Solvable

Catherine Coleman Flowers is the Founder and Director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice. She was awarded a MacArthur …

Nathan Matias is a professor at Cornell University and leads the Citizens and Technology Lab. He believes that the strong tradition of scrappy, …

Eli Pariser is a social activist and technology entrepreneur. He sits on the U.S. Programs Board of the Open Society Foundation and the Information …

Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, contributing writer at The Atlantic and a co-host of Solvable and she believes that political …

Juan Manuel Santos is credited with ending the long and violent civil war in Colombia. He believes that every conflict can have a solution. This …

Dr. Anne Zink is the Chief Medical Officer for the state of Alaska and has helped to coordinate one of the nation's most successful vaccine …

Dr. Wendy Wood is Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California.

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Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice is the President and Dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine. Even though systemic racism and a history of medical …

Rachel Stroer is the acting president of the Land Institute. She believes that many of the ecological and economic problems stemming from our current …

With so many worthy causes out there, GiveWell helps donors evaluate charities based on their ability to save and improve the greatest number of …

Award-winning technologist Lady Mariéme Jamme is the founder of iamtheCODE. Her organization seeks to educate women and girls about coding and to …

Astronaut Scott Kelly is no stranger to the impacts of social isolation after spending 520 days in space. He talks with Jacob Weisberg about how to …

Mike Dickey is co-founder and chairman of the JackTrip Foundation and the creator of Virtual Studio.

The awkward and disjointed experience of making …

Dr. Lutfi Lokman co-founded Hospitals Beyond Boundaries to provide culturally competent and financially sustainable healthcare. His clinic follows a …

Flavia Kleiner is the co-founder of Operation Libero. The organization works to combat populism in Switzerland. Operation Libero has launched and won …

Emily Bazelon is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. She …

Eric Lander is president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and was a leader of the Human Genome Project. His new podcast Brave New Planet weighs the pros and cons of a wide range of …

Ahmed Badr is an Iraqi-American writer, social entrepreneur, former refugee and the founder of Narratio. Narratio is a creative platform and set of initiatives that carve out spaces for displaced young people to …

Saving coral reefs will take a lot of teamwork and collaboration across scientists, industries and individuals. One important tool is …

Eric Appel is a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University. His lab has designed an improved delivery system for fire retardant to keep fires from starting across hotspots and known ignition …

Michael Mina is an epidemiologist and immunologist at the Harvard School of Public Health and a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital. 

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John McWhorter is a linguistics professor at Columbia University, contributing writer at The Atlantic and hosts the podcast Lexicon Valley. He …

Margaret Sullivan is the media columnist for The Washington Post and formerly the public editor with the New York Times. Her new book is called …

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist. He teaches cyber security at the Harvard Kennedy School. Schneier believes that …

Kirsten Clarke is the president and executive director of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The committee was established in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to address the …

Michael Waldman is the president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. The non-partisan center works to strengthen America's …

Chiraag Bains is the Director of Legal Strategies at Demos, a think tank focused on strengthening democracy and fighting for racial justice. He previously served as Senior Counsel to the head of the Civil Rights …

Insha Rahman is the director of strategy and new initiatives at the Vera Institute of Justice. She believes that mass incarceration is solvable. 

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Pushkin Industries and Axios are joining forces to produce a daily news podcast that gets audiences smarter, faster on the most pressing topics of the day. Start your morning with news that matters in just 10 minutes. …

Host Anne Applebaum speaks with Srdja Popovic about how strategic nonviolent action can bring about lasting and meaningful social change.

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While working on the next season of Against the Rules, coming later this spring, Michael Lewis has had some conversations that we didn’t want to …

Deep Background is the latest podcast from Pushkin Industries, in which Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman breaks the relentless 24-hour news cycle with real conversation. In this episode--We Testified for Impeachment …

Jacob Weisberg talks to Dixon Chibanda about giving access to mental health care in non-Western nations.

Anne Applebaum talks to Dr. Naveen Rao about fostering safe pregnancies and healthy deliveries worldwide.

Jacob Weisberg talks to Michael Faye about cutting out the middle man in charitable donations via GiveDirectly.

Jacob Weisberg talks with Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz about closing the wealth gap in the United States.

Anne Applebaum talks with Nicola Galombik about increasing access to future work for young people in South Africa.

Jacob Weisberg talks with David Kaye about fostering public understanding of free speech on the internet and who should make the rules about …

Ahmed Ali Akbar talks with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy about using film to tackle violence against women in Pakistan.

Malcolm Gladwell talks to former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu about mending race relations in the U.S.

Malcolm Gladwell talks to Saumya Roy about using micro-financing to eliminate poverty amongst marginalized groups.

Jacob Weisberg talks to global health advocate Steve Davis about eliminating or eradicating diseases causing great human suffering worldwide.

Anne Applebaum talks to Anousheh Ansari about balancing the carbon cycle and fighting climate change through incentivized prizes and innovation.

Jacob Weisberg talks to Mabel van Oranje, Chair of Girls Not Brides, about ending child marriage by 2030.

Anne Applebaum talks to Dr. Urvashi Sahni--a social entrepreneur, women rights activist and educationist--about redefining education and curricula.

Jacob Weisberg talks to Kevin Rudd about the need for diplomacy between China and the United States.

Jacob Weisberg talks to Roy Steiner about changing global diets.

Anne Applebaum talks with Ashvin Dayal about creating worldwide access to electricity. 

Malcolm Gladwell talks with Dr. Shashi Buluswar about fighting global poverty with the Institute for Transformative Technologies.

Jacob Weisberg talks to Victor Ochen, Founder and Executive Director for African Youth Initiative Network, about building peace in Africa.

Malcolm Gladwell talks to David Baltimore about his work that made a treatment for HIV/AIDS possible.

Ahmed Ali Akbar talks to Sal Khan about bringing world class education to everyone, for free.

Anne Applebaum talks to Vincent DeGennaro about building cancer programs in developing countries.

Malcolm Gladwell talks to Julia Gillard, the first and only woman to be Prime Minister of Australia, about the underrepresentation of women in …

Anne Applebaum talks to Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia and Nobel Peace Laureate, about ending more than 50 years of conflict in his …

Jacob Weisberg talks to Jake Porway about using big data for good.

Anne Applebaum talks to Renée DiResta about building a more trustworthy Internet.

Jacob Weisberg talks to Mariéme Jamme about teaching a million disadvantaged girls to code.

Ahmed Ali Akbar talks to activist and author Tristram Stuart about using food scraps to eliminate waste. 

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Jacob Weisberg talks to David Miliband about helping refugees stay in work and in school.

Anne Applebaum talks to Flavia Kleiner about how patriotic liberalism can beat xenophobic populists.

Malcolm Gladwell talks to Rosanne Haggerty about ending homelessness for everyone. Forever.

Solvable will be a recurring showcase for the world’s most inspiring thinkers to propose solutions to the world’s most daunting problems.