The Rise of ‘Middle-Finger Politics’
Donald Trump can seem like a political anomaly. You sometimes hear people describe his connection with his base in quasi-mystical terms. But really, Trump is an example of an archetype — the right-win...
29 Mar 20241h 18min
Matter of Opinion: Paul Krugman on Inflation, ‘Bad Vibes’ and 2024
We’ll be back on Friday with a new episode. In the meantime, we wanted to share one of our favorite recent episodes from our sister podcast, “Matter of Opinion.”Why does the economy look so good to ec...
26 Mar 202436min
The Deep Conflict Between Our Work and Parenting Ideals
American policy is uniquely hostile to families. Other wealthy countries guarantee paid parental leave and sick days and heavily subsidize early childhood care — to the tune of about $14,000 per year ...
22 Mar 20241h 6min
Birthrates Are Plummeting Worldwide. Why?
For a long time, the story about the world’s population was that it was growing too quickly. There were going to be too many humans, not enough resources, and that spelled disaster. But now the script...
19 Mar 20241h
What a Second Biden Term Would Look Like
President Biden gave a raucous State of the Union speech last Thursday, offering his pitch for why he should be president for a second term. It’s the clearest picture we have yet of Biden’s campaign m...
12 Mar 20241h 1min
How America’s Two Abortion Realities Are Clashing
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it scrambled the landscape of abortion access in America, including in ways that one might not entirely expect. Many conservative states made the procedu...
8 Mar 202457min
Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Beauty, Human Evil and the Idea of Israel
Marilynne Robinson is one of the great living novelists. She has won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Humanities Medal, and Barack Obama took time out of his presidency to interview her at length. Her ...
5 Mar 20241h 2min
The Wars in Ukraine and Gaza Have Changed. America’s Policy Hasn’t.
Joe Biden’s presidency has been dominated by two foreign policy crises: the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. The funding the United States has provided in those wars — billions to both Ukraine and Israel — h...
1 Mar 20241h 3min
