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.
                        
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                                                    Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Party -- again 
                                                
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                                            2017-09-25
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                                                    David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era and why he hires obsessives
                                                
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                                            2017-09-19
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                                                    What Hillary Clinton really thinks
                                                
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                                            2017-09-12
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                                                    Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then came President Trump.
                                                
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                                            2017-09-05
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                                                    From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-right came from, and where it's going
                                                
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                                            2017-08-29
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                                                    Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to criminal justice reform
                                                
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                                            2017-08-22
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                                                    Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed from office
                                                
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                                            2017-08-15
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                                                    Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, sociopathic era in Congress
                                                
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                                            2017-08-08
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                                                    What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but America's acceptance of it
                                                
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                                            2017-08-01
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                                                    Julia Galef on how to argue better and change your mind more
                                                
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                                            2017-07-25
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                                                    Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist to run a jail
                                                
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                                            2017-07-18
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                                                    Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and marathoning
                                                
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                                            2017-07-11
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                                                    Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's health bill
                                                
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                                            2017-07-03
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                                                    danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
                                                
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                                            2017-06-27
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                                                    Al Franken on learning to be a politician
                                                
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                                            2017-06-20
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                                                    Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corruption, and breaking monopolies
                                                
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                                            2017-06-13
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                                                    Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia theory
                                                
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                                            2017-06-06
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                                                    Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
                                                
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                                            2017-05-30
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                                                    Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us from his illiberalism?
                                                
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                                            2017-05-23
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                                                    Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, but justice
                                                
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                                            2017-05-16
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