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Malcolm Gladwell

Season 19 • 10/22/2013

Malcolm Gladwell explains the concept of "desirable difficulties."

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John Oliver logs into HealthCare.gov and gets sucked into a Tron-like cyber-bureaucratic nightmare.
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03:33

The Newark Normal
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New Jersey legalizes gay marriage and Mayor Cory Booker officiates one of the first ceremonies.
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Moment of Zen - Dick Cheney's Heart
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Dick Cheney bemoans the largeness of his own heart.
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The Weakest Link - HealthCare.gov
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Even the photo op to address the poorly planned rollout of Obamacare suffered from a clear lack of planning.
10/21/2013
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Alan Greenspan
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"The Map and the Territory" author Alan Greenspan shares insights into human nature he learned while on Wall Street.
10/21/2013
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04:52

The Weakest Link
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All that stands in the way of Democratic electoral success is a mildly competent implementation of the health care policy they battled so hard to keep.
10/21/2013
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00:18

Moment of Zen - Young Karl Rove
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A young Karl Rove shares his strategy to get young voters mobilized for Richard Nixon.
10/22/2013
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03:02

Extreme Takeover: Tea Party Edition
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Following the government shutdown, the big split between establishment Republicans and the Tea Party becomes less vastly exaggerated.
10/22/2013
05:55

Extreme Takeover: Tea Party Edition - The Tea Party vs. Karl Rove
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A decade-long strategy to engage the most rigid and ideological pockets of the Republican party backfires on Karl Rove.
10/22/2013
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05:43

Sexy Halloween Costumes
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Kristen Schaal unveils her line of sexy Halloween costumes for both men and women.
10/22/2013
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06:01

Malcolm Gladwell
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"David and Goliath" author Malcolm Gladwell breaks down the differences between helpful adversity and undesirable difficulties.
10/22/2013
00:10

Moment of Zen - America & Weed
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Brian Williams reports on America's changing relationship with marijuana.
10/23/2013
04:45

A Nightmare on Wall Street - JPMorgan Chase
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Jim Cramer and others at CNBC display newfound outrage over the way the government "forced" JP Morgan Chase into taking over the Bear Sterns s**t sandwich.
10/23/2013
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05:23

Charles Krauthammer
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Charles Krauthammer recounts the great victories of liberalism and argues that Ted Cruz is not the official voice of American conservatism.
10/23/2013
05:05

A Nightmare on Wall Street
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The government executes a shakedown-witch-hunt-scalping-jihad against JPMorgan Chase.
10/23/2013
05:31

Suppressing the Vote
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Aasif Mandvi investigates non-racist fallout from the Supreme Court's destruction of the Voting Rights Act.
10/23/2013
03:32

Everybody Hates U.S. - Nations Be Spying, Yo
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When it comes to spying, the American government isn't doing anything to the rest of the world that it isn't already doing at home.
10/24/2013
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Moment of Zen - Enrique Trouble
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"Law & Order: SVU" introduces a Weiner-esque character.
10/24/2013
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Chiwetel Ejiofor discusses his movie "12 Years a Slave" and explains why British people are well equipped to tell an authentic tale of American slavery.
10/24/2013
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Tweet and Lowdown
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It only took the government two and a half years to find the senior White House official behind an anonymous Twitter account.
10/24/2013
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06:14

Everybody Hates U.S.
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Pakistan criticizes the United States' drone program, and France and Germany take issue with America's global surveillance apparatus.
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