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23 episodes featuring The Daily
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Three camps reshape the AI harms debate
Understanding the Doomers, Accelerationists, and Centrists clarifies the stakes behind arguments over AI safety, regulation, and technological progress.
Oct 1, 2026 · 29 min
The Headlines
War exposes America’s fragile weapons supply chain
The episode connects overseas conflict to domestic manufacturing limits, contested government messaging, and the local costs of emerging technology.
Sep 28, 2026 · 11 min
The Headlines
Trump’s power-first diplomacy meets domestic limits
The episode connects an expansive vision of American power with mounting constraints on health coverage, infrastructure, climate, and family technology.
Sep 23, 2026 · 9 min
Hard Fork
AI safety enters the mainstream as Hard Fork signs off
The episode captures a pivotal debate over whether frontier AI needs coordinated restraint, stronger liability rules, or safeguards that could entrench powerful labs.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1h 24m
The Headlines
Court blocks mail-voting limits as Democrats gain midterm momentum
The episode connects a consequential voting-rights ruling and shifting electoral signals with a widening debate over who controls artificial intelligence.
Sep 15, 2026 · 10 min
The Headlines
AI warnings collide with regulation and a deadlier drug supply
The episode connects uncertain safeguards around powerful AI with the real-world consequences of increasingly potent synthetic opioids and shifting environmental policy.
Sep 14, 2026 · 11 min
The Headlines
Trump pitches a dividend as deportees report missing belongings
The episode connects a Republican strategy built around Trump’s personal appeal with questions about how deportees are treated after arriving in Haiti.
Sep 10, 2026 · 12 min
The Headlines
Trump bets on Texas unity as Iran raises war risks
The episode connects Republican electoral strategy, escalating conflict with Iran, oil-price pressure, international action over settlements, and legal limits on presidential power.
Sep 9, 2026 · 10 min
The Headlines
Pentagon leak probe collides with 9/11 air-quality reckoning
The episode connects current questions about government secrecy, public safety and financial vulnerability with the long-delayed release of 9/11 documents.
Sep 8, 2026 · 10 min
The Headlines
Iranian wedding strike exposes hidden politics online
The episode connects civilian casualties, opaque political influence, maternal mental-health care, sports accountability, feminist history, and emerging AI risks.
Sep 3, 2026 · 12 min
The Headlines
Supreme Court secrecy collides with public-health confusion
The episode connects institutional transparency, contested measles reporting, a landmark murder conviction, and Messi’s departure from Argentina’s team.
Sep 1, 2026 · 9 min
The Headlines
ICE arrests hit records as Meta faces child-safety settlement
The episode connects an expanded deportation campaign with a sweeping reckoning over how social platforms affect children, alongside major global and cultural news.
Aug 27, 2026 · 13 min
The Headlines
Army turmoil collides with polling chaos ahead of midterms
The episode connects upheaval in military leadership and unreliable political information to broader questions about institutional trust and democratic accountability.
Aug 26, 2026 · 14 min
The Headlines
New CTE evidence forces football to confront youth safety
The episode connects a devastating brain disease among former NFL players to urgent questions about how, and when, children should play tackle football.
Aug 25, 2026 · 11 min
The Headlines
Canada Escalates Tariff Fight as Trump’s Information Pipeline Emerges
The episode connects a rapidly worsening U.S.-Canada trade dispute with the informal media channels shaping presidential beliefs and policy.
Aug 24, 2026 · 11 min
The Headlines
Debt hits $40 trillion as war probes and cancer vaccine advance
The episode connects an escalating fiscal burden with accountability questions in Gaza and cautious hope for preventing melanoma recurrence.
Aug 20, 2026 · 10 min
The Headlines
Tariff brinkmanship, mail-ballot contradictions and a Tupac trial
The episode connects immediate policy disputes with a long-delayed murder case and the economic pressures reshaping regional theater.
Aug 18, 2026 · 10 min
The Headlines
Iran deadline collapses as Texas anti-Muslim rhetoric enters the mainstream
The episode connects stalled diplomacy and shifting military priorities with domestic political rhetoric, disaster fallout in Hawaii, and a Hollywood reckoning.
Aug 17, 2026 · 9 min
The Table with Anthony ONeal
Anthony O’Neal confronts the shame of financial scarcity
The episode frames paycheck-to-paycheck living as a changeable condition rather than a permanent identity, linking financial stress to shame and avoidance.
Aug 14, 2026 · 14 min
TBPN
AI tests software’s durable advantages
The episode weighs which software businesses can withstand AI disruption while connecting that debate to talent flight, cybersecurity, and frontier-lab strategy.
Aug 14, 2026 · 27 min
The Headlines
Primaries test Trump’s influence as deportees face legal limbo
The episode connects electoral contests that may define the midterms with the human cost of sending migrants to countries unrelated to their origins.
Aug 12, 2026 · 10 min
The Headlines
Trump switches planes as Taiwan rehearses a blackout
The episode links presidential security, food-regulation changes, disaster response and communications resilience across a fast-moving news cycle.
Aug 11, 2026 · 11 min
The Table with Anthony ONeal
Small debt wins can beat perfect payoff math
The episode examines how motivation and sustainable progress can matter more than minimizing interest on paper when tackling debt.
Aug 11, 2026 · 14 min