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Dear Prudence: My Parents Are Flaunting Their W...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by Slate writer and host Joel Anderson.
26 min
927
Working: Finding Your Why
15 min
928
Culture Gabfest: Kristen Stewart Pumps Iron
This week, the hosts discuss Love Lies Bleeding, Kate Winslet in The Regime, and the ethics of posthumous publishing.
52 min
929
Outward: Chase Strangio, Continued. Trans Visib...
Part two of our conversation with ACLU Lawyer Chase Strangio
19 min
930
ICYMI: Anatomy of a Vasectomy
Plus, why Gypsy Rose Blanchard exited social media and called it the “doorway to hell”
40 min
931
Well, Now - "People Feel Like They’re Drowning"...
With symptoms ranging from fatigue to cognitive impairment, Long Covid still confounds physicians. It doesn’t help that most of the nation has already moved on.
32 min
932
Hear Me Out: You Probably Don’t Need Therapy Fo...
The point of therapy is to equip you for success on your own.
41 min
933
Death, Sex & Money: A Former Pro Climber On End...
After years of scaling cliffs for a living, Mason Earle was diagnosed with ME/CFS, commonly called chronic fatigue syndrome.
57 min
934
How To!: Help a Loved One With Dementia
Tami Anastasia on caring for loved ones at every stage of a difficult journey.
39 min
935
Hang Up: The NFL’s Quarterback Shuffle
66 min
936
Working: From Corporate Job to Broadway Playwright
46 min
937
ICYMI: Reddit is the Real Host of “Love is Blind”
The sixth season of Netflix’s megahit reality tv dating series takes its best cues from Reddit.
40 min
938
Political Gabfest Reads: How Tana French Uses G...
The author’s new book The Hunter is another in a long line of great Tana French crime novels. But for French, the mystery structure has always been a means to an end.
26 min
939
Hit Parade: Gotcha Covered Edition Part 1
A smash remake of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” has reminded us of the power of cover songs. But why are hit covers so rare today?
53 min
940
Dear Prudence: My Ex Had Sex With My Brother. H...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by author Michael Arceneaux.
33 min
941
What Next TBD: Is TikTok Cooked This Time?
Why does this issue snap a dysfunctional Congress into bipartisan agreement?
22 min
942
A Word: Black Country Renaissance
After Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” tops charts, the spotlight shines on Black women in country music.
37 min
943
Well, Now: Life After Lockdown
After four years and more than a million deaths, is America’s Covid crisis really over?
38 min
944
Outward: Chase Strangio on the Anti-Trans Legis...
What’s at stake in the courts this year and how Dobbs impacts it all
54 min
945
ICYMI: An ICYMI Birthday Spectacular
We’re turning three!
37 min
946
What Next: Where is Kate Middleton?
Whither the Princess of Wales? And what’s with that photo?
23 min
947
Decoder Ring: Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet
Avery Trufelman and Melissa Rivers on what the fashion police hath wrought.
38 min
948
Culture Gabfest: The Oscars Are Back, Baby!
This week, the hosts discuss the 96th Academy Awards, FX’s Shōgun, and the controversial Formula 1 story that took the media world by storm.
56 min
949
Hear Me Out: Purity Is Poisoning the Progressiv...
Incrementalism isn’t a dirty word.
34 min
950
Death, Sex & Money: Who’s Driving Your Uber?
Rideshare drivers in the Bay Area tell stories about their lives and their work.
29 min