Atul Gawande is a surgeon and the author of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Sarah interviewed him live, asking about the opioid epidemic, his work with end of life patients, and his terrible college rock band.
The art of the gerrymander
The myth of US energy independence
Why it’s so hard to move in America
Russia's terrible invasion
A quick update
Why San Francisco’s school board got booted
Democracy in crisis: The two-party problem
The curse of the midterms
Beijing, boycotts, and the enduring politics of the Olympics
Affirmative action could be doomed (again). What comes next?
It’s not about Ukraine. It’s about Putin.
Think of the children
Unions!
What happens to voting rights now?
Are corporations winning at inflation?
What BBB means for climate policy
How the 1918 flu pandemic ended
The case for more babies
The building blocks of radicalization
Why hasn’t student debt been canceled?
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