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Your audio guide to thought-provoking arguments on a variety of topics, from perspectives left, right, and center. These smart, concise podcasts pack big ideas into a short amount of time an...

We live in an age in which audiences simply reject a filmmaker's explanation of what happens in his movie. For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podca...

Christmas isn't always merry. Here's how to deal with grief over the holidays. For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podcasts

The left has found the perfect medium for its message. For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podcasts

A Frenchman's ode to this quintessential American holiday. For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podcasts

The generation charmingly called "America's neglected middle child" could save Washington ... if we hurry.

Nothing builds social cohesion like a call for shared sacrifice. For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podcasts

The things we imagine can often be scarier than anything seen on screen.

October is the best month of the year. If you disagree, you are wrong. For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podcasts

The Second Amendment isn't here to defend gun-right absolutists. For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podcasts

Baseball teams aren't even battling for wild card spots anymore. That's a problem. For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podcasts.

Canada has constructed a workable liberal nationalism in the age of mass-migration and populist backlash. Can America learn from it? For mor...

There's a season for everything, so chill out with those pumpkins. Read more at TheWeek.com/Podcasts

The rise of the political she-ro. For more, check out TheWeek.com/Podcasts

It's the poor who will suffer most when bus travel is neglected. For more, visit TheWeek.com/podcasts

This episode is dedicated to all the insomniacs out there. That inky swamp of panic you live in? Banished by Kelsey Grammer's soothing voice...

During the Great Depression, the government created thousands of jobs for the unemployed. James Pethokoukis explains why that would never wo...

Free speech absolutists are ignoring history. Find more at TheWeek.com/podcasts

How Trump exposes a dangerous problem at the heart of American government. Read more at TheWeek.com/podcasts.

America has become a lost, exhausted superpower. And it may well get much, much worse.

Stressing out over paperwork is one of the signature features of modern life. Sometimes it's necessary — like when you're buying a car. But...

Just 36 percent of Americans have a passport, and I get it — some people, just don’t care for traveling. But for those like me, who want to...

Every birth is a miracle. Every child is made beautifully in the image of God. It's as simple as that.

He does not care enough about the American presidency to give up his business for it

There's a very good reason nearly half of American colonists didn't take sides during the Revolutionary War. Read more at TheWeek.com/Podcas...

We need to stop glorifying this form of birth control and instead help women get better access to reproductive health care.

I'm going on vacation without my kids, and I can't wait. Don't judge me.

If you're at all concerned with what your lawmakers are doing on Capitol Hill, C-SPAN should be your lifeblood.

In light of the Paris (dis)agreement, Ryan Cooper resurrects a bold solution to combat America's catastrophic global warming — wage war on c...

Since 1911, the country has added more than 200 million citizens to its population, and yet the size of the House of Representatives has sta...

She'd hoped to play alongside the boys. The boys had other ideas.

On today's podcast, an ode to my favorite podcast, My Favorite Murder .

I've been to Disneyland more than 20 times since the presidential election last Novmeber. And, through the cotton-candy haze, I have formed...

Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the film is far more politically radical than you remember

Sports curses are wonderful — until they're broken

How does she do it? Let's examine cool girling, ice queening, and more of Conway's go-to strategies.

In the second and final part of our two-part podcast series on the health-care maze, national correspondent Ryan Cooper shares lessons from...

In the first of a two-part series, The Week 's national correspondent Ryan Cooper shares a harrowing allegory of America's hideously complic...

We spend much of our lives trying to flee the inescapable fact of our own finitude — and it's much easier to do so amid a swarm of buzzing d...

Here's the thing about college sports: They suck you in with feelings instead of flash

Thank you for being a friend

Supreme Court justices shouldn't serve for life. They should each get 18 years.

Integrate this best practice into your vertical: Speak English!

The definition of "power" in America today is best encapsulated by a sentence written 70 years ago

I, for one, welcome these amorous androids

Here's why the Trump White House can't just create an alternate universe in which everything he does is a success.

How the series keeps dutifully confessing it has a woman problem — without ever quite fixing it

The decline of the American neighborhood has inhibited our ability to instill self-reliance in our children

He accepts the things he cannot change, and tries to change the things he believes he can

If, according to science, awe is good for your health, then you really need some Planet Earth in your life.

In this episode, writer Jeva Lange turns to Russia to explain how a free press dies.