Ana Marie Cox has stood at the intersection of culture, politics and conversation for more than two
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“United Shades of America” host W. Kamau Bell joins to discuss the miserable job performance of the
Documentary “Boys State” was short-listed for an Oscar for its engrossing portrayal of Texas teenage
Stand-up Tig Notaro comes by to talk about being free and fearless, and how that makes you a better
New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book, “Under a White Sky,” explores the damage to the plan
Rebecca Carroll grew up as the only Black person in her adopted family, and in her small town. Her m
Harvard Law professor Martha Minow has an idea: what if we forgive debts to society with the same ge
New York Magazine's Rebecca Traister expands on her reporting about Andrew Cuomo's reckoning and sug
Intercept senior writer Liliana Segura has been reporting on the death penalty for years, including
Maurice Chammah, author of the NYT Editor’s Pick “Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the D
On this season of With Friends Like These, host Ana Marie Cox looks at post-Trump America and tries
To celebrate With Friends Like These 200th episode, we talk with Rolling Stone senior writer Jamil S
CW: Eating disorders, dieting.Aubrey Gordon, of Maintenance Phase and “Your Fat Friend,” joins to ta
After the National Guard descended on Minneapolis to enforce an 8PM curfew on the streets, advocates
Robert Martinson was a radical anti-racist activist in the 1960s: He ran for mayor in Berkeley as a
New York Magazine senior writer and Friend of the Pod Rebecca Traister joins to talk us through how
The Atlantic's Adam Serwer comes on to talk about the inauguration and the future of this fragile de
We love to love mothers, except when we don’t — like when they’re Black, or queer, or too thin, or t
“The only sustainable foundation for a changed world is internal transformation” — that’s the messag
Derek Black thought he was done with the white nationalist movement when he wrote a public letter re
