What Tech Wants: The San Francisco Experiment
In 2022, nonprofit neighborhood groups, backed by Silicon Valley billionaires, helped recall a progressive district attorney in San Francisco. What happened next would change the country. In Part On...
22 Jan 33min
They Banned Parents From Recording Their Kids' Games. We Changed That.
As private investment companies encroach upon youth sports, how does that hurt the players — and their families? As Lever reporter Luke Goldstein discovered, there’s more at stake than just higher pri...
16 Jan 36min
Are We Trapped In Meaningless Jobs? (With Rutger Bregman)
Are we wasting our talents on meaningless jobs? Should our career choices reflect our morals? Author and historian Rutger Bregman thinks so. He argues that the most talented people in America are stuc...
18 Des 202552min
It’s Not An AI Bubble. It’s A Black Hole.
2025 has been a tremendous year for the artificial intelligence industry. Stock prices for AI companies skyrocketed, soaring beyond expectations and propping up an otherwise stagnant U.S. economy. But...
11 Des 202553min
Parenting Advice From The World’s Worst Mom (With Lenore Skenazy)
As parents, we’re told homicidal maniacs, drug peddlers, and creeps are lurking in every shadow, waiting to grab your children. But is that true? Is our obsession with keeping our kids safe doing more...
4 Des 202529min
Enshittification Nation (With Cory Doctorow)
From flying to online shopping to using social media, everything seems to be getting worse. It’s all — pardon our language here — shittier. According to today’s Lever Time guest, that’s no accident. ...
25 Nov 202534min
Can Trump Still Hide The Epstein Files? (With Julie K. Brown & Rep. Ro Khanna)
The U.S. House just voted to force the Trump administration to release every document it has on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful associates. The move comes after Congress releas...
18 Nov 202554min
MONEYBOMB, Part 6: Did A Federal Judge Sink Super PACs? (With Larry Lessig)
Maine overwhelmingly voted last year to end Super PACs. A federal judge blocked the ballot measure — but left a kill switch inside the ruling. Larry Lessig, a professor at Harvard Law School and head ...
13 Nov 202542min
