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What can we do when doing the morally “right” thing produces worse outcomes?

And what if some of society’s strongest moral instincts are preventing us from solving problems we all agree are terrible?

Alvin Roth is a Stanford professor and Nobel Prize-winning economist whose work has helped redesign real-world systems, including kidney exchanges and the w...

Could America build the world’s best AI and still lose the AI race?

What if the biggest threat to America’s lead isn’t China’s technology, but our own fear of using it?

Katrina Mulligan is Head of National Security Partnerships at OpenAI and previously served in senior roles at the Department of Defense, National Security Council, and Department of Justi...

What if your brain isn’t showing you the world as it truly is?

Journalist, professor, and author of "A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness" Michael Pollan explores one of the deepest questions of all: why do we experience anything in the first place? 

He discusses:

Why would the world’s largest country risk everything to destroy a smaller neighbor?

What is it about Ukraine that poses a greater threat to Vladimir Putin than any army?

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and The Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum has spent decades studying Russia, Ukraine, and authoritarian regimes. She argues that the war is being fought ov...

How does someone steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre and simply walk away? 

And how did an even more brazen crew rob the same museum in broad daylight last year with just a cherry picker and some power tools?

The real stories are stranger than Hollywood and best-selling author Noah Charney knows them all. One of the world’s leading experts on art crime, he ha...