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.
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Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and you
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2016-11-01
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Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade deals, and basic incomes
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2016-10-25
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Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas, with Jonathan Cohn
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2016-10-18
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Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy is decaying
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2016-10-11
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Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politics, media, and more
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2016-10-06
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The best conversation I’ve had about the election, with Molly Ball
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2016-10-04
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HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on running Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid
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2016-09-27
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Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is health
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2016-09-20
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Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump supporters
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2016-09-13
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Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning from games, and finding your online identity
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2016-09-06
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W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twitter, and fame
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2016-08-30
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Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining consensus opinions
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2016-08-23
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Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conflicts
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2016-08-16
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Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, and connecting newsrooms
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2016-08-09
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Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, and indie music
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2016-08-02
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Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
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2016-07-26
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Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how the Republican Party lost its way
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2016-07-19
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Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
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2016-07-12
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Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the science of flavor
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2016-07-05
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Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong about racism
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2016-06-28
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