• Night Owls Episode 43
    Nov 2 2024

    A last look at the 2024 presidential campaign. A disagreement about Jeff Bezos. A watershed moment in Germany. And more!

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    55 mins
  • Episode 42 (with RIta Singh)
    Oct 19 2024
    Rita Singh is one of the leading voice forensics scientists in the world. In this podcast, she discusses her work at length; what our voices tell us about our physical stature, our ethnicity, our age, our health, our honesty, our intentions and our mental states. It's riveting.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Night Owls Episode 40
    Oct 3 2024

    Three topics -- the VP debate, the Middle East and Hurricane Helene -- in 30 minutes. Joe's experience covering the Middle East is on full display.

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    36 mins
  • Episode 39 (Interview with Daron Shaw Part 2)
    Sep 29 2024

    Part 2: John talked with Daron Shaw, one of the nation’s best pollsters who most people have never heard of. They talked about polling, politics and the presidential election.

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    40 mins
  • Episode 38 (Interview with Daron Shaw Part 1 of 2)
    Sep 28 2024

    John talked with Daron Shaw, one of the nation’s best pollsters who most people have never heard of. They talked about polling, politics and the presidential election.

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    34 mins
  • Episode 37 (Post-Debate Analysis)
    Sep 11 2024

    John and Joe discuss yesterday's presidental debate

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    34 mins
  • Episode 36 (with Paul Vallas)
    Sep 7 2024

    John and Joe welcome Paul Vallas to the show!

    Paul Vallas is best known for his innovative work in public education — as superintendent of schools in Chicago and in the all-charter school system in New Orleans — and (most recently) his impressive campaign for Mayor of Chicago (he got 48% of the vote, running against the mighty machine of the Chicago Teachers Union). Joe Klein, who has been campaigning in print against teachers unions for the better part of four decades, conducted the lion's share of the interview.

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Episode 35 (with Zoe Liu)
    Aug 30 2024

    Joe and John interview Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Maurice R. Greenberg senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), about her recent article in Foreign Affairs, "China's Real Economic Crisis."

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    59 mins