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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.

Episodes

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The case for impeachment

04 Dec 2017
1h 10m
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What Buddhism got right about the human brain

27 Nov 2017
1h 18m
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Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and Anita Hill’s legacy

20 Nov 2017
1h 29m
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Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It’s caring humans.

13 Nov 2017
1h 5m
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Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s mental health, and China's rise

06 Nov 2017
1h 25m
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Why politics needs more conflict, not less

30 Oct 2017
1h 16m
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Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope about Hollywood

23 Oct 2017
44m
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What happens when human beings take control of their own evolution?

16 Oct 2017
1h 5m
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you

09 Oct 2017
1h 11m
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How the Republican Party created Donald Trump

02 Oct 2017
1h 49m
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Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Party -- again

25 Sep 2017
1h 19m
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David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era and why he hires obsessives

19 Sep 2017
1h 26m
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What Hillary Clinton really thinks

12 Sep 2017
58m
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Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then came President Trump.

05 Sep 2017
1h 9m
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From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-right came from, and where it's going

29 Aug 2017
1h 27m
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Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to criminal justice reform

22 Aug 2017
1h 17m
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Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed from office

15 Aug 2017
1h 7m
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Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, sociopathic era in Congress

08 Aug 2017
1h 19m
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What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but America's acceptance of it

01 Aug 2017
1h 5m
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Julia Galef on how to argue better and change your mind more

25 Jul 2017
1h 32m
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