Is Trump Losing? A Debate
Is Donald Trump eroding American democracy and consolidating power for himself? Or is he trying to do that and failing? Is this what sliding toward authoritarianism looks like? Or is this what a funct...
16 Touko 20251h 13min
‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’
I honestly don’t know how I should be educating my kids. A.I. has raised a lot of questions for schools. Teachers have had to adapt to the most ingenious cheating technology ever devised. But for me, ...
13 Touko 20251h 8min
Best Of: Margaret Atwood on American Myths and Authoritarianism
A good rule of thumb is that whatever Margaret Atwood is worried about now, the rest of us will likely be worried about a decade from now. The rise of authoritarianism. A backlash against women’s soci...
9 Touko 20251h 7min
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump
Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is one of just 13 Democrats to represent a district that Donald Trump won. Her distinctive economic message, and a willingness to buck her own party, helped her ...
6 Touko 202557min
Trump vs. the Dollar
The U.S. dollar is the lingua franca of the global financial system. The fact that so much of the world relies on our currency has long been understood as our exorbitant privilege — the reason we have...
2 Touko 20251h 2min
Abundance and the Left
“Abundance,” the book I co-wrote with Derek Thompson, hit bookstore shelves a little over a month ago, and the response has been beyond anything I could have imagined. And it’s generated a lot of inte...
29 Huhti 20251h 14min
Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics
I have no earthly idea how to describe this conversation. It’s about religion and belief – at this moment in our politics, and in our lives more generally.My guest and I come from very different persp...
25 Huhti 20251h 35min
The Very American Roots of Trumpism
After last week’s episode, “The Emergency Is Here,” we got a lot of emails. And the most common reply was: You really think we’ll have midterm elections in 2026? Isn’t that naïve?I think we will have ...
23 Huhti 20251h 13min
