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Vox Conversations brings you discussions between the brightest minds and the deepest thinkers; conversations that will cause you to question old assumptions and think about the world and our role in it in a new light. Join Sean Illing, Jamil Smith, and their colleagues across the Vox newsroom for new episodes every Monday and Thursday.

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Why Fannie Lou Hamer’s definition of “freedom” still matters

Bryan Stevenson on tracing the legacy of American enslavement to mass incarceration

The status games we all play

The case for a more radical climate movement

Ken Burns’s latest is on the Greatest

America is still stuck in the world 9/11 built

Clint Smith III on confronting slavery’s legacy in America

Adam Serwer on the all-American politics of cruelty

Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters

Robert Reich wants you to fight the system

Marty Baron on truth, democracy, and the press in an age of distrust

“Progressive prosecutors” are working within the system to change it. How is that going?

The case for optimism about US democracy

Why we love drugs

Why America’s story requires revision

Why is it so hard to forgive?

Sean Illing and Jamil Smith bring a new kind of interview show to your ears

Ibram X. Kendi on anti-racism, Juneteenth, and the reckoning that wasn’t

Wildlife is in peril, but that doesn’t mean conservation has failed

The psychedelic roots of Christianity