

Christie Aschwanden is a freelance science writer. Her latest book is "Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery."

Lydia Polgreen is the editor in chief of HuffPost.

Thomas Morton is a writer and former contributing editor for Vice.

David Grann is a staff writer for the New Yorker. His new book is "The White Darkness."

Tommy Tomlinson, a former newspaper columnist, is the host of Southbound podcast. His new book is The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America.

Julie Snyder, one of the first producers at This American Life, is the co-creator of Serial and S-Town.

Doug Bock Clark has written for GQ, Wired, and The New Yorker. His new book is The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life.

Lizzie Johnson covers wildfires for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Malcolm Gladwell is a New Yorker staff writer, the author The Tipping Point and Blink, and the host of Revisionist History. His new podcast is Broken Record.

Samin Nosrat is a food writer, educator, and chef. She is the author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and hosts a series by the same name on Netflix.

Allison P. Davis is a staff writer at The Cut and New York.

Dan Taberski is the host of Missing Richard Simmons and Surviving Y2K.

Maria Streshinsky is the executive editor at Wired.

Nicholas Schmidle is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His latest article is "Virgin Galactic's Rocket Man."

Irin Carmon is a senior correspondent at New York Magazine, a contributor at CNN, and the co-author of Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “The fact that we were part of this entire wave of reporting was actually exhilarating. Even when it was competitive. For me, my desire to do this comes out of a broader set of commitments to the world. I’m a feminist and I’m a journalist. The ability to do feminist investigative journalism felt like a gift. And it also felt like, wow, this thing I’d been working on for a long time is something that institutions—the most prestigious and well-resourced institutions—wanted to put resources to. … I think that that kind of commitment is significant in our culture because it is validating us as a point of inquiry.” Thanks to MailChimp, Skagen, TBD with Tina Brown, Screen Dive, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode. @irin Carmon on Longform irincarmon.com [2:20] "Eight Women Say Charlie Rose Sexually Harassed Them — With Nudity, Groping and Lewd Calls" (Washington Post • Nov 2018) [33:05] Carmon's archive at Village Voice [34:20]Carmon's archive at Women's Wear Daily [34:40] Carmon's archive at Jezebel [44:25] "College Girl's PowerPoint 'Fuck List' Goes Viral" (Jezebel • Oct 2010) [53:00] "Heidi Heitkamp Doesn’t Care That You Think She’s Going to Lose" (The Cut • Oct 2018)

Madeleine Baran is an investigative reporter for APM Reports and the host and lead reporter of the podcast In the Dark.

Beth Macy is an author and former journalist at The Roanoke Times. Her latest book is "Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America."

Paige Williams is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of "The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy"

Joe Hagan is a correspondent at "Vanity Fair" and the author of "Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine"

Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, is a staff writer at The New Yorker. “I still nurse the idea in my heart of hearts that something you write, that there’s some key to this all. We’re all looking for the skeleton key that’s going to unlock it, and people will go, ‘Oh, that’s why we have to do something!’ I don’t want to say that I completely dispensed with that. I think that’s what motivates most journalists—this information is going to somehow make a difference. On the other hand, I have dispensed a lot of that. Now we’re so deep into all of this. The more you know about climate change and the numbers involved and the scale involved of what we need to do to really mitigate this problem, you know that we’re moving in absolutely the wrong direction. It’s not like we’re moving slowly, we’re moving in the wrong direction. It’s very hard to say anything I write is going to turn this battleship around.” Thanks to MailChimp, Skagen, Squarespace, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode. @ElizKolbert Kolbert on Longform [0:10]The TED Interview [0:45]Underdog [2:20] The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Picador • 2014) [2:25] Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Bloomsbury • 2006) [7:55] "The Fate of Earth" (New Yorker • Oct 2017) [22:30] "The Calculator" (New Yorker • Nov 2002) [28:45] The End of Nature (Bill McKibben • Random House • 2006) [40:05] "The Climate of Man" (New Yorker • Apr 2005) [40:20] "The Darkening Sea" (New Yorker • Nov 2006) [40:30] "Enter the Anthropocene—Age of Man" (National Geographic • Nov 2006) [40:30] No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies (William Vollman • Viking • 2018) [40:35] No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies (William Vollman • Viking • 2018)

Lisa Brennan-Jobs is a New York-based writer. Her new book 'Small Fry' is about her childhood and her relationship with her father, Steve Jobs.

Liana Finck writes for The New Yorker. Her new book is Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir. "I was drawing since I was 10 months old. My mom had left this vibrant community of architects and art people to live in this idyllic country setting with my dad,

Rebecca Traister is the author of "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger"

Jerry Saltz is a Pulitzer-winning art critic for New York.