All Seasons

Season 2020

• S2020E01 Nancy Pelosi: ‘If The Election Were Held Today, We Would Win It All’

  • September 21, 2020

• S2020E02 Gavin Newsom: ‘We Decided to Pull the Band-Aid Off’

  • September 24, 2020

• S2020E03 Elon Musk: ‘A.I. Doesn’t Need to Hate Us to Destroy Us’

  • September 28, 2020

• S2020E04 Elon Musk: ‘A.I. Doesn’t Need to Hate Us to Destroy Us’

  • October 1, 2020

• S2020E05 The Man Behind America’s Race for a Vaccine

  • October 5, 2020

• S2020E06 Killer Mike Says He Has a Choice to Make

  • October 8, 2020

• S2020E07 Planned Parenthood’s Plan for Amy Coney Barrett

  • October 12, 2020

• S2020E08 Can Big Tech Make Sure That 2020 Is Not 2016?

  • October 15, 2020

• S2020E09 The Election Isn’t Doomed … Yet

  • October 19, 2020

• S2020E10 Should You Choose Your Baby’s Eye Color?

  • October 22, 2020

• S2020E11 Hillary Clinton Says It’s Different This Time

  • October 26, 2020

• S2020E12 She’s Bursting Big Tech’s Bubble

  • October 29, 2020

• S2020E13 Sarah Cooper Is Tired of Being Donald Trump

  • November 2, 2020

• S2020E14 ‘Some Version of the Apocalypse Is Inevitable’

  • November 5, 2020

• S2020E15 Post-Election Therapy With Esther Perel

  • November 9, 2020

• S2020E16 Post-Election Therapy With Esther Perel

  • November 12, 2020

• S2020E17 At-Home Covid Tests and Other Powers of a Tech Billionaire

  • November 16, 2020

• S2020E18 Why 3rd Grade Matters

  • November 19, 2020

• S2020E19 Jane Goodall on Chimps, Presidents and Other Alpha Males

  • November 23, 2020

• S2020E20 In Hollywood, Women Are Seen as ‘a Risk’

  • November 30, 2020

• S2020E21 They Made the ‘Pfizer Vaccine’

  • December 3, 2020

• S2020E22 Lifestyles of the ‘More Famous Than Rich’

  • December 7, 2020

• S2020E23 Movie Theaters Are Dying. Did Jason Kilar Deal the Final Blow?

  • December 10, 2020

• S2020E24 Bonus: Kara Swisher and Ben Smith Debrief on Jason Kilar

  • December 11, 2020

• S2020E25 Georgia's Secretary of State on Standing Up to Trump

  • December 14, 2020

• S2020E26 Bonus: Kara and Maggie Haberman Debrief on Brad Raffensperger

  • December 15, 2020

• S2020E27 Can Kara be Vulnerable?

  • December 17, 2020

• S2020E28 Your Card Payment Has Been Declined

  • December 21, 2020

• S2020E29 Bonus: Kara and Nick Kristof Debrief on Ajay Banga

  • December 22, 2020

• S2020E30 This Astrologer Has Some Things to Tell Kara Swisher

  • December 28, 2020

• S2020E31 A Horoscope for 2021 and Beyond

  • December 28, 2020

Season 2021

• S2021E01 What’s Next in Your Netflix Queue?

  • January 4, 2021

• S2021E02 If You Were on Parler, You Saw the Mob Coming

  • January 7, 2021

• S2021E03 Inside the Billion-Dollar War Against Right-Wing Conspiracists

  • January 11, 2021

• S2021E04 Anna Wintour on the Kamala Harris Vogue Cover

  • January 12, 2021

• S2021E05 Food Delivery Is Keeping Uber Alive. Will It Kill Restaurants?

  • January 14, 2021

• S2021E06 Bryan Cranston Won’t Play Donald Trump

  • January 19, 2021

• S2021E07 A Black and Asian Female V.P. Doesn’t Mean We’ve Escaped Caste

  • January 21, 2021

• S2021E08 The Site Trump Could Run to Next

  • January 25, 2021

• S2021E09 Bonus: Kara and Kevin Roose Debrief on Chris Best

  • January 26, 2021

• S2021E10 What if the ‘Karate Kid’ Isn’t the Hero?

  • January 28, 2021

• S2021E11 Is it Investing or Cliff Jumping? Reddit C.E.O. on the Forum Shaking Up Wall Street

  • February 1, 2021

• S2021E12 Why GameStop Reminds Mark Cuban of the ’90s

  • February 4, 2021

• S2021E13 Should Big Tech Stay Out of Politics?

  • February 8, 2021

• S2021E14 Should Big Tech Stay Out of Politics?

  • February 9, 2021

• S2021E15 Fran Lebowitz Isn’t Buying What Jack Dorsey Is Selling

  • February 11, 2021

• S2021E16 Fran Lebowitz Isn’t Buying What Jack Dorsey Is Selling

  • February 15, 2021

• S2021E17 No Parties. No Sports. How Oberlin College Is Surviving the Pandemic.

  • February 18, 2021

• S2021E18 Bonus: Is Kara a Chump?

  • February 19, 2021

• S2021E19 Lessons on Resilience From Dogs and Dog Sledders

  • February 22, 2021

• S2021E20 Sacha Baron Cohen Has a Message for Mark Zuckerberg

  • February 25, 2021

• S2021E21 If Government Did Its Job We Might Not Need GoFundMe

  • March 1, 2021

• S2021E22 Stacey Abrams on American Idealism and American Betrayal

  • March 4, 2021

• S2021E23 I Asked the Head of Space Force What the Agency Has Done for Me Lately

  • March 8, 2021

• S2021E24 Spike Lee Predicts the Future

  • March 11, 2021

• S2021E25 Stop Whining About Big Government

  • March 15, 2021

• S2021E26 Airbnb Has a Hate Group Problem Too

  • March 18, 2021

• S2021E27 What the Heck are NFTs? Let's Ask Beeple.

  • March 22, 2021

• S2021E28 The Spiritual Teacher Biden’s Campaign Called for Help

  • March 25, 2021

• S2021E29 The Spiritual Teacher Biden’s Campaign Called for Help

  • March 29, 2021

• S2021E30 Why It's Taken Us So Long to Talk About Anti-Asian Racism

  • April 1, 2021

• S2021E31 Is Apple's Privacy Push Facebook's Existential Threat?

  • April 5, 2021

• S2021E32 A 5 O’Clock Shuttle to Mars?

  • April 8, 2021

• S2021E33 A Public Health Lesson for Ron DeSantis, From Harvard

  • April 12, 2021

• S2021E34 CNN Is in a Post-Trump Slump. What Does That Mean for Don Lemon?

  • April 15, 2021

• S2021E35 She's Taking Jeff Bezos to Task

  • April 19, 2021

• S2021E36 The Evolution of Desus & Mero

  • April 22, 2021

• S2021E37 Why Does the C.I.A. Need Puppets?

  • April 26, 2021

• S2021E38 Why is So Much Money Moving to Miami?

  • April 29, 2021

• S2021E39 Can Pete Buttigieg Deliver Joe Manchin?

  • May 3, 2021

• S2021E40 ‘It’s His Own Damn Fault,’ Frank Luntz Says of Trump and Facebook

  • May 6, 2021

• S2021E41 Inside the Decision on Trump’s Facebook Fate

  • May 7, 2021

• S2021E42 Who Wins in a Meme Stock World?

  • May 10, 2021

• S2021E43 Inside the Republican Anti-Transgender Machine

  • May 13, 2021

• S2021E44 Algorithms Make Fewer Mistakes Than Humans. Why Don't We Trust Them?

  • May 17, 2021

• S2021E45 We're Running a Little Late!

  • May 20, 2021

• S2021E46 Can Snapchat Win the War Against TikTok?

  • May 20, 2021

• S2021E47 How Online Sleuths Pantsed Putin

  • May 24, 2021

• S2021E48 Is Jake Tapper for Sale?

  • May 27, 2021

• S2021E49 Women’s Basketball Is on the Rise. Is Anyone Paying Attention?

  • June 3, 2021

• S2021E50 Silicon Valley’s Thin Skins and Giant Egos

  • June 7, 2021

• S2021E51 Meet Big Tech’s Tormenter-in-Chief

  • June 10, 2021

• S2021E52 Inside the I.R.S. Files of the Ultra-Wealthy

  • June 14, 2021

• S2021E53 Is This the Big Tech Breakup We’ve Been Waiting For?

  • June 17, 2021

• S2021E54 Dr. Fauci Claps Back

  • June 21, 2021

• S2021E55 Exercise, and Accept Your ‘Inevitable Demise’

  • June 24, 2021

• S2021E56 A Guy Fieri Pep Talk

  • June 28, 2021

• S2021E57 What’s Keeping Biden’s Chief of Staff Up at Night?

  • July 1, 2021

• S2021E58 Chelsea Handler Has a Message for Straight Men

  • July 8, 2021

• S2021E59 The Argument: Not Everyone Is Worried About America's Falling Birthrates

  • July 12, 2021

• S2021E60 The Argument: Not Everyone Is Worried About America's Falling Birthrates

  • July 15, 2021

• S2021E61 Kara Goes to the Olympics

  • July 19, 2021

• S2021E62 Robot Therapists? Not So Fast, Says Talkspace C.E.O.

  • July 22, 2021

• S2021E63 ‘It’s a Tough Time to Be Mayor’: Lori Lightfoot Responds to Her Critics

  • July 26, 2021

• S2021E64 Would You Give Up Google for This?

  • July 29, 2021

• S2021E65 Is Ken Burns Taking Up Too Much Space? He Doesn’t Think So.

  • August 2, 2021

• S2021E66 $54 Billion Later, Why Is Flying Still a Headache?

  • August 5, 2021

• S2021E67 Michael Pollan's 'Trip Report'

  • August 9, 2021

• S2021E68 Should We Worry As Billionaires Buy Up Newspapers?

  • August 12, 2021

• S2021E69 Joseph Gordon-Levitt: ‘Silicon Valley Now Owns Hollywood.’

  • August 16, 2021

• S2021E70 How Jason Miller Is Trying to Get Trump Back on the Internet

  • August 19, 2021

• S2021E71 Yes, the Owner of a Movie Theater Chain Feels Bad for Me

  • August 23, 2021

• S2021E72 Why Vaccine Mandates for Teachers Have Been a Harder Sell Than Mask Mandates for Kids

  • August 26, 2021

• S2021E73 Is Kara Behind on Barbie?

  • August 30, 2021

• S2021E74 Why Ashton Kutcher and Julie Cordua Are Defending Apple

  • September 2, 2021

• S2021E75 When Will Hollywood Stop Stereotyping Muslims?

  • September 9, 2021

• S2021E76 Is Limitless Choice Killing Us Slowly?

  • September 13, 2021

• S2021E77 Jeffrey Katzenberg Talks About His Billion-Dollar Flop

  • September 16, 2021

• S2021E78 What Is 23andMe Doing With Your DNA?

  • September 20, 2021

• S2021E79 How They Failed: C.A. Republicans, Media Critics and Facebook Leadership

  • September 23, 2021

• S2021E80 Can Beto O’Rourke Pull a Stacey Abrams?

  • September 27, 2021

• S2021E81 Can Andrew Yang End America’s 2-Party System?

  • September 30, 2021

• S2021E82 What if Monica Lewinsky Had Twitter in 1998?

  • October 4, 2021

• S2021E83 Is Texas Ready for Matthew McConaughey?

  • October 7, 2021

• S2021E84 Samantha Bee Doesn't Miss Donald Trump

  • October 11, 2021

• S2021E85 Adam Schiff on Facebook, Fox News and the Trump Cult

  • October 14, 2021

• S2021E86 Walt Mossberg's Take on Mark Zuckerberg and More

  • October 18, 2021

• S2021E87 Can a Nobel Peace Prize Protect Maria Ressa From Rodrigo Duterte?

  • October 21, 2021

• S2021E88 Why Republican Ken Buck Believes in Antitrust and Doesn’t Believe in the ‘Big Lie’

  • October 25, 2021

• S2021E89 Why Katie Couric Owned Up to Her Regrets

  • October 28, 2021

• S2021E90 Sex Bots and Mortality and A.I., Oh My!

  • November 1, 2021

• S2021E91 Is Casey Newton a ‘Facebook Apologist'?

  • November 4, 2021

• S2021E92 Best Of: Sacha Baron Cohen Has a Message for Mark Zuckerberg

  • November 8, 2021

• S2021E93 The Metaverse: Expectations vs. Reality

  • November 11, 2021

• S2021E94 What the Metaverse Sounds Like to Hans Zimmer

  • November 15, 2021

• S2021E95 Can The Washington Post De-Snark the News?

  • November 18, 2021

• S2021E96 Sway's Newest Listener (and an Update on This Week)

  • November 22, 2021

• S2021E97 Emily Ratajkowski Isn't Quite Ready to Quit Profiting Off the Male Gaze

  • November 29, 2021

• S2021E98 Why Humans Aren’t the Worst (Despite, Well, Everything Happening in the World)

  • December 6, 2021

• S2021E99 Best Of: Exercise, and Accept Your ‘Inevitable Demise’

  • December 9, 2021

• S2021E100 Buy an Earth Suit, Shoot Sulfur into the Atmosphere (And Other Contingency Plans for a Warming Earth

  • December 13, 2021

• S2021E101 Why Facebook Whistle-Blower Frances Haugen Thinks She’ll Outlast Mark Zuckerberg

  • December 20, 2021

• S2021E102 Best Of: Michael Pollan’s ‘Trip Report’

  • December 27, 2021

Season 2022

• S2022E01 Twitter’s Former C.E.O. Has a ‘Too Bad, So Sad’ Approach to Content Moderation

  • January 3, 2022

• S2022E02 One Year After the Jan. 6 Attack, Parler’s C.E.O Grapples with Big Tech and Trump

  • January 6, 2022

• S2022E03 What if Work Were a Video Game?

  • January 10, 2022

• S2022E04 Why This Liberal Mayor Doesn’t Want a Lecture From Progressives

  • January 13, 2022

• S2022E05 Best Of: America’s Caste System Is 400 Years Old. That Doesn’t Change Overnight.

  • January 17, 2022

• S2022E06 Exclusive: Lina Khan Is (Still) Bursting Big Tech's Bubble

  • January 19, 2022

• S2022E07 Elizabeth Warren Claps Back at Elon Musk

  • January 20, 2022

• S2022E08 Omicron Is (Still) Confusing. Two Experts Help Untangle the Covid Chaos.

  • January 24, 2022

• S2022E09 Bob Iger’s Advice to Hollywood on His Way Out

  • January 27, 2022

• S2022E10 Why This Democratic Governor Seems to Be Over Covid

  • January 31, 2022

• S2022E11 A Fox News ‘Defector’ on How the Network ‘Played Footsie’ With Trump

  • February 3, 2022

• S2022E12 How Instagram, FedEx and Wordle Hook You

  • February 7, 2022

• S2022E13 The Sandy Hook Father Who Refused to Let Alex Jones Win

  • February 10, 2022

• S2022E14 The Sandy Hook Father Who Refused to Let Alex Jones Win

  • February 14, 2022

• S2022E15 Tech’s Love Affair With Miami

  • February 17, 2022

• S2022E16 Best Of: What the Heck are NFTs? Let’s Ask Beeple.

  • February 21, 2022

• S2022E17 Anita Hill Takes On Those ‘Trying to Put Black Women in a Box’

  • February 24, 2022

• S2022E18 Maggie Gyllenhaal Wants to Tell the Transgressive Stories of Motherhood

  • February 28, 2022

• S2022E19 Jon Stewart on Why the Right Would ‘Rather Do a Deal With Putin Than Pelosi’

  • March 3, 2022

• S2022E20 Will Putin's Information Iron Curtain Backfire?

  • March 7, 2022

• S2022E21 How Far Would Biden Go in a Cyber War Against Putin?

  • March 10, 2022

• S2022E22 Why this Hollywood Actor Stays Off Social Media (Mostly)

  • March 14, 2022

• S2022E23 How Kathy Griffin Survived Cancer and Cancellation

  • March 17, 2022

• S2022E24 How Apple, Not Government, Became Tech’s Biggest Regulator

  • March 21, 2022

• S2022E25 The Corporations Passing — and Failing — the Ukraine Morality Test

  • March 24, 2022

• S2022E26 Why Facebook's 'Hubris and Arrogance' Astound This Attorney General

  • March 28, 2022

• S2022E27 What Putin’s Propaganda Looks Like from Russia and Ukraine

  • March 31, 2022

• S2022E28 ‘Trump Is Gone, and We Still Have the Problems’: Michael Lewis Makes Sense of Our Bungled Covid Resp

  • April 4, 2022

• S2022E29 How Elon Musk’s ‘Soft Power’ Might Shape Twitter’s Future

  • April 7, 2022

• S2022E30 Paul Krugman on Why the Economy Is Doing Better Than We Think

  • April 11, 2022

• S2022E31 How Michelle Yeoh Took Jackie Chan’s Role

  • April 14, 2022

• S2022E32 Tony Kushner on the Republican ‘Fantasy’ of a Nation Controlled by ‘Straight White Men’

  • April 18, 2022

• S2022E33 Jimmy Kimmel Made a Joke. Then Marjorie Taylor Greene Called the Police On Him.

  • April 21, 2022

• S2022E34 Tina Brown on Harry and Meghan’s ‘Scorched Earth’ Exit

  • April 25, 2022

• S2022E35 Tina Brown on Harry and Meghan’s ‘Scorched Earth’ Exit

  • April 27, 2022

• S2022E36 A Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Predicts the Future — and What He Sees Is Concerning

  • May 2, 2022

• S2022E37 The ‘Frighteningly Autocratic’ Implications of Overturning Roe v. Wade

  • May 5, 2022

• S2022E38 How the Supreme Court Became ‘Intoxicated With Its Power’

  • May 6, 2022

• S2022E39 Clarissa Ward: ‘Fear and Panic Are Bedfellows’ in Ukraine

  • May 9, 2022

• S2022E40 From Twitter to TV, Are We in a Media Reckoning?

  • May 12, 2022

• S2022E41 From Bernie to Biden to … MSNBC

  • May 16, 2022

• S2022E42 After Buffalo: Will Anything Change at Facebook, Twitter or Fox News?

  • May 18, 2022

• S2022E43 The C.E.O. of Condé Nast: ‘ This Is No Longer a Magazine Company’

  • May 23, 2022

• S2022E44 When It Comes to Gun Control, Will ‘Baby Steps’ Fix Anything?

  • May 26, 2022

• S2022E45 David Ellison on ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ Working with Tom Cruise and Hiring John Lasseter

  • May 30, 2022

• S2022E46 Are Elon Musk and Twitter Trapped In a Bad Marriage?

  • June 2, 2022

• S2022E47 Best Of: Dave Eggers Created the Google-Amazon Mash-Up of Your Nightmares

  • June 6, 2022

• S2022E48 David Axelrod, Sarah Longwell and Preet Bharara on What to Look For in the Jan. 6 Hearings

  • June 9, 2022

• S2022E49 David Axelrod, Sarah Longwell and Preet Bharara on What to Look For in the Jan. 6 Hearings

  • June 13, 2022

• S2022E50 As Bitcoin Busts, What’s the Future of Web3? And What Even is Web3?

  • June 16, 2022

• S2022E51 ‘The Senate Needs a Soul’

  • June 20, 2022

• S2022E52 Would You Upload Your Consciousness to the Cloud?

  • June 23, 2022

• S2022E53 ‘Venture Capitalists Are Going to Turn Into Vulture Capitalists,’ and Other Predictions From Andrew

  • June 27, 2022

• S2022E54 Kara in the Hot Seat

  • June 30, 2022

• S2022E55 Best Of: Elon Musk

  • July 4, 2022

• S2022E56 Best Of: Monica Lewinsky

  • July 7, 2022

• S2022E57 First Person: She’s Gay and a Republican. Is There a Place for Her in the G.O.P.?

  • July 11, 2022

• S2022E58 Best Of: Fran Lebowitz

  • July 14, 2022

• S2022E59 Best Of: Jason Miller

  • July 18, 2022

• S2022E60 Best Of: Stacey Abrams

  • July 21, 2022

• S2022E61 Best Of: Matthew McConaughey

  • July 25, 2022

• S2022E62 Best Of: Jon Stewart

  • July 28, 2022

• S2022E63 We Interrupt This Program

  • September 27, 2022