How A Satellite Hack Became a Cybersecurity Wakeup Call
People around the world rely on satellites for their internet connections, credit card transactions–and even to keep track of time. Last year, a suspected Russian-led satellite hack exposed how vulne...
12 Mar 202331min
India Weighs An Historic Expansion of Marriage Rights
This month, India’s Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether to legalize same-sex marriage. Bloomberg reporters Muneeza Naqvi and Kai Schultz join this episode from New Delhi to explain India’s r...
10 Mar 202325min
Why Employers Will Soon Be Fighting Each Other To Hire You
The future of US competitiveness is taking shape in a field in Licking County, Ohio. It’s the site of a new Intel semiconductor plant, part of the Biden administration’s effort to bring manufacturing ...
9 Mar 202332min
Two Space Missions Shake Up Our View Of The Past–And Future
Two significant advances in science and technology are helping us examine our own planet, as well as galaxies near and far. The first is the James Webb Space Telescope—an instrument that’s already tra...
8 Mar 202328min
Cities Test A New Way To Reduce Police Violence
Traffic stops are the most common way people come into contact with the police. After the January death of Tyre Nichols, who was beaten following a police stop in Memphis, some cities are trying to li...
7 Mar 202325min
Is the Pentagon Losing Its Edge?
In his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned about the dangers of the business of war–what he called the “military industrial complex.” Now, more than six decades later, t...
6 Mar 202335min
The World’s Food Security is In The Hands of China and Russia
One unexpected consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: It highlighted how just a handful of countries–notably Russia and China–supply much of the fertilizer needed to feed the world. Amid geopoli...
3 Mar 202321min
A ‘90s Rapper. A Fugitive. And the FBI
Pras Michel, the famed rapper and founding member of The Fugees, goes on federal trial later this month. The US government has charged him with numerous crimes related to his dealings with the fugitiv...
2 Mar 202331min
