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
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Google’s new AI video tool Veo 3 looks freakishly real, but it might take Hollywood to fully harne...
Baby’s first gene edit
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The US has enormous deposits of critical minerals like lithium right here at home. So why are we loo...
How Gen Z found religion
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For the first time in decades, American Christianity is not in decline. What are young people lookin...
What Bill Belichick’s relationship tells us
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The legendary coach is getting more attention for his relationship with 24-year-old Jordon Hudson th...
All eyes back on Gaza
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
From podcaster Theo Von to children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel to the new pope to President Trump, a...
A comedian tries to fix aviation
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Newark’s crisis is coming soon to an airport near you. Thankfully, comedian Nathan Fielder is dead...
The minerals that rule our world
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The race to control critical mineral deposits has become a major driver of US foreign policy -- and ...
Methamphetamine: The most misunderstood drug?
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Methamphetamine is best known as one of the most addictive and dangerous drugs out there. But it's a...
All the sad young literary men
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Writer Ross Barkan says young men's voices have vanished from literary fiction. Economist Joel Waldf...
Should women be in combat?
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Combat roles have been open to women for a decade, but President Donald Trump's Pentagon still quest...
Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
“You are tearing me apart, Congress.” This episode was produced by Devan Schwartz with help fro...
White genocide Grok
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When the Twitter/X chatbot, Grok, started glitching with responses about white genocide to unrelated...
My colleague, the scammer
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
North Korea has been sending young, tech-savvy operatives to pose as ordinary American job seekers. ...
Why are my allergies getting worse?
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It feels like sneezing season lasts longer and takes more victims every year. An allergist and a pub...
How to "fix" your face
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
All that time staring at ourselves on Zoom has led to a rise in procedures like “baby botox.” Th...
All the president’s side hustles
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Ethical concerns abound on the president's first big trip to the Middle East since reentering office...
Trump’s emergency powers grab
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
President Donald Trump has declared an unprecedented number of national emergencies. He's used them ...
Oops!... I voted for Trump
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the run-up to the election, Donald Trump successfully convinced a historic number of younger, Bla...
Is John Fetterman ok?
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
New York magazine’s Ben Terris talks through his reporting on Sen. John Fetterman’s health and w...
The drama and trauma of 23andMe
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
With the at-home DNA testing company 23andMe filing for bankruptcy, what happens to all the data mil...
Chicago Pope
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The first American pope's pro-immigrant views have put him publicly at odds with Vice President JD V...
What did Wikipedia do?
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Trump administration is going after the free encyclopedia. Journalist Stephen Harrison explains ...
Little Marco’s big portfolio
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A former rival of President Donald Trump’s now holds four positions in his administration. How Mar...
The two dolls economy
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Shortages are on the way. President Trump says children must live with fewer dolls and the rest of u...
The Harvey Weinstein apologist
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Candace Owens has found a new audience with her breakdown of the Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively sag...
Why is personal style so hard?
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Fashion has made a big swing from a strict set of rules to the idea that we should all just wear wha...
Prepping for doomsday
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Preparing for the end of the world is a multibillion-dollar business. People are stockpiling weapons...
No love (on the spectrum) for RFK Jr.
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Love on the Spectrum stars James B. Jones and Dani Bowman say the HHS secretary’s planned autism s...
Tariffs hit like a Mack truck
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Workers at a Mack truck plant in Pennsylvania hoped tariffs would help protect their jobs. Now they ...
100 days of payback
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Vox's Andrew Prokop says retribution was one of the major themes of the first 100 days of Trump's se...
How Trump saved Canada’s libs
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Liberal Party was set to lose today’s election. Now, thanks to President Trump, it just might ...
Retire? In this economy?!
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
With 401(k)s taking a hit and the fate of Social Security uncertain, we get some advice for how to t...
The most dangerous award
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
There’s a brand-new category coming to the Academy Awards: Best Stunt Design. A writer and two stu...
The startup that cried dire wolf
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Colossal says it's brought the dire wolf back from extinction — but the accuracy of that claim and...
How the Abrego Garcia standoff ends
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland recounts his visit with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Former prosecutor El...
Conclave (2025)
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We try to divine who will follow Pope Francis and introduce you to one of his many legacies: the fir...
American_history_v9_final_FINAL_THIS ONE
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Government websites have erased references to American heroes like Harriet Tubman and Jackie Robinso...
Is climate progress doomed?
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Many worry that the clean energy transition will be derailed by the Trump administration. But there'...
Mar-a-Lago makeover
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
There is a very distinct “look” many people in the MAGA world have adopted, and comedian Suzanne...
Trump v. Mangione
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Trump administration is seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is scheduled back in c...
Why Harvard is fighting back
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Harvard is refusing to play along with the Trump administration's demands of elite universities, whe...
Art of the (Iran) deal
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Iran allegedly plotted to assassinate President Donald Trump late last year. But that’s not stoppi...
It’s China’s turn
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
China has spent years preparing for this trade war — and for a world no longer dominated by the US...
What if college isn't for everyone?
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For decades, high schools and parents have prioritized college for all graduating seniors. Now, more...
Watercooler TV is back
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Pitt, The White Lotus, and Severance have people talking about TV again. A writer from The Pitt ...
Laura Loomered the NSA
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
President Trump fired the head of the NSA — not because of a cyber attack, but because conservativ...
Plastic rain, plastic rain
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We (mostly) got rid of acid rain, but now there’s another scary thing falling from the sky. This ...
The nostalgia economy
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
President Donald Trump’s tariffs are meant to return America to a throwback economy — and cultur...
Project 2025’s next chapter
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Project Esther offers a blueprint for casting some campus protesters as part of a “Hamas Support N...
Is a house still a good investment?
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Given the economy and interest rates, homebuying doesn't seem like it’s necessarily the way to go ...
Pray for Hooters
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The “breastaurant” filed for bankruptcy this week. Many say good riddance, but Peter Rothpletz e...
The day after "Liberation Day"
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It's unclear what Trump's latest tariffs liberate us from. Tariffs can be good policy when done righ...
Why young people are getting cancer
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s not just Dwyane Wade, James Van Der Beek, and Kate Middleton; younger and younger people are ...
Hasan Piker explains himself
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Last week we talked about Hasan. Now we talk to him — about the Democrats, protein, and not giving...
Not Coming to America
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Traveling to the United States is getting tricky, but there are ways to be careful. This episode wa...
Blinded by the headlights
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Drivers and passengers are right: Car headlights are brighter now. And the solutions aren't simple. ...
Huge week for the group chat
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week offered some lessons on, among other things, how to text responsibly 👊🇺🇸🔥 Thi...
Fear is the economy killer
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The biggest threat to the American economy might be the American consumer’s sour mood. This episo...
The “Joe Rogan of the left”
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Data on who didn’t vote for the Dems is finally coming in and it’s clear that they have a proble...
Trump's judge grudge
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Judges, including one of his own Supreme Court appointees, are trying to rein President Trump in. In...
Make America Measles Again (MAMA)
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The US eliminated measles, but now it’s making a comeback — and RFK Jr’s advice isn’t exactl...
Gen Sex
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Gen X women are freeing themselves from the hangups of the '90s, and having the best sex of their li...
Snow White and the Seven Controversies
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Disney’s new live action Snow White has a little something to upset everyone, from casting to Isra...
No kids on the block
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The pro-natalism movement argues that people need to have more babies. Some want to prevent economic...
The autocrat's prison
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The US is deporting alleged members of the gang Trén de Aragua and paying El Salvador to house them...
Silencing the Voice of America
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
President Donald Trump has ordered the federally funded broadcaster to be “eliminated.” Longtime...
An America First trap
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This isn’t the first time we’ve tried to go America First. The last time helped blow up the econ...
Did diversity ever work ... at work?
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
There's a backlash against corporate DEI efforts, and it’s not just from the right. It's everywher...
What if we stopped shopping?
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Fed up with consumerism, Mia Westrap went a whole year without buying unnecessary stuff. She went vi...
The man who helped kill DEI
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Policy in the second Trump administration is being driven by a small group of thinkers from the onli...
Deporting Mahmoud Khalil
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Trump administration has fallen short of its promise to deport millions. The White House now see...
Teslump
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Protests against Tesla embody the outrage against Elon Musk’s DOGE-e behavior. But Musk doesn't se...
A Walz to Remember
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sat down with Sean Rameswaram over the weekend at SXSW in Austin, Texas, to ...
Why does dating suck for guys?
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The rules of romance have changed, and many young men feel they can't keep up. We get some tips from...
Whey too much protein
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Added protein really seems to be in all the food lately. Reporter Chris Gayomali says to thank envir...