The Argument: Should We Cancel Student Loan Debt?
This week, while I'm on vacation, we'll be sharing work from two other New York Times Opinion podcasts. First up, an episode from our friends at The Argument about how to cancel student-loan debt. Hos...
25 Mai 202147min
Violent Crime Is Spiking. Do Liberals Have an Answer?
Early estimates find that in 2020, homicides in the United States increased somewhere between 25 percent and nearly 40 percent, the largest spike since 1960, when formal crime statistics began to be c...
21 Mai 20211h 14min
The Spectacle of the G.O.P.'s Shrinking Tent
On May 12, House Republicans voted to remove Representative Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House, from her leadership post. Her transgression? Vocally rebuking the claim that the 2020...
18 Mai 20211h 2min
Status Games, Polyamory and the Merits of Meritocracy
Agnes Callard is an ethical philosopher who dissects, in dazzlingly precise detail, familiar human experiences that we think we understand. Whether her topic is expressing anger, fighting with others,...
14 Mai 20211h 21min
Michael Lewis Is Asking the Right Question
Michael Lewis’s new book, “The Premonition,” is about one of the most important questions of this moment: Why, despite having the most money, the brightest minds and the some of the most robust public...
11 Mai 202159min
Elizabeth Warren on What We Get Wrong About Inequality
One lesson of covering policy over the past 20 years is that whatever Elizabeth Warren is thinking about now is what Washington is going to be talking about next.So when I read Senator Warren’s new bo...
7 Mai 202155min
How to Have Better Conversations About Hard Things
Anna Sale is one of my favorite interviewers. As the host of WNYC Studios’ “Death, Sex and Money,” she has an uncanny ability to get her guests to open up about the most personal, tragic, beautiful an...
4 Mai 20211h 3min
How Chuck Schumer Plans to Win Over Trump Voters
In his 100 days address this week, Joe Biden outlined his plans for a big, bold legislative agenda to come. He previewed a two-pronged economic package: the $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan and the $...
30 Apr 202145min
