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854 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Ben Smith

   How to Cover Trump’s Presidency, and Football’s Concussion Crisis · Jan 2017

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   Ben Taub

   Building a War-Crimes Case Against Bashar al-Assad · 2 episodes

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   Casey Cep

   What to Do with a Confederate Monument? · Sep 2020

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   Claudia Rankine
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   Dana Goodyear

   Returning to a Home Consumed by the Wildfires · Jan 2025

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   Dominic Sandbrook

   America at 250: A View from Britain, with “The Rest Is History” · Jun 2026

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   Emily Witt

   The City of Minneapolis vs. Donald Trump · Jan 2026

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   Eric Lach

   The Democratic Candidates Respond to the Conflict with Iran · 2 episodes

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   Gabriel Sherman

   Young Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Dark Arts of Power · Sep 2024

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    Heidi Blake

    From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives” · 3 episodes

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    Isaac Chotiner

    The March Toward Impeachment · Dec 2019

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    Jennifer Gonnerman

    Kalief Browder: A Decade Later · 4 episodes

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    Jiayang Fan

    Clubhouse Opens a Window for Free Expression in China · 2 episodes

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    Kathryn Schulz
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    Lina Khan

    Will the Government Put the Reins on Amazon? · Nov 2023

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    Lydia Polgreen

    Podcast Extra: A Hundred Days of the Trump Presidency · May 2017

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    Madeleine Baran

    From In the Dark: What Happened That Day in Haditha? · Aug 2024

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    Peter Hessler

    The Olympic Games Return to China, in a Changed World · 3 episodes

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    Rachel Monroe

    The Attack on Gender-Affirming Medical Care · 2 episodes

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    Robert Samuels
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    Roger Bennett

    Another Fiasco for American Soccer, and Praying for Tangier · Jun 2018

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    Rukmini Callimachi
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    Ruth Simmons

    What if the Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action? · Mar 2023

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    Sarah Stillman

    Trump Closed the U.S. to Asylum Seekers. Will Biden Reopen It? · Feb 2021

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    Sheelah Kolhatkar

    How to Buy Forgiveness from Medical Debt · 2 episodes

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    Will Mackin
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    Cory Doctorow

    It’s Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse · Oct 2025

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    George Packer
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    Mike Krieger

    Episode 23: The Birth of Instagram, and Tunisia’s Jihadis · Mar 2016

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    Nicholas Thompson

    A Reckoning at Facebook · Feb 2018

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    Robin Wall Kimmerer

    The Origins of “Braiding Sweetgrass” · Aug 2023

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    Ross Douthat

    Pope Francis the Disruptor · Apr 2018

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    Yoshua Bengio
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    Akram Khan

    “Giselle,” and What to Do with the Problematic Past – Part II · Jan 2023

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    Damian Lewis
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    David Attenborough

    Rachel Carson Dreams of the Sea · 2 episodes

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    James Ivory

    Merchant Ivory’s Gay Love Story, and a Visit with Noriega · Jun 2017

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    Kathleen Turner

    Children’s Letters to Satan, and a Changing of the Guard at the New York Times · Dec 2017

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    Michael White
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    Zaha Hadid
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