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Without

Hosted by international bestselling author and journalist Omar El Akkad, Without explores all of the

Episodes

Total: 32

Literature

2024/5/15

For our final episode, Omar sits down with his dear friend Lydia Kiesling to discuss something near

Growth

2024/5/8

More! More! More! Today, Omar speaks with Jon D. Erickson about society’s seemingly insatiable appet

Affordable Housing

2024/5/1

“Is the system functioning exactly as it’s meant to?” That’s the question on Omar’s mind in today’s

Advertising

2024/4/24

A world without advertising? Wishful thinking. Or is it? Omar’s interrogating how and why ads weave

Billionaires

2024/4/17

What does the one percent really mean? What do people get wrong when they think about their own weal

Guns

2024/4/10

Is having a gun an expression of some sort of freedom? The ubiquity of guns in the United States cer

Humans

2024/4/3

What does the world look like without … us? This week, Omar speaks with David Farrier and imagines w

E.R. Fightmaster, Tien Tran, and Katie Kershaw are talking sports. Namely all things queer and woman

Meat

2024/3/27

Today, Omar speaks with Alicia Kennedy about the food-industrial complex, the massive climate footpr

Fossil Fuels, Part 2

2024/3/20

Resources we use to power our lives aren’t going to be employed in the same way in the very near fut

Fossil Fuels, Part 1

2024/3/13

Omar sits down with Adam McKay to discuss the state of our environment and society. This is part-one

Local Journalism

2023/12/20

All over the United States, more and more communities are losing their most important source of  inf

Mosquitoes

2023/12/13

Mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they carry are a public health crisis. Today, thanks to climate c

Social Security

2023/12/6

Social security has provided relief for millions of elderly, bereaved, and disabled Americans, but j

Glaciers

2023/11/29

Thwaites is maybe the most famous glacier on earth. And to get a sense of why, you should also know

Touch

2023/11/22

It’s undeniable–touch is growing scarcer in our increasingly digital world. We learn about the physi

Drug Laws

2023/11/15

According to the CDC, deaths from opioids more than doubled to 105,000 from January 2015 to January

Batteries

2023/11/8

Whatever going green is – be it using electric cars or installing solar panels – it doesn’t happen w

White Rhinos

2023/11/1

Today, a whopping one million species are on the verge of extinction, with animals dying off at a ra

Death

2023/10/25

Over the past few years, some of the richest people (mostly men) on the planet have funded all kinds