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A Recast of ‘The Politics of Everything’

Produced by The New Republic and hosted by literary editor Laura Marsh and writer Alex Pareene, The Politics of Everything is a podcast about the intersection of culture, politics, and media.

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Recastable Episodes (101)

1. Are Kids Bad for the Planet? Jan. 27, 2020
2. Why the New Right Loves Nootropics Feb. 27, 2020
3. The Electability Trap March 16, 2020
4. An Emergency Decades in the Making March 26, 2020
5. HEATED: Kate Aronoff - "It's a Great Time to be Evil" April 3, 2020
6. The Socially Distanced Protester April 9, 2020
7. The Polarization Problem April 23, 2020
8. Reimagining the Post-Covid Economy May 7, 2020
9. Is Baseball Safe? May 20, 2020
10. Vaccines Don't Make Money June 3, 2020
11. The Political Power of Protests June 17, 2020
12. The Long War on Objectivity July 15, 2020
13. Monopoly is Tyranny July 29, 2020
14. The Women Who Still Can’t Vote Aug. 12, 2020
15. The Chaos of Reopening Schools Aug. 26, 2020
16. Dangers of the Lame Duck Sept. 10, 2020
17. The Strangely Persistent Myth of the Suburbs Sept. 23, 2020
18. Is California Doomed to Keep Burning? Oct. 7, 2020
19. Can the Supreme Court Be Fixed? Oct. 21, 2020
20. Libertarian vs. Bear Nov. 2, 2020
21. Fantasizing About Joe Biden’s Cabinet Nov. 18, 2020
22. American Military Supremacy is Not Inevitable Dec. 2, 2020
23. How Pandemics End Dec. 16, 2020
24. Against Remote Work Jan. 13, 2021
25. The Case of the Sick Spies Feb. 3, 2021
26. Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Us Feb. 17, 2021
27. The Unnatural Endurance of Bipartisanship March 4, 2021
28. The Cousinhood that Rules Britain March 17, 2021
29. Andrew Cuomo, the Creepy Tyrant of Albany March 31, 2021
30. Mark Bittman’s Beef with Capitalism April 21, 2021
31. Andrew Yang Takes New York May 5, 2021
32. Music for Nothing May 27, 2021
33. The Case of the Sick Spies (Rerun) June 10, 2021
34. An Herbal Viagra Scam and the Hard Truth About the Dietary Supplement Industry June 23, 2021
35. Against Remote Work (Rerun) July 7, 2021
36. More Reasons to Hate the Dentist July 21, 2021
37. The Unnatural Endurance of Bipartisanship (Rerun) Aug. 4, 2021
38. Monopoly is Tyranny (Rerun) Aug. 18, 2021
39. Libertarian vs. Bear (Rerun) Sept. 1, 2021
40. The Lyme Vaccine That Got Away Sept. 16, 2021
41. The Cops Who Touched Fentanyl Sept. 29, 2021
42. Succession’s White-Collar Criminals Oct. 13, 2021
43. Tax Haven, South Dakota Oct. 27, 2021
44. Hollywood Blues Nov. 10, 2021
45. Rats on the Brain Nov. 24, 2021
46. The Illiberal Upstarts Trying to Reinvent the American Right Dec. 8, 2021
47. Bonus episode from our partners at 5–4: Hamdi v. Rumsfeld Dec. 22, 2021
48. Why Joe Biden Gave Up on Covid Jan. 19, 2022
49. Boris Johnson’s Wine-Party Woes Feb. 3, 2022
50. The High Cost of Ikea Furniture Feb. 23, 2022
51. Too Fast or Too Furious? March 9, 2022
52. Special Report: Ambassador Emily Haber on Germany’s Break With Russia March 16, 2022
53. The End of Russia Today March 24, 2022
54. The Unlikely Success of Permanent Daylight Saving Time April 6, 2022
55. More Reasons to Hate the Dentist (Rerun) April 20, 2022
56. So Long, DDT. See You Around Soon. May 4, 2022
57. How Disney World Struck a Deal With Florida to Govern Itself May 18, 2022
58. The Rent is Too Damn High June 1, 2022
59. Joe Biden’s Debt Cancellation Games June 15, 2022
60. The Cops Who Touched Fentanyl (Rerun) June 29, 2022
61. Where Are Legislators in the Fight Against Inflation? July 13, 2022
62. The Illiberal Upstarts Trying to Reinvent the American Right (Rerun) July 27, 2022
63. The High Cost of Ikea Furniture (Rerun) Aug. 10, 2022
64. Too Fast or Too Furious? (Rerun) Aug. 24, 2022
65. Sick Talk on TikTok Sept. 7, 2022
66. Are State Governments Too Powerful? Sept. 21, 2022
67. The Slippery Politics of the Nobel Prize in Literature Oct. 5, 2022
68. Rainbow Fentanyl for Halloween? Oct. 19, 2022
69. That ’70s Show Nov. 2, 2022
70. Information, Please! From The Last Archive Nov. 14, 2022
71. The Fall of a Progressive Prosecutor Nov. 16, 2022
72. Sick Talk on TikTok (Rerun) Nov. 30, 2022
73. Are Twitter’s Troubles the Beginning of the End of Social Media? Dec. 14, 2022
74. Hollywood Blues (Rerun) Dec. 28, 2022
75. Preview: How to Save a Country Jan. 4, 2023
76. The High Cost of Cheap E-Bikes Jan. 18, 2023
77. The Fiery Gas Stove Wars Feb. 1, 2023
78. The End of Opposition Research? Feb. 15, 2023
79. Silicon Valley Is Destroying the World March 1, 2023
80. Roald Dahl and the Children’s Book Factory March 15, 2023
81. Who Are You Calling a Fascist? March 29, 2023
82. In Pursuit of the Climate-Proof City April 12, 2023
83. The Road to Nowhere April 26, 2023
84. The Great A.I. Hallucination May 10, 2023
85. The Return of the Cattle-Mutilation Conspiracy Theory May 24, 2023
86. Dianne Feinstein’s Long Goodbye June 7, 2023
87. Are Twitter’s Troubles the Beginning of the End of Social Media? (Rerun) June 21, 2023
88. From How To Save a Country: Capital in the 2020s (with Thomas Piketty) June 28, 2023
89. That ’70s Show (Rerun) July 5, 2023
90. The Great AI Hallucination (Rerun) July 19, 2023
91. The High Cost of Cheap E-Bikes (Rerun) Aug. 2, 2023
92. The Fiery Gas Stove Wars (Rerun) Aug. 16, 2023
93. Silicon Valley Is Destroying the World (Rerun) Aug. 30, 2023
94. Welcome to the Anti-Woke Economy Sept. 13, 2023
95. Will Women’s Tennis Cross the Saudi Rubicon? Sept. 27, 2023
96. The Battle Over “Cop City” Oct. 11, 2023
97. Behind the Shoplifting Panic Oct. 25, 2023
98. What’s Causing Those Airline Close Calls? Nov. 8, 2023
99. The Road to Nowhere (Rerun) Nov. 22, 2023
100. The Return of the Cattle-Mutilation Conspiracy Theory (Rerun) Dec. 6, 2023
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