Election Special

Maya Shankar, host of Pushkin's A Slight Change of Plans podcast, just released a new book, "The Other Side of Change". To celebrate, we're sharing an exclusive excerpt with the Pushkin community. It's about what first sparked Maya’s interest in change, and the story of a woman n ...  Show more

Elon Musk has claimed that AI is humanity’s “biggest existential threat.” Paradoxically, Musk is also working to create artificial intelligence. Why? Jill Lepore tours through a century of imagined robot rebellions, and argues that these stories are never only about robots. So wh ...  Show more

Today on the show you know we had to discuss the heavily waiting results of the election, and it looks like we got a new president, but we know not all might be happy about this so we opened up the phone lines to hear what our listeners thought about the election. Moreover, we al ...  Show more

The Deciding Decade has featured a number of conversations with so many remarkable current and future leaders who have given us great hope for the decade and century ahead. For the final episode, Pete is joined by one of the most accomplished public servants this country has ever ...  Show more

We’ve always said that this series was about so much more than this election. As we’ve shown in the first four episodes, the voting issues of our past — and how we respond to them — pave the way forward, shaping future elections, including the history-making moment we are living ...  Show more

Well it's here folks. With the election just days away, hosts Dope KNife and Linqua Franqa discuss their motivations for voting, chiefly their defiance in the face of the long and hairy history of voter suppression that unfurls still in the GOP's latest tactics in Alabama, Georgi ...  Show more