Tom Friedman Thinks We’re Getting China Dangerously Wrong
My colleague Tom Friedman thinks we’re screwed.That’s the first thing he told me when recounting his recent trip to China. It’s not just because of the trade war that President Trump is escalating rig...
15 Apr 20251h 8min
Trump’s Tariffs, Market Panic and What Comes Next
After a week of market chaos, President Trump pulled back from the brink. But he didn’t pull that far back. He left a 10 percent tariff on most of the world and launched a trade war with China. It’s u...
11 Apr 20251h
Paul Krugman on the ‘Biggest Trade Shock in History’
The tariffs President Trump unveiled this week were both bigger than most people expected and a lot more confusing. These aren’t the flat tariffs he proposed during the campaign. And they aren’t recip...
5 Apr 202550min
‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’
There’s something of a policy revolution afoot: As of March, more than a dozen states — including California, Florida and Ohio — have passed bills or adopted policies that aim to limit cellphone usage...
1 Apr 20251h 11min
The Last 2 Months — and Next 2 Years — of U.S. Politics
It’s our first subscriber-only “Ask Me Anything” of the year. The show’s executive producer, Claire Gordon, joins me to discuss your questions about the risk of a constitutional crisis and how Democra...
28 Mar 202537min
What Is DOGE’s Real Goal?
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency is great branding. Who could be against a more efficient government? But “efficiency” obfuscates what’s really happening here.Efficiency to what end? ...
25 Mar 20251h 11min
The Origins of Abundance
To mark the release of our new book “Abundance,” my co-author Derek Thompson had me on his podcast, “Plain English,” to talk about it. We’re on book tour right now, so we’re doing a lot of talking abo...
21 Mar 20251h 12min
Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won
After the last election, there were all kinds of theories about where Democrats went wrong. But now, four months later, we have a lot more data – and it tells a few clear stories.David Shor is the hea...
18 Mar 20251h 18min
