Would You Give Up Your Kidney for $50,000?
Would you donate a kidney? Would you do it for $50,000? Vox’s Dylan Matthews gave his to a stranger. But it made him wonder: Shouldn’t he have been paid? Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices wh...
1 Okt 202449min
Why Does Crime Go Up When School Starts?
Crime peaks during the summer for adults. But the economist Ezra Karger found that the same can’t be said for kids: It peaks during the school year. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when yo...
24 Sep 202443min
How (Not) to Change Someone's Mind
When do fact-checks work? And when do they backfire and cause someone to dig in? Yamil Velez, a political scientist at Columbia University, set up an experiment using chatbots and found that people ca...
17 Sep 202448min
The Wandering Officer
Police rarely move between jobs and departments. But according to a paper co-authored by the University of Chicago law professor John Rappaport, officers aren’t necessarily choosing to stay in the sam...
10 Sep 202442min
Who's Responsible for the Housing Crisis?
Americans love local government. In a December 2023 Pew Research survey, 61 percent of respondents had a favorable view of their local government while 77 percent had an unfavorable view of the federa...
3 Sep 20241h 1min
How Slaves Used the Law
There’s a traditional line of thinking about the history of Black people and the law. It describes how slaves were entirely shut out of the legal system, disenfranchised and bereft of even a modicum o...
27 Aug 202449min
Is Wokeness Dead?
The 2010s saw attitudes—on issues such as race, immigration, and gender—shift to the left. Liberals became more liberal. And then a "wokeness" backlash began. The backlash, though, didn’t just come f...
20 Aug 202445min
Running-Mate Myths with Matt Yglesias
Is there such a thing as “balancing the ticket”? How much can a vice-presidential nominee influence the election? Host Jerusalem Demsas talks with political commentator and journalist Matt Yglesias ab...
13 Aug 202452min
