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- 🇩🇪DE · News Commentary#1875K to 30K
- 🇰🇷KR · News Commentary#6410K to 30K
- 🇯🇵JP · News Commentary#1041K to 10K
- 🇸🇪SE · News Commentary#1091K to 10K
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67K to 277K🇺🇸11%🇩🇪11%🇰🇷11%+21 more - Active Followers
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27K to 111K
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Modern dating is miserable. Can it be fixed?
Jun 24, 2026
37m 20s
Voters can push back against unsavory politicians
Jun 19, 2026
13m 16s
Is there such a thing as too much empathy?
Jun 17, 2026
35m 42s
Gen Zers don’t cook. It’s costing them.
Jun 12, 2026
20m 57s
Do aliens exist? I asked an astrophysicist.
Jun 10, 2026
37m 04s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/24/26 |  Modern dating is miserable. Can it be fixed? | Host Megan McArdle talks with culture writer Kat Rosenfield about how dating apps, therapy-speak and online gender wars have changed romance — making flirtation feel risky, rejection feel catastrophic and desire feel suspect. They discuss the lost art of approaching people in real life, what older courtship norms got right and Rosenfield’s new novel, “How to Survive in the Woods.”Subscribe to The Washington Post here. | 37m 20s | ||||||
| 6/19/26 |  Voters can push back against unsavory politicians | Political parties keep asking voters to overlook scandals, bad judgment and unstable behavior because the other side is worse. Senate candidates Graham Platner and Ken Paxton are only the latest examples. Host Megan McArdle argues that character still matters in politics — and that voters are not helpless victims of polarization.Subscribe to The Washington Post here. | 13m 16s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 |  Is there such a thing as too much empathy? | Is empathy destroying the West? That's the provocative claim at the center of Gad Saad's new book, "Suicidal Empathy." Host Megan McArdle is joined by Saad, a professor at the University of Mississippi, to discuss the trade-offs societies make in the name of compassion and whether America has the capacity to absorb differences.Subscribe to The Washington Post here. | 35m 42s | ||||||
| 6/12/26 |  Gen Zers don’t cook. It’s costing them.✨ | Gen Zcooking+4 | — | The Washington Post | Gen Z | Gen Zcooking+4 | — | 20m 57s | |
| 6/10/26 |  Do aliens exist? I asked an astrophysicist.✨ | alien lifeastrophysics+3 | Adam Frank | The Little Book of Aliens | — | aliensastrophysicist+4 | — | 37m 04s | |
| 6/5/26 |  How weddings got so expensive✨ | weddingscost+4 | — | — | — | wedding costsaverage wedding price+3 | — | 18m 39s | |
| 6/3/26 |  Why $1 million doesn’t feel rich for Gen Z✨ | wealth inequalityhousing affordability+4 | Ed Elson | The Washington Post | — | Gen Zwealth inequality+4 | — | 38m 48s | |
| 5/29/26 |  Why everyone is talking about peptides✨ | peptideswellness+4 | Dr. Leana Wen | The Washington Post | — | peptideswellness+4 | — | 28m 46s | |
| 5/27/26 |  What’s going on with Ebola and hantavirus?✨ | public healthEbola+4 | Leana S. Wen | The Washington Post | Central Africa | Ebolahantavirus+5 | — | 23m 30s | |
| 5/22/26 |  Is life better in Europe? It's not so simple.✨ | quality of lifeEurope vs America+4 | — | — | EuropeAmerica | EuropeAmerica+5 | — | 13m 01s | |
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| 5/20/26 |  Men are falling behind. Let's talk about it.✨ | gender divideeducation+4 | Richard Reeves | The Washington PostOf Boys and Men | — | men's issuesgender equality+5 | — | 34m 29s | |
| 5/15/26 |  The problem with celebrity politicians✨ | celebrity politiciansparasocial relationships+3 | — | — | — | celebrity candidatesTrump+3 | — | 17m 39s | |
| 5/13/26 |  What prediction markets tell us about the future✨ | prediction marketsforecasting+3 | Robin Hanson | The Washington Post | — | prediction marketsforecasting+5 | — | 34m 19s | |
| 5/11/26 |  Introducing ‘Make It Make Sense’: Should you be worried about hantavirus? | The hantavirus outbreak has reminded many about the mistakes of covid-19. In this episode, hosts Adam O'Neal, James Hohmann, Carine Hajjar and Kate Andrews discuss whether the confirmed cases on the Hondius cruise ship should cause concern — or if the media and public are overreacting. | 47m 16s | ||||||
| 5/8/26 |  Tax the rich! But then what?✨ | taxationurban decline+3 | Zohran Mamdani | The Washington Post | New York | tax the richNew York mayor+3 | — | 18m 45s | |
| 5/6/26 |  Why is anger so addictive? A psychologist weighs in.✨ | social mediaanger+4 | Keith Humphreys | StanfordThe Washington Post | — | angeraddiction+4 | — | 36m 44s | |
| 5/1/26 |  Longing for 'simpler times'? Consider this first.✨ | nostalgiahistory+5 | — | The Washington Post | — | nostalgiahistory+5 | — | 17m 03s | |
| 4/29/26 |  Why Americans aren’t having as many kids✨ | birth ratedemography+3 | Lyman Stone | The Washington Post | — | birth ratedecline+4 | — | 33m 52s | |
| 4/24/26 |  Everyone wants to live like an influencer now✨ | influencer culturesocial media+3 | — | — | — | influencerplastic surgery+3 | — | 14m 00s | |
| 4/22/26 |  How Americans developed an unhealthy relationship with the Supreme Court✨ | Supreme Courtpolitics+3 | Sarah Isgur | The Washington Post | America | Supreme Courtpolitics+3 | — | 32m 25s | |
| 4/15/26 |  The temperature is rising on AI. What comes next?✨ | artificial intelligencepublic backlash+4 | Damir Marusic | AnthropicThe Washington Post | U.S.China | artificial intelligencepublic backlash+6 | — | 27m 59s | |
| 4/10/26 |  I'm not anti-tax. But this one should go.✨ | corporate tax systemtaxation+3 | — | The Washington Post | — | corporate taxtax system+3 | — | 18m 08s | |
| 4/8/26 |  What a Catholic feminist dares to say✨ | gender issuesfeminism+3 | Leah Libresco Sargeant | Niskanen CenterThe Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto | — | Catholic feministcrisis of men+4 | — | 37m 51s | |
| 4/1/26 |  Where AI will be in a year — and in a decade✨ | AI governancetechnology control+3 | Dean Ball | Foundation for American InnovationThe Washington Post | White House | AIscams+4 | — | 32m 04s | |
| 3/25/26 |  Health care is life or death. How can Americans be rational about it?✨ | health carecosts+4 | Dr. Ashish Jha | UnitedHealthcareThe Washington Post | Manhattan | health carecosts+6 | — | 34m 19s | |
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24 placements across 24 markets.
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24 placements across 24 markets.