Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein on Abundance
Donald Trump won back the White House last year by stoking fears of scarcity. The zero-sum thinking of the right that says there aren’t enough houses or jobs to go around laid the groundwork for the f...
18 Maalis 20251h 20min
The Scientific Controversy That’s Tearing Families Apart
Shaken baby syndrome has been discredited, criticized, and even classified as “junk science” by a New Jersey judge, so why is it often being treated as settled fact in hospitals and courtrooms? The ne...
11 Maalis 202550min
Best of: Is Wokeness Dead?
As the second Trump administration dismantles federal DEI programs and removes trans Americans from the military, the crusade on “wokeness” seems to be a core focus of the president’s second term. In ...
4 Maalis 202544min
The Human-Neanderthal Love-Story Mystery
If researchers could go back in time 100,000 years, they’d find at least three different types of humans walking the Earth. Today, only the dominant group, Homo sapiens, survives. The scientist Johann...
25 Helmi 202552min
The Real Origins of Public Education
Why do governments educate their citizens? More than 200 years ago, Western regimes shifted the responsibility of education from the family to the state. The political scientist Agustina Paglayan argu...
18 Helmi 20251h 3min
The Great Political Sorting of American Offices
We’re often told that there’s “no room for politics at work,” and yet the workplace is one of the most politically segregated spaces in adult life. The Harvard economics researcher Sahil Chinoy explai...
11 Helmi 202556min
Why Is One Chicago Neighborhood Twice as Deadly as Another?
Most gun deaths aren’t premeditated, so how can we stop gun violence before it happens? The University of Chicago economist Jens Ludwig makes the case for thinking differently about the source of Amer...
4 Helmi 202556min
Why States Took a Gamble on Sports Betting
Seven years after the Supreme Court struck down a ban on state-sanctioned sports betting, a more complete picture of the downstream effects of legalization is starting to emerge. As some states see de...
28 Tammi 202553min
