Extreme Makeover: White House Edition
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump demolished part of the White House to make room for a lavish new ballroom. The gold ...
Paging Dr. ChatBot
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patients and doctors both are turning to AI for help with diagnosing ailments and managing chronic i...
Capitalism (Taylor’s Version)
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor Swift reaches new heights with her latest album, which is both divisive and record-breaking. ...
Can you sue ICE?
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You can. And ICE's aggressive tactics are inviting legal challenges from protesters. But some recent...
A test of Trump's coalition
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We visit New Jersey, where there are cracks emerging in Trump's gains with Latinos. This episode wa...
The "I love Hitler" group chat
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the private messages of Young Republican leaders leaked, it exposed an antisemitism problem tha...
The Americans with their bags packed
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration is making an effort to systematically exclude trans people from public life...
Why (some) food tastes better abroad
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We tell the stories of three ingredients that can shine outside the US: beef, bread, and tomatoes. ...
Victoria’s Secret wants you back
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The lingerie brand was tarnished by its connection to Jeffrey Epstein, and by fading cultural appeal...
Marjorie Taylor Greene gone rogue
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over two weeks in, the government shutdown is exposing fault lines on both sides of the aisle. Perha...
Is voting doomed?
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 1965 Voting Rights Act enfranchised millions of Black voters in the Jim Crow era. The Supreme Co...
What the Gaza ceasefire really means
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens next in Gaza now that a ceasefire has been reached and how the last two years might hav...
When young adults get cancer
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Getting a cancer diagnosis at any age is life changing. But when you’re in your 20s or 30s, it can...
Should we give toddlers phones?
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What we know about early childhood and screens, including a surprising argument for introducing tech...
The campus resistance
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special feed drop of On with Kara Swisher, Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber talks a...
Saudi Arabia is no joke
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Riyadh Comedy Festival was billed as “two weeks of laughs in the desert” but has comics aski...
Trump deploys the National Guard
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The president is attempting to send the National Guard into two American cities for two (seemingly) ...
We're in our AI slop era
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meta just dropped Vibes and OpenAI just dropped Sora 2. Both social media platforms are filled with ...
TrumpRx
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump wants to put his stamp on health care. But TrumpRx is no Obamacare. This episode wa...
Is empathy toxic?
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Society teaches us empathy is a good thing. But some are now saying the opposite, and science is com...
KPop Demon Hunters keeps slaying
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Netflix animated film KPop Demon Hunters is a mega cultural phenomenon. And the studio that used...
Hegseth’s hectic military
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered top military officials to DC for a surprise lecture on the "w...
Shutdown for what?
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We ask Sen Elizabeth Warren why. President Donald Trump is reportedly mostly worried about the midte...
Rupert Murdoch presents: Succession
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Murdoch has built a media empire that leads all the way to the White House. But nothing lasts foreve...
How Rupert Murdoch remade the world
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Murdoch started his media empire in Australia, sharpened his playbook in the UK, and became one of t...
Who is the modern American dad?
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Young men are more interested in becoming parents than young women are, and there's a growing number...
labubu matcha dubai chocolate
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How TikTok reshaped the trend cycle. This episode was produced by Danielle Hewitt, edited by Amina ...
$100,000 for a visa
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With its announcement that an H-1B visa will now cost $100,000, the Trump administration is proving ...
A Palestinian state
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Israel continues pushing into Gaza, a growing number of world leaders are saying they now recogni...
TikTok’s new owners
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The US and China have a plan for American TikTok. It involves a Trump-aligned billionaire whose fami...
RFK Jr.'s vaccine dream team
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Noted vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced a key board of vaccine advisers at the CDC. Aft...
A nation of jerks
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Americans seem to be getting ruder. Are our attempts at making ourselves better actually making us w...
Silencing Kimmel
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ABC’s “indefinite” suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show has people worried about the...
Kash Patel is posting through it
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The FBI director's handling of the Kirk assassination proves knowing the ropes isn't as important as...
The Charlie Kirk revenge plot
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The motives behind Charlie Kirk’s killing are still unclear, but the Trump administration is mount...
Debate or rage-bait?
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jubilee Media has figured out a way to make the issues that divide Americans go viral - for better o...
Should Democrats shut it down?
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Democrats are debating whether a government shutdown is a way to push back on Trump’s authoritaria...
Why horror kills at the box office
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hollywood has always made money from vampires and brain-eating zombies. But this year's a record-bre...
What the right gets wrong about Tolkien
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many far-right conservatives think The Lord of the Rings is about them. They may love Tolkien, but i...
Charlie Kirk's America
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The fatal shooting of conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk has reignited a debate about political vio...
Trump's chief culture warrior
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Rufo is leading a ruthless — and successful — counterrevolution against American eli...
The report RFK Jr. buried
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new report that links increased alcohol consumption to cancer was supposed to help inform the gove...
Trump’s new war on drugs
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump promised to crack down on illicit drugs. Then, he blew up a Venezuelan vessel...
The United States is Southern now
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From #rushtok to country music, American culture is getting more and more southern. This episode wa...
Hamilton and Obamacore cringe
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The smash hit musical Hamilton is now in a movie theater near you. But in the decade since it came o...
Trump and Modi’s broken bromance
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
India’s prime minister was so tight with Donald Trump that they held hands during public appearanc...
Deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia (to Uganda)
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The US government is trying to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia again. It's part of a larger war on immig...
Trump's "tough on crime" spree
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump thinks he solved crime in the nation's capital. Let’s take a look at the da...
The Made in the USA myth
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This special feed drop of NPR's Planet Money examines the United States' dwindling domestic garment ...
$250 million to work for Meta
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meta Mark is going all-out to put his superintelligence lab on superdrive. What is superintelligence...
Fed up
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump wants to control interest rates. To do that, he needs to control the Federal ...
The future of vaccines
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump 1.0 got us safe COVID vaccines in record time. Trump 2.0 is trying to take the vaccines away. ...
AI took your job
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hundreds of job applications, but not one call. Young workers are frustrated, scared, and wondering ...
The golden age of exercise
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Americans are flocking to gyms and fitness classes. It wasn't always that way. This episode was pro...
Good Bunny
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bad Bunny is having a very good summer making Puerto Rico feel like the center of the universe. Thi...
Trump evicts homeless people
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of his strategies is throwing people into treatment programs without their consent. Blue states ...
South Park is not your friend
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The latest season of South Park has been vicious in its critique of Trump 2.0. But the creators aren...
Is America still capitalist?
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump is threatening CEOs, nationalizing the steel industry, and demanding a cut of Nvidia...
Trump meets with Europe
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for Russia's Vladimir Putin last week. Now, Ukrainian Preside...
Hacking our health
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We track our steps and our sleep, guzzle supplements and protein shakes, and even inject hormones –...
Living on Mars
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The most powerful people in the world want to send humans to Mars. Getting there will be extremely d...
A soccer mom takes on ICE
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Angie Vargas witnessed an ICE raid near her hometown. Now, she's the one chasing ICE agents around S...
"Roving mobs of wild youth"
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump says he is taking over DC’s police to save the city from crime — it's really just another ...
What Trump really wants from colleges
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not just about the money. This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey, edited by Amina Al-...
Drilling for clean energy
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An unlimited source of energy lurks below the earth. On this special episode of the Unexplainable po...
What wellness costs us
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Americans are investing billions in their health and wellness. What good do all these green powders ...
Going to Mars
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The president and Elon Musk still agree on Mars. Our close neighbor has captured the imagination of ...
TEXAS HOLD DEMS
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Texas Republicans want to remake voting maps to their advantage. Democrats say they’re ready to pl...
Can China save our climate?
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While the Trump administration rolls back decades of climate regulation, the world’s biggest pollu...
The deal with Trump's deals
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump's been cutting trade deals left and right, saying they're the key to unlocking an era of econo...
Schooling kids at PragerU
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
PragerU’s AI slop is the Trump administration’s new favorite educational resource for a revision...
America’s high-speed rail fail
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The US is well behind much of the world in building passenger rail, especially high-speed trains. Bu...
This is your brain off books
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A return to orality is frying our politics and our brains. This episode was produced by Peter Balon...
The Trumpiest judge yet
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Emil Bove, the president's former lawyer, was just confirmed to the US Court of Appeals for the Thir...
AI is killing the internet
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a first-of-its-kind decision, an AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by auth...
Gaza's breaking point
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Israel says it will allow more food aid to reach starving Palestinians, but it’s going to be tough...
The mother of all conspiracies
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Epstein scandal won't go away, but that won't stop President Donald Trump from trying to pivot t...
Is tipping fair?
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From raising the tipped minimum wage to "no tax on tips," we look at the challenges of remaking tipp...
Crashing out
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone from Love Island’s Huda to Hunter Biden is screaming, crying, or throwing up for the came...
Revoking US citizenship
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump wants to ramp up denaturalization — revoking citizenship from Americans who were b...
America’s miraculous murder decline
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last two years, crime rates have been plunging in cities across America. In Baltimore, gun ...
Stop the press!
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Stephen Colbert to Rupert Murdoch, powerful media figures are in President Trump’s crosshairs...
We’re setting fire to food aid
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration is dismantling — or quite literally burning up — both domestic and int...
The summer I turned into a bookworm
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Summer. Time for pools, BBQs, and the beach read. But why do we read "summer books"? This episode w...
Super mad about Superman
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a bunch of pundits acting like Superman was ever anything but an imm...
How the YIMBYs won
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yes in My Backyard-ers are celebrating reforms to California's landmark environmental laws, which th...
Trump's Epstein problem
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You probably shouldn't expect to see the Epstein Files anytime soon. That's because the Department o...
Trump’s dork philosopher
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Curtis Yarvin began as an anonymous blogger arguing esoteric ideas about how America would be better...
Elon's party in the USA
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk says he wants to launch a new political party. Voters consistently say they want more choi...
Chat BFF
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More and more of us are interacting with chatbots. Can we have real relationships with AI, and can A...
Plastic rain
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're revisiting an episode from earlier this year about how we were mostly able to get the acid rai...
From Alligator Alcatraz to South Sudan
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration is not happy with their deportation numbers. They're turning to more extrem...
I was told there would be deals
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After pressing pause on the steepest tariffs, the Trump Administration promised 90 tariff deals in 9...
Trump's Nobel Peace Prize
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump he has nominated him for a Nob...
Texas blame game
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dozens of people were swept away by flash floods in Texas this weekend. The finger-pointing has alre...
Our complicated relationship with the flag
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar openly celebrate the American flag. But a lot of Black Americans feel di...
Disney's America
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s no shortage of fights over American history right now, but let’s see what we can learn f...
Make America Uninsured Again
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If the Senate's massive tax and immigration bill passes the House it will be the biggest cut to Medi...
Unmasking ICE
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ICE agents are showing up to immigration raids masked. The Trump administration says it's for the pr...
Porn on the docket
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court has a long history of taking on cases about porn, including one they decided on Fr...