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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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Adam Serwer
Staff writer at The Atlantic, longtime observer of race and American democracy
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Brian Goldstone
Journalist and anthropologist, author of There Is No Place for Us, Working and Homeless in America
Author, There Is No Place for Us
Episode: Rebroadcast: They work full-time jobs. Why are they homeless?
Jordan Ritter Conn
Author of American Men
Author, American Men
Episode: The real reason American men are struggling
Clay Routledge
Psychologist, author of Past Forward, executive at Archbridge Institute
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Episode: How to make nostalgia your psychological superpower
Anna Wiener
Contributing writer at The New Yorker
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Episode: Why so many people are falling in love with AI chatbots
Mohammed Muzahir
Former scam compound worker, whistleblower
Self-described former employee in scam compound
Episode: He said yes to an IT job. He ended up enslaved in a scam compound.
Samantha King
Health scholar and author
University/author of Protein, The Making of a Nutritional Superstar
Episode: Americans are obsessed with protein. How much do you actually need?
Gavin Weedon
Sociologist and co-author
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Kate Conger
New York Times journalist
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Episode: How Elon Musk transformed Twitter — and what it means for online discourse

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Shumita Basu
Host of Apple News In Conversation; affiliated with Apple News
Sam Sanders
Host of In Conversation; frequently appears as host across episodes

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Why recovering from addiction is so hard in America
Q: What changes are urgently needed to improve addiction treatment in the U.S.?
Expand access to treatment, reduce barriers to medications like Suboxone, and ensure recovery capital—housing, healthcare, jobs, and social support—is available after treatment to sustain recovery.
Why recovering from addiction is so hard in America
Q: Why are 30-day rehab programs often ineffective for opioid addiction?
Short-term programs can lead to relapse because they don't provide enough ongoing support or address the broader recovery needs like housing and healthcare, and after leaving, tolerance is lowered which can make returning to the same dose dangerous and often fatal without proper continuing care.
Rebroadcast: “There is a government cover-up around UFOs. It’s just not the one that you think.”
Q: Why is the notion of a government cover-up so persistent, and how do secrecy and transparency interact in shaping public perception?
He argues there are multiple cloaks of secrecy—some about our own programs (like U-2 and other covert projects) and others about notes we cannot interpret—leading to a trust gap that fuels conspiracy theories even when some information is indeed unknown.
Rebroadcast: “There is a government cover-up around UFOs. It’s just not the one that you think.”
Q: You've come up with four ways of categorizing what we see when we're seeing UFOs. Can you explain your four categories?
Graff outlines four categories: adversary technology, conventional scientific explanations for weird phenomena, relatively normal atmospheric or instrumental artifacts, and far-out physics that would require new understanding, with the first two being more likely to account for many sightings while the last two remain rarer possibilities.
“We are living in a new Gilded Age”: how the billionaire class came to power
Q: How has wealth changed politics in recent decades, especially in terms of campaign influence and policy outcomes?
The guest explains that billionaires now contribute vastly more to elections, influencing policy agendas and potentially diverting attention from popular but politically challenging reforms like gun control or climate action.

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Across recent episodes, the show explores big social, political, and cultural issues through in-depth interviews with journalists, researchers, and subject-matter experts. Topics span housing policy and inequality, masculinity and identity, technology and AI, corporate power and media ecosystems, health and caregiving, climate science, and the economics of culture and entertainment. The conversations balance investigative reporting with actionable insights, often connecting personal narratives to systemic questions and policy implications. The format tends to blend historical context, data-backed analysis, and contemporary storytelling, making complex topics accessible for a broad audience of informed listeners. Notable strengths include a ... more

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