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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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David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long decline of the GOP

06 Nov 2016
1h 35m
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Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and you

01 Nov 2016
1h 33m
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Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade deals, and basic incomes

25 Oct 2016
1h 9m
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Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas, with Jonathan Cohn

18 Oct 2016
1h 13m
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Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy is decaying

11 Oct 2016
1h 11m
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Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politics, media, and more

06 Oct 2016
1h 16m
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The best conversation I’ve had about the election, with Molly Ball

04 Oct 2016
1h 12m
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HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on running Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid

27 Sep 2016
46m
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Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is health

20 Sep 2016
1h 40m
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Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump supporters

13 Sep 2016
59m
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Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning from games, and finding your online identity

06 Sep 2016
1h 34m
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W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twitter, and fame

30 Aug 2016
1h 31m
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Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining consensus opinions

23 Aug 2016
1h 33m
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Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conflicts

16 Aug 2016
1h 29m
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Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, and connecting newsrooms

09 Aug 2016
1h 23m
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Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, and indie music

02 Aug 2016
1h 37m
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Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show

26 Jul 2016
1h 16m
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Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how the Republican Party lost its way

19 Jul 2016
1h 17m
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Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.

12 Jul 2016
47m
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Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the science of flavor

05 Jul 2016
45m
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