Bill Gates on Progress, Food Technology, and the Battle Between Climate Change and Innovation
In 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 ambitious goals to end poverty, fight inequality, and stop climate change by 2030. Seven years in, the world is on track to achieve almost none of those goals, ...
13 Sep 202228min
How Ukraine’s New Offensive Could Win the War Against Russia
We're in a new phase of the Ukraine-Russia war. Paul Poast of the University of Chicago returns to the podcast to break down Ukraine's extraordinary counteroffensive. He explains why this counterattac...
12 Sep 202250min
The UK Is in Trouble: Economic Crises, Energy Shocks, and the Queen’s Death
Hours before the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Derek talked to Duncan Weldon, the Britain economics correspondent at The Economist, about the UK's political and economic challenge. Russia’s invasion of...
8 Sep 202250min
America’s National Teacher Shortage: Looming Crisis or Media Myth?
Students are going back to school this month. But according to many news sources, there won't be nearly enough teachers to greet them. The Washington Post has warned of a “catastrophic teacher shortag...
6 Sep 202238min
Nate Silver on Why This Midterm Election Could Be the Weirdest in Decades
Earlier this year, it appeared that Democrats were going to get destroyed in the midterms. Joe Biden's approval rating was in the toilet, inflation was raging, and everything was going wrong. It would...
2 Sep 202255min
The Messy Debate Over Student Loan Forgiveness
The level of student debt in this country represents a massive policy error. But is forgiving up to $20,000 of student debt really the best way to help low-income Americans, or fix the nation's educat...
30 Aug 202242min
Burning Questions on Media: Streaming’s Summer of Hell, Movie Theater Woes, and CNN’s Risky Pivot
Today’s episode is about the entertainment and media industry’s tumultuous summer, the streaming wars, a come-to-Jesus moment for movie theaters, and a dramatic revamp at CNN—which tells a lot about t...
26 Aug 202250min
What’s the Secret of Success in America? This Economist Has Answers.
The economist Raj Chetty has spent much of the last decade trying to answer a very big question: What happened to the American Dream? In 1940, a child born into the average American household had a 92...
23 Aug 202250min
