The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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. From the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Philosophy
Politics
News Commentary
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How Democracies Die
72 min
702
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
703
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min
704
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min
705
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first...
58 min
706
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
59 min
707
What life is like in North Korea
46 min
708
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Pau...
93 min
709
The case for impeachment
66 min
710
What Buddhism got right about the human brain
75 min
711
Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and An...
86 min
712
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It...
61 min
713
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s m...
82 min
714
Why politics needs more conflict, not less
72 min
715
Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope...
41 min
716
What happens when human beings take control of ...
61 min
717
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
67 min
718
How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
105 min
719
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Par...
76 min
720
David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era an...
82 min
721
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
54 min
722
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
65 min
723
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
83 min
724
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
73 min
725
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed ...
64 min