Is Ambivalence Killing Parenthood?
Last year, nearly half of childless adults under 50 told the Pew Research Center that they didn’t want kids. As the birth rate in the United States continues to decline, the philosopher Anastasia Berg...
26 Marras 202453min
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
Was leaving behind our nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles a mistake? If so, why did so many different groups of people make the switch to farming? The researcher Andrea Matranga spent more than a deca...
19 Marras 202446min
An Election Post-Mortem With Tim Miller
What exactly happened to the Kamala Harris campaign in this year’s presidential election? Host Jerusalem Demsas and Tim Miller, a former Republican strategist and the host of The Bulwark Podcast, tick...
12 Marras 202444min
The Truth About Immigration and Wages
Do higher levels of immigration lead to lower wages? The Atlantic staff writer Rogé Karma breaks down the misconception that immigration creates an economic burden—when actually the opposite is true: ...
5 Marras 202452min
Can Corporate Greed Really Explain Inflation?
Grocery store prices are up. Politicians have tried to pin it on supply-chain problems, price gouging, and corporate greed—or “greedflation.” But Ernie Tedeschi, a former chief economist of the White ...
29 Loka 202457min
Why Do Black People Vote for Democrats?
How is party ideology formed? Is it based on political strategy to garner the most votes? Or is it based on ideas and beliefs? The Georgetown professor Hans Noel traces the shift from the Civil War to...
22 Loka 202457min
The Quiet Trump-Harris Trade Agreement
Are tariffs good? Or bad? And why do politicians love to talk about them so much? Scott Lincicome lays out the high costs of tariffs and who really bears the brunt. Get more from your favorite Atlanti...
15 Loka 202457min
What Really Fueled the ‘East Asian Miracle’?
How does a nation pull its residents out of poverty and into the developed world? The researcher Oliver Kim looked into how Taiwan, and a few other East Asian countries, managed to rise from a poor na...
8 Loka 202447min
