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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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Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong about racism

28 Jun 2016
1h 17m
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Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lessons, and interrogating strangers

21 Jun 2016
1h 1m
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Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, and modern feminism

14 Jun 2016
1h 11m
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Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art

07 Jun 2016
58m
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Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez

31 May 2016
1h 7m
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Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing political correctness, and Donald Trump

24 May 2016
1h 54m
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Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks

17 May 2016
58m
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Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social media

10 May 2016
1h 24m
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Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dating Hillary Clinton, and fighting inequality

03 May 2016
1h 42m
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Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce animal suffering

26 Apr 2016
1h 17m
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Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016

19 Apr 2016
1h 35m
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Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing

19 Apr 2016
1h 35m
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Grover Norquist explains what it takes to change American politics

12 Apr 2016
1h 28m
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Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hillary Clinton

05 Apr 2016
1h 9m
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David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire

29 Mar 2016
1h 26m
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Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics

22 Mar 2016
1h 48m
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Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up

15 Mar 2016
1h 11m
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Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat the world's poor

08 Mar 2016
1h 15m
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Theda Skocpol on how political scientists think differently about politics

01 Mar 2016
1h 1m
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Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building robots, and the best books he's read

23 Feb 2016
43m
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