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.
A new era of cannabis research
Are baby bonds a good investment?
Alexa, is Amazon a monopoly?
Is homelessness a crime?
Abortion and the erosion of privacy
What is “fetal personhood”?
A safety net’s poverty trap
Let’s fix child care together
Bringing back the SAT
The AI election
The case for banning...millionaires?
How racism ages Black people
Skipping the broom
Eviction: the scarlet E
Let’s fix retirement together
How to be a (realistic) climate optimist
How celebrity fandom explains Trump
Why we can’t stop talking about Harvard
Are unions making a comeback?
Why are so many kids missing school?
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