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...
Can we ever know our dogs?
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So many of us believe we understand what our pets are feeling. Are we fooling ourselves? This episo...
Swole Girl Summer
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Weightlifting is the fastest growing sport among women. It's challenging how we think about who is a...
Wars have rules
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The legal architecture that would define and prosecute what’s happening in Gaza is failing. Report...
Burrito now, pay later
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Americans are turning to "buy now, pay later" apps for purchases as small as a burrito—it’s a sy...
Elon Musk presents: Taxis
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk and Tesla launched their long-delayed robotaxi service this weekend in Texas. The Verge's ...
America First (unless Iran...)
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vox's Josh Keating and author Vali Nasr explain what bombing Iran won’t accomplish. This episode ...
Sleepaway camp's nostalgia economy
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Unpacking the American rite of passage that so many children love — but that isn't right for every...
Elon’s Boring town
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're revisiting an episode from earlier this year about the world's richest man and the company tow...
Five boroughs. One mayor. Mad drama.
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New York Public Radio icon Brian Lehrer breaks down the New York City mayor's race and New York maga...
Iran, Israel, and Trump
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The conflict between Israel and Iran is revealing a deep divide within the MAGA universe over whethe...
America the extreme
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend saw a shocking act of political violence, a military parade in DC, and political protes...
Let's fight over bike lanes
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A caller asks why it's so hard to make biking safe in LA. We bike around different US cities to get ...
The big business of small streamers
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dropout is a smaller streaming platform where improv comedy is king. It might be the blueprint for t...
Palantir has your info
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration wants to merge all of our data across government agencies. And it's asked a...
Elon and Trump need space
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vox’s Joshua Keating explains why the US government can’t have a big, beautiful breakup with Elo...
Trump's other big breakup
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump recently blew up his alliance with the conservative legal group that helped him rema...
Fire and ICE in Los Angeles
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump sent in the National Guard to quell protests caused by ICE raids. LA Times reporter ...
The recession indicator game
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Press-on nails, new music from Katy Perry, and an uptick in Klarna purchases: signs of an economic d...
AI Video Killed the Video Star
Fri, 06 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Google’s new AI video tool Veo 3 looks freakishly real, but it might take Hollywood to fully harne...
AI Video Killed the Video Star
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google’s new AI video tool Veo 3 looks freakishly real, but it might take Hollywood to fully harne...
Baby’s first gene edit
Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:15:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For the first time ever, experimental gene editing technology has been used to treat a baby with a f...
Baby’s first gene edit
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time ever, experimental gene editing technology has been used to treat a baby with a f...
Black schools, red states
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A supporter of President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis was just appointed to lead the historica...
Donald Trump's "Golden Dome"
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump wants to build a "Golden Dome" to protect the US from the threat of nuclear weapons....
The white gold rush
Mon, 02 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The US has enormous deposits of critical minerals like lithium right here at home. So why are we loo...
The white gold rush
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The US has enormous deposits of critical minerals like lithium right here at home. So why are we loo...
How Gen Z found religion
Sun, 01 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For the first time in decades, American Christianity is not in decline. What are young people lookin...
How Gen Z found religion
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time in decades, American Christianity is not in decline. What are young people lookin...
What Bill Belichick’s relationship tells us
Fri, 30 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The legendary coach is getting more attention for his relationship with 24-year-old Jordon Hudson th...
What Bill Belichick’s relationship tells us
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The legendary coach is getting more attention for his relationship with 24-year-old Jordon Hudson th...
All eyes back on Gaza
Thu, 29 May 2025 18:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
From podcaster Theo Von to children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel to the new pope to President Trump, a...
All eyes back on Gaza
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From podcaster Theo Von to children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel to the new pope to President Trump, a...
A comedian tries to fix aviation
Wed, 28 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Newark’s crisis is coming soon to an airport near you. Thankfully, comedian Nathan Fielder is dead...
A comedian tries to fix aviation
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Newark’s crisis is coming soon to an airport near you. Thankfully, comedian Nathan Fielder is dead...
The minerals that rule our world
Tue, 27 May 2025 18:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The race to control critical mineral deposits has become a major driver of US foreign policy -- and ...
The minerals that rule our world
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The race to control critical mineral deposits has become a major driver of US foreign policy -- and ...
Methamphetamine: The most misunderstood drug?
Sun, 25 May
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Methamphetamine is best known as one of the most addictive and dangerous drugs out there. But it's a...