Michele Roberts, executive director of the NBA Players Association, discusses how power is negotiated between NBA players and the league. She also comments on the rise of player activism and gives an inside perspective on recent NBA negotiations including the conditions of ?the bubble? and the decision not to mandate COVID vaccinations. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

The Broken Constitution is a miniseries by Unknown History from Quick and Dirty Tips and Pushkin Industries. Over three bonus episodes, Noah Feldman talks about how Abraham Lincoln needed to break the Constitution in order to remake it. In this first episode, Noah explains why the US Constitution was built on a compromise that Lincoln devoted himself to preserving. Noah?s book, The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America, is out November 2 wherever books are sold. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Author Michael Pollan discusses the psychedelic powers of plants and the history of how humans have harnessed, ignored, and controlled these powers. He also discusses his prolific career and his most recent book, This is Your Mind on Plants. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Dr. David Rabin, neuroscientist, PhD psychiatrist and Medical Director of the Apollo Clinic, explains the ongoing research in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, including the mechanisms and risks associated with psychedelic-assisted mental health treatments. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Writer Mark Oppenheimer spent the last few years documenting the recovery of Pittsburg's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, a historic Jewish neighborhood and site of the 2018 Tree of Life Synagogue mass shooting. Oppenheimer discusses the history of Squirrel Hill, the lasting impacts of the attack, and what it means for American Jewish life today.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

The process of approving booster shots for the COVID-19 vaccines in the US has been particularly fraught. Last week, two well-respected medical journals published contradictory conclusions regarding the use of vaccine boosters. Dr. Genevieve Kanter joins Deep Background to make sense of the existing research and weigh in on the booster approval process. Dr. Kanter is an economist and Research Assistant Professor in the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. Her research focuses on the regulation of biomedical technologies, industry influence in medicine, and statistical methods used for causal inference.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

As we start a new school year, Tamar Gendler, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale, explains her vision for distributing power at Yale and the questionable future of America?s university system. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Matthew Barzun, a political fundraiser and diplomat who served as US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, explains his collectivist method of generating power, even on deeply divided issues. Barzun?s latest book is ?The Power of Giving Away Power: How the Best Leaders Learn to Let Go.? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Dr. Susan Philip, Health Officer for the City and County of San Francisco and the Acting Director of the Population Health Division of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, weighs in on vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and what the new normal is starting to look like in San Francisco.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Emile Simpson, a military expert and veteran of the war in Afghanistan, discusses the end of the war in Afghanistan and the Taliban?s recent takeover. Simpson outlines the strategic failures that contributed to the current situation and comments on the United States?s responsibility to evacuate allied Afghans.  Simpson is a former British Army officer who completed three tours in southern Afghanistan. He?s the author of the book, War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, a staff writer for the New York Times, a MacArthur Genius, and the creator of The 1619 Project. In this conversation, Noah and Hannah-Jones dive deep into the myth of journalistic and historical objectivity. They also discuss the intense political and social criticism of The 1619 Project.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Chris Jackson, publisher and editor-in-chief of Random House?s One World imprint, discusses the new literary movement he?s building with writers like Bryan Stevenson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ibram X. Kendi. Jackson explains the power and perils of challenging the dominant narrative.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Introducing our new, subscriber-exclusive bonus content, ?Noah Riffs.? Every other week, we?re releasing bonus episodes where Noah dives deep into a topic from the news. This summer on Noah Riffs, Noah analyzes Supreme Court rulings. In this first episode, Noah explains the implications of the SCOTUS case that could effectively overturn Roe v. Wade.  These episodes will be available via PushNik, our new subscription program on Apple Podcasts. To listen to these bonus episodes, visit our show page in Apple Podcasts and start your free trial.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the blockchain Ethereum, argues that cryptocurrency?s scarcest resource is legitimacy. Ethereum is the second-largest blockchain ecosystem, making Buterin one of the most influential individuals in the cryptocurrency world. Buterin and Noah delve deep into the nature of legitimacy, social contracts, and what they mean for the reliability of cryptocurrency and the blockchain.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

We?re excited to share with you the new season of Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell?s podcast that re-examines something from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time. We?ve got to warn you, the new season is completely unbound. Malcolm Gladwell is finally out of the house, and taking you into the streets, and even under the sea. All in the name of continuing his journey through the overlooked and misunderstood. He plays chicken with cars. An Oscar winner helps him remake fairy tale history. He dives into your dirty laundry. I haven?t quite decided who he riles up most. College elitists? Nine year old girls? You?ll have to hear it for yourself to find out.  Find the new season of Revisionist History at http://podcasts.pushkin.fm/rhdeepbackground. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Randi Weingarten, President of the the American Federation of Teachers, the second largest teachers union in the country, weighs in on the power of teachers? unions in the complicated decisions of school reopening and teaching critical race theory. Weingarten also explains the decline of public and private union power and why teachers? unions are exceptions. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

On this Deep Background mini-series about global power, Francis Fukuyama weighs in on the decay of liberal democracy and the rise of China as a global superpower.  Fukayama is a renowned political scientist, political economist and author of many books, including The End of History and the Last Man and Political Order and Political Decay. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute and Mosbacher Director of Standord?s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

At Pushkin, we think of Juneteenth as an opportunity to reflect on the past and think about the future: How do we build a more just and equitable society? We strive to make podcasts that help answer that question, and in honor of Juneteenth, we?re highlighting two of them. In this episode, you'll hear previews of our new shows Be Antiracist and A Slight Change of Plans. We hope these episodes inspire thinking and conversation around issues of race in your own lives. You can listen to more episodes at www.pushkin.fm/show/  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

On this Deep Background mini-series about global power, Fareed Zakaria explains the foreign policy challenges facing the Biden administration and what it will mean for the US to decline in foreign policy influence. Fareed also weighs in the future of China?s role in global power and if we?re headed for a bipolar world order.  Fareed is the host of CNN's ?Fareed Zakaria GPS? and author of a weekly column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large of Time. His most recent book, Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World, outlines the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic will have long-lasting effects on policy, economics, and technology.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Small groups of people make massive decisions about the future of our world. They?re global leaders, corporations, large NGOs, and the mega-rich. In this first episode in a mini-series on international power players, Anne-Marie Slaughter, political scientist, international lawyer, and former Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department weighs in on the global power shifts of the last 50 years. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Palestinain Israeli human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah explains why violence erupted in Israel this month and what it might mean for the future of Palestinian Israelis.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Dr. Heidi Larson, founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, discusses the complicated relationship between vaccine hesitancy, choice, and democracy. Dr. Larson is the author of the recent book, ?Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start and Why They Don't Go Away.? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Dr. Marc Lipsitch explains why it?s unlikely the United States will hit the threshold for herd immunity, and what that might mean for the future of the pandemic. He also weighs in on the possibility of lab-grown COVID variants and the surging variants abroad. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Noah Feldman comments on the Facebook Oversight Board's decision about Trump's account. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

During the pandemic, we?ve been looking at our screens more than ever before. As the country starts reopening, what do we do about our kids? extreme attachment to their devices? How should we think about it and do we need to do anything about it? Parenting expert Dr. Wendy Mogel joins us to discuss these deep questions about pandemic parenting. Dr. Mogel is the author of ?The Blessing of a Skinned Knee? and host of the podcast Nurture vs. Nurture.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

The Bomber Mafia is the new audiobook by Revisionist History host (and Pushkin co-founder) Malcolm Gladwell. It examines the rise of air power, which created one of the greatest moral challenges of the Second World War. In The Bomber Mafia, you?ll hear the voices of the generals, aircraft soaring, and bombs crashing. It is history brought to life through the power of audio. Buy the audiobook at bombermafia.com and receive an exclusive Listener's Guide full of photos and commentary. Print and ebook editions available wherever books are sold. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Noah Feldman has a lot of questions about cryptocurrency. Is it currency or is it an asset? How should governments regulate it? Is it sustainable?  Crypto pioneer Bobby Lee, co-founder and former CEO of China?s first bitcoin exchange and current CEO of Ballet, a startup that helps people securely store their crypto assets, weights in on the most pressing questions about crypto.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Dr. Jeannine Bell, law professor at Indiana University who has studied hate crimes for more than 20 years, discusses the complex process of defining and charging someone with a hate crime. She also explains the larger significance of hate crime legislation and how police departments can expand prosecution of hate crimes. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

A case currently before The Supreme Court presents the single largest legal battle the NCAA has ever faced. The case, which comes after years of player activism, argues that the current limits on athlete compensation constitute a violation of antitrust law. It?s a case that could challenge the entire college sports system.  Dr. Eddie Comeaux, professor at UC Riverside who studies the student athlete experience discusses the history, current structure and power imbalances within the NCAA. Dr. Comeaux also offers radical re-imaginings for a more equitable, student-centered college athletics system. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Alec MacGillis, award-winning ProPublica journalist and author of the new book ?Fulfilment: Winning and Losing in One Click America,? explains Amazon?s role in deepening America?s regional wealth disparities. He also discusses the recent efforts to unionize some Amazon fulfillment centers and the threat that unionization poses to the company. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Britney Spears? former lawyer Adam Streisand goes deep into the details of Britney?s conservatorship. He discusses his role in her case and his concerns about her conservatorship. He also explains the potential conflicts inherent to the conservatorship system and ways it can be misused. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Did January?s pro-Navalny protests have a lasting impact in Russia? Russian investigative reporter Diana Kachalova, editor-in-chief of the St. Petersburg bureau of Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper, joins us to discuss covering the aftermath of Alexei Navalny?s case and the status of investigative journalism in Putin?s Russia. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Alice Hill, former Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Resilience Policy on the National Security Council, explains what Texas? electrical grid collapse means for our country?s infrastructure at large. She also makes recommendations on how we can start preparing infrastructure now for extreme weather events. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Dr. Carl Hart, neuroscientist and author of the provocative new book ?Drug Use for Grown Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear? questions the way we understand, regulate, and police drugs in America. Dr. Hart argues that most drugs are safer than we realize, and the negative effects of drugs are overstated and misunderstood. His research raises larger questions about policing, race, poverty, and mental health.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Six of the nine Supreme Court Justices are members of a club called the Federalist Society. Noah Feldman speaks to Eugene B. Meyer, the president of the Federalist Society, about the organization?s goals, how it is funded, and how it operates. They also discuss Noah?s new audiobook about the organization called ?Takeover: How a Conservative Student Club Captured the Supreme Court.? Download Takeover at www.pushkin.fm/takeover. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Why are presidential impeachments happening more often? Are impeachments futile if they don't end in a conviction? What did Hamilton and Madison overlook about the impeachment and the transition of power? To discuss these questions, political journalist and CEO of Pushkin Industries Jacob Weisberg joins the conversation. Jacob and Noah were two of the early voices on impeachment, starting in 2017 when they co-authored an article laying out Trump?s early possible impeachable offenses for The New York Review of Books. Noah would later testify at President Trump?s first impeachment trial. Today, Jacob and Noah bookend the conversation on impeachment. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Monika Bickert, Vice President of Content Policy at Facebook, takes us inside the decision to indefinitely suspend former President Donald Trump?s account. Host Noah Feldman details what this move means for free expression in the United States and what it tells us about Trump?s second impeachment trial. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Noah Feldman is a guest on this episode of Axios Today, discussing the constitutionality of the impeachment trial. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Alexis Goldstein, a former Wall Street business analyst and senior policy analyst at Americans for Financial Reform, discusses why GameStop?s wild ride is not actually a David vs. Goliath story. She discusses the underlying conditions revealed by the GameStop saga, and imagines alternative ways to regulate the markets.    Alexis Goldstein writes about the financial markets in her popular newsletter, Markets Weekly. Her most recent op-ed, ?The Trouble With GameStop Is That the House Still Wins? was published in The New York Times. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch shares his concerns about the emerging COVID variants from the UK, South Africa, and Brazil. He also discusses how these new variants could impact vaccine rollout worldwide, and his cautious predictions for when we might return to something resembling normal. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley shares his predictions and warnings for writing historical narratives about the end of the Trump presidency. He also discusses Trump?s decision to not attend the inauguration and how we should apply the 25th Amendment in the 21st century. This is the first installment in a new Deep Background series focusing on power in different fields and forms.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Understanding the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th relies on understanding the modern history of the white power movement. In this rebroadcast from 2019, historian Kathleen Belew discusses the modern history of the white power movement and the often overlooked connection between incidents like Charlottesville and the Oklahoma City bombing. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Before the 2020 presidential election, Noah Feldman spoke to politician and activist Stacey Abrams about her work on voting rights. In light of the Georgia Senate wins, we are re-sharing that conversation with you today. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Noah Feldman is a guest on this episode of Axios Today, discussing what to watch for as members of Congress officially count the electoral votes for the presidential election.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Michelle Mello, a professor of law at Stanford Law School and a professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, discusses the practical and ethical questions surrounding the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Michael Alexander, a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Riverside and the author of the new book ?Making Peace with the Universe,? discusses how different spiritual masters helped guide him through a moment of crisis. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Seth Berman, a former state and federal prosecutor and a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School, discusses how Trump could use his pardoning power before leaving office. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Noah Feldman is a guest on this episode of Axios Today, discussing what we learned from the presidential election about our democratic process and what it can and cannot withstand.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Eric Lander, the head of the Broad Institute and the host of the Pushkin podcast ?Brave New Planet,? explains how big data helped scientists in the search for COVID-19 vaccines. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Dr. Paul Offit, a professor of vaccinology at the University of Pennsylvania and member of the F.D.A.?s vaccine advisory panel, discusses how the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work and how they could be distributed. Update: Since Noah and Dr. Offit spoke, Pfizer released an updated analysis of its vaccine trial data, showing that the vaccine is 95% effective overall and 94% effective for adults over 65: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-conclude-phase-3-study-covid-19-vaccine Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com