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Apple News In Conversation

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Climate Change
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United States
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PFAS
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2024 Presidential Election
Addiction Treatment System
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Apple News In Conversation with Shumita Basu brings you interviews with some of the world’s best journalists and experts about the stories that impact our lives. Join us every week as we go behind the headlines.

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Forever chemicals, also known as PFAS, are found in virtually every corner of the world, including in most people’s bodies. These synthetic compounds have been linked to a wide r... more

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Mariah Blake
Investigative journalist, author of They Poisoned the World
Episode: Forever chemicals are hiding everywhere. These five habits can help you avoid them. (From the archives)
Brian Underwood
Beauty and Grooming Director for Men's Health and Women's Health
Hearst/Men's Health and Women's Health
Episode: The real reason so many Americans are convinced sunscreen is dangerous
Michael Andor Brodeur
Journalist, author of Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle
Men's Health, author
Episode: Why men are suddenly so worried about their testosterone levels
Timothy Lytton
Law professor at Georgia State University and author of Outbreak, Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety
Georgia State University
Episode: The uncomfortable reasons human waste keeps turning up in your lettuce
Burkhard Bilger
New Yorker staff writer who reported on the Lone Star Tick and Alpha Gal syndrome
The New Yorker
Episode: This tick can give you a life-threatening allergy. It’s spreading across the U.S.
Mike McIntire
Investigative reporter for The New York Times and author
The New York Times
Episode: How America’s gun obsession really started
David Kirkpatrick
Staff writer for The New Yorker who has tracked Trump's income streams for years
The New Yorker
Episode: Inside the revelations from Trump’s $2 billion financial disclosure
Julia Belluz
Contributing opinion writer, The New York Times; co-author of Food Intelligence
The New York Times
Episode: People are running their own experiments with GLP-1s — with stunning results
Sarah Isgur
Legal analyst and Supreme Court watcher
SCOTUSblog
Episode: The surprising ways the Supreme Court curbed Trump’s power

Hosts

David Greene
Host of Apple News In Conversation, with extensive experience guiding in-depth interviews on current events and policy topics.
Shumita Basu
Host focusing on thoughtful, accessible interviews with journalists and experts.
Sam Sanders
Contributor and interviewer known for engaging conversations with guests across politics, culture, and policy.

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4.2 out of 5 stars from 1.9k ratings
  • This eps lately are something

    I usually love this show, and I def miss our girl. But like it’s still a team and I am questioning having Isgur on this latest one. It’s so obvious she is here selling her book and that is it. This whole “of here’s some specifically conservative stuff because people say this is too left leaning”. Classic Democrat nonsense. Have some journalistic integrity.

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  • High quality

    Love the work

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  • Higher Ed and earnings

    The recent episode on higher ed framed around should you or shouldn’t you go and examining the recently popularized social media influenced view that the value is changing needs some context. In fact look at the data. For all the hand wringing about AI, demographic cliff, which are undoubtedly real problems, students should be informed that selecting options like don’t go to college are costly. Yes, you can enter high relative hazard trades and do the AI data center build before that bubble coll... more

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  • Where is Shumitha?

    Ummm…what is going on? Where is Shumitha?!!

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    I’m a kid

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Forever chemicals are hiding everywhere. These five habits can help you avoid them. (From the archives)
Q: What have been the most effective actions taken by affected communities so far?
Communities organized through media engagement, lawsuits, and lobbying, which resulted in state-level regulations, medical monitoring programs, and, in some cases, financial settlements, demonstrating the power of citizen-led accountability.
Forever chemicals are hiding everywhere. These five habits can help you avoid them. (From the archives)
Q: What sparked your decision to focus on forever chemicals and their impact on communities?
Her reporting began with local observations of unusually high cancer rates in Husick Falls, which led to testing, interviews with residents, and uncovering a broader pattern of industrial knowledge of PFAS risks and regulatory gaps, culminating in national attention.
The uncomfortable reasons human waste keeps turning up in your lettuce
Q: What happened with the Taylor Farms lettuce outbreak investigation and what does it illustrate about tracing contamination?
Initial DNA fingerprinting suggested a match with Taylor Farms, leading to recalls, but later analysis showed a mismatch, illustrating that definitive source tracing in large fields and complex supply chains is very difficult, and false positives can occur.
The uncomfortable reasons human waste keeps turning up in your lettuce
Q: How does the three-legged stool of food safety work in practice, and where are the vulnerabilities?
The system relies on government regulation, private industry inspections, and civil liability; vulnerabilities include limited inspection resources, potential conflicts of interest in private audits, and the lag time in liability actions that come after outbreaks.
The uncomfortable reasons human waste keeps turning up in your lettuce
Q: Can you explain the basic mechanism of cyclospora and how it ends up in our food?
Cyclospora is a parasite that lives in human intestines and contaminates food through human fecal matter; ingestion leads to illness with diarrhea and other symptoms, and the cycle continues if contaminated food is consumed again.

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Current episodes emphasize long-form interviews with journalists, policy analysts, and cultural commentators, exploring how history, law, health, and technology shape public life. Recurring themes include governance, constitutional change, media ethics, and the societal impacts of technology and policy. Notable strengths include rigorous, context-rich discussions with credible guests and a willingness to tackle controversial topics from multiple angles, making it a solid fit for listeners who want deep dives beyond headlines and for sponsors seeking an intellectually engaged audience.

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Recent guests on Apple News In Conversation include:

1. Mariah Blake
2. Brian Underwood
3. Michael Andor Brodeur
4. Timothy Lytton
5. Burkhard Bilger
6. Mike McIntire
7. David Kirkpatrick
8. Julia Belluz

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