Trump’s Fantasy State of the Union
President Trump’s approval ratings on the economy, immigration and trade are deep in the red. But in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, he decided to tell the American people: You don’t know ...
25 Feb 46min
How Quickly Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
A.I. agents are here. Have they changed your life yet? The release of agents like Claude Code marked a new pivot point in the history of A.I. We are leaving the chatbot era and entering the agentic er...
24 Feb 1h 38min
Who Has the Power in Trump's White House?
It has been harder to get insight into the dynamics of President Trump’s White House this term compared with the first one, partly because there have been fewer leaks. But after the attack on Venezuel...
20 Feb 1h 11min
The Infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein’s Power
At the end of January, Trump’s Justice Department released what it said was the last tranche of the Epstein files: millions of pages of emails and texts, F.B.I. documents and court records. Much was r...
13 Feb 1h 26min
George Saunders on Anger, Ambition and Sin
George Saunders is tired of being the “kindness guy.”Saunders is one of my favorite fiction writers, and a friend of the pod; I talked to him back in 2021 and 2022. He also has a reputation as a kind ...
10 Feb 1h 27min
We Didn’t Ask for This Internet
Ragebait, sponcon, A.I. slop — the internet of 2026 makes a lot of us nostalgic for the internet of 10 or 15 years ago.What exactly went wrong here? How did the early promise of the internet get so tw...
6 Feb 1h 27min
Is Your Social Life Missing Something? This Is For You.
My motivation for this episode is personal. One of my resolutions this year is to spend more time hosting and to make those gatherings more meaningful.I think a lot of us wish we had better social liv...
3 Feb 1h 31min
How the World Sees America, With Adam Tooze
The old world order is dying. What new world order — if any — is struggling to be born?I can’t think of a week when it felt clearer that an era was coming to an end. Whatever people thought America wa...
30 Jan 1h 3min
