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October 21, 2026
Real Talk on the $40T Debt
Separate headline noise from the underlying structural budget reality.
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Neutralizing Outrage Through Deliberate Civic Design
Discover how small environmental changes rebuild trust.
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Why Democracy Warnings Miss the Mark
New ethnographic research reveals how moral foundations drive political trust.
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Is Political Bias Ruining Academic Research?
Dr. Ashley Rubin reveals the truth about campus polarization.
Special America 250 Episode!
Step back from the outrage industry this 250th anniversary. Explore why liberty, equality, and self-government require choosing engagement over apathy.
Why We Exist
We exist to help curious, open-minded people push back against outrage-driven media, political division, and the stress of constant anger and misinformation. We do this by unpacking how outrage works, interviewing experts, and sharing insights and strategies that strengthen understanding, critical thinking, and emotional resilience in our civic life.
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Featured Content
Outrage Addiction: How Our Brains Get Hijacked
Peter Coleman explains the dopamine loop fueling polarization—and practical ways to break it and rebuild conversation.
What Late-Night and Talk Radio Have in Common
Late-night laughs and far-right rants might seem worlds apart—but both feed the same engagement engine. This episode unpacks what that means for democracy.
America on the Knife’s Edge – Can We Forge a New Path?
Weaving together in-depth research, insightful expert interviews, and compelling real-world examples, this special documentary-style episode delivers a thought-provoking exploration of the forces threatening – or bolstering – American democracy.
Featured Guests
Peter Coleman
Dannagal G. Young
Matthew Levendusky
Kurt Gray
Jan Voelkel
Ilana Redstone
About Us
The Outrage Industry is not broken. It’s supposed to work this way.
Today’s media and political systems reward content that triggers strong emotion. Anger spreads faster than nuance. Conflict drives clicks. The incentives are clear — and they’re powerful.
Over time, that dynamic has reshaped how we see one another. It’s easier to believe the worst about “the other side.” Harder to have productive disagreements. Harder to stay calm, curious, and mentally steady.
The result isn’t just political division. It’s exhaustion.
Outrage Overload exists to understand this system — how it works, why it works, and what it does to us — and to help you navigate it with clarity, resilience, and agency.
Outrage Overload is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examine what’s broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.
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Join the Movement to Lower the Temperature
We’re all feeling it — the constant outrage, the noise, the division.
The Lower the Temperature movement is about stepping off that treadmill.
Join others choosing calm, clarity, and connection over anger and anxiety.
Because when we lower the temperature, we think better, feel better, and connect better.