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Slow Burn S5 Ep.4: Fighting Words
Intellectuals on the right and left found themselves on the same side in the debate over Iraq.
43 min
3827
ICYMI: Sorry SNL, Gen Z Didn’t Invent That Slang
A recent sketch highlights how little people understand about the Black origins of internet language.
25 min
3828
Mission Interplanetary: Sharing Space
How can we bring space closer?
40 min
3829
Sponsored: The Race to Vaccinate a Nation with ...
29 min
3830
ICYMI: So You’ve Been Banned on Twitter
A quest to recover an account. Plus, a galaxy-brain take on the word cheugy.
26 min
3831
A Word: A Black Nerd Star Rises in Hollywood
With roles in Amazon Prime’s The Underground Railroad, and the rom-com We Broke Up, actor William Jackson Harper is in a good place.
21 min
3832
What Next TBD: Oversight Board to Facebook—Nice...
The social network hoped its “Supreme Court” would decide Trump’s fate on the platform. It didn’t take the bait.
18 min
3833
Slow Burn S5 Ep. 3: Mushroom Clouds
How weapons of mass destruction became the Bush administration’s rallying cry for war.
41 min
3834
ICYMI: The Price of Fan Fiction
Answering your questions about a regrettable TikTok meme (respectfully!) and the latest controversies around Archive of Our Own.
27 min
3835
Mission Interplanetary: Trash at 17,000 mph
What do we do about the hazards of space junk?
35 min
3836
Sponsored: How Can We Bring More Imagination to...
29 min
3837
ICYMI: There’s a Chadwick Boseman NFT?
Plus, by popular demand, the return of High-Speed Downloads.
22 min
3838
Hit Parade: Taylor’s Version of Country, Part 2
Chris Molanphy's analysis of Taylor Swift's masterful country-to-pop crossover, continued.
49 min
3839
What Next TBD: Tim Apple vs. Mark Facebook
Two of the most powerful tech companies in the world have very different ideas about how the internet should work.
18 min
3840
A Word: Get Ready, Playa One
“Storymodebae” on how Black women creatives are taking online video gaming to the next level.
19 min
3841
Sponsored: Trailer: Let’s Workflow It
1 min
3842
Slow Burn S5 Ep. 2: Terror
How the anthrax attacks of 2001 fueled a coming war with Iraq.
43 min
3843
ICYMI: How Babby Is Formed
An elegy for Yahoo Answers, with the creator of one of the videos that helped make it famous.
28 min
3844
Mission Interplanetary: Murder in Space
What laws govern us when we leave Earth?
42 min
3845
ICYMI: “Body Positivity” Is Meaningless
What started as a movement advocating for fat acceptance has been diluted into a useless buzzword.
26 min
3846
What Next TBD: What's Causing the Tesla Crashes?
Two men died after their car plowed into a tree. Police say no one was at the wheel.
19 min
3847
A Word: After George Floyd, Abolition or Death?
Can jailing bad cops stop police violence?
17 min
3848
Slow Burn S5 Ep. 1: The Exile
Ahmad Chalabi spent decades trying to return to Baghdad. Thanks to the Americans’ war, he finally got his wish.
47 min
3849
ICYMI: What We Tok About When We Tok About Piss
A deep dive into PissTok—and what its popularity says about the memeification of kink.
24 min
3850
Mission Interplanetary: Closing Time
How will the universe end?
37 min