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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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Apple News In Conversation episodes:

05.02.2024
Rebroadcast: His father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. He went looking for answers.
This is an episode from our archives.Around 2013, author and cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar started noticing some worrying changes in his father. He would forget the code to their safe; he couldn’t remember what he did the day before and would...
04.25.2024
How to make America a better place to raise kids
Guest-hosted by Julia Carpenter: The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. But when it comes to support for parents and families, we lag behind many of our peers. We have relatively high infant- and maternal-mortality...
04.18.2024
How money affects your mental health
Guest-hosted by Julia Carpenter: Losing your job. Being evicted. Hearing your parents fight about money. These can all be forms of financial trauma. Megan McCoy, a marriage and family psychologist specializing in financial therapy, explains how these traumas can have...
04.11.2024
How a financial-advice columnist got scammed out of $50,000
Guest-hosted by Julia Carpenter: Charlotte Cowles never thought she’d fall for a scam. She’s savvy about money and even writes a financial-advice column for The Cut. But last fall, scammers persuaded her to put $50,000 in cash in a shoebox and...
04.04.2024
Rebroadcast: Tom Hanks on what it takes to make a movie
This is an episode from our archives.Tom Hanks has learned a thing or two about moviemaking during his decades-long career. Ultimately, he says, it’s not about one person’s vision or direction; it’s about the countless people behind the camera —...
03.28.2024
The U.S. political system is broken. Here are five ideas to fix it.
Guest-hosted by Brian Stelter: The United States is one of the greatest democracies in the world. But, for a lot of people in this country, it doesn’t feel that way. A recent Pew Research survey found that about 7 in...
03.21.2024
Who’s better for the economy — Biden or Trump?
Guest-hosted by Brian Stelter: Many Americans say the economy is their top issue this election year, with roughly two-thirds of voters saying they don’t feel it’s working for them. That’s despite a variety of indicators that show the economy is healthy...
03.14.2024
Not sure what’s real or fake online? Here are some tips.
Guest-hosted by Brian Stelter: Between the upcoming presidential election, rapidly improving artificial intelligence, and weakened social-media safeguards, disinformation is becoming an increasingly urgent issue in the U.S. In her new book, Attack From Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America, legal...
03.07.2024
Everything you need to know about Trump’s four criminal trials
Guest-hosted by Brian Stelter: Donald Trump is the first president — current or former — to face criminal charges. The first of his four criminal trials is set to begin at the end of March, with at least one other expected...
02.29.2024
Could Biden drop out of the race? Can Trump run if he’s convicted? Your 2024 election questions, answered.
Guest-hosted by Brian Stelter: This year’s presidential election is unprecedented for many reasons. Republican front-runner and former president Donald Trump is facing 91 criminal charges in four separate trials. President Joe Biden, the presumed Democratic nominee, is facing serious criticisms...
02.22.2024
The WNBA is building something — and it’s not just the women’s version of the NBA
Guest-hosted by David Greene: Sheryl Swoopes, often called the “female Michael Jordan,” was the first player signed to the WNBA. Her story is featured in the new documentary Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story, which takes a look at how far...
02.15.2024
Former elite gymnast Maggie Nichols speaks out about Larry Nassar’s abuse
Guest-hosted by David Greene: Maggie Nichols was the first athlete on the national team to report former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse to the organization in June 2015. A year later, she was not selected for the U.S....
02.09.2024
Why America is obsessed with the NFL
Guest-hosted by David Greene: The NFL accounted for 93 of the top 100 U.S. broadcasts in 2023, according to Nielsen ratings. But not that long ago, the league was reeling from controversies around head injuries, allegations of racism in its...
02.01.2024
College sports are a multibillion-dollar business. Why aren’t athletes getting a cut?
Guest-hosted by David Greene: College football and basketball are multibillion-dollar industries. But while some Division 1 coaches and athletic directors make millions of dollars each year, the players themselves are not paid by the schools they compete for. That may...
01.25.2024
Inside the mind of one of the New Yorker’s most iconic cartoonists
Roz Chast started at the New Yorker in 1978, when there was only one other woman cartoonist at the magazine. Decades later, she is a celebrated figure in the cartoon world and has become well-known for her distinctive style and...
01.18.2024
“There is a government cover-up around UFOs. It’s just not the one that you think.”
Have we been visited by extraterrestrial life? And how much does the government really know when it comes to UFOs? Garrett Graff’s latest book, UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here — and Out...
01.11.2024
How the evangelical church became so political, according to a pastor’s son
Journalist Tim Alberta was raised in the evangelical church and is a practicing Christian. But he’s grown increasingly concerned about how entrenched politics has become in the evangelical movement. In his latest book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory:...
01.04.2024
Esther Perel on the real reasons couples fight
Esther Perel is the relationship expert many couples dream of scheduling a session with. Her podcast, Where Should We Begin? With Esther Perel, offers the next best thing. In it, she helps real couples work through their issues, often providing...
12.28.2023
Rebroadcast: Your brain is hardwired to resist change. Here’s how to retrain it.
This is an episode from our archives. Transitions can feel intimidating and destabilizing. But these moments can also be opportunities for growth, reflection, and self-discovery — especially when you have the right tools. In this episode of Apple News In Conversation,...
12.21.2023
Rebroadcast: ‘The Office’ star Rainn Wilson on how to let go of resentment and find happiness
This is an episode from our archives. Rainn Wilson understands why so many people are rejecting religion today. But he argues that the core aspects of faith still have something important to offer us. Spirituality has brought him community, purpose, and...
12.14.2023
How to unlock your family’s history
Elizabeth Keating didn’t realize how little she knew about her mother’s life until after she had died. A trained anthropologist, Keating decided to develop a guide for interviewing and recording loved ones’ histories before it’s too late. Her book, The...
12.07.2023
A guide to smarter, more ethical shopping this holiday season
Holiday spending is expected to reach record levels this year. That makes for a lot of packages — and a lot of returns, donations, and junk. On Apple News In Conversation, host Shumita Basu speaks with The Atlantic’s Amanda Mull,...
11.30.2023
Rachel Maddow on America’s history of fighting fascism
Rachel Maddow is best known for her show on MSNBC. But she’s also a serious history buff. In her latest book, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism, Maddow lays out the rise of a dangerous antidemocratic movement in the United...
11.23.2023
Rebroadcast: Why relationships fall apart over dirty dishes — and how to avoid the trap
In this episode from our archives, Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu talks with Kate Mangino, a gender expert and the author of the book Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home. Mangino points to research that shows women still take...
11.16.2023
What a former astronaut says TV gets right and wrong about space
What if the United States had lost the space race — and the Soviet Union had been the first to land a man on the moon? These are the driving questions behind the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind. The...
11.09.2023
“It’s intolerable”: the New Yorker’s David Remnick on the Israel-Hamas war
David Remnick has reported on Israel and the Palestinian territories for many years. But his most recent trip to Israel was like nothing he’d seen before. In an article for the New Yorker, Remnick writes about visiting with survivors of...
11.02.2023
How facial-recognition technology is upending privacy as we know it
Big tech companies first started working on artificial facial recognition more than a decade ago. But they chose not to release it, worried about who might use it and how. Then, in 2017, the small startup Clearview AI debuted its...
10.26.2023
Marriage, murder, betrayal: the true story behind ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
After striking oil on their reservation, members of the Osage Nation became some of the richest people in the world in the 1920s. Then white Oklahomans began killing them for their wealth in a sinister and elaborate plot. These events...
10.19.2023
The realities of living in the Palestinian territories
Warning: This episode describes graphic content, including the death of children.The following interview is about the experiences of Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and mostly focuses on events that took place before the latest escalation of violence in...
10.13.2023
A guide to help you understand the Israel-Hamas war
The news coming out of Israel and Gaza this week has been fast-moving and devastating. It’s always hard, during a rapidly-changing news event, to know where to find accurate, contextualized information. It’s especially challenging in this particular war, where the...
10.05.2023
America loves the AR-15. Here’s how that happened.
In the United States, AR-15s grace bumper stickers, mugs, and politicians’ Christmas cards. They’re also the weapon used in some of the deadliest mass shootings in modern American history. Wall Street Journal reporters Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson trace the...
09.28.2023
The secret to finding joy in running
Martinus Evans did not have an easy start to running. Weighing over 300 pounds, he set out to finish a marathon after a doctor told him to “lose weight or die.” He writes about his running journey in his new...
09.21.2023
Elon Musk’s biographer on two years of shadowing the tech billionaire
Walter Isaacson, author of the new biography Elon Musk, spent two years following the world’s richest man in an effort to understand what drives him. Isaacson joins Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu to explain what he learned about...
09.14.2023
Why so many American kids are struggling to learn how to read — and how to fix that
America has long struggled with how best to teach kids to read. But a new approach, called the science of reading, is gaining steam — and it’s proving successful. At the same time, many classrooms haven’t caught up to it,...
09.07.2023
Her family had always kept her aunt a secret. She set out to uncover the truth.
Growing up, Jennifer Senior thought her mom was an only child. But when she was 12 years old, she learned her mom had a sister, named Adele, who was institutionalized as a baby. Adele had spent almost her entire life...
08.31.2023
Think Again: The signs that you’re ready to retire
When longtime LA Times columnist Steve Lopez reached his mid-60s, he started to think about retiring. But he wasn’t sure how to go about it — or if he should do it all. He gave himself one year to decide...
08.24.2023
Think Again: What losing family taught Anderson Cooper about grief and gratitude
Anderson Cooper is now the only living member of the family he grew up with. When he was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack. His brother died by suicide about a decade later. And in 2019,...
08.17.2023
Think Again: Why people lose themselves in parenthood — and how to reclaim your sense of self
You’ve prepped the nursery, read all the books, and are eagerly waiting to meet the new member of your family. But are you also ready to meet the new version of yourself? For Apple News In Conversation’s Think Again series,...
08.10.2023
Think Again: The most confusing years of your life — and strategies to get through them
Early adulthood can be a particularly confusing and unsettling phase of life. You’re figuring out how to get a job, pay rent, and plan meals. At the same time, you’re also determining your values and the kind of person you...
08.03.2023
Think Again: Your brain is hardwired to resist change. Here’s how to retrain it.
Transitions can feel intimidating and destabilizing. But these moments can also be opportunities for growth, reflection, and self-discovery — especially when you have the right tools. In the first episode of Apple News In Conversation’s monthlong ‘Think Again’ series, host...
08.01.2023
Sneak Peek: Life’s big transitions, reimagined
Apple News In Conversation is coming out with our monthlong ‘Think Again’ series, where we rethink deeply held notions and common experiences. This year, we’re diving into some of life’s big pivot points — from early adulthood to parenthood to...
07.27.2023
The dangers of extreme heat — for our health and our planet
July is on track to be the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. Millions of people in the U.S. are living in areas with dangerous levels of heat — and a growing death toll. In a new book, The Heat...
07.20.2023
Rebecca Lowe can’t believe how far women’s soccer has come
The Women’s World Cup is underway. With 32 nations fielding teams, it’s the biggest tournament yet. Rebecca Lowe, host of Apple News’s unofficial World Cup podcast, After the Whistle, and NBC Sports’ Premier League coverage, offers her predictions and reflects...
07.13.2023
Tom Hanks on what it takes to make a movie
Tom Hanks has learned a thing or two about moviemaking during his decades-long career. Ultimately, he says, it’s not about one person’s vision or direction; it’s about the countless people behind the camera — and a few in front of...
07.06.2023
Playing Dwight on ‘The Office’ didn’t make Rainn Wilson happy. Here’s how he’s seeking real joy.
Rainn Wilson understands why so many people are rejecting religion today. But he argues that the core aspects of faith still have something important to offer us. Spirituality has brought him community, purpose, and levity — even as he’s struggled...
06.29.2023
Rebroadcast: The real problem with elite-college admissions
This is an episode from our archives. This week the Supreme Court put an end to affirmative action in college admissions, meaning universities can no longer consider race as a factor when accepting a new class of students. The ruling is...
06.22.2023
Enduring advice for this year’s graduating class (and nongraduates too)
At their worst, graduation speeches are boring, trite, and pedantic. But at their best, they’re touching meditations on what it means to live a purposeful, fulfilling life. On this week’s episode of Apple News In Conversation, host Shumita Basu speaks with...
06.15.2023
Writer Samantha Irby makes the case for enjoying frivolous things
Samantha Irby is many things: blogger; essayist; and writer for shows like Shrill, And Just Like That …, and Work in Progress. Above all, she is a master of transforming seemingly mundane moments of everyday life into high comedy. Irby...
06.08.2023
His father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. He went looking for answers.
Around 2013, author and cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar started noticing some worrying changes in his father. He would forget the code to their safe; he couldn’t remember what he did the day before and would get lost driving home. Eventually, his...
06.01.2023
What you should know before buying an EV
Electric vehicles may be better for the planet in a lot of ways, but there are huge, often-unseen environmental and human costs associated with harvesting the minerals needed to make EV batteries. On the latest episode of Apple News In...

What's Apple News In Conversation about?

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Apple News In Conversation episodes:

Rebroadcast: His father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. He went looking for answers.

How to make America a better place to raise kids

How money affects your mental health

How a financial-advice columnist got scammed out of $50,000

Rebroadcast: Tom Hanks on what it takes to make a movie

The U.S. political system is broken. Here are five ideas to fix it.

Who’s better for the economy — Biden or Trump?

Not sure what’s real or fake online? Here are some tips.

Everything you need to know about Trump’s four criminal trials

Could Biden drop out of the race? Can Trump run if he’s convicted? Your 2024 election questions, answered.

The WNBA is building something — and it’s not just the women’s version of the NBA

Former elite gymnast Maggie Nichols speaks out about Larry Nassar’s abuse

Why America is obsessed with the NFL

College sports are a multibillion-dollar business. Why aren’t athletes getting a cut?

Inside the mind of one of the New Yorker’s most iconic cartoonists

“There is a government cover-up around UFOs. It’s just not the one that you think.”

How the evangelical church became so political, according to a pastor’s son

Esther Perel on the real reasons couples fight

Rebroadcast: Your brain is hardwired to resist change. Here’s how to retrain it.

Rebroadcast: ‘The Office’ star Rainn Wilson on how to let go of resentment and find happiness

How to unlock your family’s history

A guide to smarter, more ethical shopping this holiday season

Rachel Maddow on America’s history of fighting fascism

Rebroadcast: Why relationships fall apart over dirty dishes — and how to avoid the trap

What a former astronaut says TV gets right and wrong about space

“It’s intolerable”: the New Yorker’s David Remnick on the Israel-Hamas war

How facial-recognition technology is upending privacy as we know it

Marriage, murder, betrayal: the true story behind ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

The realities of living in the Palestinian territories

A guide to help you understand the Israel-Hamas war

America loves the AR-15. Here’s how that happened.

The secret to finding joy in running

Elon Musk’s biographer on two years of shadowing the tech billionaire

Why so many American kids are struggling to learn how to read — and how to fix that

Her family had always kept her aunt a secret. She set out to uncover the truth.

Think Again: The signs that you’re ready to retire

Think Again: What losing family taught Anderson Cooper about grief and gratitude

Think Again: Why people lose themselves in parenthood — and how to reclaim your sense of self

Think Again: The most confusing years of your life — and strategies to get through them

Think Again: Your brain is hardwired to resist change. Here’s how to retrain it.

Sneak Peek: Life’s big transitions, reimagined

The dangers of extreme heat — for our health and our planet

Rebecca Lowe can’t believe how far women’s soccer has come

Tom Hanks on what it takes to make a movie

Playing Dwight on ‘The Office’ didn’t make Rainn Wilson happy. Here’s how he’s seeking real joy.

Rebroadcast: The real problem with elite-college admissions

Enduring advice for this year’s graduating class (and nongraduates too)

Writer Samantha Irby makes the case for enjoying frivolous things

His father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. He went looking for answers.

What you should know before buying an EV