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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                                                    Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries of climate change
                                                
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                                            2017-01-10
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                                                    Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obamacare
                                                
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                                            2017-01-06
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                                                    You Ask, Ezra Answers
                                                
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                                            2017-01-03
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                                                    Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and the threat of Russia
                                                
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                                            2016-12-27
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                                                    Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life
                                                
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                                            2016-12-20
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                                                    Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending to this story"
                                                
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                                            2016-12-14
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                                                    Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rationalism, and the enlightenment
                                                
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                                            2016-12-06
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                                                    Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, creativity, and learning from the best
                                                
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                                            2016-11-29
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                                                    Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and empathy
                                                
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                                            2016-11-22
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                                                    Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of the white working class
                                                
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                                            2016-11-15
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                                                    David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long decline of the GOP
                                                
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                                            2016-11-06
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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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