Factually! with Adam Conover

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2024-09-11

  Are Progressives Finally Making Progress with Osita Nwanevu

The DNC highlighted just how much the Democratic Party is in a state of transition. With Harris picking Walz as her running mate and their shared focus on the middle class, combined with the convention putting AOC front and center as a rising star, it ...
2024-09-04

  Factually with Casey Michel

Politicians are meant to serve the people, but let’s be real—sometimes they just end up serving whoever’s got the deepest pockets, even if those pockets are overseas. Believe it or not, foreign powers have been messing with our political system for yea...
2024-08-30

  America HATES College Students

(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue originally aired on the Factually! YouTube page, but we to start sharing audio versions of these monologues with our po...
2024-08-28

  How 4Chan Took Over the Republican Party with Elle Reeve

Here's a harsh truth: the internet is real life. The toxic mix of misogyny, racism, and anti-democratic sentiment that has been festering online for years has now blatantly spilled over into the rhetoric of Republican politics. But how did the online r...
2024-08-21

  We're Not So Special, Animals Can Talk Too with Dr. Arik Kershenbaum

We humans often like to think we're superior to animals, and that our ability to speak makes us extra special. While it's true that language is unique to humans, we're definitely not the only ones communicating. In fact, many animals have complex ways ...
2024-08-16

  Nootropics Are Bull@#*t

(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue originally aired on the Factually! YouTube page, but we to start sharing audio versions of these monologues with our po...
2024-08-14

  Are We About To Discover Live On Mars? with Nathalie Cabrol

NASA's Perseverance rover recently discovered a rock on Mars that could be the key to finding evidence of life beyond Earth. Coupled with the recently discovery that hundreds of millions of other planets exist in the "habitable zone" of their stars, it...
2024-08-07

  How We Created an Age of Fire with Stephen Pyne

Our species didn't just stumble upon fire during our evolution; we evolved because of our unique relationship with it. From cooking food to burning fossil fuels to climate change, the entire history of humanity is intertwined with fire. This week's gue...
2024-07-31

  Is This the Craziest Election in History? with Rick Perlstein

The 2024 election cycle has been positively ludicrous. Between Biden's disastrous debate performance, the attempted assassination of Trump, every single thing about JD Vance, and Biden dropping out of the race, it seems like history is happening too fa...
2024-07-24

  How Bankruptcy Shields Capitalists from Consequences with Melissa Jacoby

Bankruptcy can mean totally different things depending on your wealth. For the rich, it’s a shield; for the poor, it’s a punishment. Despite this debilitating divide, in a country where we need to take on debt for homes, transportation, and medical car...